Sentences with phrase «legislature voted on it»

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — After an occasionally heated debate, a divided legislature voted on an 11th hour bill requiring the county to be charged back for $ 1.6 million in community college costs for the year of 2012, removing the obligation from the towns for that year.

The legislature voted on September 19 to hold Brega as the lowest responsible bidder, pointing to Brega's prior transportation record in Rockland County, acting to end a protracted legal conflict between Brega, MV Transportation, and the legislature.

Sarah Anker (D - Mount Sinai) speaks about red light camera safety before the legislature voted on the bill she sponsored to begin a six - month study of the camera program at the Suffolk County legislators meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2017.

The regional legislature voted on October 14 to oppose the deal, which means Belgium's national government can not approve it either.

But he believes a critical look at an absence during a time the legislature votes on two - thirds of its bills is certainly fair.

Chairman Michael Plochocki declined, saying there would be time for revisions before the entire legislature votes on it.

Not exact matches

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenduOn June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenduon in the legislature or put to a referendum.

Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

With Marois widely expected to call an election, the legislature may never get the chance to vote on the budget.

One hundred days ago the cabinet was sworn in on the steps of the legislature, in front of thousands of Albertans who had voted for change.

VICTORIA - B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan issued the following statement on the B.C. Liberals losing the confidence of the legislature: «Today's vote is a step toward a new government that puts regular British Columbians first.

A controversial anti-gay bill in Uganda, which would give the death sentence to some open homosexuals, is in legislative limbo after the legislature recessed for their break without voting on the bill.

Most importantly, church assemblies should reclaim their role as representative assemblies chosen to deliberate thoughtfully on significant matters of Christian faith and life, rather than continuing to act as legislatures that reduce everything to stark alternatives and then make hurried decisions by forced choice majority voting.

However, the state legislature stumbled to even get a vote on the floor of the state's assembly.

Or the fact that my state's Agriculture Secretary, Sid Miller (once voted the second most - conservative member in the Texas legislature — no easy feat), managed to vault himself onto the national stage just by attacking a (nonexistent) ban on birthday cupcakes in Texas schools.

Apparently, Barack voted «present» rather than take a stand on controversial bills several times in the Illinois legislature, which is apparently a reason to take after him (sounds like a bit of a stretch, but what do I know).

Before session wraps for the year, it's time for the rest of the legislature to tell the public where they stand on term limits by bringing this bill to the floor for an up or down vote.

But according to the House Minority Whip's office, some 280,000 people voted online or via text on the particular measure they'd like to see deleted from the federal budget, in what Cantor's new media guy described as «the most direct use of technology to establish a more direct democracy in the history of the federal legislature.»

The upper house of the legislature is elected on an ethnic basis, similar to the presidency; each voter in the Federation can either vote for Croat or for Bosniak candidates, not for both; the Federation elects 10 members.

Smart use of email fundraising from the Daily Kos activism list today: they sent out a message this afternoon asking activists to support last - minute Get Out The Vote work on behalf of three separate several Democrats running for state legislature in Virginia.

By the end of the session in June, nothing had been voted on by the upper house so Cuomo created the now infamous Moreland Commission to «use as a hammer» against the legislature.

At the municipal level, the municipality must adhere to the state legislature's laws on voting.

The first of two ways an amendment can be incorporated into the state constitution takes at least four years: two separately elected state legislatures must first vote to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot; then the majority of New Yorkers must vote on it and pass it by referendum.

Nebraska also has a unique provision: Although the legislature can call a special statewide election to vote on a proposed amendment, an 80 % affirmative vote is required.

The county legislature is scheduled to vote on his appointment Monday.

State Senate Republicans in the Elections Committee cast a vote on closing a campaign finance loophole, which has played a role in recent corruption trials of the former leaders of the legislature.

There was no indication Tuesday morning about when Democratic leaders may attempt to to vote on a revised budget plan, but the legislature only has until midnight Wednesday to pass a budget before it's mandatory adjournment deadline.

In Oklahoma, if the legislature wants a proposed amendment to go on a special election ballot, it has to approve the amendment by a 2 / 3rds vote.

Can the state legislature decree a special election date for the vote on the proposed amendment, or is it only allowed to refer potential amendments to a general election ballot?

In Nebraska, the legislature can call a special statewide election to vote on a proposed amendment, but an 80 % vote is required to place any such measures on a special election ballot.

In the early 19th century, most states did not hold popular elections for presidential electors and the legislature just chose them directly; as time went on, more and more states changed to doing popular vote for them, but as recently as 1876, the Colorado legislature appointed its electors rather than hold an election because it was newly admitted and didn't have the time to do so.

«We will most likely vote for it based on what's been presented,» said Lauren Corcoran - Doolin, a spokeswoman for the legislature's Democratic minority.

The chairman of the legislature, John Mills, urged his colleagues to overturn the veto and allow the public to vote on the amendments in November, adding «I'm not surprised by the County Executive's veto, he's telegraphed it for months through behind the scenes maneuvering.

The UN's failures can be traced to the way the Security Council (SC) is currently able to act in a judicial manner in determining whether states have complied with SC resolutions, while also acting as the executive in drawing up those resolutions, and also as the principal legislature in voting on them.

Appearing on WCNY's The Capitol Press Room with Susan Arbetter, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos continued his calls for the Assembly to vote on the hard 2 % property tax cap that the Governor proposed and the Senate has already passed — just like he did on the final week before the legislature adjourned back on April 13th.

A proven vote - getter in Buffalo, Grant's served on the county legislature for a decade.

It would prohibit the legislature from voting on bills between the hours of 9 pm and 9 am.

The state legislature is almost finished voting on a $ 141.3 b state budget.

He says his committee will make its recommendation to the Assembly Speaker, and then the full legislature will have a chance to vote on it.

The only dissenting vote came from Harlem Senator Bill Perkins, who actually praised the work on the bill in explaining his vote, before saying he was going to vote no because he was concerned with taking control away from the legislature.

The full legislature will vote on the expense next week.

The Environmental Committee Chairs in the legislature have proposed a $ 5 billion dollar environmental bond act, to be voted on in November 2014.

The legislature is allowed to conduct no more than two up - or - down votes on the commission's recommendations.

By now, there's little doubt the state legislature will vote itself a substantial raise shortly after voting machines cool down on Nov. 6.

She says since the $ 1.9 billion was already voted on and approved in the budget, the legislature does not have to return to vote in order for Cuomo and the legislative leaders to write up a new memo covering the full five years.

Cuomo, who urged the legislature to approve a plan to build four gambling resorts upstate, and possibly more in New York City in a few years, says he will be promoting a yes vote on the referendum in the coming weeks.

Cuomo says even if the public vote is delayed, the casino siting legislation would still need to be passed this year, based on a decades old opinion issued by a former State Attorney General, who said that constitutional amendment votes by the legislature need to happen in consecutive years, and can't skip a year in between votes.

Budget amendments proposed subsequent to the tabling of the Budget Committee report, or less than forty eight hours prior to the annual meeting, shall be considered separately with each line item voted on individually on the floor of the legislature.

Charles Falciglia won a seat on Rockland County legislature with 43 percent of the vote cast for the Reform Party.