Sentences with phrase «end of session package»

Despite the arrests of the legislative leaders and the on going corruption probes, there is no new ethics reform as part of the end of session package.

Shafer, with the Coalition Against Gambling, says he worries the final resolution will come as part of the traditional end of session package of bills known as the «big ugly», often approved in the middle of the night on the last day of the session.

Why are Repubs trying to keep bill tied up in committee — or out of end of session package?

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One way or another, though, Mr. Scott has said he is determined to pass the gun package, which would also include significant funding for school safety and mental health measures, before the end of the annual legislative session, which is scheduled to wrap up on Friday.

«At the end of the day, however, there just isn't enough in this package to justify convening a special session and bringing 213 legislators back to Albany before the end of the year,» he said in the statement.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Wednesday night said he sought a legislative package at the end of the session that would have included three - quarters disability for first responders, design build for New York City an additional 50 speed cameras around schools.

ALBANY — The end of session reform package passed by lawmakers early Saturday morning includes a dozen changes to the state's campaign finance system, lobbying law, and constitution.

The panel is expected to conduct a series of forums and have a package of recommendations by June 3 for consideration before the end of the legislative session.

His aides pawed at a few end - of - session - priorities — a package to combat opioids, a bill to allow booze to be sold in movie theaters — but neither came to fruition.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has said lawmakers can choose to clean up their acts or face repeated prosecutions, said Cuomo's package was «welcome news,» but hoped lawmakers would «use today's announcement as another clear sign that Albany must pass comprehensive ethics reform before the end of session.»

It's the third standard Cuomo has set this year for an end - of - session ethics package, and with just one week before the state Legislature leaves Albany, he's hoping it's one that can be cleared with minimal fuss and maximum bragging rights.

At the end of the legislative session last year, Cuomo was annoyed that lawmakers had rejected his ethics reform package, even after several lawmakers had been indicted, jailed, or found to be wearing wires in ongoing FBI probes.

Lawmakers approved a package of bills at the end of the legislative session this month aimed at countering the addiction crisis, including measures aimed at making it easier to gain access to treatment and new prevention programs.

He added the issue still remains a «line in the sand» for him this legislative session, saying that it also made the case of taking up his other provisions in the overhaul package, such as ending soft money party committees, a move that Assembly Democrats have not included in their legislation.

The proposal comes after state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed at the end of the legislative session this year to a package of bills designed to curtail heroin and opioid abuse.

At the same time, they point to Flanagan's vote in favor of the 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act (Flanagan and the Senate passed a package of SAFE Act changes at the end of session, but those measures were unlikely to be taken up in the Democratic - led Assembly).

«At the end of the day, however, there just isn't enough in this package to justify convening a special session and bringing 213 legislators back to Albany before the end of the year,» Flanagan continued.

Approving a package of heroin - related legislation at the end of the session would not be the first time that lawmakers reached a last - minute deal on the subject.

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.

Based on initial descriptions, the delayed end - of - session «big ugly» package deal announced Tuesday afternoon by Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders is simply confounding on the subject of property taxes.

Let's pass a package of corrective actions by the end of this session and let's end the anxiety that the parents, teachers, and students are feeling all across this state,» said Cuomo.

Governor Cuomo, who was already planning on pushing for campaign finance reform in the second half of the legislative session, says he now plans a larger «more robust» package that could also look at strengthening the State's Board of Elections investigatory powers, and perhaps ending party cross endorsements in elections.

«This was particularly busy time — often with multiple events in a day — when the governor was negotiating a landmark end - of - session package in Albany to fight heroin addiction and breast cancer, crack down on zombie homes and release much - need money to build supportive housing for the homeless,» Azzopardi stated.

Assemblyman Rory Lancman, who has a bill that would allow runoff voting in New York City, said he did not know what would come of his legislation, but predicted the Assembly would pass an election reform package of its own before the end of session, which ends this month.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo was on Staten Island Wednesday to sign into law a package of bills fighting heroin and opiate addiction, the first signed into law since the Albany lawmaking session ended last week.

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos says the hasty manner in which New York's strict new gun control laws, call the NY SAFE Act, were passed during the first full day of the legislative session this year was «wrong,» and he hopes not to repeat that when deciding key end - of - session issues in June like siting casinos or approving an anti-corruption package.

«The Council has committed to holding a hearing at the end of the session to review how effective our reforms package has been, and how we might be able to strengthen the Council in the future,» Mark - Viverito said.

The package was announced Wednesday afternoon — just a day before the scheduled end of the legislative session — in the Capitol's Red Room.

Yet the final legislative package at the end of the 2015 session came and went without including any of Schneiderman's reforms.

Both lawmakers insist their proposals should not be fused into an omnibus package, a «big ugly» bill, for consideration at the end of the session.

It is unclear how Cuomo's task force will interact with the Senate findings, but a package deal on the crisis is expected to be reached before the end of session.

When announcing his legislative package on the steps of the Tweed Courthouse on May 27, Schneiderman noted that there's nothing written in the Bible that says legislators must leave the capital on June 17, when session is due to end.

Cuomo also approved 62 bills that were sent to him 10 days ago as part of a 133 - bill package of leftover legislation from the session that ended in June.

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Also, I chose to go with the 4 visit package, and I was not pushed into purchasing it — it was discussed at the very end of our session.

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But all the same we were working side by side with the locals and at the end of the session I know Ketut and I had picked up between us at least 70 kg's of plastic food, shampoo, washing detergent packaging, plus 12 hyperdermic needle's.

The governor vowed to get a package of school - safety reforms approved before the end of the legislative session.

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These provisions typically are considered as a package at the end of the legislative session, opening the door to negotiations that could imperil the debt forgiveness.