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Please Call Your NYS Assemblymember Today

As we head into the final days of state budget negotiations, we’ve initiated a push for the Legislature to include language that expresses its intent to include the additional installments of living wage funding for direct support professionals (DSPs) for the next four state fiscal years.

The Assembly and Senate one-house budget proposals included funding for the second installment of a six-year plan to bring DSPs to a living wage.  The funding was also included in the Governor’s Executive Budget.

But due to the state’s fiscal constraints, neither house has been able to include the #bFair2DirectCare request for an acceleration of that program.

Nonetheless, including this “intent” language would be a big help. This language, which the Senate has advanced, pledged 3.25 percent increases to be funded every April 1 from 2019 through 2022. This is essentially the rest of the living wage program begun with the 2017-18 budget. Now we must convince the Assembly to agree to adopt that language and then advocate for it in final budget negotiations with Governor Cuomo.

This is where you can be a tremendous help. Assembly Mental Health Chair Aileen has prepared a letter asking Speaker Carl Heastie to advocate for the “intent” language. She’s circulating this letter among her colleagues in the Assembly Democratic majority and asking them to sign on.

The more Assembly Democrat signatures he sees on that letter, the more likely the Speaker will be to agree to the request.

Please contact your Assembly Democratic member and urge him or her to sign on to Assemblywoman Gunther’s #bFair2DirectCare letter to the Speaker.

It’s CRITICAL that these calls happen this week, as final decisions on the state budget are being formulated right now.

SEE THE LETTER HERE

A Can’t Miss Human Resources Conference

Below is the brochure for our 2nd Annual HR conference.  Registration links for the conference and for the hotel are in the brochure.  The deadline to receive the special hotel rate of $160 is April 2nd.

This year we will be providing CEUs from both SHRM and HRCI. 

Please feel free to share this with anyone that might be interested.

REGISTRATION BROCHURE

 

 

New Charitable Gaming Act Becomes Effective In June

New law modernizes how raffle tickets are bought and sold by charities in New York and permits raffles to be conducted “online” for the first time.

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Disharmony In The NYS Senate

After the IDC voted en masse against the GOP budget plan, one Republican warned that the items sought by the breakaway Dems could wind up stripped from the final budget plan.

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Language Matters; STWTETW

So far, more than 700,000 people have signed an online pledge to stop using the R-word, and the campaign is hoping for a million signatures.

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New State Medicaid Director Named

Donna Frescatore, who has led  the state’s online insurance exchange for the last five years, will become the next state Medicaid director, replacing Jason Helgerson when he leaves next month.

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Federal Prosecutors Accuse MTA Of Violating Rights Of People With Disabilities

New York’s subway remains one of the least accessible, lagging far behind older systems like those in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia.

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