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AARP Texas Advocacy Hub
Posted on 12/30/24
Making Your Voice Heard
Nonprofit. Nonpartisan. We're advocating for what is important to older Texans and their families, including health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. Your voice matters, and we help to make sure that your elected officials hear it. Together, we're building a better future for aging Texans.
AARP Texas is working to protect customers from excessive hikes in their electricity bill, and we urge Texans to join our fight against Oncor's proposed rate increase.
With backing from AARP Texas, legislation to prevent deed fraud that can rob people of their houses and land is headed to the governor's desk.
AARP Foundation helps those 65 and older understand property tax exemptions. Get to know better what's available in Texas.
In meetings with members of Congress from the Lone Star State, AARP Texas leaders pushed for action related to Social Security, family caregiving, Medicaid and food assistance.
A look at key AARP Texas-backed bills approved by the Texas Legislature in 2025, including ones pertaining to fraud fighting, housing and home ownership, healthcare access, long-term care quality, brain health, elections law, and more.
The average homeowners insurance premium in Texas climbed about 57 percent from 2015 to 2023. The factors driving higher rates include the growing number and severity of storms and other weather events, rising costs of materials and labor, and increasing home values.
Kathy Green of AARP Texas joins Texas Housers "A Little Louder" podcast for a chat about how affordable and low-income housing issues are a priority for AARP.
Preventing elder exploitation and fraud is on the AARP Texas legislative agenda as the advocacy team fights for measures in the Texas Legislature to deal with scams tied to cryptocurrency kiosks, residential solar, real estate deeds, gift cards, and more.
AARP Texas-backed Senate Bill 1036 would take the heat out of solar and clean energy scams
AARP Texas is urging lawmakers to pass a range of fraud-fighting measures, including protections for consumers who use cryptocurrency ATMs. AARP wants limits on daily transactions. It says that kiosk operators should also be required to post warnings about scams and be registered in Texas.
Bipartisan legislation backed by AARP Texas would expand healthcare access by allowing nurse practitioners to provide care to the full extent of their licensure and training.
Legislation backed by AARP Texas aims to boost payments to grandparents and others providing kinship care to Texas children.
AARP Texas Backs State Agency Funding Request to Improve a Neglected Medicaid Enrollment System
AARP Texas in 2025 will push for legislation that would require assisted living facilities to have adequate backup power that can help maintain safe temperatures during power outages.
AARP Texas applauds and supports an announcement of a new legislative initiative focused on dementia.
Kathy Green of AARP Texas provides testimony on housing affordability before the Texas Senate Committee on Local Government
Charlotte McKenzie, an accomplished business and civic leader residing in Frisco, will serve as the AARP Texas State President, the organization’s top volunteer leadership position in the state.
With 2.5 million AARP members throughout Texas, AARP is an impactful mission-driven membership organization that relies on a powerful corps of volunteers to tell their stories and to educate lawmakers, the news media and the public.
