Sentences with phrase «budget amendment»

However, no adjustments were made to the plan in the governor's 30 - day budget amendments, leaving the cost shifts as an expensive bargaining chip.

For example, there was a balanced budget amendment proposal with four options.

The council was split in half over proposed budget amendments.

A class size budget amendment is now on the table.

The mandated 30 - day budget amendments are the tweaks and changes the governor adds a month after his budget plan is presented.

To the extent that calls for a balanced budget amendment are a first step toward fiscal discipline, we welcome that conversation.

Lawmakers have also scheduled three sessions to propose budget amendments.

Cuomo is expected to unveil a proposed payroll tax and changes to charitable deductions in budget amendments in February.

The campaign pushing for funding in the state budget workers who provide direct care services to those with developmental disabilities is upset Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - day budget amendments do not include the funding they have sought.

A recent federal court injunction based on a congressional budget amendment passed years before the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated has thrown many of the field's ongoing projects into limbo

The new budget amendments also call for creation of a new «Charitable Gifts Trust Fund,» which would be run by the state.

On April 1, following several hours of intense floor debate in the Texas House on a string of budget amendments seeking to reallocate funds designated to provide basic women's health care services, the dust was settling.

In response to those concerns, Cuomo announced a 30 - day budget amendment last week that would provide $ 7 million to help counties implement early voting.

Such a shift would explain why legislators have still not introduced budget amendments drafted by Cuomo that contain the relevant changes.

As expected, the new budget amendments also include a proposed shift — for the increasing minority of taxpayers who will still itemize under the new federal law — away from state income tax payments to an employer - paid payroll tax system.

The House will vote next week on a balanced - budget amendment authored by Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte, GOP aides said Thursday.

The ad shows video of Deeds on the campaign trail in April, before his victory in the Democratic primary, telling voters that in early 2008 he offered $ 1 billion in state budget amendments - the highest amount sought by any state senator.

Cuomo's budget amendment seeks to address those concerns.

The proposal was one of several expanded measures outlined in Cuomo's 30 - day budget amendments released today — several days before they were due (Feb. 15).

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«We need to do a better job of informing the public of what exactly this [budget amendment] means.

Budget amendments include provisions to decouple the state tax code from the federal tax code so that State taxpayers do not see more than $ 1.5 billion in state taxes because of federal tax increases.

Miner was presented the council's budget amendments Thursday.

«There has been no indication for a widespread directive to cease and desist in state regulated cannabis markets, and we expect law enforcement priorities to remain status quo,» Karnes says, noting that Rohrabacher — Farr, a federal budget amendment, restricts the use of federal funding to prosecute medical marijuana enterprises.

Sessions has also asked Congress to rescind a Justice Department budget amendment that stops the agency from using federal funds to block states from implementing their own marijuana legalization bills, both medical and recreational.

One of the 30 - day budget amendments unveiled by Cuomo's office Monday is approximately $ 7 million to adopt early voting.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration quietly floated the project in a February budget amendment asking lawmakers to approve a highly privatized building arrangement, not currently legal for state agencies, to speed construction and limit risk.

Two of Brooklyn's House members, Republican Dan Donovan and Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, spoke out about the balanced budget amendment after the measure failed to capture enough votes for passage.

Mr. Romaine sponsored three budget amendments during the Legislature's meeting in Hauppauge Wednesday in an effort to restore the almost 10 percent reduction in county funding to Cornell Cooperative, which will still receive more than $ 2.4 million from Suffolk County in 2012.

Mr. Romaine said he drafted his stand - alone budget amendments prior to the bipartisan budget working group completing the omnibus budget in hopes that they would incorporate and address his concerns about the proposed cuts to Cornell Cooperative.

For the past three years crafted responsible budget amendments that called for meaningful reform of Erie County government and the reduction of our incredible tax burden.

The final capital budget amendments Common Council members offered Thursday do far more subtracting than adding, but even if they all pass, Brasser said the impact on the city's tax levy would be a reduction of $ 1.8 million.

In his recent budget amendments, the governor did get around to rectifying an omission that would have forced New Yorkers to pay $ 1.5 billion more in state taxes.

The Democratic - led Assembly introduced Cuomo's budget amendments containing the governor's ethics measures aimed at the legislature, state officials confirmed Sunday.

«The Administration asked Congress to consider an emergency budget amendment of $ 15 million for the Department of Energy to fund the activities of that commission,» an administration official told CNN on condition of not being identified.

Cuomo's tax overhaul plan was included in several budget amendments he released Monday.

A majority of the Erie County Legislature announces that through strategic budget amendments, County Executive Mark Poloncarz's proposed tax increase has been eliminated in the adopted 2013 budget.

Through this audit, we found ways to cut costs and improve efficiency, and as a result, one of our first budget amendments was a reduction of $ 100,000 in the Legislature's operating budget.

An Investigative Post report, co-produced with WGRZ, finds Erie County legislators pass few laws, make few budget amendments but pass hundreds of resolutions honoring residents, both dead and alive, that have nothing to do with the operation of county government.

In addition, both California and Illinois have balanced budget amendment language in their constitutions, however both states are swimming in billions of dollars of red ink.

The votes to override the mayor's veto on the tax increase and other budget amendments was unanimous.

This year, without forewarning, the Cuomo administration cut funding for provider services for the disabled by 6 percent during the 30 - day budget amendment period, which doesn't get the public scrutiny the earlier, actual budget does.

The administration had an additional $ 2 million to cover budget amendments because the county belatedly learned that principal payments on a major loan for construction projects won't be due until 2018, Callan said.

Late Friday, Cuomo issued budget amendments that left the cost shifts in place amid other programmatic and technical changes.

Lorigo said the Republican - supported majority would have been happy to answer any questions about the Visit Buffalo Niagara budget amendment if they'd been asked.

The table doesn't give Congress what it really needs, however — a formal budget amendment from the White House Office of Budget and Management.

State Rep. Tom McMillin, R - Rochester Hills — who sponsored the House budget amendment to defund implementation — also has introduced standalone legislation that would prohibit the Michigan Board of Education, state officials and agencies from participating in the Common Core State Standards initiative.