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Committee on Veterans

Thursday, October 23, 2025 · 1:00 PM AM · 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 3

TL;DR

The Committee on Veterans held a hearing on supporting older veterans in New York City and considered two resolutions aimed at helping seniors and veterans with housing and healthcare costs. The committee took action on proposals to expand Medicare coverage for long-term care and to freeze rent payments for veterans and disabled individuals in affordable housing programs, though final votes were postponed.

Key Decisions

  • Oversight: Supporting NYC's Older Veterans Filed
  • Medicare expansion for long-term services and supports Laid Over (postponed)
  • Rent freeze for SCRIE/DRIE enrolled veterans and disabled individuals Laid Over (postponed)
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Agenda

  1. T2025-4115 Oversight - Supporting New York City’s Older Veterans.
    Oversight
    Action: Hearing Held by Committee

    This Oversight was Hearing Held by Committee

  2. Res 0850-2025 Resolution calling on the United States Congress to pass, and the President to sign, legislation that would expand Medicare to include long-term services and supports for seniors and individuals with disabilities
    Resolution
    Action: Hearing Held by Committee

    This Resolution was Hearing Held by Committee

  3. Res 0985-2025 Resolution calling on the New York State Assembly to pass, A.7851, and the Governor to sign, S.2534/A.7851, which retroactively freezes the rent at which a SCRIE or DRIE enrollee pays at the level it was when they first became eligible, or at the level it was two years before they entered the program, given that entrance into the program occurred more than two years after they first became eligible.
    Resolution
    Action: Hearing Held by Committee

    This Resolution was Hearing Held by Committee

  4. Jointly with the Committee on Aging
  5. Roll Call
  6. Untitled item
  7. Res 0850-2025 Resolution calling on the United States Congress to pass, and the President to sign, legislation that would expand Medicare to include long-term services and supports for seniors and individuals with disabilities
    Resolution
    Action: Laid Over by Committee

    This Resolution was Laid Over by Committee

  8. Res 0985-2025 Resolution calling on the New York State Assembly to pass, A.7851, and the Governor to sign, S.2534/A.7851, which retroactively freezes the rent at which a SCRIE or DRIE enrollee pays at the level it was when they first became eligible, or at the level it was two years before they entered the program, given that entrance into the program occurred more than two years after they first became eligible.
    Resolution
    Action: Laid Over by Committee

    This Resolution was Laid Over by Committee

  9. T2025-4115 Oversight - Supporting New York City’s Older Veterans.
    Oversight
    Action: Filed, by Committee

    This Oversight was Filed, by Committee