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SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara discusses the challenges of funding education, infrastructure and direct care professional wages as state lawmakers debate how they are going to balance the budget while facing such a large deficit.
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As state lawmakers debated SCANA's electric rates last month, Sen. Mia McLeod, D - Columbia, threw out one of the biggest questions that looms over the situation.
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However, state lawmakers held 2016 hearings to debate a proposed law that would define certain daily fantasy contests as games of skill and remove them from the state's overall ban on cash - based fantasy games over the internet.
Hundreds of teachers returned to the Capitol on Thursday morning as lawmakers debated the rest of the state's $ 10.4 billion budget plan.
State lawmakers, meanwhile, have debated over the last several months whether fantasy sports operations like DraftKings and FanDuel should be regulated as other allowable gambling entities.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio faced tough questions from state lawmakers about the city's contribution to the MTA as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delays.
A new round of financial disclosure forms released last week has resparked a decadeslong debate over whether state lawmakers should be constitutionally recognized as full time and if they should be able to hold other jobs.
As Massachusetts plans to start sales this fall, and other states debate legalization, fewer lawmakers are looking at her like she is crazy, she said.
Schneiderman's proposal comes as state lawmakers prepare to debate once again a public financing of campaigns on the state level that could see the adoption of a matching program based off the New York City system (Senate Republicans have blocked efforts to institute public financing).
Instead, Cuomo framed the debate over the tax abatement, which is expected to pick up when state lawmakers return to Albany next month after an extended break, as a union battle for them to fight over the prevailing wage.
During a contentious three - hour debate on Thursday, Jewish lawmakers condemned the legislation as anti-Semitic, arguing that many of the state's roughly 700 school districts have faced similar fiscal and academic challenges to East Ramapo.
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio faced tough questions from state lawmakers about the city's contribution to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delays.
The debate comes as state lawmakers consider Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for a study of the statewide legalization of marijuana.
It's one of many financial concerns the governor and lawmakers will debate as they finalize the state's $ 150 billion budget.
WASHINGTON — Although he is a first - term lawmaker from a thinly populated state, Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana has already established himself as a major player in the national debate over the role of telecommunications in education.
As state lawmakers continue their debate, some contend the program makes for exciting headlines but will not lead to effective school reform.
This spring, as Indiana lawmakers debated whether to leave the Common Core initiative, students in neighboring Kentucky were taking new state tests aligned to the nationally - crafted academic standards.
Utah Legislature will tackle high - profile issues Politics» While the state budget and public education will dominate discussions as usual, lawmakers are expected to debate tougher ethics laws, weaker gun - control laws.
NEW YORK — State lawmakers from Illinois to Tennessee are considering laws that could change what it means to be a teacher, as labor policy has become the heart of a pitched education debate — one in which each side claims that the other doesn't put students» interests first.
Illinois Debates Nursing Home Prevention Versus Privacy Concerns with Cameras in Nursing Homes Lawmakers in Illinois are currently debating the benefits and detriments of placing cameras in nursing homes, as a nursing home abuse prevention bill makes its way through the state's senate.