Sentences with phrase «budget amendments»

Under the seven budget amendments passed this month in the Texas House, there will be very little left to fund reproductive health services at all.

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.

Mixed in among the budget amendments was a $ 100,000 increase to Visit Buffalo Niagara.

Lawmakers have also scheduled three sessions to propose budget amendments.

Governor Andrew Cuomo expressed his commitment to funding early voting across New York by including it in his 30 - day budget amendments.

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

Whatever changes they end up making to the tax code, the governor was hoping to have an agreement by the time the 30 - day budget amendments are due at the end of February.

Heastie said he wasn't concerned the budget amendments didn't deal with the cost shifts, and was confident legislators would «work that out» with Cuomo.

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 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.

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

The budget amendments portray the complexity of the idea: The Cuomo administration could make no estimate for future charitable donations to be made by New Yorkers under the state and local contribution systems it proposes.

Mujica said Cuomo's budget amendments would also «decouple» the state tax code from the federal tax code to, among other things, allow individuals who do not itemize deductions at the federal level to do so on their state returns.

Miner was presented the council's budget amendments Thursday.

Nearly 99 percent of our budget amendments passed unanimously, and the overall amended budget was given unanimous support for the first time in the recent history of Erie County government.

Our budget amendments restored 2014 - level funding to area youth groups, cultural organizations, and other community assets, including the Town of West Seneca YES Program and the Boys & Girls Clubs of East Aurora, Holland, and EMW.

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.

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.

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.

Governor Cuomo is a key ally because he inserted language creating the education investment tax credit into his 30 - day budget amendments.

The Democratic - led Assembly on Tuesday released its one - house budget resolution that includes income disclosure proposals as well as campaign - finance reform measures, but does not embrace the plan released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his budget amendments.

After some paid leave advocates quietly voiced concerns, Cuomo in his 30 - day budget amendments this month changed the proposal so that workers can receive up to 66 percent of their weekly pay, up from 50 percent, once the plan is fully phased in.

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

The teacher evaluation plan, as well as the agreement over the appeals process, will now become part of the governor's 30 day budget amendments, but the difference is that now all of the key parties agree to the provisions.

The new measure in the budget amendments, if enacted in Cuomo's final budget, will grant the state's Office of Temporary Disability and Assistance the power to remove shelter operators and appoint new ones, a Cuomo administration spokesman confirmed.

ALBANY - A power play by the legislature against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo weakened Sunday as the Assembly agreed to introduce the governor's budget amendments.

[29] Reed focused on bringing attention to wasteful government spending and supported budget amendments that saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by eliminating government funding for projects, including a sewer system in Tijuana, Mexico.

To be clear, I support nearly all of the initiatives that Cuomo included in his so - called 30 - day budget amendments.

In its budget amendments in October, the Board of Estimates added roughly $ 7.5 million in spending to the capital budget, with $ 4 million of that coming from borrowed money, Brasser said.

Whatever changes leaders ended up agreeing to make to the state tax code, the governor hoped to have an agreement by the time the 30 - day budget amendments are due at the end of February.

Also at 9 a.m., Sen. Pat Gallivan addresses advocates asking Cuomo and the legislature to reform New York's Scaffold Law and to include reform in the 30 - day budget amendments, Empire State Plaza Concourse, Meeting Room 4, Albany.

But Canestrari also flatly rejected the governor's plan to put education aid and Medicaid funding on a two - year track, which is something Cuomo proposed as part of his 30 - day budget amendments.

State lawmakers so far have refused to introduced Cuomo's 30 - day budget amendments, which link appropriations to new disclosure requirements, such as revealing private business clients and reforming the per diem system of travel reimbursements.

Cuomo's 30 - day budget amendments, meanwhile, link income disclosure and per diem reform to appropriations bills.

Cuomo this year has tied both measures together, along with funding for the Tuition Assistance Program in his 30 - day budget amendments, which are yet to be introduced.

«The budget amendments provide additional detail on how savings will be achieved, but work remains to ensure the budget gap can be closed.»

Buried in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 21 - day budget amendments released publicly this morning is a $ 10 fee for horse owners who compete in NYRA - sanctioned races.

Council will start to shape the Mayor's budget plan even moreso with some budget amendments on Wednedday.

Cuomo has sought to challenge lawmakers this year to pass new ethics reform measures by tying the proposals to spending in his 30 - day budget amendments.

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

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.

Finance Committee Chairwoman Kathleen Joy says their budget amendments: «Decreased some spending, and anticipated increase in revenues.

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.

Budget amendments proposed subsequent to the tabling of the Budget Committee report, or less than forty eight hours prior to the annual meeting, shall be considered separately with each line item voted on individually on the floor of the legislature.

I am happy to report that the Erie County Legislature's budget amendments have resulted in a tax rate decrease for next year.

«Our budget amendments not only protected vital services but reinvested in the community, allocating funds for youth organizations, service groups, library and culturals.»

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

Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his 30 - day budget amendments, which jammed the Legislature by stuffing ever more policy (particularly ethics reforms) into appropriations bills, on Feb. 21 — almost two weeks ago.

Still, it is unusual for lawmakers to not automatically introduce a governor's 30 - day budget amendments, which also include technical changes to the proposal first unveiled in January.

However, lawmakers in both chambers have chafed at the play, and so far have refused to introduce the budget amendments, a maneuver that allows them to retain some leverage over the governor during the budget talks.