Sentences with phrase «budget committee signed»

The Senate Budget Committee signed off on the bill at a rare Saturday morning meeting after a bipartisan coalition blocked it from being yanked from the committee and sent to the Senate floor, where a vote will likely come sometime before the session ends Friday.

The Senate Budget Committee signed off on the bill (SB 1718), already passed by the Florida House, largely along partisan lines with a single Republican — Sen. Evelyn Lynn of Ormond Beach — joining Democrats in opposition.

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Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

Both Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb have criticized Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as being the only holdout in moving the budget process forward with committee hearings, which can not begin until both majority leaders sign on.

The conference committees closed down work last night, another sign the budget agreement was concluding.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

With a projected $ 3.8 billion budget gap in FY 2019 and signs of a potential economic slowdown, Comptroller Stringer emphasized the importance of building up the City's budget reserves and finding savings in his testimony before the City Council Committee on Finance's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2017 Executive Bbudget gap in FY 2019 and signs of a potential economic slowdown, Comptroller Stringer emphasized the importance of building up the City's budget reserves and finding savings in his testimony before the City Council Committee on Finance's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2017 Executive Bbudget reserves and finding savings in his testimony before the City Council Committee on Finance's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2017 Executive BudgetBudget.

In a sign that the end of the budget process is near, some conference committees began wrapping up their work and closing down.

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Democrat from Manhattan who chairs the chamber's higher education committee, said she doesn't yet understand the plan, but she «find [s] it hard to believe that the governor would want to sign off on a budget that didn't have clear final action on an education budget.»

When the Budget Control Act was signed into law in 2011, it first established an original spending cap baseline, along with a joint Congressional committee to come up with some kind of trillion - dollar grand bargain to further reduce deficits.

Despite a huge sense of relief, Jackson says there is still concern about next year's budget, although there are promising signs: The House Appropriations Committee approved a budget of $ 805 million for particle physics in FY 2009, nearly $ 117 million more than this year's allocation.

Another positive sign, she says: the appropriations committee used language in its budget proposal from a May report by the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), which laid out a strategy for the coming decade to ensure the U.S. «maintain [s] a leadership role in worldwide particle physics.»

If the administration signs off on the $ 2.2 million transfer from charter schools to the vo - techs, it would then need to be approved by the Finance Advisory Committee, a panel of top state officials responsible for giving final approval to inter-agency budget transfers.