Sentences with phrase «back in a special session»

If they don't do that, I'm going to call them back in special session.

The legislature could come back in a special session to approve mayoral control, along with local tax extensions.

Kink, and others, predict that the legislature will be back in a special session after Oct. 1 to deal with potential budget cuts.

«You can always call the Legislature back in special session.

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Paterson insisted he still has some cards in his hand — namely calling lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special session in the absence of an FMAP deal.

«If they go home and they're not assaulted by the residents of their district and chased back to Albany, then, yes, I would call a special session,» the governor told reporters at a press conference in the state Capitol's Red Room.

«At the end of the day, however, there just isn't enough in this package to justify convening a special session and bringing 213 legislators back to Albany before the end of the year,» he said in the statement.

Cuomo is backing the term limit amendment in addition to a constitutional change that would create a full - time Legislature, both of which he hopes will achieve first passage in a potential special session that could precede the first legislative pay hike since 1998.

Governor Cuomo, D - N.Y., is pressuring state lawmakers to come back in December for a special session that includes a number of reform items to address recent corruption scandals.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pressuring state lawmakers to come back in December for a special session that includes a number of reform items to address recent corruption scandals.

Flanagan's relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo has cooled in recent months, after Cuomo backed Democrats for some Senate seats in the 2016 elections and the governor and legislative leaders had a falling - out over a failed special session in December.

«As long as nothing else really bad happens, we may not have to come back,» said Heastie, who added if that changes, he's happy to confer with Cuomo and state Senate leaders on proposals to consider in a special session.

Cuomo has said he would not want to call lawmakers back to Albany for a special session without a firm plan in place for the Legislature to vote on.

Senate Republicans are due back in Albany on Wednesday to conference, but no special session of both chambers of the Legislature has been called by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

But Paterson said Wednesday, «That shouldn't prevent anybody from coming back to a special session [in the future]... I don't see that preempting a special session at all.»

Cuomo for the last several weeks had raised the possibility of a special session over the cut to public welfare hospitals, resulting in a heated back - and - forth between his administration and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office over payments to the hospitals.

«We have more to do and to be honest in the next week or so I'll be asking the governor to reach out to our colleagues and bring us back for a special session to consider additional relief measures,» he said.

Ms. Reiter said the governor's appointees would support a meaningful raise only if the Legislature — which is not due back in the capital until early January — held a special session before the end of this year to pass legislation that would «address the public's concern and opposition by making the position effectively full - time and limiting outside income.»

The governor is pressing the Legislature to come back for a special session in December to enact procurement reforms, among other things.

The General Assembly came back for a special session in December to deal with a shortfall in the state budget.

«Governor Cuomo, you have the constitutional power to call the Legislature back for a special session,» Gipson wrote in the letter.

Lawmakers are back in Albany on Wednesday for a special session of the Legislature.

Lawmakers won't be called back for a special session to pass more ethics and campaign - finance reform measures, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he would like to see broader changes included in a constitutional convention.

Paterson had called a special session for today, but then backed off that plan when it became clear the Senate would be embroiled in a recount battle for at least the immediate future.

Senate Republicans last backed an extension of the millionaires tax in 2011 when Cuomo and lawmakers agreed to changes in the tax rates in a year - end special session of the Legislature.

Connecticut lawmakers will be back in Hartford for a special session on the last week of the year.

Word of the judge's decision came a day before the Senate and Assembly are due back in Albany for a scheduled one - day special session to wrap up potentially several items left undone last week when the Legislature ended its 2017 regular session.

«At the end of the day, however, there just isn't enough in this package to justify convening a special session and bringing 213 legislators back to Albany before the end of the year,» Flanagan continued.

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb says he will call lawmakers back to the Statehouse in mid-May for a special session to address school and tax issues...

«Everyone assumed we were going back for a special session in November to do a pay raise,» a Democratic state legislator says.

Talks about a special session — in which a series of issues would likely be considered along with a pay hike for legislators — have been simmering for weeks, but Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie both said this week that there are no firm plans to come back.

Her defense of the mainline conference comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a meeting with Assembly Democrats blamed both Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats for not agreeing to back a legislative package that could have paved the way for a special session that would have triggered a salary increase.

«The quickest that we are all back in here, I believe that will be one of the things that's on the agenda whether it's in a special session or if we come back in January, very soon after that,» said Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

The legislature is not currently in session and we'll see how creative we can be on the stateside but worst case scenario I would be prepared to call a special session to have the legislature come back to deal with this issue if need be, because this is what government is all about.»

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is pressuring state lawmakers to come back in December for a special session that includes a number of reform items to address recent corruption scandals.

Hawkins said that if he was the governor, he would bring the legislature back into special session in the coming weeks to finish its work.

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb says he will call lawmakers back to the Statehouse in mid-May for a special session to address school and tax issues that weren't able to get out of the regular session earlier this month.

Quiet in manner but squarely backed by his conference, Heastie is heading into a legislative year that's sure to bring challenges — including the impact of recent friction between both legislative houses and Gov. Andrew Cuomo surrounding a scuttled special session that could have brought the first increase in legislative base pay since 1999.

The next legislative session is scheduled to begin in January, but it is also possible that he could call lawmakers back later this year for a special session.

The governor is pressing the legislature to come back for a special session in December to enact procurement reforms, among other things.

Cuomo has tried to salvage his women's agenda, asking the state Assembly to come back for a special session to act on the other items in the package that do not include abortion rights that the Senate already passed.

The Oregon legislature drafted the new tax proposal in a special session last month, stipulating that a majority of the state's cities, counties, and school districts must signal their backing for a statewide vote before it can be held, in March or May of next...

Florida lawmakers will trudge back to the state capital soon for their second special session in as many months, after failing to pass a rewrite of the laws that govern the state's education system.

A rejection of the main education funding alone would force lawmakers back to Tallahassee for a special session to redo that part of the budget, which is almost a third of the $ 82.4 billion in overall state spending approved for 2017 - 18.

As the Governor and the Legislature go back to the drawing board this special session, we urge them to ground their work in an understanding of the economic, demographic, and political changes which have created today's ever - growing challenge.

Governor Rick Scott says he will veto the legislature's education funding proposal, sending lawmakers back to the drawing board in a special session next week.

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So now legislative leaders are quietly talking with the governor about scaling back the size of the set aside in SB229 and possibly other changes that could be approved in a special session.