Legislative Position Memos
Browse through LeadingAge New York's memos of support and opposition.
Feel free to download these memos and send them to your lawmakers throughout the course of the legislative session!
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Legislative Position Memos
A.6272 (Woerner)/S.5229 (Rivera) LeadingAge New York strongly supports this legislation, which would require New York State’s Department of Health (DOH) to update nursing home Medicaid rates at least every five years, in consultation with a workgroup that includes technical experts in nursing home rate setting.
- March 18, 2025
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Legislative Position Memos
S.6282 (Scarcella-Spanton) LeadingAge New York supports this legislation’s intent to ensure that providers participating in collaboratives under section 2805-X of the Public Health Law are subject to the same requirements and oversight as other providers with the same type of license.
- March 18, 2025
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Legislative Position Memos
A.5115 (Stern)/S.674 (Martinez) LeadingAge New York supports this legislation’s intent to strengthen wage parity compliance provisions for home care workers.
- February 19, 2025
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Legislative Position Memos
S.3759 (Cleare) LeadingAge New York supports this bill, which would establish inspection and annual self-certification requirements for social adult day care (SADC) programs and would provide additional authority to NYS Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) to establish regulatory oversight of all SADC.
- February 13, 2025
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Legislative Position Memos
A.1406 (Paulin)/S.3329 (Cooney) LeadingAge New York supports this bill which would ensure that the assisted living program (ALP) Medicaid reimbursement is more consistently updated to better meet current day costs.
- February 10, 2025
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Legislative Position Memos
A.1464-A (Paulin)/S.4585 (Cleare) LeadingAge New York supports this legislation, which would modify Articles 46 and 46-A of the Public Health Law in a way that would eliminate various barriers to the development, expansion, and efficient operation of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) in New York State.
- February 10, 2025
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Legislative Position Memos
A.1653 (Rosenthal) LeadingAge NY has concerns about this bill, which requires assisted living facilities to notify residents of changes to medical and support services 180 days prior to such changes taking effect.
- February 10, 2025
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Legislative Position Memos
A.2191 (Simon) LeadingAge New York opposes this legislation, which carries good intent but goes too far by making adult care facilities subject to both the authority of the department and, on the accusation of any resident, the courts.
- February 10, 2025
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Legislative Position Memos
A.3212 (Santabarbara) LeadingAge New York strongly supports this legislation, which would create an additional source of funding to address the pervasive health disparities that are found throughout the rural regions of New York State.
- February 10, 2025
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Legislative Position Memos
A.4596 (Jensen)/S.1396 (Gallivan) Provides for criminal history background checks of supportive maintenance employees in ACFs and assisted living facilities, similar to checks completed on nursing home employees.
- February 10, 2025
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