Because more people are defaulting on loans, some schools are even offering debt counseling and
budgeting sessions before students can begin attending, like the program at Tidewater Community College.
Not exact matches
Before the plan is set up, you must have an initial
session where the counselor goes over your personal finances — income, debts and other financial obligations — to set a
budget and determine if a DMP is a good option.
Then they take two weeks off for spring break / Easter / Passover — what have you — only to return to work April 24, with 12 scheduled days in
session before the new
budget deadline of May 31.
It's also unusual to start an aggressive colloquy so soon in the legislative
session and
before the
budget, which Cuomo needs Senate Republicans to be on board with, is approved.
Did passage of the state
budget signal the end of Albany's legislative
session for 2017, or will other matters, including ethics reform, get done
before the lawmakers adjourn in June?
House and Senate Democrats hope to reach a new
budget deal to fund popular programs and block fare increases on trains and buses
before the legislative
session ends Wednesday evening The Democratic plan calls for fully restoring $ 130 million for the...
The $ 315 million midyear
budget gap could lead to another transit raid in the $ 20 million range
before the year is out, if Governor Paterson convenes a lame duck special
session and Albany repeats the same sort of heist it pulled off this fall.
With less than 2-1/2 hours remaining
before the 2017 legislative
session's close at midnight, State Senator Leonard Fasano and Vincent Mauro, Jr., Chief of Staff for Senate Democrats, discuss the evening's final hours during Senate debate on the
budget.
Criminal justice reforms that were left out of the state
budget should be passed by lawmakers
before the end of the legislative
session in June, the city's five primary public defender organizations say.
The Governor made it clear that he planned on calling a special
session at some point, saying he wanted to hand off a balanced
budget to Andrew Cuomo
before he takes office on Jan. 1.
Budget hearings continue in Albany this week, and the Legislature will also hold
session days to introduce and pass legislation on Monday and Tuesday,
before taking its usual mid-February break.
The Republican - controlled Senate and Democratic - led Assembly returned on Wednesday from a February winter break with 18 scheduled
session days to go
before the
budget must be approved for it to be deemed «on time.»
Gov. David Paterson just threw a potential wrench into the convention plans for both the Democrats and the Republicans, pledging to call special
sessions that would force them to remain in Albany if they don't get a
budget done
before then.
He also said the time frame for the home rule would depend on when the Council knows what the proposal is, noting he is unsure of whether the governor will try to «wrap the plan in»
before the April 1
budget or later in the legislative
session.
Governor David Paterson, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Assembly Majority Leader Sheldon Silver met this weekend in an effort to reach a
budget agreement
before an emergency legislative
session on Tuesday.
Democrats and Republicans have to reach an agreement on the
budget adjustments
before the legislative
session ends next Wednesday.
They point out that last year Cuomo and the legislature passed gun control legislation on the very first day of their
session, a full week
before the
budget presentation was due.
But critics said Cuomo rushed a partial - loaf deal into the final
budget and should have worked on a more comprehensive measure
before the end of the
session in June.
It was back to the drawing board for Cutchogue Fire District commissioners Tuesday as they met in a closed
session to trim their proposed 2011
budget from $ 1.2 million to $ 1.15 million
before a public meeting Thursday at 4:30 p.m..
David Friedfel, with Citizens
Budget Commission, a budget watchdog group that lists numerous business and Wall Street representatives on its board, agrees that procurement reform is needed before the session
Budget Commission, a
budget watchdog group that lists numerous business and Wall Street representatives on its board, agrees that procurement reform is needed before the session
budget watchdog group that lists numerous business and Wall Street representatives on its board, agrees that procurement reform is needed
before the
session ends.
Advocates and legislators hope to pressure Cuomo into a new and significant commitment
before the start of the next legislative
session when he returns to negotiate with the legislature over the
budget.
Senator Cathy Osten of Sprague, the Senate Democratic chair of the Appropriations Committee, is optimistic that a bipartisan agreement can be reached with her Republican counterparts in the
budget - writing committee
before the
session ends on Wednesday.
Lawmakers have decided to return to Hartford
before the end of the month for a special
session to deal with the
budget.
Advocates and legislators want to force Cuomo's hand
before legislative
session starts in January because at that point
budget negotiations start and Cuomo will have a plethora of issues to hold over the legislature's head.
«If you're a legislator, you're going to want to be able to say, «I passed ethics reform» — not in the
budget, but
before the end of
session.
Nadeau says it may be the 2013
session before any of the bills are taken up again, and it's likely that any new permitting staff or new taxes or fees on the drilling industry will be imposed in Governor Cuomo's next
budget, which also is not due until January 2013.
Two weeks ago, he suggested that while his proposed reforms — including limits on lawmakers» outside income and closure of the so - called «LLC loophole» — are included in his executive
budget package, they might fall off the negotiating table in hopes of seeing action
before the
session's end in June.
Several high - level legislators have shrugged off the consequences, noting that counties reliant on sales tax don't put their
budgets together until the fall (a measure to extend their power to tax also was not resolved
before the end of
session) and school doesn't being until September.
Lawmakers are currently striving to reach a
budget deal
before the regular legislative
session ends on June 7.
While the Senate worked the entire lobster shift to pass the
budget bills, the Assembly broke for predawn naps
before returning to the Capitol for a planned 10 a.m.
session.
Marathon
sessions are nothing new in Albany, where the
budget used to come in months late
before Mr. Cuomo made on - time agreements a badge of honor for his administration.
In addition to the legislation passed last week by the Senate and Assembly
before they wrapped up the 2016 legislative
session, the state
budget approved on April 1 contained $ 189 million to combat heroin and opioid addiction.
Asked if dealing with gun control in a special
session was preferable to waiting for the start of the new Legislature, Silver said, «It probably doesn't (matter), but it gives the opportunity to highlight it
before we get into the state
budget and other issues that may cloud the focus.»
In a media release in reaction to the 2018
budget speech rendered
before the joint
session of the National Assembly by president -LSB-...]
Before adding the $ 5.4 billion Democratic state Rep. Lon Burnam says was cruelly torn from the public education
budget in the last
session, the...
Democratic legislative leaders, who control the General Assembly, reached a
budget deal with the State's Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy late Tuesday night but said they did not have time to get the bill to all members
before the end of the regular
session at midnight on Wednesday.
Lawmakers would have to pass a balanced
budget amendment in two
sessions of the General Assembly
before it could go to the voters.
House Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz (D - Berlin) says lawmakers still hope to negotiate a
budget deal with the governor
before the end of
session on Wednesday.
Before the two legislative chambers took up the so - called one - house
budget resolutions, good - government groups decried what some have seen as a silence on ethics reforms in the first
session following the conviction of the two former legislative leaders.
Connecticut lawmakers are working on closing a nearly $ 1 billion
budget gap for the next fiscal year
before their legislative
session ends at midnight on Wednesday, May 4.
Governor Malloy has said he'd call lawmakers into special
session if a
budget deal is not reached and passed by the General Assembly
before its constitutional deadline — midnight Wednesday.
«The fact that these reforms were omitted from the final
budget isn't on us, it's on him,» Reif said, adding that the Senate GOP will continue pressing for the plans
before session ends in June.
Sen. Patrick Gallivan, one of the leading senators negotiating the measure known as Raise the Age, said even if it does not end up in the state
budget, he's confident it will get done
before the
session ends in June.
Vermont lawmakers passed a $ 5.5 billion
budget with $ 30 million dollars in tax increases
before ending their 2015
session Saturday night.
Ritter said any oversight plan would probably be wrapped into the state
budget, which lawmakers almost certainly won't pass
before the end of the
session Wednesday.
Lanza also expressed doubt that an agreement could be reached on the issue
before the
budget deadline but said negotiations could continue throughout the Legislature's
session.
If approved there, the legislature would vote on the measure at its next
session on Tuesday, Sept. 6, just more than a week
before the first
budget presentation.
The top legislative leaders, shown here, will be negotiating in an attempt to forge a
budget compromise
before the regular legislative
session ends May 9.
Did passage of the New York state
budget signal the end of Albany's legislative
session for 2017, or will other matters, including ethics reform, get done
before the lawmakers adjourn in June?
About an hour after releasing the letter, Malloy met with the top lawmakers, all sides agreeing to meet again next week to hammer out a
budget deal
before the legislative
session ends on May 4.