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For the 2015 legislative session that convenes today, AARP Texas will engage with lawmakers on a wide-ranging agenda of health care and consumer issues that matter to Texans age 50 and up.
Remarks by Tim Morstad of AARP Texas on the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission meeting involving the Public Utility Commission and the Jan. 12 Open Meeting of the PUC.
And they’re off!
Following today’s announcement by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of his appointment of Kenneth “Kenny” Scudder of Odessa to the newly formed Governor’s Broadband Development Council, AARP Texas Director Tina Tran offered the following remarks:
They’re back! Texas lawmakers have returned to Austin for the start of a 140-day legislative session in which they’ll craft a new two-year state spending plan, deliberate over hundreds of bills, and work through a long list of issues on behalf of the state’s 28 million residents.
For the first time since AARP began publishing the Scorecard in 2011, more than half of Medicaid long-term care dollars nationwide for older adults and people with physical disabilities went to home- and community-based services instead of nursing homes and other institutions.
Under a new state law, law enforcement officers must receive training in how to interact with individuals who have Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Texas electricity customers are invited to an Oct. 23 meeting of utility leaders in Corpus Christi.
The new Statewide Interagency Aging Services Coordinating Council will focus on ensuring that state agencies that provide services to older adults communicate and collaborate with one another.
Votar no es sólo un privilegio, sino también nuestro derecho. Nos da el poder de decidir cómo será nuestro futuro. En AARP Houston hemos reunido la información electoral local más actualizada para asegurarnos de que usted esté informado y que las voces de los votantes mayores de 50 años se escuchen el 9 de diciembre.
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