In next week's
emergency budget legislation, to keep state government operating in the absence of a new budget, Mr. Paterson will include an array of further long - term spending cuts, but none involving education funds, according to an administration official.
Not exact matches
A day after approving
emergency short - term measures to fund the government's operations for two months,
legislation to adopt a year - long, final $ 160 billion state
budget began to be made public Tuesday evening.
Notably, the Legislature's
budget does not include two major initiatives that the governor had bundled into the
emergency legislation: the college tuition proposal and a cap on local property taxes.
Lawmakers often rush
budget bills through the voting process using
emergency legislation.
The governor already wields broad influence over the
budget process itself and a late
budget could empower him to include broad swaths of his preferred spending plan in
emergency extender
legislation.
«If the Legislature does not reach agreement at the conclusion of the weekend, then I will put forth
emergency legislation to extend the current
budget.