Sentences with phrase «over raising the age of criminal responsibility»
The move came amid a legislative impasse this weekend over raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18 — a measure that stymied the Legislature to reaching a broader agreement on the final 2017 - 18 budget.
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Raising the age of criminal responsibility has stalled in the Legislature over the last several years as juvenile justice reform advocates push the state to become one of the last to treat 16 and 17 - year - olds as juveniles in most criminal proceedings.
A Cuomo aide hit back, listing accomplishments over his seven years in office, including paid family leave, a $ 15 minimum wage, marriage equality, raising the age of criminal responsibility — and the SAFE Act, which requires universal background checks to buy a gun.
Jettisoned from the budget talks, too, were discussions over juvenile justice reform and curtailing sexual assault on college campuses (funding for raising the age of criminal responsibility is still under discussion in the budget talks).
While Cuomo's executive order doesn't necessarily raise the age of criminal responsibility, it does remove youths from the general population over the span of several months.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo meanwhile blamed three key issues: A dispute over post-release supervision as part of raising the age of criminal responsibility, funding for charter schools and a real - estate tax abatement.
The Assembly is close to an agreement with Cuomo over his proposal to raise the age of criminal responsibility, but its prospects in the Senate remain uncertain.
Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans continue to be at odds over the proposal to overhaul the state's juvenile justice system by raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18.
A Cuomo spokesman did not offer a comment on the status of the talks, but lawmakers said things were tied up over the same issues as last week: raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, reviving the 421 - a housing subsidy program and figuring out how much money to give public and charter schools.
The budget was adopted a little over a week into the new fiscal year, which begins April 1, after compromises were reached among legislative leaders and Governor Andrew Cuomo on contentious issues such as raising the age of adult criminal responsibility, education aid, a college tuition affordability program, the allocation of large sums of affordable housing monies, and more.