Sentences with phrase «legislature votes»

But a government budget is only a budget so far as it starts a process by which a legislature votes funds to the executive.

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch reports that EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that there may soon be Federal regulations dealing with air pollution caused by the natural gas extraction process.On the air quality issues, Jackson said:

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch

Under existing law, the state board of education and education department have authority to enact the final standards unless the legislature votes to block the action.

Chairman Michael Plochocki declined, saying there would be time for revisions before the entire legislature votes on it.

The Westchester County Immigrant Protection Act — Act 10625 is expected to have enough votes to become law when the 17 - member legislature votes, with at least all 12 Democrats on the 17 - member legislature expected to back it.

Much of the regulation and policy within the authority is set by the state while the legislature votes to confirm commissioner appointments.

Dale Borchert is Dutchess County legislature chairman and lays out what happens if the legislature votes no.

That is, unless a county legislature votes to prohibit ride - sharing, it would be legal.

But he believes a critical look at an absence during a time the legislature votes on two - thirds of its bills is certainly fair.

The regional legislature voted on October 14 to oppose the deal, which means Belgium's national government can not approve it either.

But late this spring, the Nevada legislature voted to allow operation of Uber and other similar companies.

Fibrant built its network in North Carolina before the state legislature voted to limit cities» rights to offer broadband, according to Ars.

The Nebraska legislature voted to change the law last month and overrode a veto by Ricketts.

The county legislature voted recently to express opposition to the urban boulevard plan and say the function of 81 should remain the same.

Sarah Anker (D - Mount Sinai) speaks about red light camera safety before the legislature voted on the bill she sponsored to begin a six - month study of the camera program at the Suffolk County legislators meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2017.

The legislature voted against prohibiting the checks, though the Sheriff had stopped the practice.

Both houses of the legislature voted twice to approve the amendment, as required under the state's constitution, and Governor Cuomo signed the bill, at the time calling it «historic».

It came the day before Cuomo was re-elected and hours before the Onondaga County legislature voted to borrow tens of millions of dollars to build an amphitheater proposed by Cuomo and County Executive Joanie Mahoney.

Last week, the legislature voted to oust former republican chair, Susan Briggs.

«This [state] legislature is not for sale or even for rent,» he declared, probably tongue in cheek, after the county legislature voted 13 - 8 to offer the state legislature $ 75,000.

Late last year, the legislature voted to increase the salaries of all 19 county legislators from $ 39,500 to $ 75,000.

Earlier this month, the state legislature voted to expand the law to also block the lowest level of sex offenders, Level 1 Offenders.

The Nassau County legislature voted unanimously to confirm Curran's appointment of Jared Kasschau as county attorney after the Rockville Centre lawyer pledged to run his office with integrity and transparency.

The county legislature voted in July 2011 to transfer Murphy's Island to the Onondaga Nation, after the polluted piece of property was cleaned up.

On occasion the legislature may permit a minority cabinet to continue in office despite having been defeated on a given vote, and a minority government might even bring on a confidence vote and threaten to resign should the legislature vote against it.

The legislature voted 10 to seven to table a deal in which the county would pay $ 2.35 million buy a space in The Galleries that used to house part of the Central Library.

But Tuesday, the county legislature voted 10 - 6 to give Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney a raise of more than $ 30,000.

After the legislature voted raises for themselves and the county executive, Bob Antonacci, the county comptroller, made it known that he believed the county charter and county laws say that raises can only happen during the budget process or through a local referendum.

The Nassau County legislature voted unanimously Monday to confirm Democrat County Executive Laura Curran's appointment of Jared Kasschau as county attorney after the Rockville Centre lawyer pledged to run his office with integrity and transparency.

The legislature voted 21 to 2 to accept the recommendations of Ellenville Million Committee, appointed by County Executive Michael Hein.

The state legislature voted in June to name the new $ 4 billion Hudson River bridge the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.

At the opening of a meeting held on Wednesday, March 22, the legislature voted 23 - 0 in favor of renaming the recently rebuilt bridge in honor of Cruise, who retired in November 2015 due to bile duct cancer.

Former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a veteran of protracted budget battles, including in 1991, when the legislature voted to levy a state income tax for the first time, said Malloy had gotten «pretty raw treatment» from Democratic leaders who cut him out of budget negotiations.

The legislature voted 18 - 4 on June 21 to approve the move, but not the wording.

In an attempt to help towns, the state legislature voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to waive any penalties for municipalities that reduce their education budget after suffering major cuts in state aid.

The legislature voted in September to award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder, which was agreed to be Brega.

Though little surprises me any more, I was amazed at how quickly the air went out of the pro-nursing-home balloon after the legislature voted to sell the place.

The legislature voted on September 19 to hold Brega as the lowest responsible bidder, pointing to Brega's prior transportation record in Rockland County, acting to end a protracted legal conflict between Brega, MV Transportation, and the legislature.

Earlier this year the county legislature voted to convey historic status on the circa - 1870 main building.

Earlier this year, the county legislature voted 13 to 2 to approve $ 1.7 million for a pier at Lakeview Amphitheater and a boat launch at Onondaga Lake Park.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about Albany County's legislature voting to ban pharmacies from selling tobacco products and a vacant house that exploded Sunday in Schenectady that was owned by the city's urban renewal agency.

Recently the Ulster County legislature voted to ban Memorializing Resolutions.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — After an occasionally heated debate, a divided legislature voted on an 11th hour bill requiring the county to be charged back for $ 1.6 million in community college costs for the year of 2012, removing the obligation from the towns for that year.

Voters, tell your Legislators and County Executive Scott Vanderhoef, who declined to get the MTA out of Rockland even though our legislature voted for it, that their political ties to the MTA board shouldn't dictate our taxes!

During that time members voted down contracts offers three times and the union filed an improper labor practice charge against the county last month after the legislature voted to impose a three - year contract on workers

Almost a week after 17 students and teachers were gunned down at a Florida high school, the state legislature voted 71 - 36 Tuesday against a measure to consider a ban on semi-automatic weapons.

MANHATTAN — The state legislature voted to pass an on - time budget in the early morning hours Thursday, overshadowing the opposition of hundreds of protesters whose voices could be heard ringing through the State Capitol's halls.

In March 2017, the US legislature voted to repeal Obama - era rules that would have prevented ISPs from selling personal information to third parties and given users more power over what information they shared with ISPs.

Sex education has come a long way from 1975 when nearly half of state legislatures voted to restrict or abolish it compared to today when most adolescents in the U.S. receive some form of sex education between sixth and 12th grade.