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PHASE 2: Protect pro-marriage candidates in the 2014 elections, so that the amendment can receive final legislative approval in the 2015 legislative session.

The authority would need legislative approval in order to provide loans to the city's charters, according to the New York Post.

Not exact matches

Maduro's approval ratings have tumbled amid the crisis to 28 percent, near the lowest in 16 years of socialist rule, and while there's no sign the sometimes violent street protests that overwhelmed the country a year ago will return anytime soon, polls indicate that the opposition will coast to victory in legislative elections expected to take place by year end.

The Republican takeover in the Senate will force Obama to scale back his ambitions to either executive actions that do not require legislative approval, or items that might gain bipartisan support, such as trade agreements and tax reform.

Those events probably would change the political calculus for a deal and the content required in a final agreement to win legislative approval.

He told the MLA committee that he is proposing the government amend the law to allow the next commission be appointed by September 2016 in order to have a final report prepared for approval by the Legislative Assembly in the fall of 2017.

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But Senate Republicans have been more than eager to join themselves at the hip with Cuomo, who has a stead 70 percent approval rating thanks in part to his legislative successes.

Fruscher ominously notes that a «much more significant downsizing of our entire workforce lies ahead,» but the OTB is awaiting legislative approval for an early - retirement incentive program and a joint effort with the union that represents most of the operation's workforce in accordance with a MOU.

The act is a product of national consensus and has both executive and legislative approvals,» MP for Ajumako - Enyan - Essiam and a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson stated while addressing a press conference in parliament.

The $ 20 billion spending package, with no tax increases in an election year, received final legislative approval less than one hour before a midnight deadline.

District attorney Division Chief Edward Heilig said in an interview that expenditures from the asset forfeiture fund don't need legislative approval because they come from seized property.

Outerborough opposition to congestion pricing remains a key obstacle to legislative approval, and it's unclear how much political capital Cuomo wants to invest in the effort.

Albany insiders said Senate Republicans want to slow down approval in order to teach a lesson to de Blasio, who campaigned last year for Dems trying to regain control of the legislative body.

On the final night of the session, the House of Representatives made time to give final legislative approval to a proposal that would allow mushroom hunting in state parks and other state property.

And Newsday reported in 2015 that Nassau agreed to hundreds of contracts for amounts just under the $ 25,000 threshold that would have demanded legislative approval.

Empaneling a wage board allows Cuomo to circumvent the need for legislative approval — a maneuver that AG Eric Schneiderman, who has been pursuing cases of wage theft in the fast food industry since 2013, publicly called on the governor to pursue in a Daily News OpEd last month.

He said the threshold for legislative approval never came up in contract talks.

Given the entertainment industry's well - greased political clout in both the Senate and Assembly, legislative approval of the film - credit extender is all but a foregone conclusion.

Caro told Newsday last week that one of the events she helped promote as part of her duties under the two county contracts — both just under the $ 25,000 threshold for legislative approval — was the Field of Honor, for which she purchased and installed 1,500 American flags in front of the county executive building.

Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves said Nassau's contracting process «is the most transparent in the state» as the legislature moved to drop the threshold for legislative approval of personal service contracts from the current $ 25,000 to $ 1,000.

With just hours left in the legislative session, the Senate granted final legislative approval Wednesday night for an expansion of gambling that includes more off - track betting sites and possible sports betting in the future.

The coalition argues that the state's plans to move the facility to a shared site with the adult hospital in Buffalo amounts to closing it down, which they say the governor can't do without legislative approval.

Senate President Bukola Saraki had, last Thursday, read a letter from Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, while he was Acting President, in which he sought legislative approval for the REC - nominees.

«She has asked the Attorney General's Office, how do you deal with the fact that, in order to do what the governor is in the process of doing, he would have required legislative approval.

Teen drivers would soon be able to sign up as organ donors under a bill that gained final legislative approval Thursday as part of an effort to take New York out of the cellar among states in organ donations.

Nassau legislative Democrats pressed unsuccessfully Monday for a moratorium on approval of county contracts in the wake of State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» arrest on federal corruption charges.

ALBANY — Teenage drivers would soon be able to sign up as organ donors under a bill that gained final legislative approval Thursday as part of an effort to take New York out of the cellar among states in organ donations.

First announced in June by County Executive Steve Bellone and the parties who initiated the lawsuits, part of the agreement maintained that after legislative approval, a public referendum would ultimately determine if the deal would go through.

In any case, Cuomo would have to get legislative approval to take $ 2.3 billion away from counties (and their taxpayers) right after the feds just gave it back to them.

Teenage drivers would soon be able to sign up as organ donors under a bill that gained final legislative approval today as part of an effort to take New York out of the cellar among states in organ donations.

The business - backed group's endorsements are entirely Republican (the group did endorse one Democrat, Assemblyman Robin Schimminger) after a year in which business interests decried a legislative session that included the approval a minimum wage increase that will reach $ 15 in the New York City region and $ 12.50 in upstate New York in the coming years.

The NFIB's legislative scorecard this week showed most legislators received lower grades this past legislative session, too, due to the approval of measures such as 12 weeks of paid family leave and the approval a minimum wage set at $ 15 in the downstate region.

The expected approval of the $ 15 wage — which will be phased in over a number of years on a different timetable in New York City and elsewhere in the state — is expected to bring a more concerted legislative effort next year to impact low - wage workers across the board.

Zimpher met last week in the Red Room with members of the state Black, Puerto Rican and Asian legislative caucus, who have been among the most outspoken critics of the plan that would, among other things, allow SUNY and CUNY schools to raise their own tuitions without legislative approval.

Hundreds of Nassau County contracts worth a total of nearly $ 10 million have been awarded in recent years at amounts just dollars below the threshold for legislative approval.

«I'll probably give him a ring and ask for more detail,» Paterson said when asked about a column that Faso penned for Sunday's Times Union in which he suggested that Paterson seek legislative approval to declare a «fiscal emergency.»

Judy Jacobs (D - Woodbury), who was presiding officer of the legislature in 2000 when voters approved a referendum requiring legislative approval of all personal services contracts of $ 25,000 or more, said the county executive's authority to approve lower - cost agreements «is being abused.»

The task force will coordinate and expedite the handling of dozens of proposals for new laws as they work their way through legislative committees to final approval in both the House and the Senate.

Caro got two contracts for public relations, one in 2013 and one in 2014, each for just under $ 25,000, barely skirting the need for legislative approval.

The governor didn't seek legislative approval for December's delayed payments to school districts, an action that resulted in a still - active lawsuit from a consortium of education groups.

The bill would require legislative approval of any individual serving in an acting capacity for longer than six months.

«Rather than reflecting any merit in the bill,» NYSSBA wrote to Governor Hugh L. Carey, «the Legislature's approval was manifestly its way of appeasing public employee unions angered by Executive and Legislative rejection of their protracted and expensive campaign» to repeal pension reforms enacted in 1976.

He said companies such as his often accept less than the market rate for work they do for Nassau under contracts capped at $ 25,000 in exchange for being able to start on the job quickly, without the lengthy wait for legislative approval.

As County Executive, I plan to issue Executive Orders and make them publicly available in an effort to keep the residents and taxpayers of Erie County — my bosses — informed of my actions when they do not require Legislative approval.

After major issues slipped off the negotiating table during budget talks and federal prosecutors charged Dean Skelos, the second legislative leader in six months, Cuomo's approval ratings sunk to a record low.

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, who the read a letter from the vice President Yemi Osinbajo, in which he sought legislative approval for the nomination of 27 Nigerians as Resident Electoral Commissioners for commission.

Cuomo, of course, has sought to use the pay raise issue as leverage before, most notably when he sought to hold a special session in late 2016, linking the agenda to the approval of a salary increase by a commission studying legislative and executive pay.

Also, at the time the income tax was invented, the only way to form a new corporation in many states and countries was by an enactment of the legislature and it was harder to form a corporation than it is today even where legislative approval was not required to form one.