Federal Advocacy

  • ACL Grant Funds Remain Available During Shutdown, Draw Down TA Curtailed

    During the shutdown, previously-awarded ACL grant funds will remain available for draw down. However, due to furlough requirements, grantees' ability to contact federal agencies and departments, and to receive technical assistance, will be compromised…

  • Funding Gap Causes Temporary Federal Government Shutdown

    On October 1, legislation funding the federal government's discretionary programs expired. Due to the absence of FY14 appropriations, the federal government has initiated a shutdown of affected activities, including the furlough of certain personnel…

  • ADvancing States Endorses Bipartisan OAA Reauthorization Bill

    Introduced by Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee on…

  • OAA Reauthorization Bill Introduced

    On Monday, September 30, 2013, Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the HELP…

  • NASUADS, NAMD, and NASDDDS Respond to U.S. Department of Labor Changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act

    For Immediate Release
    September 18, 2013

    Statement of the NAMD, the ADvancing States, and the NASDDDS
    Responding to the U.S. Department of Labor Changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act

    Washington, D.C. - The national associations for…

  • OAA Reauthorization

    Since the OAA expired in 2011, ADvancing States has sought a bicameral, bipartisan reauthorization process that both strengthens and modernizes the Act. We are asking the same of the 113th Congress, and encourage you to make your voice heard! Help…

  • Federal Funding

    On September 9, less than one month before federal fiscal year 2014 (FY14) begins, members of the House and Senate will return to Washington, where a host of fiscal issues await. Congress is unlikely to pass all the necessary appropriations bills by…

  • Medicaid Administrative Funding Availability for Long Term Care

    On Thursday, June 18, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an Informational Bulletin…

  • HHS Publishes Regulations Implementing the OAA's Ombudsman Programs

    Over the past year, HHS has been moving towards the promulgation of rules implementing Title VII, Chapter 2 of the Older Americans Act (OAA), the Ombudsman Programs. Since 1992, the functions of these programs have been statutorily delineated in 42 U.…

  • Aging in America: We Can Do Better

    ADvancing States is pleased to unveil a new set of Infographics that explore the funding and demand for, as well as the provision of, Older Americans Act (OAA) services, titled: Aging in America: We Can Do Better. Signed into law in 1965, the OAA is…

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