Sentences with phrase «budget extender bills do»
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Megna said that while the governor was currently seeking approval for that plan as a separate bill — something Paterson was not willing to do for the furlough measure — he would not rule out including it in a future budget extender if it's rejected.
Despite all the positive talk from legislative leaders yesterday about movement on an actual budget deal (to the extent there's much left that hasn't already been passed in an extender bill), Gov. David Paterson didn't sound too optimistic this morning, suggesting another extender showdown is likely in the offing.
That was back in 2010, when at the end of June Paterson told lawmakers that if they didn't pass his budget — which was nearly three months late — he would put the spending plan and all of its proposed cuts in an extender bill.