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.
Not exact matches
Take a look at the specific
language of the government's
amendments in the last federal
budget to the Investment Canada Act (Bill C - 60).
It's quite clear that the GOP lifted some of the
language for its
amendment directly from legislation that created the Congressional
Budget Office back in 1974.
Supported
amendment in committee which removed LTC from Transparency bill; Opposed harmful CON legislation in committee; Supported
language in Senate
budget to repeal Medicaid rate freeze and provide nursing centers with Medicaid rate increase.
Cuomo lat year included
language in his 30 - day
budget amendments that would have provided a clearer picture of where the money would go, but that did not end up in the final approved
budget.
For the moment, it's not clear how the
amendment's
language would go about reducing the governor's influence and leverage in the
budget talks.
It was a simple oversight that this transfer was not included in the Executive
Budget with the rest of the
language creating the Gaming Commission, and this
amendment corrects it.
Governor Cuomo is a key ally because he inserted
language creating the education investment tax credit into his 30 - day
budget amendments.
Unclear is whether the Senate plan will adopt Cuomo's version of Child Victims Act
language, make
amendments to it, offer their own counter-proposal or just leave the issue out of their overall
budget plan on the argument that it is not a fiscal matter that has to be dealt with as part of the
budget process.
Department of Public Instruction spokesman Tom McCarthy said when the
amendment was introduced that lawmakers passed specific
budget language outlining how the calculations would work.