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budget amendment refers to making changes or adjustments to a previously set budget. It involves modifying the original allocation of financial resources to address new circumstances or priorities.
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However, no adjustments were made to the plan in the governor's 30 -
day budget amendments, leaving the cost shifts as an expensive bargaining chip.
The mandated 30 -
day budget amendments are the tweaks and changes the governor adds a month after his budget plan is presented.
To the extent that calls for a
balanced budget amendment are a first step toward fiscal discipline, we welcome that conversation.
Cuomo is expected to unveil a proposed payroll tax and changes to charitable deductions in
budget amendments in February.
The campaign pushing for funding in the state budget workers who provide direct care services to those with developmental disabilities is upset Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - day
budget amendments do not include the funding they have sought.
A recent federal court injunction based on a congressional
budget amendment passed years before the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated has thrown many of the field's ongoing projects into limbo
The
new budget amendments also call for creation of a new «Charitable Gifts Trust Fund,» which would be run by the state.
On April 1, following several hours of intense floor debate in the Texas House on a string
of budget amendments seeking to reallocate funds designated to provide basic women's health care services, the dust was settling.
In response to those concerns, Cuomo announced a 30 - day
budget amendment last week that would provide $ 7 million to help counties implement early voting.
As expected, the new
budget amendments also include a proposed shift — for the increasing minority of taxpayers who will still itemize under the new federal law — away from state income tax payments to an employer - paid payroll tax system.
The House will vote next week on a balanced -
budget amendment authored by Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte, GOP aides said Thursday.
The ad shows video of Deeds on the campaign trail in April, before his victory in the Democratic primary, telling voters that in early 2008 he offered $ 1 billion in
state budget amendments - the highest amount sought by any state senator.
The proposal was one of several expanded measures outlined in Cuomo's 30 - day
budget amendments released today — several days before they were due (Feb. 15).
Leon - Tailored Audio: Statehouse Republican Reaction to Pence Balanced Budget Amendment Proposal
«We need to do a better job of informing the public of what exactly this
[budget amendment] means.
Budget amendments include provisions to decouple the state tax code from the federal tax code so that State taxpayers do not see more than $ 1.5 billion in state taxes because of federal tax increases.
«There has been no indication for a widespread directive to cease and desist in state regulated cannabis markets, and we expect law enforcement priorities to remain status quo,» Karnes says, noting that Rohrabacher — Farr, a
federal budget amendment, restricts the use of federal funding to prosecute medical marijuana enterprises.
Sessions has also asked Congress to rescind a Justice
Department budget amendment that stops the agency from using federal funds to block states from implementing their own marijuana legalization bills, both medical and recreational.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration quietly floated the project in a February
budget amendment asking lawmakers to approve a highly privatized building arrangement, not currently legal for state agencies, to speed construction and limit risk.
Two of Brooklyn's House members, Republican Dan Donovan and Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, spoke out about the balanced
budget amendment after the measure failed to capture enough votes for passage.
Mr. Romaine sponsored three
budget amendments during the Legislature's meeting in Hauppauge Wednesday in an effort to restore the almost 10 percent reduction in county funding to Cornell Cooperative, which will still receive more than $ 2.4 million from Suffolk County in 2012.
Mr. Romaine said he drafted his stand -
alone budget amendments prior to the bipartisan budget working group completing the omnibus budget in hopes that they would incorporate and address his concerns about the proposed cuts to Cornell Cooperative.
For the past three years crafted
responsible budget amendments that called for meaningful reform of Erie County government and the reduction of our incredible tax burden.
The final
capital budget amendments Common Council members offered Thursday do far more subtracting than adding, but even if they all pass, Brasser said the impact on the city's tax levy would be a reduction of $ 1.8 million.
In his
recent budget amendments, the governor did get around to rectifying an omission that would have forced New Yorkers to pay $ 1.5 billion more in state taxes.
The Democratic - led Assembly introduced Cuomo's
budget amendments containing the governor's ethics measures aimed at the legislature, state officials confirmed Sunday.
«The Administration asked Congress to consider an
emergency budget amendment of $ 15 million for the Department of Energy to fund the activities of that commission,» an administration official told CNN on condition of not being identified.
A majority of the Erie County Legislature announces that through
strategic budget amendments, County Executive Mark Poloncarz's proposed tax increase has been eliminated in the adopted 2013 budget.
Through this audit, we found ways to cut costs and improve efficiency, and as a result, one of our
first budget amendments was a reduction of $ 100,000 in the Legislature's operating budget.
An Investigative Post report, co-produced with WGRZ, finds Erie County legislators pass few laws, make
few budget amendments but pass hundreds of resolutions honoring residents, both dead and alive, that have nothing to do with the operation of county government.
In addition, both California and Illinois have balanced
budget amendment language in their constitutions, however both states are swimming in billions of dollars of red ink.
This year, without forewarning, the Cuomo administration cut funding for provider services for the disabled by 6 percent during the 30 - day
budget amendment period, which doesn't get the public scrutiny the earlier, actual budget does.
The administration had an additional $ 2 million to
cover budget amendments because the county belatedly learned that principal payments on a major loan for construction projects won't be due until 2018, Callan said.
Late Friday, Cuomo
issued budget amendments that left the cost shifts in place amid other programmatic and technical changes.
Lorigo said the Republican - supported majority would have been happy to answer any questions about the Visit Buffalo
Niagara budget amendment if they'd been asked.
The table doesn't give Congress what it really needs, however — a
formal budget amendment from the White House Office of Budget and Management.
State Rep. Tom McMillin, R - Rochester Hills — who sponsored the
House budget amendment to defund implementation — also has introduced standalone legislation that would prohibit the Michigan Board of Education, state officials and agencies from participating in the Common Core State Standards initiative.
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