Sentences with phrase «legislative conference committees»

Although legislative conference committees were haggling over seven of nine budget appropriations bills, a measure appropriating $ 40 million less than many state educators had anticipated for the public schools was not one of them.

A legislative conference committee this month snubbed the legislators» attempt to insert a measure prohibiting such use of public funds from an appropriations bill.

The new education bill, which was tied up in a legislative conference committee, would accelerate that effort by allowing the state board of education wider latitude in developing and approving the new outcomes.

Not exact matches

«We're very, very close to a historic legislative victory the likes of which rarely this country has ever seen,» Trump told reporters at a lunch with Republican members of the conference committee negotiating the bill.

Essentially, passing a «skinny repeal» could launch a «conference committee» with the House that would, ostensibly, produce a final, final health care deal between the two legislative chambers that would, in all political likelihood, look little like a skinny repeal (if that even passes).

Thanks to votes by the Sanctity of Life legislative subcommittee, the Church and Society II legislative committee, and the entire conference, General Conference 2008 edited the paragraph adopted by General Conference 2004 in the follconference, General Conference 2008 edited the paragraph adopted by General Conference 2004 in the follConference 2008 edited the paragraph adopted by General Conference 2004 in the follConference 2004 in the following way:

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UPDATE: An Assembly spokeswoman says that Speaker Silver's position on conference committees has not changed since yesterday's leaders meeting, despite the movement by the other legislative conferences on this issue.

At the time, she was the first woman of any legislative conference to take their party's top spot on the Finance Committee.

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Senate higher education committee chair Kenneth LaValle, a Long Island Republican, ushered a bill through his chamber during the 2014 session that would change how the Regents are selected, giving the governor and legislative conferences appointment power.

Krueger, the conference noted, «will be the first woman of any legislative conference to take their party's top spot on the Finance Committee.»

Albany, NY — Independent Democratic Conference Leader Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), Committee on Consumer Protection Chair Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Westchester) and Senator Jesse Hamilton (D - Brooklyn) introduced a legislative package on Monday to protect consumers from predatory and subprime auto lending.

Legislators sounded optimistic as they kicked off the first legislative budget conference committees — a largely ceremonial public negotiation that will unfold over the next two weeks as top lawmakers privately hammer out a $ 141.6 billion spending plan.

The political action committee formed by the New York chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business on Monday endorsed 49 candidates for state legislative offices, including a dozen members of the Senate Republican conference.

At 2 p.m. Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan and Sen. Kevin Parker attend an Alliance for Quality Education news conference on school funding, LCA Pressroom, Legislative Office Building, 198 State St., Albany.

At 1:30 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Human Services» Hearing Room C, LOB, Albany.

Also at 1:30 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Transportation», Hearing Room B, LOB, Albany.

Also at 1 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Mental Hygiene», Hearing Room B, LOB, Albany.

At 1 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Public Protection», Hearing Room A, LOB, Albany.

Also at 1 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Higher Education», Hearing Room C, LOB, Albany.

At 2 p.m., Joint Budget Legislative General Conference Committee: Topic «Education», Hearing Room C, LOB, Albany.

There's more super Tuesday aftermath to sort through and a legislative session in Albany as state lawmakers and Gov. Cuomo continue to negotiate the details of the 2016 - 17 state budget with the joint conference committees convening.

At 4:30 p.m., Assembly and Senate General Budget Conference Committee meets, Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

And Silver hasn't formally named the chairs of a score of legislative committees and leadership posts, which gives him instant leverage over the conference, as the titles each carry cash stipends worth thousands of dollars.

Legislative leaders, following a conference committee meeting, were non committal over whether the tuition hikes will indeed be avoided.

Following a conference committee meeting, legislative leaders were non-committal over whether the tuition hikes will indeed be avoided.

As a result of their arrangement with the Republicans, the conference has garnered perks like larger staffs and stipends for committee chairmanships, which are authorized by state Legislative Law 5 - a.

Silver's spokesman told the Times Union that the speaker backs an eight - member committee appointed by leaders of each legislative conference.

One source with knowledge of the investigation said Sugarman was looking at the use of the conference's soft money committee and whether it has gotten involved in legislative races.

Prior to a press conference, BPTO Co-Chair Larry Scott and DPCC Legislative Committee Chairman Kevin Lafferty and others met privately with Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown to discuss the added funding.

Democratic legislative leaders should establish conference committees to include Republicans in the budget talks.

I was covering a State Assembly committee hearing that was taking place in a seventh floor conference room of the nine - story Legislative Office Building, and gazed out the windows, over the Plaza, to the south.

Prior to a press conference, BPTO Co-Chair Larry Scott and DPCC Legislative Committee...

On Wednesday, after he spoke to reporters in Manhattan, Cuomo's remarks circulated in the seventh - floor conference room of the Legislative Office Building in Albany, where Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, a Kingston Democrat who chairs the chamber's insurance committee, had convened a forum of taxi industry types.

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Matt McClure, an educator advocate and member of ASCD's Legislative Committee, was named one of ASCD's 2012 Outstanding Young Educators during last week's Annual Conference.

And yet despite all of the acclaim for bipartisanship, the legislative process requires both the House and Senate to pass respective bills in order to establish a conference committee to hash out a final House - Senate bill that could be enacted.

Included in the Capitol Update this week: * California Charter Schools Conference * Federal Charter Schools Program Action Alert * State Board of Education (SBE) Considers Testing and Accountability Issues * State Board of Education Renews Two Charter Schools * Legislative Committees Picking Up Steam * Energy Commission Announces Second Webinar for Proposition 39 (Energy Efficiency) Program Training * Happenings: Updates and Deadlines

The document is the result of hundreds of roundtable discussions, including a lunch session with ASCD's Legislative Committee members at the Annual Conference in Philadelphia, that the Department of Education's Teacher Ambassador Fellows have had with educators from around the country in the past year about the state of the teaching profession and what can be done to improve it.

My job was to draft environmental and natural resource legislation — to take the policy of senators and committees and translate it in to legislative language in the form of bills, amendments and conference reports.

The Farm Bill conference report released today by the House - Senate conference committee includes two major wins on animal welfare issues, and was applauded by The HSUS and the Humane Society Legislative Fund.

BAR & EXTRAJUDICIAL OFFICES & ACTIVITIES: Florida District Court of Appeal Budget Commission, Chair, 2013 — 2016; Appellate Courts Technology Committee, Member, 2008 — 2016; Florida Conference of District Court of Appeal Judges, Legislative Chair, 2011 — 2013; Appellate Practice Section, Fifth District Representative, 2006 — 2014; Appellate Court Technology Committee, Fifth District Representative, 2006 — 2016; Rules of Criminal Procedure Committee, 2004 — 2009; First Central Florida Inns of Court, 2002 — 2007 & 2016 - Present; Orange County Bar Association, 1996 — Present; Former Test Writer (Evidence) and Grader, Florida Board of Bar Examiners; Code and Rules of Evidence Committee, Past Member.

Represented company at conferences, seminars, Industry Expos», legislative sessions, Chamber of Commerce and Industry in European countries, and Committee meetings Closely worked with top management and Board members to achieve successful collaboration within European market.

Mr. Balasa has participated in conference calls with the Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs of CSMS, and a physician who is chairing a public policy committee of CSMS, and legislative leaders of specialty societies.

We can make presentations, informal briefings, and testimony before committees and hearings; offer written research and analyses; or conduct informal conference calls with state child welfare administrators, legislators and legislative staff in other states to discuss their experiences with child welfare reform.

NAR committees and most work groups meet at NAR's two main annual conferences, the REALTORS ® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo, held every May, and the REALTORS ® Conference & Expo, held in November.

For comprehensive background information and additional detail, the Multiple Listing Issues and Policy Committee agenda and minutes are available here The Committee meets during the REALTORS ® Conference and the REALTORS ® Legislative Meetings.