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State & Federal Advocacy Updates
StateWide’s analysis of the Proposed State Budget on Issues Impacting Older New Yorkers – Feb 6, 2026
Read StateWide’s 2026-27 Budget testimony
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Action Alerts:
- 5/22/26: Call your Congressional Representative to provide full funding for LIHEAP in the federal budget
- 3/27/26: Contact the Governor and your Assemblymember by March 31st – to add $25 million in funding to address new waiting lists for Aging services and to build the capacity to meet the needs of seniors in the future.
- 3/20/26: Call your Assemblymember and the Governor to agree with the Senate’s budget proposal to fund $25 million towards implementing a portion of the Master Plan for Aging
- 3/6/26: Co-sponsor S9091 to ensure transparency and accountability in implementing the Master Plan for Aging
- 2/20/26: Call your Legislators to seek their support to ensure the Patients’ Rights Helpline is not cut and to seek a nominal increase over 2025 funds.
- 1/3/26: Call your Legislators to ask them to restore the $200,000 cut to StateWide’s Patients’ Rights Hotline and Advocacy Project in the Office for Aging section of budget bill A10003/S9003
- 12/12/26: Contact the Governor’s office to urge her to sign MAID (Assembly bill – A136 into law without creating additional barriers or delaying implementation.
- 11/14/25: Call your Congressmember and urge them to fully fund programs for older Americans, and pass the bi-partisan Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act, S2120
- 10/24/25: Contact Your Representative in Congress to Urge Immediate Emergency Funding for SNAP
- 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:
StateWide’s Grassroots Advocacy Day a Success
Several hundred older New Yorkers arrived in Albany on May 11 to participate in our Advocacy Day. They took to the Capitol to speak with their state Assembly and Senate representatives following a briefing. Topics covered included budget funding for senior services...
GOVERNOR HOCHUL WILL DELIVER THE 2026 STATE OF THE STATE
DATE: January 13, 2026 TIME: 1:00 PM Governor Hochul will deliver the annual State of the State address. The address, held annually at the start of the legislative session, sets the tone on new initiatives the Governor will propose and highlights recent...