Sentences with phrase «end of session agreement»

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, center, presents an end of session agreement along with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx), left, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Smithtown), on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco, of Syracuse, says the atmosphere of corruption and on going criminal investigations by federal prosecutors is making it harder tied together in a huge end of session agreement, that has earned the nickname «the big ugly.»

ALBANY — The Campaign 4 NY / NY Housing tonight issued the following statement on the end of session agreement on supportive housing announced by Governor Cuomo and the leaders of the Senate and the Assembly:

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Member states» delegations are now pressured to come to an agreement on the new Gender Architecture during the 63rd session of the General Assembly (the current session, ending at the end of August).

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco said earlier this week lawmakers were hesitant to cut the usual end - of - session agreements in part due to the ongoing corruption cases and investigations.

The 2017 legislative session saw the first budget to be approved after the start of the state's fiscal year since 2010 and ended without an agreement on re-authorizing mayoral control of New York City schools.

The end of the session that year included agreements for lead testing in school drinking water, backed by Sen. Tom O'Mara, and the enactment of mixed - martial arts legalization, which the Senate had repeatedly passed.

The legislative session was due to end the following week, but state leaders failed to reach agreements on any of the big - ticket items: extending rent protections to 2.5 million tenants, extending mayoral control of city schools and renewing 421 - a.

The potential agreement also comes at the very end of the legislative session, with the final day scheduled for Thursday.

Some housing advocates said they were hopeful that the agreement would be made final by the end of the legislative session in June.

Christie and Cuomo announced the agreement on Thursday afternoon, in the midst of an unusually tumultuous end - of - session in Albany.

The messy end of session also includes agreements on short extenders — one additional year for mayoral control of the New York City schools, and a six month extension of a tax break for real estate developers who build some affordable housing.

Cuomo is expected to submit the agreement to the state Legislature before the end of session June 20.

In a statement, Silver said «the Governor has presented a comprehensive plan which we will discuss in conference and I believe we can reach an agreement before the end of session.»

If an agreement isn't reached in that meeting, then lawmakers will miss the deadline to introduce a bill before the end of the legislative session.

Expect a lot of drama on the topic between now and the end - of - legislative session, middle of the night vote that likely awaits whatever agreement is reached.

Heastie says he hopes that there can be a «three - way agreement» between the Assembly, Senate and governor on another key end of session issue - increasing oversight of the state's economic development contracts, in light of a scandal that's led to corruption charges against several of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former associates.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos told reporters Monday afternoon that an end - of - session agreement on controversial measures are «going to be more challenging» in the coming weeks now that Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he's backing a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate.

State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday neared the end of a legislative session with likely agreements on the first step for a constitutional amendment stripping corrupt officials of their pensions as well as a greater oversight of super PACs formed in the wake of the Citizens United decision.

ALBANY — One day after Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders announced a «framework» deal on rent regulations, 421 - a and mayoral control of New York City schools, most of the details of the proposed session - ending legislation were still unavailable, and sources familiar with discussions said lawmakers are continuing to negotiate on major pieces of the tentative agreement.

Sponsors of both measures said they are optimistic a final agreement can be reached before the Legislature ends its session on June 16.

The agreements were the capstone on the end of the legislative session, which included previously agreed to legislation on allowing restaurants to serve alcohol before noon on Sundays, combat heroin addiction in the state and expand treatment for and prevention of breast cancer.

Cuomo has threatened to keep lawmakers in Albany through the scheduled end of session, June 17, should an agreement on rent control regulations not be reached.

«We had really been hoping the governor's office would engage because we would like to have a three - way agreement to printed on Monday so we it could be acted on by the end of this session.»

The Senate and Assembly sponsors to bills that would legalize mixed martial arts in New York say there is enough time to resolve the differences between the competing measures and reach an agreement by the end of the legislative session.

The finish line for the end of the legislative session is Wednesday, though Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pledged to keep lawmakers in Albany beyond that scheduled end should an agreement on rent control not be reached.

A day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo sat with the top legislative leaders to announce a framework, end - of - session agreement «in concept,» state lawmakers took those caveats to heart.

It's unlikely an agreement will be reached on the competing amendments before the end of the session.

State Senator Diane Savino, the bill's sponsor, said Thursday that she was encouraged that Cuomo has begun talks over the bill's future, and said she was hopeful the legislative leaders could reach a three - way agreement by Monday next week, in time to get bills printed so they can be voted on by the end of the legislative session.

He said he intends to wrap up casino expansion agreements with the Legislature before the June 20 end of session.

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.

Advocates for the homeless were urging the governor and legislative leaders to sign an agreement that would release millions of dollars in state funding for 20,000 supportive - housing units statewide, saying that with lawmakers headed home to campaign for re-election this fall, there was little chance that the deal would materialize after the session ended.

Assembly Woman Barbara Lifton expressed optimism after an end - of - session agreement in Albany led to several

Speaking at a press event in Albany, and joined by State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Mr. Cuomo cited the failure of the two houses the State Legislature to come to an agreement on the handling of law enforcement homicides by the end of the legislative session, which was supposed to have been last Wednesday.

After surviving a trial by fire over the past five months, during which he negotiated his first - ever budget agreement and an end - of - session Big Ugly, Heastie now has some time to reflect and plan.

In the final days of the New York legislative session, which ended last week in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders reached an agreement on a two - year delay in the teacher assessments to be based on the Common Core testing.

All four legislative caucuses, Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate, agreed that they will come back later and try to reach an agreement before the regular legislative session ends May 9 in an election year.

Cuomo won agreement on what he said was his top end of session priority — creating a new agency and new procedures to better protect the disabled in state care from abuse.

Independent Democratic Conference Senator Jeffrey Klein, who leads the chamber in a power - sharing agreement with the Republicans, has also insisted that reform must be enacted before the end of the session.

«We did not reach an agreement on something called «Raise the Age,»» Cuomo said when announcing a framework end - of - session deal with Senate President John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

Cuomo and legislative leaders failed to reach an agreement to release the full $ 2 billion before the end of the last legislative session, agreeing to only release $ 150 million.

Exhausted delegates stood to applaud their success in reaching agreement at the end of an overnight session in Cancún early on Saturday morning.

The condition of a Kentucky initiative to improve teacher quality slipped from critical to virtually dead last week as the state's regular legislative session ended without agreement on the measure.

Washington — In a breakthrough that increased the chances that child - care legis lation would be approved before the end of he Congressional session, Senate leaders announced last week they had reached an agreement with the White House on a new version of the bill, which has been bogged down in a conference committee for months.

The end - of - session agreement includes a provision that gives charters one year to apply to another authorizing entity for their oversight and accountability, effective immediately.

«Ending tropical deforestation is critical to achieving the objectives of both the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG),» he wrote in a discussion paper for one of the sessions.

The basic deal — or whatever you want to call this un-official document — agreed to in closed - door sessions between the US, China, South Africa, India and Brazil, outlines a next step towards another agreement, to be discussed at mid-year talks in Bonn, Germany and a COP16 conference at the end of 2010 in Mexico City.

Members of China's National People's Congress Standing Committee adopted «the proposal to review and ratify the Paris Agreement» on Saturday morning at the end of a week - long session.

Mandatory mediation does not mean that the parties must reach an agreement by the end of the mediation sessions; rather it implies that the parties exercise good faith effort to actively participate in mediation.

Having the clients smile at the end of a session, and even look directly at each other, and make an agreement, feels very satisfying.