Sentences with phrase «budget measure passed»

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The nation's biggest miners, BHP and Rio Tinto, are being targeted as part of a near $ 1 billion corporate tax grab and the major banks have been warned they could face a bank levy if the new West Australian government can not pass its budget measures.

Senate Republicans are poised to approve a budget measure that would help them pass tax legislation without Democratic support.

On June 6 Finance Minister Jim Flaherty reintroduced his spring federal budget, which was never passed in the rush to an election, with a key twist: Flaherty added a measure to phase out the $ 2 - per - vote subsidy to political parties by 2015 - 16.

Looking forward, the move to an autumn Budget and winter Finance Bill, with a promise it will be passed before measures take effect the following April, should mean that this will be the last time we have this problem.»

In the interview, DeFreancisco indicated Cuomo himself had already started hedging on an on - time budget at the beginning of last week when he suggested the state may have to pass a temporary extender measure to fund the governor.

A one - house budget resolution from the Senate backed an economic analysis of the impact of the wage increase — a stipulation that seemingly sought to delay the measure passing in the budget.

The Legislature passed temporary budget extender measures to keep state government running through the end of May in the absence of a full budget deal, avoiding a full government shutdown and buying themselves some more time to keep negotiating.

The measure is being spurred in part by the budget passing 10 days after the start of the fiscal year, leading to the enacting of the provision later in July.

Treasurer Joe Hockey has warned the Labor Party and the Greens to pass tough budget measures through the Senate or the government will find other ways to push through savings.

The Assembly and Senate both voted into the early hours of the morning, passing several noncontroversial budget bills — for example, a transportation funding measure that did not include anything for the MTA, which is an area that has caused considerable consternation this session.

He has said he was left with no choice but to veto the budget and property tax bills after the measures passed by lawmakers over the weekend violated his promise to avoid any new taxes.

The city's five primary public defender organizations have teamed up to put pressure on the state legislature to pass meaningful criminal justice reforms after the measures were left out of the state budget.

The measure was passed after last spring's budget agreement in which the lawmakers and Cuomo agreed to spend $ 19 million on an Enhanced Tuition Award program.

A temporary restraining order was granted against the plan two days after it was grudgingly passed by the Legislature, which was forced to approve it after Paterson loaded the furlough measure into the fifth weekly budget extender.

But even though Faso and Stefanik voted against their party on the tax bill, in October 2017 they voted in favor of a budget bill that paved the way for the tax measure to pass the Senate on GOP votes alone — without a filibuster.

The government is facing a tough battle to pass many of its budget measures, with Labor, the Greens and crossbenchers attacking plans to impose a $ 7 GP co-payment, cut health and education spending, and change the indexation of pensions.

The budget that passed did contain new ethics measures, which at least to some extent, requires more disclosures of outside income by lawmakers.

The ethics package in the budget was just the latest in a series of measures passed by lawmakers and agreed to by the governor following a public outcry after the arrest of a state lawmaker.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's seven - round limit on magazines sold in New York will be suspended «indefinitely» by a measure in his $ 136.5 billion budget set to be passed this week, said Dean Skelos, a State Senate majority leader, said.The ban on magazines holding more than seven bullets was set to start April 15.

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months

Under state law, governors have extraordinary leverage over the legislature to pass an on - time budget, which could mean added pressure on the Senate's Republican majority to accept the measure.

The New York State Assembly approved the state budget at the beginning of April, but even though it passed both houses, Republicans were strongly opposed to a measure raising the minimum wage.

In March amid the budget negotiations, Cuomo suggested lawmakers may not receive a pay hike should ethics agreements measure not pass or the spending plan not be approved on time.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted on Tuesday during a stop to inspect a barge crash in Catskill there was no great rush to pass the remaining measures under the state budget.

Cuomo, too, has benefited from the IDC - GOP coalition in the chamber, and often cites his record to pass measures such as a new gun control law and the legalization of same - sex marriage, while also racking up tax cuts aimed at businesses and property owners in the state budget.

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 measure had passed both the Senate and Assembly last year, but was vetoed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said at the time any potential pay raises would be considered as part of the state budget.

The bill has been modified to try to quell concerns in the Assembly Democratic conference that prevented the measure from passing last year despite efforts by a former WNY Democratic senator, Bill Stachowski, to hold up a budget deal in hopes of getting an agreement on what morphed into a SUNY - wide proposal.

The move suggested a larger push to reach a deal on ethics reform measures before the budget is due to pass next week.

The measure is part of Cuomo's $ 154 billion budget proposal that is due to pass by March 31, but the governor said after a labor rally for the wage that it's a matter of policy that could wait until after the spending plan is approved.

«By all measures, Governor Cuomo's tax cap has successfully reined in property tax increases and — with the reforms passed in this year's budget — the tax cap has been turned into a tax cut.

By taking the measure out of a larger budget - cutting bill, Republicans were able to pass it without a quorum.

The last piece of the budget passed on a party - line vote, 32 to 28, with the Senate's tenuous Democratic majority holding together and no Republicans voting in favor of the measure.

Within a few hours, the budget bills began to roll out, with the assurance that Cuomo would provide the «messages of necessity» — requested by the Legislature and granted by the governor — that would allow the measures to be passed without the usual three - day «aging» period.

Lawmakers missed Friday's budget deadline, but on Monday passed a stopgap measure to keep government operating.

Lawmakers have approved several budget bills already, but a number of measures remain to pass.

Republicans are wary, and the measure looks unlikely to pass in the budget.

Quinn touted her record in the video, noting she has passed seven on - time budgets and has worked with Mayor Michael Bloomberg to enact measures to protect a woman's right to choose, among other issues.

As dislikeable as he can be, Andrew Cuomo is the choice, if for no other reason than that he had the guts to push through the SAFE act gun control measure, a mild reaction to heinous events, but more than anyone else could muster and that he's passed four balanced on time budgets in a row in a state that couldn't for two previous decades.

Currently, the top capital gains rate is 15 percent, but that ceiling is set to rise to 20 percent in 2013 if Congress fails to pass an alternative budget, a measure that Obama supports.

The Democratic - controlled state assembly passed a measure to close the LLC loophole, Governor Cuomo put the measure in his budget but later pulled it, saying he wanted to pursue the issue in the second half of the session.

He prefers to talk about his newly passed, $ 153 billion budget, which he calls a progressive model for the nation, with a marquee tuition measure that covers the cost of state university tuition for students from families making up to $ 125,000.

The measure — passed in the state budget on Sunday — is the first of its kind in the nation, and an idea brought to the fore during the Democratic presidential primary by both Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

In session, the Assembly took up noncontroversial budget legislation dealing with state debt service: the measure had already passed the Senate.

John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, pointed out that budgets have passed with fairly controversial measures tucked in at the last minute by lobbyists and their government allies thanks to the lack of thorough review.

Day stated that he supported the initial measure in the Budget & Finance Committee which only addressed undersheriff positions, but felt that it was inappropriate to discuss the other positions which the committee did not address, especially when there was no rush to pass the resolution.

Most parliamentary democracies require an annual state budget, an appropriation bill, or occasional financial measures to be passed by parliament in order for a government to pay its way and enact its policies.

And on April 1, lawmakers passed a state budget granting a significant benefit to medical malpractice insurance companies operating in the red, such as PRI, a measure Cuomo reportedly opposed but eventually assented to at legislative leaders» insistence.

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months of the legislative session in Albany.

The emergency spending measure was passed after Fermilab offered employee buyouts to ease a nearly six - month budget crunch triggered when lawmakers cut its funding by $ 20 million from the year before.