Sentences with phrase «legislative session days»

Following an unrelated rally, Mr. Cuomo told the Observer that — with just three legislative session days left — he and the leaders of the Assembly and State Senate are «discussing a number of proposals» on the tax credit, which is intended to produce affordable housing but which critics argue incentivizes market - rate development.

The groups flood Albany on legislative session days, boxed lunches in hand, after fully alerting the media.

«With that said, there are three scheduled legislative session days left this calendar year, with decisions yet to be finalized on issues that impact the lives of millions of New Yorkers, which is and will remain Assemblyman Brook - Krasny's main priority.»

Asked why he had waited until there were only 10 legislative session days left to use this tactic, Cuomo said ethics reform «is not an issue that resonates with the public the way $ 15 minimum wage did.»

ALBANY — With three legislative session days remaining, legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have come to a tentative agreement on how to address the state's heroin and opioid crisis, according to several people familiar with the planning.

As an adjunct professor at Monroe College, Heastie missed two busy legislative session days to teach his Thursday night class.

The Senate and Assembly will share a total of 55 legislative session days this year, according to the 2014 calendar released on Wednesday.

As tensions have flared between Cuomo and the Legislature, the governor's staff will no longer have free access to the Senate chamber during legislative session days.

It remains to be seen whether the bill can gain any traction with the remaining eight legislative session days scheduled this year.

With three legislative session days remaining, legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have reportedly come to a tentative agreement on how to address the state's heroin and opioid crisis.

But in Rochester on Wednesday, Cuomo once again embraced bipartisanship after he was asked whether any legislation could be accomplished in the remaining legislative session days this year.

There are just 23 scheduled legislative session days left.

Time is running short in Albany, with 9 legislative session days to go before lawmakers leave the Capitol for the rest of the year and focus, in most cases, on running for re-election.

And there's still 21 legislative session days to go in the calendar — a virtual eternity in Albany time.

Lawmakers have three legislative session days to go this week, with the session wrapping up on Thursday and a range of issues left unresolved, including an extension of mayoral control for New York City schools.

In addition to the scheduled meetings with legislators and staff, PATS members manned an exhibit table in the East Wing of the Capitol Building, the hub of activity on legislative session days.

A Republican conference is expected to be held on Monday before the start of the legislative session day.

Last year, as the session was drawing to a close, Heastie held briefings for his members so they'd be up to date, even holding meetings Sunday nights, ahead of the scheduled legislative session day.

Not exact matches

The next day Sandoval briefed delighted legislative leaders, laying plans for a Thursday press conference in Carson City to trumpet the news, followed by a special session to approve the legislation to benefit Tesla.

The governor was accompanied in Doral by Ryan Petty and Andrew Pollack, the fathers of two of the children killed at Stoneman Douglas High, who pledged to return to Tallahassee in the 10 remaining days of the annual legislative session to pressure lawmakers to act.

From easing the sale of water utilities to private companies to telling transgender students which bathroom to use, many high - profile — and controversial — legislative proposals have little chance of passage after the Assembly last week completed what leaders say was the final major floor session day.

The New Democrats, through our house leader and environment critic, will be requesting that debate and a vote of this bill be scheduled during the remaining days of this abbreviated legislative session.

Little things like mandatory chapel for members of the House and Senate, prior to starting the business of the say, when the Houses were in session, or Sunday being excluded as a day, for both legislative and executive government purposes, or maybe you'd prefer the Federal holidays that were Holy Days for Christians.

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Three days before adjournment, legislative supporters of Vrdolyak livened up an otherwise mundane session by moving to preserve Kelly «s control over the park district and its thousands of patronage jobs.

Cuomo's office in recent days has been trying to resurrect a potential special legislative session that would pave the way for the first lawmaker pay raise since 1999, legislators on both sides of the aisle said.

Silver said special legislative sessions are not necessary because his members are committed to working on a «seven - day basis, 24 hours a day if necessary.»

The state's top legislative leaders on Monday insisted the swirling corruption investigations would not derail the remainder of the legislative session, listing a package of top priorities they would like to tackle in the remaining scheduled days in Albany, including tackling heroin addiction.

«We have about 25 days left in the legislative session.

With just three days left before the end of the state legislative session, lawmakers are hopeful of passing a scaled - down version of the «Buy American» plan for state contracting proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January.

Sen. Bill Larkin missed several days this legislative session after an illness, while Sen. Michael Nozzolio announced earlier in the year he would not seek re-election as he undergoes heart surgery.

The vote for the sex - sex marriage law was a carefully constructed event for the Senate on the final day of the legislative session.

Technically speaking, today is the final day of the 2010 legislative session.

Things aren't going terribly well down at the state Capitol on this final scheduled day of the 2017 legislative session.

The education investment tax credit remains a difficult lift for the Democratic - led Assembly in the final days of the legislative session, Speaker Carl Heastie said on Tuesday to reporters.

A bill that would legalize online poker in New York is quietly gaining momentum in the closing days of the legislative session.

Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle on Tuesday introduced an alternative version of a bill designed to legalize mixed - martial arts in New York in an effort to pass the measure in the final days of the legislative session.

Mayoral control of New York City's schools is no closer to a resolution with just five days of the legislative session remaining.

Cuomo pushed the highly controversial law in the first days of the 2012 legislative session, enduring significant backlash from conservatives and gun rights advocates.

The transit lockbox bill, which would require Albany to disclose the impacts of any raid of dedicated transit funds, passed both the Senate and Assembly unanimously in the final days of the legislative session, reports the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

Phone records of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, showed two conversations with Bloomberg that year, both during the legislative session, with one of those conversations coming on the day before Hickenlooper would sign the magazine limit and other measures into law.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R - Geneva, speaks to members in the Assembly Chamber during opening day of the 2017 legislative session at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo / Hans Pennink)

They argue the bill, passed in the waning days of this year's legislative session and now on Cuomo's desk, doesn't weed out the significant number of for - profit colleges that are on a federal watch list of institutions whose graduates are struggling to pay back their loans.

«Too many bills and not enough time,» said State Senator Beth Bye after meeting with State Senator Art Linares outside the Senate chambers on the final day of this year's legislative session.

The measure to name the span the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge passed the State Senate late Wednesday on the last day of the legislative session, but it failed to pass the Assembly.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R - Geneva, speaks to members in the Assembly Chamber during opening day of the 2017 legislative session at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., in January.

DeFrancisco says traditionally the message is supposed to be given the first full day of the legislative session, which this year would be January 4.

Later in the day, a statement from Cuomo's office said that the governor and legislative leaders are discussing issues that could be considered in a special session.

Elsewhere at the Capitol, the scene was what would be expected for the final few days of the legislative session.