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State & Federal Advocacy Updates
Read StateWide’s 2024-25 Budget testimony
Federal Bill Tracker
State Bill Tracker
Action Alerts:
- 6/7/24: Federal regulations establishing minimum nursing home staffing at risk of being repealed.
- 5/24/24: Oppose a fiscal commission proposing cuts to programs like Social Security and Medicare
- 5/17/24: Oppose House Agriculture Farm Bill Proposal That Weakens SNAP and Cuts Future Benefits
- 5/17/24: Support is needed for a bill written by StateWide to improve the EPIC program
- 5/3/24: To support Senate bill 8388/Assembly bill 7866-A to prevent any diminishing of health benefits for all public employees below what they had as of November 1, 2022.
- 2/9/24: Ask New York Congressional Leadership to Expand Cancer Screenings for Seniors this Year
NY Health Act (Single Payer)
StateWide supports the right of New Yorkers to have a universal, single payer health system, eliminating premiums and co-payments for access to quality health care services. For more information please see the following links:
NYS BILL TRACKER
The state legislative session has adjourned, and now begins the process of sending the bills that have passed both the Assembly and the Senate to Governor Hochul for executive action. The Governor can sign a bill into law or veto it, and the process can last until...
MEDICARE ENROLLEES SAVE ON DRUG COSTS
Thanks to President Biden and Congress' passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which established the Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program, another benefit for Medicare enrollees has been implemented. The law reined in pharmaceutical industry price...