1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Nursing Shortage Task Force Act of 2023 . 2. National Nursing Shortage Task Force (a) Establishment Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the Secretary ) shall establish a task force to be known as the National Nursing Shortage Task Force (in this section referred to as the Task Force ). (b) Purpose The purpose of the Task Force is to issue policy recommendations to the President and the Congress to address the growing nursing shortage across the United States, with a particular focus on addressing the shortage in health professional shortage areas designated under section 332 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254e ). (c) Duties The Task Force shall— (1) examine, assess, and report on the United States nursing workforce capacity, including— (A) trends in the overall nursing workforce; (B) the capacity to educate future nurses; (C) causes for the existing nursing shortage; and (D) Federal policies to bolster nursing education and the nursing workforce; (2) build upon existing or ongoing evaluations, and avoid unnecessary duplication, by reviewing, as appropriate, the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of other task forces, committees, commissions, and other public and private entities with respect to the national nursing shortage; (3) identify areas of Federal policy that have impacted the ability of the United States to respond to the growing nursing shortage, including— (A) Federal support of nursing education programs; (B) Federal support of increasing diversity in the nursing workforce; and (C) incentives for nurses to work in underserved areas and communities; (4) identify and recommend a set of possible solutions to the nursing shortage for policymakers, including legislative and regulatory recommendations