Sentences with phrase «end of the legislative session next»

Sen. Cathy Young is confident a bill that would provide funding for county governments to cover the cost of an increase in pay for district attorneys will be approved before the end of the legislative session next month.

Advocates for victims of child sexual assault are urging lawmakers to pass the Child Victims Act, which would make it easier for survivors to file lawsuits, before the end of the legislative session next week.

Assembly majority leader Joe Morelle is the measure's sponsor, and said in a statement that he would continue to push until the scheduled end of the legislative session next week.

The announcement by the three Democrats, just days from the scheduled end of the legislative session next Monday, signifies the first clear advance in months for advocates of same - sex marriage and a victory for John L. Sampson, the Democratic minority leader, who has spent weeks coaxing a consensus out of his oft - fractious conference.

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The de Blasio administration warned of corruption and chaos should state lawmakers end the legislative session next week without renewing a law giving the mayor control of the city education system.

Normally, the Legislature parcels out the bills passed at the end of the legislative session over the next six months, so that the governor has time to carefully consider each one.

The governor also continued to chide the mayor for waiting until near the end of this year's state legislative session to visit Albany and push for changes to the tax break, and for a general strengthening of the city's rent regulations, which expire next month.

The three big issues that need to get resolved in Albany next month before the end of the legislative session include not only 421 - a, but mayoral control of schools and the extension of the rent laws.

Cuomo and legislative leaders are expected to finalize any end of session deals next week - the last scheduled session day is Wednesday, June 15.

The governor says the casino bill is one of his priority items for the end of the legislative session, which finishes up next month.

Silver says that's all right with him, as long as it passes by the end of the legislative session, so the higher wages can begin next January.

Meanwhile, Albany politicians continued negotiating over a vote on reform of the statute with just six days left in the legislative session, which is scheduled to end next week.

Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced over the weekend that he'll send the members of his legislative bodies home after the official end of the session next week.

A coalition of groups is launching a campaign this week to push Cuomo to follow through on a promise to fund thousands of new supportive housing units before the legislative session ends next month.

The legislative session is scheduled to end next week with a host of unresolved measures up in the air.

Cuomo, who is widely believed to be mulling a White House run in 2020, and will be seeking re-election to his current post next year, has not met in person with the Capitol reporters for a traditional press conference, in which questions are unscripted and free - flowing, since the end of the legislative session in June.

This is compounded by the fact that the anticipated end of the Legislative session is next week.»

ALBANY - A coalition of groups is launching a campaign this week to push Gov. Cuomo to follow through on a promise to fund thousands of new supportive housing units before the legislative session ends next month.

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.

With the legislative session ending next week, Marcellino's chief of staff, Kirk Ives, said Monday their office was still waiting for a revised bill from the town.

The late maneuver, with one day remaining for the legislative session to end on time, was described by sources as a «game of chicken» designed to get Assembly Democrats to agree to one year and force de Blasio to plead for control again next year, while running for re-election.

And although it's not being talked about now, the most exigent issue of the coming legislative session is an income tax surcharge on millionaires set to expire at the end of next year.

Cuomo says if the tribes won't settle their differences with the state by the end of the legislative session, he may propose siting competing casinos next to the tribal ones.

Faced with the possibility of being expelled from the state legislature as soon as next week, State Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a Democrat from Brooklyn, today said he would resign on June 20th at the end of the legislative session and run for a seat on the New York City Council.

A bill in both the senate and assembly would allow it, though it appears unlikely that legislators will pass the bill before the end of the legislative session, which is next month.

City Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson (D - Bronx), who is in talks with the parties to ink a deal, said officials are trying to resolve the issue before the end of the state legislative session next week.

As a result, barring a special session held in the next six - and - a-half weeks, legislative salaries will remain at their current level of $ 79,500 through at least the end of 2018.

The amendment was ushered through as an «emergency measure» right before the end of the legislative session, possibly limiting the time that legislators and other onlookers had to analyze its actual effects before a deadline that would have required the bill to be introduced during the next legislative session.