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State & Federal Advocacy Updates
Read StateWide’s 2025-26 Budget testimony
StateWide’s Budget Briefing Presentation – May 16, 2025
Federal Bill Tracker
State Bill Tracker
Action Alerts:
- 8/15/25: Contact Governor Hochul to Support Dignity and Choice at End of Life for Terminally Ill Patients
- 7/21/25: Call your Representative to tell them the Older Americans Act Needs to be Reauthorized
- 5/2/25: Support S138 to uphold patients’ rights to autonomy, dignity and self-determination.
- 4/25/25: The Older Americans Act Needs Reauthorization – Federal Budget Funding for Services are in Jeopardy!
- 4/18/25: Help Build Momentum for the NY Health Act
- 4/4/25: Contact your state Assembly and Senate representatives to ask that the budget include a provision to ensure Medicaid covers comprehensive dental care.
- 3/21/25: Calls are Still Needed on These Important Budget Issues
- 3/14/25: Prevent a Cut in Medicaid Home Care Eligibility for Future Enrollees
- 1/31/25: Governor’s Proposed State Budget Jeopardizes StateWide’s Patients Rights Helpline
- 6/7/24: Federal regulations establishing minimum nursing home staffing at risk of being repealed.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:
Congratulations to our 2025 Award Winners
Each year at our Convention, StateWide honors exceptional seniors whose leadership has made a significant impact on the lives of older residents. Congratulations to this year’s awardees: Robert E. O'Donnell Award - Mary Degon, North Country Michael Burgess Award -...
StateWide Joins Senator Schumer in Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Social Security
StateWide Board Member Michele Rogers spoke at a press conference with US Senator Charles Schumer at the Glens Falls Senior Center on August 14 to celebrate the special anniversary, noting that it has that lifted generations out of poverty. Social Security is a vital...