Sentences with phrase «legislative package of reforms»

At the same time, Cuomo and legislative leaders have been in talks about a legislative package of reforms that could obviate the commission's work.

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The new legislative package, agreed on late Sunday, consists of the pension reform and direct and indirect tax reforms, which will allow the government to achieve some 5.4 billion euro spending cuts and to ensure savings to meet a 3.5 percent budget surplus target by 2018.

Sen. Dick Durbin will introduce a package of legislative reforms Tuesday designed to bolster the safety of school meals by requiring more stringent tests for disease - causing organisms and by giving school authorities more information about the safety records of food suppliers.

The police reform bills were passed on Tuesday evening during the City Council's final stated meeting of the year, as the package made it into the legislative session just under the wire.

The groups wrote Cuomo a letter and are requesting that the governor meet with legislative leaders to work out an ethics reform package that includes restructuring of the Board.

In other words, as we've known since late last week, there will be no vote today or tomorrow, unless a package deal on constitutional redistricting reform and the House maps gets done by legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spurring the governor to provide a message of necessity to circumvent the three - day bill aging requirement.

The pilot program was created as part of settlement between Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders back in March, as part of an ethics reform package.

«The governor believes that his reform package is a balanced approach that would correct real and perceived inequities that exist within the system and he is intent on passing them in the remaining weeks of the legislative session,» Cuomo counsel Alphonso David said, following the governor's meeting with the families in his second floor office in the Capitol.

The pilot program was created as part of a settlement between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders back in March, as part of an ethics reform package.

The dramatic reform package — called the «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011» — creates an independent Joint Commission on Public Ethics with «robust enforcement powers» to investigate both the executive and legislative branches of government.

At the end of the legislative session last year, Cuomo was annoyed that lawmakers had rejected his ethics reform package, even after several lawmakers had been indicted, jailed, or found to be wearing wires in ongoing FBI probes.

The senator said yesterday that he does not support a full ban on outside income, which has been floated — though not formally proposed — by the governor, and endorsed by the IDC as part of a larger legislative reform package.

DiNapoli's reform package also aims to make the state's notoriously opaque budget process more open and transparent by requiring the overall impact of legislative changes to the budget to be disclosed before the budget is adopted and the cost of new and existing programs to be included.

Talking to Bartiromo on Sunday, Cuomo stuck by his position that the defunct ethics panel was a success, and that while legislative leaders didn't enact all of the ethics reform he had sought, lawmakers still approved a package of laws that moves things forward.

In doing so, he revived a package of reforms he unsuccessfully pushed in December during a failed attempt for a special legislative session that would have paved the way for a legislative pay raise.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by Erie County Commissioner of Social Services Carol Dankert - Maurer to detail a package of legislative reforms designed to improve the provision of Child Protective Services («CPS») to children and families across New York State.

The groups wrote Cuomo a letter and are requesting that the governor meet now with legislative leaders to work out an ethics reform package that includes restructuring of the Board.

Governor Cuomo, who was already planning on pushing for campaign finance reform in the second half of the legislative session, says he now plans a larger «more robust» package that could also look at strengthening the State's Board of Elections investigatory powers, and perhaps ending party cross endorsements in elections.

Later in the legislative session, in June, Cuomo created and won passage of a package of reforms that define new restrictions on coordination among candidate campaigns, former government employees, and Super PACs; and stricter reporting requirements of donors to Super PACs.

Barbara Bartoletti, the legislative director at the New York State League of Women Voters, said the latest package of voter reforms have been a long time coming.

Cuomo has already said campaign finance reform is a top priority for the second part of the legislative session, and says now that his planned reform package could be widened.

Despite the arrests of the legislative leaders and the on going corruption probes, there is no new ethics reform as part of the end of session package.

Yet the final legislative package at the end of the 2015 session came and went without including any of Schneiderman's reforms.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been calling for a move away from incremental reform and laid out a legislative package to move the needle and prevent conflicts of interest and corruption.

Malloy's «education reform» bill is the driving force behind the Common Core testing scheme and the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system — a legislative package that passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 149 - 0.

«School choice was an important part of the legislative education reform package enacted in 2015,» Sandoval said.

On July 1, a new Detroit school district was created as part of a major legislative reform package — the old district will remain but serve only as a tax collecting entity.

The bill is part of a package of court transparency and liability reform legislation put forth by the South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition, a business and industry group, during this legislative session.

The governor vowed to get a package of school - safety reforms approved before the end of the legislative session.

WASHINGTON (November 9, 2017)-- Senate Republicans today unveiled their vision for tax reform with a legislative package that includes the elimination of state - and - local tax deductions and a near doubling of the standard deduction, among other provisions.