THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA for JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Emergency Food and Shelter Program (FY 24 Appropriations);; Nonprofit Security Grant Program Funding (FY 24 Appropriations);; Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program (FY 24 Appropriations); No Hate Act (FY 24 Appropriations); Department of Justice Community Relations Service FY 24 Appropriations; Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (FY 24 Appropriations); Older Americans Act (FY 24 Appropriations); Child Care Development Block Grant; behavioral health funding (FY24 Appropriations); long-term care workforce (FY 24 Appropriations); Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (FY 24 Appropriations); Iron Dome (FY 24 Appropriations).

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD); State, Dept of (DOS); White House Office; Administration on Aging; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Office of Management & Budget (OMB); Administration for Children & Families (ACF)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Tax incentives impacting the nonprofit and charitable sector, including donor-advised fund sponsors; ABLE Age Adjustment Act implementation; Charitable Act Earned Income Tax Credit; Child Tax Credit.

Contacted: Treasury, Dept of; White House Office; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Health Issues HCR

Stabilizing Medicaid coverage legislation; Medicaid Reform; Permanent authorization for Money Follows the Person demonstration; Permanent authorization for the Spousal Impoverishment Protection for HCBS; American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 implementation; telehealth and behavioral health information technology funding; Helping Moms Act, permanent authorization of 1-year postpartum Medicaid coverage, and health equity; Medicaid & Public Health Emergency Legislation and Regulatory Implementation; Telehealth legislation; crisis response and mobile behavioral health crisis response; Stabilizing Medicaid and CHIP Coverage legislation; Mental Health Access Improvement Act implementation; Improving Access to Mental Health Act; PEERS Act; enhanced Medicaid funding for mental and behavioral health services and reimbursement; ensuring mental health parity in Medicare and Medicaid; youth mental health crisis legislation; Medicaid Home and Community-Based Funding; Childrens Health Insurance Program permanent authorization; the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act implementation; H.R 2851 The National Apprenticeship Act H.R 3746; Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 H.R 3746 /PL 118-5 to keep Medicaid work requirements out of the debt deal; H.R 2811 Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023; Medicaid work requirements in the debt ceiling bill

Contacted: Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 3746 (118th), H.R. 2851 (118th), H.R. 2811 (118th)

Foreign Relations FOR

Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (FY 24 Appropriations); Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism (FY 24 Appropriations); Iron Dome funding (FY 24 Appropriations); Ukraine war crimes resolutions; Afghan Adjustment Act; Evan Gershkovich resolutions; US Visa Waiver Program.

Contacted: White House Office; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; State, Dept of (DOS)

Immigration IMM

Ukrainian refugee admissions and resettlement issues; Afghan Adjustment Act.

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; White House Office; State, Dept of (DOS)

Civil Rights/Civil Liberties CIV

Antisemitism; Hate crimes; Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act Appropriations; International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition of Antisemitism; Community Relations Service.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Justice, Dept of (DOJ); Education, Dept of; SENATE

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Stabilizing Medicaid coverage legislation; Medicaid Reform; Permanent authorization for Money Follows the Person demonstration; Permanent authorization for the Spousal Impoverishment Protection for HCBS; American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 implementation; telehealth and behavioral health information technology funding; Helping Moms Act, permanent authorization of 1-year postpartum Medicaid coverage, and health equity; Medicaid & Public Health Emergency Legislation and Regulatory Implementation; Telehealth legislation; crisis response and mobile behavioral health crisis response; Stabilizing Medicaid and CHIP Coverage legislation; Mental Health Access Improvement Act implementation; Improving Access to Mental Health Act; PEERS Act; enhanced Medicaid funding for mental and behavioral health services and reimbursement; ensuring mental health parity in Medicare and Medicaid; youth mental health crisis legislation; Medicaid Home and Community-Based Funding; Childrens Health Insurance Program permanent authorization; and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act implementation.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Welfare WEL

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; The Emergency Food Assistance Program; Emergency Food and Shelter Program; Older Americans Act programs; Earned Income Tax Credit; Child Tax Credit; Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program; American Rescue Plan Act implementation; ABLE Age Adjustment Act implementation; SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act; Kosher Food; SSI Restoration Act.

Contacted: SENATE; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; White House Office; Administration for Children & Families (ACF); Administration on Aging

Homeland Security HOM

Homeland Security Appropriations; Nonprofit Security Grant Program; Antisemitism & related Homeland Security matters, Emergency Food and Shelter Program; No Hate Act funding; COPS; Community Relations Service; Hate Crimes.

Contacted: Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Justice, Dept of (DOJ); SENATE; White House Office

Education EDU

Child Care Development Block Grant; Universal Pre-K; and American Rescue Plan Act Implementation; IDEA full funding; HEAL Act.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Education, Dept of; SENATE