Sentences with phrase «in statewide referendums»

It includes questions placed on ballots through a citizen - initiative process as well as measures that legislatures have put before voters in statewide referendums.

The amendment was approved by voters in a statewide referendum.

Voters would have to approve it in a statewide referendum.

The groups also said lawmakers shouldn't duck the issue of publicly financed campaigns by asking voters to decide in a statewide referendum — one of many ideas being floated as lawmakers move closer to the April 1 state budget deadline.

But Mr. Caputo said that if the same measure passed in a statewide referendum, Mr. Paladino would uphold the law.

New Yorkers will be asked in a statewide referendum as early as next year whether public officials convicted of corruption should be stripped of their pensions.

Amending the State Constitution requires approval of two successively elected crops of legislators as well as others in a statewide referendum.

The governor's plan would let unions representing most public employees to negotiate only for wage increases, and any increase above the Consumer Price Index would have to be approved in a statewide referendum.

That could make the politically difficult issue more acceptable to far more voters in a statewide referendum required to expand casino gambling beyond Indian lands.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to authorize seven Las Vegas - style casinos was approved in a statewide referendum last week, and calls for one casino to be built in the Albany - Saratoga region.

To amend the constitution, the Legislature must pass the proposal in two consecutive sessions of the Legislature and then be approved in a statewide referendum.

Not exact matches

The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discrimination.

By statewide referendum in 1991, voters in the state of Washington had reaffirmed the provision of the criminal code that outlawed persons in its jurisdiction from «knowingly causing or aiding other persons in ending their lives.»

The governor reversed himself on the timing of a casino public referendum, saying he would like it to go before the voters this fall even though there are no statewide elections scheduled, and not in 2014.

Given the difficulty of getting a statewide petition on the ballot in New York, the law is unlikely to be overturned by a referendum, as was the case in California.

That leaves among the statewide elected officials only Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, a Republican, to be in favor of the referendum.

The initiative route would take several years because constitutional amendments must be passed by two successively elected Legislatures and then approved in a general election by statewide referendum.

That agreement and a successful referendum on the 2013 statewide ballot made it possible for Wilmorite and others to compete for casino licenses elsewhere in New York.

The most recent statewide referenda, in 2009, attracted little notice and less interest.

The electorate's mood soured in 1997; 3 of 4 statewide referenda went down to defeat, including $ 2.4 billion in funding for school construction.

Statewide turnout increased from 3.3 million in 2013 to 3.6 million this year, and only 6.6 percent of ballots left the question blank, compared with 16 percent in a referendum on expanding casino gambling four years ago.

Like many local elected officials in the wake of the statewide casino referendum's passage last year, Yepsen had to navigate the push for a casino and a passionate base of opposition to one.

As voters get ready to consider more than 70 school district referendums as part of the statewide elections in a week, a state lawmaker's aide is saying his boss plans to reintroduce legislation that would limit when such votes can take place.

In 2013, voters approved casino gambling statewide in a referendum championed by the governoIn 2013, voters approved casino gambling statewide in a referendum championed by the governoin a referendum championed by the governor.

The single largest recipient of casino companies» donations was the New York Jobs Now Committee, a casino - backed PAC which lobbied in support of the passage of the statewide ballot referendum that legalized casino gambling last fall.

All three were statewide referendums, as voters went to the polls across New York, including in some interesting mayoral and county executive contests.

ALBANY — Offering up some details on a promised plan for legalizing full - scale casinos in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Thursday he would push for a statewide voter referendum this fall, despite uncertain electoral prospects, while also suggesting that his patience had worn thin with some gaming - friendly Indian tribes upstate.

A statewide referendum on whether to allow non-Indian casino gaming in New York may not be on the ballot this November.

[77] He has said he would take a more libertarian stance on the matter in regard to state policy; he follows a «live and let live» approach to the topic of homosexuality, [75] actively opposes discrimination against homosexuals, [74] and encourages a statewide referendum on allowing same - sex marriage in the state, saying that he would honor the result of said referendum.

Further, the state has already awarded all four licenses for upstate casinos that were made possible by the statewide constitutional referendum in 2013 that permitted a new round of casino expansion.

A U.S. court of appeals recently upheld California's Proposition 209, a statewide referendum which forbids special consideration for women or minority group members in jobs, government contracts, or university admission.

Of 229 statewide ballot propositions in 42 states and the District of Columbia this year, an estimated 22 propositions in 15 states relate to education, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the staff of Initiative and Referendum Report, a monthly publication of the Institute for Government and Politics.

«If you're so confident that we should have vouchers in Wisconsin, that we should be increasing the funding and that the voucher program should be expanded, I would ask you to put it to a statewide referendum.

Here in Massachusetts, despite being outspent by dark, out - of - state money by almost two to one, a grassroots movement resulted in a resounding defeat (62 - 38 %) of a statewide referendum to raise the charter school cap.

The DPI estimates the statewide cost of this bill to be a maximum of $ 21.8 million in 2019, depending on whether nine additional school districts going to referendum this spring are successful.

California passed a statewide referendum in 1998 that earmarked $ 9.2 billion for K - 12 and higher - education facilities.

News: We congratulated our Boston affiliate QUEST for its role in the defeat of a statewide charter school expansion referendum.

But that solution is long term, as it would require a referendum on the ballot of Georgia's next statewide elections, in November 2012.

That's just a fraction of an estimated $ 8 billion of school infrastructure needs in North Carolina, and state lawmakers are under pressure this year to place a $ 1.9 billion statewide bond referendum for schools on the ballot this fall, although the state Senate, under Berger's leadership, has been reluctant to take up the bond.

Before the referendum, the students» scores placed them in the middle statewide; after the referendum, they were among the top performers.

An active board and statewide structure has provided MFOA with the ability to organize an develop coinciding two - year campaigns to support revamping the State Animal Welfare Program, addressing the cruelty of coyote snaring and treatment of circus elephants, from establishing our «Dogs Chained for Life» and Pet Club programs to submitting a State referendum to ban bear baiting, hounding and trapping, from focuses on canned hunting, puppy mills, horse racing / slaughter to the eight pieces of legislation that have improved the lives of Maine's dogs and cats, MFOA has led the way in Maine.