Sentences with phrase «last budget session»

The last budget session of the year, just over two weeks before the Jan. 14 deadline, is slated for Wednesday, Dec. 28.

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However, a new shortfall of $ 170 million has opened in the state's current $ 29 million budget, even after legislators cut $ 230 million in last year's session.

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.

Ethics reform was a major topic at the end of last year's session and during this past election, but as leadership turned their attention to the budget at the beginning of this year, some legislators were worried the momentum had stalled.

People with Cuomo's view argue that Flanagan was too weak to sell the special session deal to members, and needed second floor help last year to pass the budget.

The Onondaga County Legislature approved the 27.3 percent salary increase by a vote of 10 - 6 Tuesday - three months after they set the 2016 budget, one month after the election, four days after it was proposed and during the last session of the year.

Cuomo will kick off the legislative session with the same model he used last year: a hybrid State of the State / executive budget address.

Lawmakers wrapped up their regular legislative session last month almost giddy with their achievements: an on - time and frugal state budget, a local property - tax cap, renewed rent regulations and legalized gay marriage — all passed at the behest of the freshman governor.

PLATTSBURGH — State Assemblyman Billy Jones (D - Chateaugay) briefed residents and officials on the state budget at a breakfast session last week.

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.

(The issue was bumped beyond the budget into legislative session last year, as it may again this year.)

This session, lawmakers and Malloy are crafting changes to the second year of the two - year, approximately $ 40 billion budget they passed last year.

While the expiration of rent control was a major topic throughout the 2011 session, which lasted from January through June, it was not Albany's top focus until the budget passed at the end of March.

Cuomo included ride hailing in his budget proposal this year after he initially sought to have it included in a special session at the end of last year that never materialized.

Asked last week about his own priorities in the post-budget session, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos named the education investment tax credit, which had been tied to the DREAM Act in the state budget.

Budgets in New York have a habit of falling out of balance over the last several years, necessitating lawmakers to return to Albany after the regular session is completed in order to plug the leak.

In the wake of last night's do - nothing extraordinary session, a clearly frustrated Gov. David Paterson threatened this morning to take the Legislature to court if lawmakers continue to flout his efforts to bring them back to Albany to finish the budget.

A brand new year, and a brand new legislative session, though — like last year — we'll be getting a delayed start, thanks to the Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to again merge his State of the State and budget addresses into one gigantic mega-speech, to be delivered on Jan. 13.

They met for a brief technical session and announced plans to return this week to work on replenishing the $ 54 million spending cut they had originally made to the Medicare Savings Program in the bipartisan budget they passed, four months late, last October.

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.

While the legislative session ended last week, there are still some outstanding issues, including a final budget bill.

PLATTSBURGH After months of budget sessions and back - and - forth finagling, the Plattsburgh Common Council last week adopted a budget for 2018 bolstered by a 4.35 percent tax levy increase.

In addition to the legislation passed last week by the Senate and Assembly before they wrapped up the 2016 legislative session, the state budget approved on April 1 contained $ 189 million to combat heroin and opioid addiction.

As Capital reported, top Cuomo aide Larry Schwartz was in contact with the Tax Foundation as the budget was negotiated last month, and their rankings came up several times in closed - door session, according to a source familiar with the talks.

«This last session the governor made an incredible attack on the city partially to preserve his record for keeping budget increases to two percent or less and from his vindictiveness toward the mayor.»

Before adding the $ 5.4 billion Democratic state Rep. Lon Burnam says was cruelly torn from the public education budget in the last session, the...

The state legislature failed to bring up the bill when they passed the state budget in special session last week.

But he got close, missing by just one vote (out of 20) at last week's legislative budget session.

Last year, the Common Council held several budget sessions between October and January of this year, when the 2017 budget was adopted.

Railroaders, understandably steamed, showed up in force at last week's budget approval session of the legislature.

They'll talk about the state's financial troubles and the special legislative session held last week to address the budget shortfall.

Washington — In a session that stretched into the wee hours of Nov. 22, the Congress approved a budget - reconciliation package that would restore most of the automatic cuts made last month under the Gramm - Rudman - Hollings deficit - reduction law.

The legislators attached the measure to a $ 16.7 billion biennial state budget that they approved in a marathon session last week.

Despite a roller - coaster economy and a brief special legislative session that capped lawmakers» regular 2008 session, Connecticut's K - 12 budget for fiscal 2008 - 09 remained exactly as it had been fixed in last year's legislative session.

With the legislative session scheduled to end on March 18, lawmakers last week were debating a new fiscal 1990 budget, after Gov. Garry Carruthers vetoed an appropriations bill.

The budget bill that passed the state House last week during a special session of the legislature included a provision to scrap the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS, which was implemented just last year.

With California's fiscal outlook worsening, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week called state lawmakers into a special session to balance the current budget, while governors in Mississippi, New York, and several other states sounded alarms about their own revenue problems.

A diminishing courts budget was just one of several hits justice took when state lawmakers last convened for the 2013 - 14 session.

The governor and lawmakers have made it clear that teacher pay will be a major priority for this year's short session, which is a time meant for lawmakers to adjust the budget approved last year.

The school districts returned to Manning's court after last year's session when the state legislature cut the budget substantially, capped the number or children who could attend, and imposed copayments on families wishing to enroll their children.

Rep. Blackwell, who voted for the new plan that was inserted into the state's budget bill last year, says he'd like to see some key changes made to how principals are now paid during the upcoming legislative session.

The bill would allow the Malloy administration to repeal a form of local budget flexibility that was granted to certain cities and towns during last years» legislative session if that school district was unable to persuade 95 % of parents to make their children take the Common Core aligned standardized testing that take place in grades 3 - 8 and 11.

Even though it's not a budget year, Governor Dayton's last session is shaping up to be filled with important and contentious discussions.

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.

That's because a law passed last session requires all public schools to adopt digital textbooks by the 2015 - 16 school year and spend 50 percent of their textbook budgets on digital materials.

The counseling session will last approximately one hour or longer depending on your knowledge of the program and how prepared you are with your budget information.

The new CES and accompanying legislation also propose ways to make the ratepayer funds destined for the Green Bank and for energy efficiency all or at least partially «raid - proof» so the legislature can't do what it did last session and swipe a hefty chunk of those funds to plug budget holes.

Other issues were more contentious, but ultimately the negotiated budget increased funding to several key areas including: $ 28 million for safety improvements at the state's mental health hospitals; $ 7 million for recruiting new public school teachers and retaining existing ones; $ 190 million from the state's emergency fund to address damages from the last round of wildfires; $ 15 million to expand programs that combat homelessness; and, $ 8 million to backfill tuition cuts made to state colleges and universities during the 2015 session.

(Because of a required three - day cooling off period, the budget needs to be done by Tuesday to vote on Friday, the last day of session.)

Some of the provisions in the Ohio budget, including a provision designed to block funds for preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers, are similar to bills that were defeated last legislative session.