Sentences with phrase «pension bills passed»

Pension bills passed by the legislature are a major reason the $ 8 Billion figure is that high.

Thursday night, as the pension bill passed, many continued to voice their outrage, stunned and furious by lawmakers» quick unveiling and voting on the measure.

Not exact matches

A slew of new regulations passed in 2006, including the sweeping Pension Protection Act, affect everything from phone bills to 401 (k) plans.

The Colorado House passed an amended bill designed to improve the funded status of the state pension plan and lower its overall risk.

Here's Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, railing against a pension sweetener bill that Democratic Sen. Diane Savino was forced to pull off the floor this afternoon when it became clear it did not have sufficient votes to pass.

He's calling on his colleagues to pass a bill that would forfeit legislators state pensions if they're convicted of a felony.

The legislature passed bills to provide voluntary firefighters with the same disability benefits that professional firefighters receive and increase disability pensions for airport firefighters.

Heastie also backed out of a budget deadline deal to pass a bill that would have started the process of amending the constitution to prevent state convicts like Silver from collecting their pensions.

«We want to make sure we have a pension forfeiture bill that we can get passed.»

We also continue to seek an agreement on a pension forfeiture constitutional amendment that matches the bill we passed earlier this year.

«The legislature passed several pension bills that sweetened pension benefits for employees.

That is from the conference that just passed a bill to repeal part of the pension reforms passed in 2012, and that law did not go far enough to reign in the costs of the programs.

The Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed an amendment bill seeking the suspension of the payment of pensions to former governors, deputy governors and...

Showing his law firm the state money (2006): Silver shuffles the Judiciary Committee, and a Senate - passed bill to bar pension - drawing public employees from suing their employers dies without a vote.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

And Flanagan blamed the Assembly for failing to pass into law in 2015 an agreed upon bill to strip public pensions from lawmakers who are convicted of felonies.

Cuomo was criticized during an all - night session in mid-March for issuing special messages of necessity to allow the Senate and Assembly to pass bills as soon as deals were struck on topics like a new pension tier for public workers, and redistricting lines.

The Senate passed a bill that could eventually strip Skelos and Silver of their state pensions, which will pay each $ 90,000 to $ 100,000 a year, but the Assembly has not passed the legislation.

A controversial pension reform bill that just passed the House is now in the Florida Senate's hands.

The state Senate and state Assembly passed different versions of pension stripping bills in 2015, so New York is not able to propose a constitutional amendment to withhold pensions from officials who were elected before 2011.

Twice before, the state Legislature has passed a bill that would allow all veterans to get a three - year service credit in the state's pension system, regardless of when and where they served.

And the DemocRATS still won't pass a pension forfeiture bill, what's up with that?

Among a handful of so - called «pension sweeteners» passed in the final days of the 2014 session by both houses of the Legislature was a bill that would be the first rollback of Tier 6 — a pension reform championed and touted by the Cuomo administration.

Cuomo said in the memo accompanying his veto that passing the bill showed the Legislature «has chosen to ignore its commitment to shield property taxpayers from the costs of new statewide pension enhancements.»

The Senate and Assembly passed different versions of pension forfeiture bills in 2015, so the measure did not become law.

He said he would vote again this year to pass a bill that allows the state to strip pension payments from all state officials and employees who are convicted of crimes related to their public duties.

A government ethics reform bill, jointly passed by the state Legislature Monday for a second time, amends the state constitution and allows the state to reduce or revoke the pension of a public officer that has been convicted of a crime related to his or her official duties.

In March last year, the Senate passed a broader pension forfeiture bill that applied to all members of the state pension system, not just those who are elected.

To prevent the impending lapse of mayoral control over New York City schools, the state Legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo passed a two - year extension Thursday as part of a larger omnibus bill, which included a pension enhancement for certain uniformed workers, special recognition for former Governor Mario Cuomo, and several benefits for upstate areas.

As noted here, the bill was one of several pension sweeteners passed by huge margins (57 - 4 in Senate, 133 - 1 in Assembly) in the final days of the legislative session in June.

Beyond the immediately affected group of veterans, the veto sends an encouraging signal that Cuomo will take a hard line against other pension sweeteners passed by the Legislature this year — including a bill, not yet sent to the governor's desk, resurrecting early retirement for uniformed court officers hired since 2012.

Five somewhat less sweeping pension sweetener bills passed by both houses of the Legislature are summarized on the Citizens Budget Commission scorecard.

The Senate has passed a bill that could eventually strip Skelos of his $ 95,832 a year state pension and Silver of his $ 79,224 a year pension, but the Assembly has not passed the legislation.

«I don't think... anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done, like at least the pension forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year — which still hasn't been passed — the LLC loophole, which is just an obvious anomaly that could be passed easily, in my opinion, which would at least reflect the sense of the people that this has been a wholly unprecedented year in terms of investigations of legislators,» the governor said after speaking at a minimum wage rally outside the Capitol.

«This was a false choice... a deeply flawed and severely limited minimum wage bill that never would have passed in exchange for a fiscally reckless pension bill that would have cost New York City taxpayers $ 6 billion,» mayoral spokeswoman Karen Hinton said.

Mr. McGrath has said that he supports some ethics reforms, like term limits for legislators and stripping pensions from lawmakers convicted of a felony; Mr. Kaminsky's spokesman, Evan Thies, defended his attendance record as «excellent,» noting that he had sponsored 16 bills that eventually passed, a freshman record.

Department for Work and Pensions assessment released before Commons debate as welfare bill passed by majority of 56

Even If the pension stripping bill is passed this year by both houses, the Legislature would have to pass it again in 2017 before voters could vote on the constitutional amendment.

Crowley's proposal would encourage the state to pass a bill creating parity among the different pension tiers for all employees of the uniformed services.

The Legislature has passed bills that force officials convicted of corruption to forfeit their pensions.

When the Assembly came to order on June 17 for a session that would last until 5:09 a.m. the next day, it still needed to pass an anti-heroin package, a roll - back of the state's Blue Laws, the legalization of daily fantasy sports, a constitutional amendment that could make more elected officials convicted of felonies forfeit their pensions, a government transparency measure, and 57 other bills.

He says if the governor tries as hard to get campaign finance reform passed as he did to achieve legalization of same sex marriage and a new lowered benefit pension tier for public workers, then the bills can become law this year.

So far, the Senate and Assembly haven't even been able to agree to pass the same bill that would strip state pensions from New York state workers convicted of crimes related to their public duties, a measure that Horner said would probably be more symbolic than an actual deterrent.

The Senate has already passed a pension forfeiture bill but DeFrancisco said the Assembly wants to exclude teachers and other employees from the agreement.

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter schools.

Illinois recently passed pension reform legislation with a number of complex provisions (read the full bill here).

Kline and Alexander, who was ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at the time, each had draft bills that stood in opposition to Senate Democrats» proposals, and the House passed Kline's bill in the summer of 2013 along party lines.

Harkin and Enzi's bill passed through the Senate Health, Labor, Education, & Pensions Committee one week ago today, garnering three Republican votes.

Schools in more than 20 Kentucky counties were closed Friday as teachers across the state, frustrated by a pension reform bill passed by the legislature called in sick.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple