Sentences with phrase «in a special session»

One reform group is calling on the governor and legislature to meet in a special session to address the state's on going scandals.
The state legislature failed to bring up the bill when they passed the state budget in special session last week.
The legislature could come back in a special session to approve mayoral control, along with local tax extensions.
The matter will be taken up in a special session after lawmakers failed to agree on whether or not to do it in the regular session.
Several issues, including teacher pay, school vouchers and payroll deduction, were included in the special session agenda.
In light of this storm of two trials and two reports, the groups call for immediate action on these widely - supported reforms, and in a special session if possible.
There are other items that could be negotiated in a special session.
The board met behind closed doors most of the day after gathering in special session.
If they don't do that, I'm going to call them back in special session.
The Saudi British Joint Business Council (SBJBC) met in a special session in London on 7 March 2018 on the occasion of the visit to the UK by HRH Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Saudi Arabia.
Malloy said the legislature is expected to meet in special session on Sept. 28 and that he does not expect lawmakers to substantially change the agreement.
For the first time, countries bound by separate international agreements managing human affairs at the two poles met together Monday in a special session at State Department headquarters in Washington.
Cuomo had sought to include ride hailing as part of a package of issues in a special session of the Legislature in December, but lawmakers could not come to terms on holding one.
There are other issues Cuomo may want to see considered in a special session before the start of the regular legislative session, which will take place amid an election year for the 213 legislative seats and the governor's own re-election bid for a third term.
The governor added it to an omnibus bill that the Legislature passed in a special session in late June, and it was signed the next day.
And it reignites an ongoing issue surrounding indigent legal services and a push to have county governments reimbursed by a state, which Cuomo had initially sought to resolve in a special session late last year, the hopes of which eventually collapsed in negotiations.
The Homer Town Board met in special session Monday morning to prepare a response to the Village of Homer committee working on options for offices and meeting space.
WHITE PLAINS — State Senate candidate Bob Cohen (R, I, C — 37th District) today blamed Senator Oppenheimer and her colleagues in the Senate leadership for the lack of a single accomplishment in the special session called by the Governor this week.
He exited the Senate lobby to reiterate his opposition to linking issues in a special session.
It was in special session from April 15 to April 30.
If the legislature returns in special session next month, it is more likely to take up Speaker Sheldon Silver «s proposal that some $ 5 billion in bank windfalls be invested in crumbling infrastructure.
He also participated in a special session during the Congress where he shared some of his insights with more than 250 recreation professionals from across the country and on U.S. military bases worldwide.
The biology department dedicated a tree to Kurtenbach's memory, and his career was honored in a special session during a scientific meeting in September.
And both Reiter and Cuomo himself reiterated the possibility of a pay hike if reforms were addressed in a special session held before New Year's.
Cuomo has said that if lawmakers don't agree on reform of the care of the disabled by end of session, he'll keep them in Albany in special session until they do, saying it would be a «tragedy» if the measure is not passed.
Cuomo in his conference call on Friday suggested lawmakers could still return at some point this year in a special session to take up mayoral control as well as the sales tax and other tax measures that would need to re-approved by the end of the year.
Legislative leaders announced lawmakers will return next week in special session to pass a budget, and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy passed up his opportunity to address a joint session of the legislature at midnight.
He also said tightening the state's gun laws — perhaps in a special session as soon as next week — would help highlight the issue, and make New York a «template» for other states after fatal shootings in Newtown, Conn., and suburban Rochester.
Today in Albany, leading watchdog groups released a letter to Governor Cuomo asking him to include Clean Contracting reforms in any special session to renew 421 - a real estate tax abatements.
The legislative session adjourns May 9, but if no budget plan is set by then, the budget could be approved in special session in the coming weeks and months.
A map proposal isn't expected until Wednesday, on which the full General Assembly would then vote on Thursday and Friday in a special session.
The Town of Ulster board will meet in special session Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m. to vote on whether to release the contents of a police dashboard camera regarding a charge of speeding against county legislator Jennifer Schwartz Berky on May 24.
Cuomo insisted on Wednesday the blow up over the budget had nothing to do with a scuttled pay raise, denied to lawmakers in December after they failed to coalesce around a package of ethics measures in a special session that never materialized.
It is a huge success for Dr. Nowotny and the Institute, since he was one of only 8 «talents» invited to participate in a special session for researchers specializing in crystallography.
In today's ENR: Legislature will take up Gov. Herbert's education line - item vetoes in special session on Wednesday.
Asked if dealing with gun control in a special session was preferable to waiting for the start of the new Legislature, Silver said, «It probably doesn't (matter), but it gives the opportunity to highlight it before we get into the state budget and other issues that may cloud the focus.»
If it spills into overtime, the budget would be debated in special session.
But, as Brodsky said, the potential of a Republican takeover of the Senate would mean Democrats have little incentive to convene in a special session.
Results describing the combined effects of the comet and the CME throughout the martian atmosphere are being presented in a special session at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2017 in Riga on Thursday, 21st September.
View the full 2018 legislative calendar for all states and the territories, including states that have year - round sessions and states in special sessions.
Cuomo urged lawmakers to act in a special session so as not to «stall affordable housing production for years to come.»
«Alabama yesterday became the first state to limit Kelo - style takings, unanimously passing legislation in a special session.
Governor Rick Scott says he will veto the legislature's education funding proposal, sending lawmakers back to the drawing board in a special session next week.
Should the State Legislature fail come together in a special session and pass an extension of mayoral control, the program will lapse at the end of June, and the city will revert to its former model — where schools were largely run by their community school boards.
The Florida state legislature — at least the key committees controlled by Democrats — refused in a special session called by the governor to consider abortion restrictions.
No business was resolved in Albany last night, and no one from either party expected to resolve any of the budget problems in the special session.
Cuomo sought a constitutional amendment in December that would ban outside employment in a special session that failed to coalesce.
Assembly Democrats have the vast majority of the votes in a special session and there is case law precedent for them appointing replacements in statewide office vacancies.
Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, meanwhile insisted no linkage should be made in any special session to what lawmakers view as disparate and distinct issues.
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