Sentences with phrase «chapter amendment»

But that would have put lawmakers in the awkward position of first voting in favor of recognizing same - sex marriages, and then voting to repeal that recognition in a subsequent chapter amendment.

... We've done a number of chapter amendments to satisfy some requests from the Senate, and there's nothing to negotiate in that bill.»

Skelos said that he expects his GOP conference, which is in a governing coalition with five independent Democratic lawmakers, would be briefed on chapter amendments to the law next week.

Bichotte said Cuomo offered to abolish the personal net worth requirement through a proposed chapter amendment if his staff was able to control who gets a cap through internal policies and regulations.

(Chapter amendments usually come AFTER the budget is passed).

Advocates who have been pushing the Cuomo administration on this issue for some time, noted there's no same - as bill in the Senate for the Assembly chapter amendment, which was quietly introduced not long after the original bill was passed by the upper house.

There is no reasonable expectation that the Assembly would support passage of a Senate chapter amendment to offer genuine religious liberty protection once a same - sex «marriage» bill is signed into law.

This is the second chapter amendment to be introduced to add to the gun control package that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law this week.

The threee lawmakers have met with Cuomo to discuss a potential chapter amendment to the measure.

Three lawmakers — Sens. Kemp Hannon, Steve Saland and Andrew Lanza — have met with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on mutlitple occaisions to discuss a possible chapter amendment to the same - sex marriage bill.

The recent New York State gun legislation, and proposed chapter amendments, has potential impacts to the County Clerk's role when administrating the filing of pistol or revolver license records.

UPDATE: The property tax cap (Sens. Brian Foley, Jeff Klein, Dave Valesky (added) and Craig Johnson — although the chapter amendment to mandate restored education aid be used for property tax relief might ameliorate their concerns), the SUNY tuition plan (Sen. Bill Stachowski and Antoine Thompson (added)-RRB-, the same - sex marriage language (Diaz Sr.) and the counting of prisoners in the Census and home health care differentials.

That would theoretically include the chapter amendment with religious exemptions for the same - sex marriage bill, but no one has yet seen a printed version of those, either, although there has been a lot of talk about them.

The Legislature could have submitted chapter amendments and passed them after first passing the revenue bill submitted late Saturday night.

That includes a chapter amendment to the taxi bill being pushed by Mayor Bloomberg, which sparked massive protests / demonstrations of support from the yellow cabbies and livery drivers over the past two days.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver emerged from the three - way meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to say he has seen a draft of the chapter amendment for religious exemptions on same - sex marriage and it's «acceptable.»

Krueger noted that things had been so rushed that the minimum wage deal wasn't correctly included in the ELFA bill, and the Legislature was required to do a chapter amendment to address that — an unusual move.

UPDATE2: Also of interest: Lentol says the governor is readying a chapter amendment to the not - yet - fully - passed SAFE Act to correct what the assemblyman said were errors caused by «mistaken drafting.»

Perhaps a chapter amendment will address the issue?

(A chapter amendment to this bill just came out, which deletes this language.)

I'd like to thank Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein for her commitment to passing a chapter amendment to address those concerns.»

He told reporters yesterday that chapter amendments to the law will be rolled out next week.

Fueling some of the anger this morning was Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver revealing yesterday that they were mulling a chapter amendment to the law that would exempt Hollywood productions that use prop guns and magazines from the law.

Something that we're going to do is the Federal appropriation bill for $ 600 (million), some chapter amendments for Tier Four drug issue and a chapter amendment dealing with illegal hotels.»

Chapter amendments that are technical in nature, are fine and I'm sure will pass both houses.

Late last night a chapter amendment was introduced to address, among other thing, the same - sex marriage language that Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. has an issue with.

At the end of the day (or, more aptly, the middle of the night), a deal was reached on a chapter amendment.

Also not coming up today: The chapter amendment that deals with the property tax relief / education aid issue; that was introduced late last night and won't be live until Wednesday.

For those of you in to this sort of thing, here's the illegal hotels chapter amendment and bill memo, and the Tier Four chapter amendment and its supporting memo.

The chapter amendment needs to age for three days.

The chapter amendment also allowed his staff to raise or lower the cap based on the industry.

In approving the bill, Cuomo did require that the Legislature pass a chapter amendment during the 2016 legislative session to make technical fixes.

In approving the bill, Cuomo asked the Legislature to pass a chapter amendment, though for what isn't clear.

The Assembly left town after passing the FMAP contingency plan bill (which received a message of necessity from the governor) and a chapter amendment to remove the tax on non-resident hedge fund managers from the revenue bill.

«We are pleased to report that we have reached agreement on a chapter amendment to the legislation that ensures the City's successful scofflaw towing program will remain intact,» Schneiderman's office, Legislative Director & Counsel Justin Berhaupt and Micah Lasher, the city's director of State Legislative Affairs, said in a joint statement.

In order to spare the hedge funders from an additional tax, the Legislature actually would have to approve a chapter amendment to the revenue bill that the Assembly already passed and the Senate has yet to take up.

He downplayed the chapter amendment, saying there is a «typo» in the bill that refers to a special certification under subdivision 6 of existing law, when it's actually subdivision 9.

The chapter amendment to the bill removed the prohibition as noted by Hinman Straub's generally excellent policy blog.

So, after all that, the revenue bill has passed the Senate in a straight party - line vote — 32 - 28 — along with a chapter amendment (passed earlier today by the Assembly) to repeal the tax on non-resident hedge fund managers.

The start of its problems: The need for a chapter amendment, which became clear not long after its passage by the Senate in a 50 - 12 vote this past Monday.

Lawmakers on Monday approved a chapter amendment based on an agreement reached in June that would subject the Port Authority to the Freedom of Information Law.

That is the chapter amendment that just passed, not the final vote.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb was briefed this morning on the draft language for the chapter amendment's religious exemptions this morning, saying the measure described to him dealt with religious organizations like Catholic Charities.

The chapter amendment would ensure that tax exempt status of heating fuel oil is maintained.

The governor did require that the Legislature pass a chapter amendment during the 2016 session to make technical fixes.

The Catholic Conference opposes the chapter amendment option, calling the possibility of its passage in this case «disturbing news» that «gives great cause for alarm among those who seek genuine protections for the deeply held religious beliefs and mission of individuals and organizations in this state.»

«Chapter amendments are separate pieces of legislation used to clean up or correct mistakes or problems with previously enacted laws,» the conference said in a statement.

This chapter amendment would change the effective date of the law to May 1, 2011, allowing property holders, business owners and not - for - profit corporations the time to adjust the uses of their properties to the provisions of this law, or to dispose of the properties at issue so that they may find alternate sites for their current uses.

The chapter amendment that included the religious exemptions to the bill was passed by a slightly larger margin: 36 - 26.