Sentences with phrase «governor agreed to change»

The governor agreed to change budget language that city officials said would have hindered their efforts to start a rent - subsidy program to help homeless families stay out of shelters.

The governor agreed to change budget language that city officials said would have hindered their efforts to start a rent - subsidy program to help homeless families stay out of shelters.

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ALBANY, N.Y., March 31 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $ 168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes.

Meanwhile, the former governor of the Bank of Canada raised a red flag about the «carbon bubble,» Canada's premiers agreed to develop a Canadian energy strategy that would address climate change, and Elon Musk broke ground on his Gigafactory that will slash the costs of electric vehicle batteries and, by extension, the cars themselves.

Good - government organizations are pushing the bill, too, after lawmakers and Cuomo did not agree to any ethics law changes in the state budget as initially proposed by the governor.

Supposedly final, agreed - upon program bill language, including changes to arbitration as part of a local «financial restructuring board» law, was released by the governor's office to the AlbanyTimes Union and posted on the paper's Capitol Confidential website at 11:49 a.m. on June 18.

Most agree that the governor's insertion of ethics reform — specifically tying per diem changes and disclosure requirements to the state comptroller's budget — is a stretch of even the limited boundaries defined in Silver v. Pataki.

The governor agrees, and says it has to be «fundamentally changed.»

In 2014, the governor and legislative leaders — Silver and then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also on trial for selling his office — agreed to dissolve the commission in exchange for a pilot program of public campaign finance, a new enforcement office at the state's Board of Elections and changes to the bribery statute.

The governor has also said that he won't increase school aid in the state budget unless lawmakers agree to a list of changes, including adding more charter schools and making teacher performance tests more stringent.

The Democratic governor confirmed Tuesday that several of his policy proposals would be dropped from the spending plan, which must be agreed to by March 31 and in which Cuomo has a higher degree of leverage over lawmakers by inserting language they can not change into appropriation bills.

Whatever changes leaders ended up agreeing to make to the state tax code, the governor hoped to have an agreement by the time the 30 - day budget amendments are due at the end of February.

(CNN)- New Hampshire's move to become the most recent state to legalize same - sex marriage hit a road bump Wednesday, after the legislature's House of Representatives failed to agree to changes made by the governor.

This diverse group of alcoholic beverage industry experts, charged by Governor Cuomo with reviewing and recommending changes to New York State's 80 - year old Alcoholic Beverage Law, conducted four public meetings and agreed on over a dozen recommendations to revise, consolidate, and modernize the law.

In exchange, the governor convinced lawmakers to agree to change the redistricting process next time, ten years from now, which could be several political lifetimes away.

A source close to the governor said during the meeting Jennings agreed to enforce the curfew but later changed his mind.

«We continued to yell and scream» and the governor eventually agreed to implement some of those changes, he said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo surrendered the commission — and its subpoenas — after lawmakers agreed to greater enforcement at the board of elections and changes to bribery laws.

The governor on Monday said he didn't want to set up «another expensive prosecutor's office» when the state is already well - served, and that the legal changes agreed to after the commission disbanded justified its shorter - than - expected lifespan.

The governor says he will only agree to a significant school aid increase if the Senate and Assembly agree to all of his changes.

Afterward, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says while he expects lawmakers to agree with some of Cuomo's proposed changes on income disclosure, he wants to see them applied to the governor's office, as well.

Governor Cuomo and the legislature announced in March that they had agreed on a process to change the state's constitution to revoke pension of legislators who are convicted felons, but the Assembly never actually approved the deal, offering an alternative bill instead.