Sentences with phrase «legislative voting session»

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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.

Massachusetts Senators and Representatives averaged an «A» grade on environmental votes for the 2011 - 2012 legislative session, according to Mass Audubon's 26th annual Legislative Rlegislative session, according to Mass Audubon's 26th annual Legislative RLegislative Report Card.

As voting was underway last week, Felder declared he would remain with Republicans in the Senate at least through the end of the legislative session in June, giving the GOP the needed 32nd member in the 63 - seat Senate.

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For a month, legislative leaders negotiated a deal to bring lawmakers back to Albany for a special session to vote for a pay raise and a handful of other legislative initiatives.

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

It's a decision that led to him missing more votes during the past legislative session than all but one of his colleagues.

With a new leader in the State Assembly there's new optimism a few proposed laws that have been blocked will finally make it to the floor for a vote this legislative session.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco «definitely» expects there will be a vote before the end of legislative session in June that would restore oversight powers to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office, he said Wednesday in an interview.

Thus, on the one hand, Volodin has cancelled the Duma's traditional New Year's party; the summer vacation might be shortened; United Russia has formalized measures to filter legislative initiatives, partly with a view to limiting the emergence of odd, PR - motivated bills; opportunities for deputies to miss plenary sessions and vote by proxy have been significantly reduced, with the penalty of pay deductions for absenteeism; and deputies are now required to deal personally with appeals from citizens.

«Frosh must take this vote and not wait until the end of the legislative session so Sen. Mike Miller can find the time to schedule a floor vote.»

As was the case during his first year in office, Speaker Carl Heastie continued to occasionally vote no during the 2016 legislative session.

During this time, it was being reported that U.S. Rep. Crowley was obtaining pledges for a T.B.A. Council speaker candidate from Municipal lawmakers before the lawmakers had authority to cast such votes, because the next legislative session had yet to be sworn in.

The current legislative session concludes at the end of June and an online poker bill needs to pass three Assembly committees before making it to a floor vote, although, as Tuesday's vote proved, such hurdles can be cleared relatively quickly if the will is there.

Flanagan killed the bill's chances a day after the hopes of survivors for a vote before the legislative session's scheduled end on Wednesday were raised by Sen. James Tedisco, of Schenectady, who became the first Senate Republican to come out in favor of the Child Victims Act.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, as well as state Senate Leader John Flanagan, expressed support for the bills last spring, but they ended the legislative session without voting on them.

The New York State Assembly - for the eighth time - voted to pass a state Dream during its legislative session...

The clock is ticking on a medical marijuana bill: The legislative session is due to conclude on Thursday, and any bill would have to be agreed to and printed by this evening in order to be voted on by the end of the week.

DeFrancisco quickly added that's not a criticism of Majority Leader John Flanagan for the measure not coming up for a vote with seven days to go in the scheduled legislative session.

It's not yet clear if DeFrancisco's bill in the Senate and its same - as version in the Assembly will be voted on before the end of the legislative session, scheduled to conclude on June 21.

Yet with time running out on the 2014 legislative session, the bill has not come to the floor for a vote.

So there's a whole range of things we did get done and that says to me very clearly that we're well - positioned to have a very productive legislative session regardless of what the final vote count is in the Senate.»

So after Republicans in the Assembly highlighted some of the more unseemly aspects of the omnibus «big ugly» bill that tied up the loose ends of the state legislative session late Thursday night, members of the Democrat - dominated chamber approved it by a 122 - 13 vote.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that he is about to «launch a major effort» to see voting and election reforms passed in Albany by the end of the legislative session, which runs until the middle of June.

But the 51 members of the City Council won't vote until the start of the legislative session in January — leaving enough time for movement to theoretically unfold and impact the race.

New York State Senate Republicans on the Elections Committee cast a vote on closing a campaign finance loophole that has played a role in recent corruption trials of former legislative leaders, but doing so might have doomed the measure for the 2016 session.

The New York state Legislature finally ended its 2017 legislative session, after the Assembly voted overnight on a privately negotiated omnibus bill, and the Senate finally finished on Thursday afternoon.

Expect a lot of drama on the topic between now and the end - of - legislative session, middle of the night vote that likely awaits whatever agreement is reached.

A bill proposing just that is still in its early stages and wasn't voted on during the last legislative session.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, as well as the leader of the State Senate, John Flanagan, expressed support for the bills last spring, but they ended the legislative session without voting on them.

Each June, the last scheduled month of the annual legislative sessions, such bills pop up for quick floor votes with little debate or public review.

Meanwhile, Albany politicians continued negotiating over a vote on reform of the statute with just six days left in the legislative session, which is scheduled to end next week.

It's also unclear whether Democrats could take charge in the middle of the legislative session, given a rule passed that a vote of 38 senators is required to change leadership.

As New York's state Senate finishes out a raft of tasks before the legislative session ends on Friday, one vote was easy: Acting MTA director Thomas Prendergast will now officially take over Joe Lhota's job after a unanimous vote to confirm him.

Capitol Weekly, California's major weekly periodical covering the state legislature, publishes an annual legislative scorecard to pin down the political or ideological leanings of every member of the legislature based on how they voted on an assortment of bills in the most recent legislative session.

He has his own education committee studying potential changes to the evaluation system, which is expected to release a separate set of proposals to be voted on this legislative session.

Bracy said there are more voting - related bills this legislative session, about 16 so far, than previous in years due to the eroding of the Voting Rights Act.

The final vote marks the end of this year's legislative session.

A bill that would make New York the first state in the nation to ban a flame retardant widely identified as a cancer threat, has faced heavy opposition from the chemical industry and may not come to a vote in the current legislative session.

This sounds a lot like Cuomo's explanation during the last legislative session on why he wasn't able to land a deal on all 10 points of his Women's Equality Agenda — including the abortion rights plank, which the Senate Republicans staunchly refused to allow onto the floor for a vote.

It's not clear if either chamber will hold a vote on the bill before the scheduled end of the legislative session in June.

In a radio interview this morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he wanted a vote on public financing later this legislative session.

In a further development on Thursday, the measure was moved from the Senate Finance panel — where Chairman John DeFrancisco of Syracuse said he wouldn't allow a vote on the bill — to the Senate Rules Committee, improving the bill's chances of hitting the floor sometime before the end of the legislative session.

«The ratings give voters a scorecard on how their individual legislator voted on a diverse range of bills considered in the legislative session.»

In the first analysis of its kind in 2018, the Brennan Center's Voting Laws Roundup shows that lawmakers in eight states have introduced at least 16 bills making it harder to vote, and 35 restrictive bills in 14 states have carried over from previous legislative sessions.

The state Conservative Party released its annual legislative rankings today and reported that both the Senate and Assembly improved their overall standing during the 2011 session despite voting in favor of the legalization of same - sex marriage — an issue the party vehemently opposed.

House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz is postponing a vote and not guaranteeing any debate at all on tolls before the end of the legislative session.

State Senator Diane Savino, the bill's sponsor, said Thursday that she was encouraged that Cuomo has begun talks over the bill's future, and said she was hopeful the legislative leaders could reach a three - way agreement by Monday next week, in time to get bills printed so they can be voted on by the end of the legislative session.

Cuomo has long been loath to hold such races mid-year, preferring to postpone the vote until fall, which he dubiously claims saves money — and which would leave Perkins» post empty months past the end of the legislative session.

Cuomo is expected to waive an otherwise mandatory three - day waiting period for voting on bills so lawmakers can approve it before the legislative session ends later on Thursday.