Sentences with phrase «budget extender bills»

The next round of budget extender bills will include nearly $ 440 million dollars in projected revenue from cigarette taxes and the collection of taxes on tobacco products on Native American reservations.

The very busy state Budget Director, Robert Megna, is crunching the numbers to see what would actually happen if next week's budget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shut down.

ALBANY — As the Assembly approved a pair of budget extender bills that had passed the Senate earlier on Monday, Assemblywoman Amy Paulin encapsulated the mood of numerous legislators who reluctantly voted yes.

The judge also ordered the governor to include our contractually mandated raises in any further budget extender bills.

Republicans have consistently voted against the budget extender bills and Democrats hold only a one - seat majority in the house.

Now, the Legislature has lost its negotiating hammer over Cuomo, who got several projects he wanted funded in the emergency budget extender bills.

(Recall that Cuomo has more than a passing interest in this lawsuit, since it challenges his right as governor to make policy through budget extender bills).

US District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn has reportedly come down on the side of the public employee unions in the furlough lawsuit, ruling that Gov. David Paterson can not insert his day - without - pay language into budget extender bills.

Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. was released from the hospital this morning and plans to be in the chamber tomorrow to vote on the budget extender bills, despite having received permission from Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson to remain home.

simply ammend Dave's budget extender bill and remove the furloughs??? I understand that this may not be legal, but neither are the furloughs.

At today's Puerto Rican Day Parade, Gov. David Paterson downplayed the possibility that there will be a government shutdown, insisting a sufficient number of senators will vote «yes» and pass his latest budget extender bill tomorrow afternoon.

Sean Coffey was quick to declare solidarity with the man he wants to replace, Andrew Cuomo, following the AG's call earlier today for the governor to put a property tax cap into a budget extender bill to force lawmakers to take a position on the controversial measure.

The furlough budget extender bill was approved in the Senate along party lines (32 - 29); it passed the Assembly 82 - 56.

The Senate deemed the budget extender bill illegal this afternoon, and then promptly passed it anyway, choosing to risk angering the (already very upset) state worker unions over infuriating the rest of New York State but shutting down the government.

My colleague, Michael Johnson, upon hearing that the Legislature is considering the possibility of amending Gov. David Paterson's budget extender bill to divest it of the furlough language, posed the question: Is that even legal?

Sen. Craig Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos wasted no time in reacting to AG Andrew Cuomo's call this morning for Gov. David Paterson to put a property tax cap into a budget extender bill to force lawmakers to go on the record regarding the controversial proposal.

The Legislature is expected to approve a budget extender bill that includes state worker furloughs that aren't slated to start until May 17.

New York State Sen. Roy McDonald, R - Saratoga, defended the industry last week on the Senate floor as the Democratic majority shot down his second attempt to amend an emergency budget extender bill to include funds for NYRA.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

Gov. David Paterson has apparently included $ 775 million in cuts to state funding for health care services in his latest budget extender bill, making good on his pledge to try to force the Legislature's hand on some of his proposed spending reductions.

A key component of the Senate GOP's lawsuit against the prisoner counting change included in the 2010 - 2011 budget is a challenge to the way that switch was made — through a budget extender bill sent to the Legislature by then - Gov.

Despite decades of late budgets, Monday's action marked the first time a governor has enacted a portion of the final state budget through a temporary budget extender bill.

Paterson said he is reviewing «a menu of opportunities» to include in his next budget extender bill, but he would not be more specific.

Paterson tried to force the tax cap issue by including it in his last budget extender bill, (much to the pleasure of both AG Andrew Cuomo, who is also a cap supporter; and Long Island Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson), which theoretically would have made the Legislature choose between accepting an unpopular (at least among Assembly Democrats and the teachers» unions) policy proposal and shutting down the government.

The raise the age issue was a key policy concern for Heastie to have accomplished in the state budget, and Cuomo last week indicated he was satisfied with the passage of a budget extender bill that funded the government until May 31, but did not include the juvenile justice reform.

The Nassau County lawmaker, one of just two Democrats in the Long Island delegation — among whom property tax relief is a Very Big Deal (capitalization mine this time), called on Paterson to put his tax cap proposal in a budget extender bill to force the Legislature to choose between shutting down the government and passing the controversial plan.

Not exact matches

However, Congress began to pass budget - busting legislation back in 2015 by pursuing a permanent debt - financed doc fix followed by an even more costly tax extender (and omnibus appropriations) bill — at a total cost of over $ 100 billion in 2019.

However, with about 30 percent of the budget left to be passed (the rest has already been approved via extender bills), it does not look it will be included in the final days of negotiations.

Gov. David Paterson kicks things off by reiterating that he is well within his power to be inserting large chunks of the budget in extender bills, but then adds: «Clearly this is not the process that we like, and the process we like really should be that we pass a budget — immediately....

But if it has to get done on Monday, it gets done on Monday... I'm looking forward to passing budget bills, I'm not doing it through the extenders.»

If the budget isn't done by then, Paterson said, he'll be putting the rest of it into extender bills — including education — and force the lawmakers to choose between a shutdown and passing controversial cuts.

Last week, Paterson sent a bill separate from budget extender to the Legislature that would have provided him with power to furlough state workers.

My father, citing an argument raised by wonk - in - arms, the Rockefeller Institute's Bob Ward, said the real question is whether extender bills are true budget bills, which the Legislature clearly does NOT have the power to amend, or something else entirely.

Lawmakers are scheduled to take up the 12th round of extender bills in the absence of a final budget deal.

The argument that extenders are not budget bills seems ridiculous.

AG Andrew Cuomo this morning offered some grudging respect for Gov. David Paterson's latest hardball budget tactic of trying to force the Legislature to accept his spending cuts by inserting them into extender bills, saying the effort might prove effective, but is hardly ideal.

For the first time yesterday, Cuomo talked at length about the new paradigm created by the creative use of extender bills by his predecessor, David Paterson, during last year's budget battle.

Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ratcheting up threats to force the Legislature's hand via extender bills if an amicable budget deal isn't reached by April 1, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is continuing to express optimism that it won't come to that.

Cuomo went on to allow that Paterson is in a «desperate» situation with the budget more than two months late, and thus has had to resort to a «desperate tactic» of insisting that the Legislature choose between approving extender bills that include cuts (in this case, cuts to health care spending) and a government shutdown.

After the Legislature passed its own budget bills including a three - year extender of the existing arbitration law, the enacted budget did not include any provision addressing arbitration — leaving the issue open.

Another set of big - ticket Cuomo priorities was already baked into this week's budget «extender» bill: nearly $ 15 billion in capital appropriations for purposes ranging from basic infrastructure (highways, transit) to a $ 400 million second phase of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative, a $ 700 million «community healthcare capital investment» in Brooklyn, and more 8 - figure allocations to the kind of «economic development» programs that have failed to rejuvenate Upstate.

Today's Siena poll shows New Yorkers, by a large 67 - 27 percent margin, would have preferred to see the Legislature pass Cuomo's budget in an extender bill — even if it could not be amended at all — than to opt for shutting down the government.

Skelos dismissed all talk of a potential government shutdown showdown with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has made it quite clear he'll follow the lead of his predecessor, David Paterson, and put his budget proposal extender bills and force it down the Legislature's throat in the absence of a deal on or about April 1.

In the final days of his budget battle with the Legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened lawmakers with the shutdown vs. extender bills option, saying he felt completely comfortable that he would win in the court of public opinion.

ICYMI: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver suggested during a CapTon interview last night that the Legislature won't stand for this new budget dynamic in which the governor holds all the cards thanks to the extender bills method pioneered by former Gov. David Paterson.

At least two Senate Democrats, who up until now have kept government running by voting in favor of weekly budget extenders, are threatening to vote «no» on the next extender bill, which will come before the Senate and Assembly on Monday.

But in May he realized a little trick: he was the only one who could draft «extender» bills, the temporary, customarily skeletal budget bills that pay for the functioning of New York's government while state leaders are working out the real budget.

The spending that was included in the extender bill — including the special project money — was subsequently approved in other budget legislation.

Cuomo's maximum leverage comes during the budget process, a power he displayed when he submitted an «extender» bill to fund the government temporarily while a broader spending plan was still be negotiated.

Cuomo's budget — specifically, Part L of the Article 7 bill for Public Protection and General Government — calls for a straight extender of the current law as amended in 2013.