Sentences with phrase «first budget session»

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The new speaker spent the past five months negotiating his first budget and negotiating his first end - of - session Big Ugly — both of which took a lot of time and energy, limiting his travel schedule.

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.

In combining the addresses, Cuomo again breaks with the tradition of the State of the State being delivered on the first day of the legislative session (Jan. 6 this year) and the executive budget address coming later in the month.

Monday was the first full day of session in the New York State legislature, and lawmakers have a lot to contend with, including a multi billion dollar budget deficit.

Monday was the first full day of session in the New York State legislature, and lawmakers have a lot to contend with, including a multi-billion dollar budget deficit.

They point out that last year Cuomo and the legislature passed gun control legislation on the very first day of their session, a full week before the budget presentation was due.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy presented a revised $ 19 billion budget proposal to state lawmakers today on the first day of their new legislative session.

«I had great hope that I would feel much more comfortable about this budget than I do,» said Sen. Chris Jacobs, a Buffalo Republican in his first legislative session in Albany.

At 8 a.m., at a Crain's New York Business breakfast, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie will discuss his first full session in the leadership post, the state budget and his legislative priorities, New York Athletic Club, 180 Central Park S., Manhattan.

Legislators have been so distracted that the first two weeks of post-budget session have slipped by without much real legislative action, despite the fact that there is a long list of high - profile issues unsettled in the budget.

In light of current loopholes in state law, Senator Klein also announced his first budget priority of the legislative session would be to secure funding for street drug test kits that would enable local law enforcement to better detect the presence of synthetic cannabinoids sold over the counter at local stores and bodegas.

Part of that, is that the Governor is widely seen as victorious over a bitterly partisan GOP majority in the House, which for the first time in the state's history, failed to pass a budget in the regular session, even though it enjoyed only a one - vote majority.

Republicans have made much of the fact that they've been willing and able to work with Cuomo — how helpful they were to him in the last session, boasting first about the budget and later during the July afterglow.

Governor Cuomo's second legislative session was far less dramatic than his first legislative session in 2011, when he convinced the legislature to authorize same sex marriage, instate a 2 % property tax cap, and close a massive $ 10 billion dollar budget deficit.

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.

Spectrum News caught up with many lawmakers on the first day of the new session and asked them to discuss their legislative focus for 2018, what they expect from the budget process and what their conference's priorities will be.

The governor and state leaders at the end of the legislative session in June agreed on how to spend $ 150 million in new housing money, far short of the $ 2 billion agreed to in the budget as the first installment of a five - year $ 10.6 billion housing program.

Cuomo's second legislative session was far less dramatic than his first legislative session in 2011, when he convinced the legislature to authorize same sex marriage, instate a two percent property tax cap, and close a massive $ 10 billion budget deficit.

Then - legal counsel Andrew McDonald, center, applauds between Chief of Staff Timothy Bannon, left, and Budget Director Benjamin Barnes as Gov. Dannel Malloy presents his first two - year budget during a joint session of the General Assembly in HarBudget Director Benjamin Barnes as Gov. Dannel Malloy presents his first two - year budget during a joint session of the General Assembly in Harbudget during a joint session of the General Assembly in Hartford.

Before the two legislative chambers took up the so - called one - house budget resolutions, good - government groups decried what some have seen as a silence on ethics reforms in the first session following the conviction of the two former legislative leaders.

Governor Cuomo's second legislative session was far less dramatic than his first legislative session in 2011, when he convinced the legislature to authorize same sex marriage, instate a 2 % property tax cap, and close a massive $ 10 billion budget deficit.

Monday was the first full day of session in the New York State legislature, and lawmakers have a lot to contend with, including a multibillion dollar budget deficit, as well as the beginning of an election year.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was still traveling in Cuba with Cuomo and did not attend the first full session day since passage of the budget.

If approved there, the legislature would vote on the measure at its next session on Tuesday, Sept. 6, just more than a week before the first budget presentation.

Gov. Pat McCrory revealed yesterday the full details of his proposed $ 21 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, on the first day that the legislature returned to Raleigh for its short session.

Teachers across the state plan to protest cuts to public schools on the first day of the legislature's special session to shore up the budget.

The first of the four scheduled budget review sessions is later today, with a final vote by the council tentatively set for mid-June.

With the 2018 legislative session finishing on - time last week (for the first time in 4 years), Dave summarized the progress of Stand's legislative priorities this year, the impact of the supplemental budget, and the most notable education bills to be passed into law.

On the first day of the conference the principals attended sessions on the budget process, coalition building, and balancing grass - roots advocacy with the demands of the principalship.

We have already completed our first credit counselling session and look forward to updating you at our second about how we have taken back control of our budget.

Buscemi Hallett LLP firm's clients are involved at every turn of the insurance defense engagement, from the first strategy session, to decisions on budgeting, staffing, priorities, costs, settlement possibilities and presentation of the case at trial.

The budget is a sign that Gov. Inslee and Washington's first lady Trudi Inslee, a Thrive by Five Washington board member, are committed to increasing the bipartisan momentum for early learning and maintaining the gains the state made over the last nine years — even during a legislative session already packed with education issues.