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Congress will again reauthorize the farm bill in 2023, providing an opportunity to make changes to nutrition programs, and for advocates to speak up.
House Bill 568 would require that peace officers are trained on how to work with people with dementia.
Proposed legislation could expand Texas’ capacity for research on mental health and brain-related diseases.
AARP Texas Opposes House Bill 2127 and Senate Bill 149. The bills would undo basic protections for payday and auto-title lending borrowers.
Latest AARP research attaches $41 Billion value to the estimated 2.9 Billion hours of unpaid care that family caregivers provided in 2021.
AARP Texas is calling on state lawmakers to update the SNAP Vehicle Asset Test
Five bills filed in the Texas Legislature would help older Texans thrive.
State law requires nurse practitioners to maintain expensive contracts with doctors, which is limiting access to care in rural areas. AARP Texas is part of Texans for Healthcare Access, a coalition of nearly 40 organizations urging state lawmakers to end the contractual requirement.
AARP Texas is fighting to protect residents of long-term care facilities, urging greater transparency into nursing home ownership and finances.
Texas legislators can protect medically vulnerable people in their homes and in long-term care facilities.
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