Sentences with phrase «legislative leaders agreed»

Brown and legislative leaders agreed last summer to a landmark restructuring of school finance in the creation of the Local Control Funding Formula.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed to a school aid increase of $ 1.5 billion, or 6.5 percent, and to rescind a recession - era measure that has taken a slice of school aid increases each year.

The legislative leaders agreed on a revenue Budget bill Tuesday and scheduled it for passage on Friday, March 31.

Legislative leaders agreed on the fiscal year 2018 budget late Friday, a week after it was due and following days of negotiations between elected officials.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed Wednesday on legislation to support addiction treatment and enact stricter penalties for illegal drug distribution, in response to what they called a growing heroin, opioid and prescription - drug - abuse epidemic.

The governor and the legislative leaders agreed to create an inner - city youth employment program and a $ 25 million tax credit for employers who hire unemployed youth between 16 and 24 years of age over the first six months of 2012.

As part of the budget deal in late March, Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed to a pilot program for this year's state comptroller race.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed Tuesday to income tax cuts for New Yorkers making $ 40,000 to $ 300,000, which will save most middle - class families $ 300 to $ 400 a year.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed to several ethics proposals during the final week of the 2016 legislative session.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed Tuesday to income tax cuts for New Yorkers making $ 40,000 to $ 300,000, which will save most middle - class families $ 300 to $ 400 a year.

Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed to a middle - class tax cut for New Yorkers.

• Legislative leaders agreed to pursue a constitutional amendment for private - sector casinos.

The Governor and the legislative leaders agreed on proposing legislation that will permit the New York Works Infrastructure Fund to bid the design and construction of infrastructure projects as a single contract, reducing costs and improving construction time.

A handful of legislative leaders agreed to reveal incomes - most surprisingly, Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who admitted making more than $ 250,000 as CEO of the nonprofit Soundview Health Center.

The Governor and the legislative leaders agreed to create an inner - city youth employment program and a $ 25 million tax credit for employers who hire unemployed youth between 16 and 24 years of age over the first six months of 2012.

In what will perhaps be the biggest end - of - session deal, Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed on bills to support addiction treatment and enact stricter penalties for illegal drug distribution, in response to what they deemed a heroin «epidemic.»

Connecticut legislative leaders agreed on Wednesday that it's important to keep high paying jobs in the state.

Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed to a framework for a new state budget Wednesday evening, but say they are still working out many of the details.

Levy joined with three Suffolk County senators — Ken LaValle, John Flanagan and Owen Johnson to call for restoration of the Empire Zone program, which Gov. David Paterson and Democratic legislative leaders agreed earlier this month to scrap in favor of the scaled - down Excelsior Jobs program.

Cuomo imposed a cut in personal service contracts even as he and legislative leaders agreed the state's revenue picture has improved.

But the governor and legislative leaders agreed to postpone the State of the State to Jan. 21 because of the extenuating circumstances of former Gov. Mario Cuomo's death.

So far, the most significant thing the legislative leaders agree on is that they plan to depart as scheduled on Thursday.

Abinanti's announcement comes one day after Schneiderman sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeking an executive order that would give the automtically make the AG a special prosecutor in instances like the death of Eric Garner following a chokehold administered by an NYPD officer until such time that the governor and legislative leaders agree on permanent statutory reforms.

Not exact matches

I am there to render advice and I've given advice for months to the legislative leaders to the governor they don't have to follow and obviously the governor didn't agree with my plan and that's his right and entitlement.»

State legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agree on the concept of passing a package of measure designed to curb heroin addiction in New York and are working out the details, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Wednesday said.

According to the official legislative calendar, which was agreed to by the leaders of both houses and the governor before 2010 even got underway, the Legislature was only scheduled to be in town either one, three or four days a week in June until the close of the season on the 21st.

Cuomo and legislative leaders would have to agree to a spending plan by midnight Monday to allow for the three days» public review of the deal before a vote Thursday.

The new regulations, agreed upon last month as part of a much bigger budget compromise between legislative leaders and the governor, will do little to halt the erosion of middle - income housing in New York City, and are more dangerous to landlords in principle than in practice.

But legislative leaders have told Cuomo that they're not interested in returning before the start of the new legislative session in January, and, as a result, the governor has agreed not to call them back.

Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed to begin a second round of competition for the grants early next year.

«It appears our legislative leaders couldn't agree to provide tax relief to struggling homeowners and renters through a middle class property tax circuit breaker but managed to find the political will to provide sales tax exemptions for people buying luxury yachts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo tamped down hopes for a special session of the legislature before the year ends, saying legislative leaders have still not agreed to ethics reforms that the governor is seeking.

The Assembly's judiciary committee unanimously approved an amendment on Wednesday afternoon that was actually agreed to last year by legislative leaders.

«Public financing for comptroller - only candidates opens the door to campaign finance reform, but the Governor and the legislative leaders must now walk through that door and finish the job by Monday and agree to comprehensive campaign finance reform,» said Dick Dadey of Citizens Union in a statement.

The idea to use the state comptroller as a public finance guinea pig was agreed to by the governor and three legislative leaders, but DiNapoli was blindsided by the agreement, complaining that he had not been consulted or included in negotiations.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tamped down hopes for a special session of the legislature before the year ends, saying legislative leaders have still not agreed to ethics reforms that the governor is seeking.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed on a framework for the state budget with at least a $ 1.4 billion increase in school aid, a plan to allow the state education department to develop the new teacher evaluation system and tighter disclosure requirements for lawmakers.

Legislative leaders say firefighter groups and others who plan annual memorials for September 11th requested that the scheduled primary be delayed two days, until Thursday September 13th, and they have agreed.

Last week, legislative leaders from both political parties agreed to a budget that seeks to close the state's $ 3.5 billion deficit; a vote could be held next week.

State lawmakers will have to disclose more details about their outside earnings and business relationships under new ethics laws agreed to by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders.

The Senate gained an extra seat as part of redistricting agreed to this year by Cuomo and legislative leaders.

He indicated that back in December 2011, Governor Cuomo and the legislative leaders joined in calling for a thorough review of the fairness of the New York tax system and agreed that fairness is one important basis for evaluating the workings of any tax system.

In 2014, the governor and legislative leaders — Silver and then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also on trial for selling his office — agreed to dissolve the commission in exchange for a pilot program of public campaign finance, a new enforcement office at the state's Board of Elections and changes to the bribery statute.

In the final budget deal, Cuomo agreed with legislative leaders to a pared down public campaign finance system that would apply only to the State Comptroller's race, and sunset after this year.

Legislative leaders like Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie largely agree with the governor's stance.

The bills agreed to by Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders include some worthy measures, such as capping prescriptions of opioid pain relievers at a seven - day supply, down from 30.

(According to the calendar agreed on by legislative leaders months ago, yesterday was the last work day of the year).

Fred Dicker's column today indicated that Cuomo had agreed with legislative leaders on not returning to Albany.

Legislative leaders in both houses in Albany have agreed to put an extra $ 25 million into the state budget for Upstate transit — a move that would cancel proposed late - night service cuts at Centro.

That was the first year that the state and federal primaries did not fall on the same day, thanks to the inability of legislative leaders to agree on a date.