Sentences with phrase «as state lawmakers last»

It's unlikely Cuomo would go along with alterations to the cap, even as state lawmakers last year approved modest changes to the measure that allow for some growth in certain instances.

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Last month, a committee of House lawmakers advanced a bill that would help companies like GM and Google seek more exemptions to federal safety rules, perhaps allowing them the ability to test as many as 100,000 experimental self - driving cars in the United States.

Boehm said Donahue's selection had nothing to do with the fact that her husband, Dan, worked on Mayor Dan McLaughlin's election campaign two years ago and her brother - in - law David Donahue was hired last year as the village's legislative liaison, a newly created position designed to foster communication between the village and state and federal lawmakers.

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.

Efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federal level.

Days before Cuomo delivered his State of the State address last week, nearly a dozen upstate lawmakers quietly pushed him to put a tunnel back on the table as a potential replacement for Interstate 81 in Syracuse.

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.

These revelations were uncovered by the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption as part of a broad investigation into the spending of campaign funds by state lawmakers that was shut down when Gov. Andrew Cuomo abruptly disbanded the Commission last month.

Days before Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered his «State of the State» address last week, nearly a dozen Upstate New York lawmakers quietly pushed the governor to put a tunnel back on the table as a potential replacement for Interstate 81 in Syracuse.

Financial disclosures filed last year show 24 lawmakers, mostly lawyers, were making about as much or more in outside income as their $ 79,500 base annual pay from the state.

At the same time, Cuomo said he was worried federal lawmakers and the Trump administration would seek other ways of running roughshod over states» rights beyond the tax law approved last month as well as federal immigration policy.

Last year, lawmakers agreed to new anti-corruption laws and an independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections that came as the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption was closed.

An administration official told the Times Union on Monday that panel appointees of the executive and judicial branch indicated at their meeting last week that they have soured on the idea of a raise for two reasons: because only two lawmakers have formally stated their case to the commission this year, and because ethics reforms approved this year have been lambasted as not properly addressing recent corruption.

Last week the Long Island Progressive Coalition demonstrated outside the law firm that employs State Sen. Kemp Hannon, saying he was benefiting from investments in companies he regulates as a lawmaker.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

Despite the convictions last year of the state Legislature's top two leaders, the Legislature did not pass any ethics reforms as part of the state budget lawmakers approved on Friday.

Lawmakers — as well as Cuomo — had been under pressure to approve some form of ethics and anti-corruption legislation in Albany after a parade of corruption arrests that engulfed the Capitol in recent years, including the convictions of the two former state legislative leaders last year, Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

Financial disclosures filed last year show just 24 state lawmakers — mostly lawyers — were making about as much or more in outside income as their $ 79,500 base annual pay from the state.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year agreed to repeal an annual wage notification requirement for businesses, an effort to crackdown on bad bosses that ended up as an exercise in busywork.

AUSABLE — As federal lawmakers returned to their districts last week to engage in rough and tumble town halls, state lawmakers encountered more mild turf.

Food tip workers were excluded from last year's deal on a pay hike, Cuomo has refused for more than a year to convene a minimum wage board to provide a hike administratively as state lawmakers directed him to do.

Last year, state lawmakers received nearly $ 148 million in discretionary funds, also known as member items or «pork,» to distribute in their districts.

As Israel tells it, while he and other lawmakers waited to escort President Barack Obama to the podium to deliver his last State of the Union address a week later, Obama invited Israel to the White House to discuss his future.

The ideas are bubbling up as state lawmakers begin their 2018 sessions and assess the effects of the Republican tax overhaul that President Donald Trump signed into law last month.

Other county leaders across the state were caught somewhat off guard by the proposal, which a source said was first floated last December as part of a potential special session and was rejected by lawmakers.

But late last month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, signed legislation, backed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, and several state lawmakers, that would allow the city to transfer ownership of Christopher Park to the federal government should it become designated as a monument.

When asked by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu why he failed to appear before the lawmakers in uniform as requested, Ali said the Senate did not state in its last letter to him that he should appear in uniform.

But as newspaper editorial boards urged lawmakers to keep the interim attorney general, Barbara Underwood, who had served for years as state solicitor general, in the job, Ms. James withdrew her name from consideration to fill out the last seven or so months of Mr. Schneiderman's term.

Kaminsky passed tax credits for Sandy victims last year, and supported what state lawmakers describe as the largest middle - class tax cut in recent memory in this year's budget.

Governor Cuomo announced an agreement with state leaders on last minutes issues, as lawmakers wrap up the 2015 legislative session.

Similarly, on the closed institutions in Southern Kaduna area of the state on grounds of insecurity, the lawmaker said the long closure of the institutions since last year needed to be revisited as a matter of urgency considering the relative peaceful atmosphere that the communities which host the institutions were currently enjoying.

That refusal, as lawmakers said at last week's hearing, leaves little confidence the state will handle future crises properly.

It's likely the governor would re-purpose some of the proposals he pushed both during the 2016 legislative session and as he negotiated an ultimately ill - fated trade for a pay raise for state lawmakers late last year.

The lawmakers — Republican Sens. Pat Gallivan and Kathy Marchione, as well as IDC members David Carlucci and Dave Valesky — are calling for an overhaul of business regulations that echo Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State speech last week.

The defeats surprised some in the state who pointed to last fall's election of a pro-voucher state schools superintendent as a sure sign that lawmakers would pass at least a pilot voucher...

As schoolchildren absorbed lectures on state history during tours of the Capitol here last week, California lawmakers were making history of their own by passing a school reform package that will raise the stakes for teachers, administrators, and students.

A proposal to create a new teacher training system for the state died in the Kentucky legislature last month as lawmakers cleared the decks to deal with thorny budget and health - care \ reform issues.

Last year, Washington became the first state to lose its waiver from some of the strictest requirements of that law, known as the No Child Left Behind Act, because lawmakers here refused to require school districts to use student test scores as part of evaluating teacher effectiveness.

As for the amount of testing, Department of Public Instruction spokesman Patrick Gasper said Common Core requires no more testing and that the only new state tests, in ninth and 10th grades, were added by lawmakers as part of the last state budgeAs for the amount of testing, Department of Public Instruction spokesman Patrick Gasper said Common Core requires no more testing and that the only new state tests, in ninth and 10th grades, were added by lawmakers as part of the last state budgeas part of the last state budget.

Wisconsin's adoption of the Common Core State Standards would undergo a review as soon as 2015 under legislation proposed by a Republican lawmaker last week.

The Opportunity Scholarships program, commonly referred to as the «school voucher program,» was enacted by the state last year when lawmakers inserted the language of the program's bill, which never made it out of committee, into the state budget bill.

That funding was cut by state lawmakers last week, putting the mentoring program's future in question — just as some districts are struggling to retain teachers.

Amid lobbying, state lawmakers agreed last year to a one - year delay while they studied issues such as whether the state should separately fund those teachers.

Indiana lawmakers who supported last session's education overhaul have billed charter schools as a better alternative than the state's public schools for teaching low - income students.

Last year, Maryland lawmakers approved a $ 5 million private - school voucher program as part of the state's $ 42 billion operating budget — a surprising move for a Democratic - controlled legislature.

Last year, lawmakers approved a $ 5 million private - school voucher program as part of the state's $ 42 billion operating budget.

Students also got a taste of what advocacy looks like IRL as they engaged with lawmakers and hand - delivered more than 700 hand - written postcards from charter school students across the state demanding fairness and equal funding for charter schools during these last few weeks of legislative session.

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.

MacKenzie Grayson, Supervisor for the Parents as Teachers program in the Normandy Schools Collaborative and former PAT participant, recently met with U.S. Senator Roy Blunt in Washington, D.C. MacKenzie was part of a group of PAT moms and parent educators from several states who traveled to the nation's capital last week to visit with lawmakers.