Sentences with phrase «make changes to the state constitution»

State Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins is the latest state leader opposing a push for a convention to make changes to the state constitution.

Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey is taking the head of the Bronx Republican party to task for joining a coalition of more than 100 groups opposing a convention to make changes to the state constitution.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Tuesday reiterated his opposition to holding a constitutional convention, calling it the wrong «vehicle» to making changes to the state constitution.

Fearful the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn federal abortion protections, a New York group that came together as part of the Women's March on Washington is urging Gov. Cuomo to support a convention to make changes to the state constitution.

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Christian Solidarity Worldwide has highlighted that a change in constitution to make Nepal solely a Hindu state could pave the way for more persecution against Christians and other minorities in the country, and said it advocated a new wording which enshrines religious freedom.

It gives New Yorkers a chance to reexamine how our state works, and to make improvements and changes to the state constitution.

ALBANY - The state's chief judge named her husband as a co-chairman of a panel she created to recommend changes to the state constitution to make the courts more efficient.

Cuomo to reporters in Rochester insisted he was acting within the purview of the state's constitution and added that Heastie could make a constitutional change if he was so unhappy with the process.

The state's chief judge, Janet DiFiore, named her husband as a co-chairman of a panel she created to recommend changes to the state constitution to make the courts more efficient.

By changing New York's definition of marriage, the state legislature essentially made an illegal amendment to the state constitution without the required statewide referendum.

While campaigning in 2010, he said he favored a convention «to rewrite the Constitution» and make changes to «clean up Albany» immediately «because we can not wait any longer for the state legislature to act.»

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

It would also amend the state constitution to require lawmakers convicted of corruption charges to surrender their pensions, make changes to the per diem system, and create a commission to examine the possibility of a pay increase for state commissioners and lawmakers.

A referendum will appear on the ballot this November, asking New Yorkers if the state should convene a constitutional convention, which would make recommendations for potential changes to the state constitution.

Reed: The initiative would put language into the California Constitution that does two things: protects the benefits public employees have earned, as they're earned; and, two, allow elected officials around the state — the cities being the most important to me, but the state of California as well — to negotiate changes to bring down the costs of retirement benefits by making changes to benefits that would be earned in the future under future contracts for future years of service.