Sentences with phrase «legislature did this year»

Nobody agrees with everything the governor and the legislature did this year.

Not exact matches

Any budget must receive two - thirds support from the Democrat - controlled state legislature, meaning the Republican governor has plenty of negotiating to do before July 1, when the new fiscal year begins.

Yeah — I bet the pope doesn't want to make a fool of himself this year like Benedict did a couple of years ago — accepting a Christmas gift from one of Uganda's top ministers of a promise to push the «kill all the gays» bill through their legislature.

The first complaint is highly disingeneous: the Republicans are hiring because they went from a minority to a majority — Dems did the same thing 2 years ago, and until a professional non-partisan central staff is created for the legislature, expecting anything else is idiotic.

But the state legislature still could, as the bill to do so next budget year would supercede this one.

Ulster's county legislature, which a majority of voters don't seem to much care about (check out dismal voting in almost all 23 legislative districts last month), had an unusually high turnover this year.

Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski (D - Cutchogue) pitched a similar proposal last year in the legislature, though it didn't gain the body's support.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

He doesn't want the chairman of the legislature challenging him in an election year.

Governor Cuomo and the legislature did insert a break into the minim wage schedule after five years, to determine whether the economy can support the phased in minimum age increase.

She says since the $ 1.9 billion was already voted on and approved in the budget, the legislature does not have to return to vote in order for Cuomo and the legislative leaders to write up a new memo covering the full five years.

«I spoke about it last year, there was no appetite to do it in the legislature,» Cuomo said.

She said since the $ 1.9 billion was already voted on and approved in the budget, the legislature does not have to return to vote in order for Cuomo and the legislative leaders to write up a new memo covering the full five years.

Not to exceed normal skepticism, but does anybody see any change in how the state legislature operates under new leadership installed by what amounted to court order last year?

Otherwise, the Democrats did pretty well at the county - legislature level this year.

Senator DeFrancisco says the legislature in those years approved a bail out for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but did not provide and funds to repair roads and bridges upstate.

He agrees with Hinchey that service in the combative, if not corrupt, state legislature (Hinchey did 18 years) prepared him for the more genteel Congress of the United States.

«The comptroller was in the New York State legislature and sat in that Assembly, as did members of the western delegation for many, many years, where New York and upstate and Buffalo hemorrhaged jobs,» he said.

«Well those are Larry's words, but if the legislature didn't pass an on - time budget it would a repudiation of the progress they've made for the last seven years and would be going backwards — politically, it would be untenable to ask for a raise,» the official said.

It also seems that bringing up a pay raise this year, when all must stand for re-election, may not be the wisest thing to do, considering the legislature has a «dysfunctional» tag hung on it.

Governor Cuomo says he wants ethics reform and campaign finance changes passed if the legislature does return to Albany for a special session this year.

After a year and one half the legislature determined they did not care to continue funding the formula.

Fabiano, who was unopposed for re-election two years ago, said he doesn't attend town board meetings, but is available «anytime they have a problem that deals with the legislature.»

«I don't think anybody would look at the state legislature and its track record over the past few years and decide that only a couple percentage points of the people who are serving in Albany are not up to the task,» Mahoney said.

The Republican gun owner doesn't like the limits on magazine capacity, the mental health provisions, and the fact that it was pushed through the legislature in the dead of night in January of last year.

The Virginia legislature still hasn't drawn new U.S. House district boundaries, even though state law says that this job must be done by January 1 of any election year following a new census.

Cuomo and the legislature did give schools a 4 % funding increase from last year, following three years of cuts.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

«This is my 29th year in the legislature and I don't care who the Governor is, we always add,» Flanagan said.

Cuomo delayed announcing the formation of a minimum wage board for more than a year after being directed to do so by the state legislature.

On ethics, the governor made no direct mention of the scandals that led to the arrest and conviction of both leaders of the legislature on corruption charges, though he did say 2015 was a «tough, ugly» year on many levels.

I think what we did was constitutional, it was extremely impactful and it will go down — in five to ten years people will talk completely differently about the bill we passed, including the NRA,» Corcoran told reporters shortly after the legislature adjourned its 2018 lawmaking session Sunday.

The legislature this year should embrace a suggestion by Sen. John McKinney and study other ways to do the job.

The legislature did get together two years ago to pass a pension forfeiture law.

The legislature did not put any new member items in this year's budget.

Esopus: Open seats don't open up very often in a legislature where 10 years in office entitles one to a modest pension.

«It was the New York State legislature that passed four budgets on time, and they haven't done that in 40 years,» said Mr. Cuomo, noting those budgets included the tax reductions and reforms that earned the state's increased rating.

Supreme Court Justice Spencer Ludington ruled the legislature did not properly advertise its pay raises prior to approving them last year.

It will cost the county between $ 5 million and $ 6 million in revenue if the state legislature doesn't go into special session and approve the extension this year.

And While Cuomo did not appear in public, he did write an op ed article to the legislature, asking for passage of another one of his agenda items, raising the age that juvenile offenders are treated as adults from 16 to 18 years of age.

Three quarters say the governor hasn't done enough to try to stem corruption in the state, in a year where both leaders of the legislature have been arrested for running fraudulent scams, and the second in command in the Senate is currently on trial, accused of lying to FBI agents.

If any legislature in the country had the political momentum to quickly pass strong gun control laws this year it seemed that Connecticut did, where 26 children and women were killed in the Newtown school massacre Dec. 14.

«It is also closer to the Move NY plan than it is to the previous congestion plan... and that is a good thing because we think that the ideas around this issue have developed extensively... of really kind of figuring out what were the weaknesses of that plan from 10 years ago, what issues did it raise for the legislature,» Matthiessen said.

But spokesman Tom Mailey, in an email, says under state law, the governor's agencies do not have to seek approval from the legislature to close a prison as long as a one year notice is given.

«We either say to the public, call your legislator, don't call the police, or we say to the legislature, give us what we need to function to reasonably predict what we need to operate this year,» Walsh said.

That's basically what New York's legislature does with the budget every year.

But the governor did recognize the legislature's success in increasing fiscal 2006 education spending by $ 290 million over the previous fiscal year.

The Wyoming legislature's joint education committee will sponsor a bill in the 2005 legislative session to do away with a three - tiered diploma system more than a year before it was scheduled to go into effect.

The legislature's leadership and commitment for the past six years, combined with Mayor Peterson's and Ball State University's ability to authorize charters (and willingness to do so), along with reform - minded superintendents such as Eugene White working to improve the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), demonstrate to the country's education reformers that Indianapolis is prime territory for innovation and investment.

States will continue to see fiscal challenges in the coming years, a prospect that does not bode well for increasing their K - 12 budgets, analysts from the National Conference of State Legislatures said at a post-election meeting here.