Economic development funding was often distributed by former governors and legislative leaders when each received a pot of money, sometimes totaling half a billion dollars, as
part of the state budget deal.
With chances of a congestion pricing plan being
part of the state budget fading, a coalition of 83 groups is making a last - ditch effort to revive the issue.
That's why I support the «mansion tax» being championed by Mayor de Blasio and state Assembly Democrats and want to see it passed as
part of the state budget in Albany this week.
The Republican - led state Senate won't extend mayoral control of New York City schools as
part of its state budget plan unveiled Wednesday — creating a potential headache for Mayor de Blasio.
Miner, a former state Democratic Committee co-chair, is
not part of the state budget negotiations, and has no say in whether $ 15 an hour becomes the minimum wage statewide.
Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate for Governor, issued the following statement today in response to the announcement that Governor Cuomo would require state lawmakers to adopt a 5 point ethics reform plan as
part of the state budget process.
Rather than moving in the direction recommended by the Governor in the 2006 - 07 Executive Budget, the Legislature should move to close loopholes in the state's corporate taxes and provide the revenue necessary for implementing a legitimate statewide solution to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision without making counterproductive cuts in
other parts of the state budget.
Governors use January to detail their plans — then they push for those issues as
part of the state budget for the fiscal year that starts April 1 or before the six - month session ends in mid-June.
Despite the convictions last year of the state Legislature's top two leaders, the Legislature did not pass any ethics reforms as
part of the state budget lawmakers approved on Friday.
Polly then worked with State Senator Gary George, a Black legislator who represented the north side of Milwaukee, to get the new program and financing for it included as
part of the state budget bill.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has
signed part of a state budget plan that provides more than $ 300 million in raises for many of the state's striking teachers.
Though Cuomo has been relatively quiet on the publicly funded and privately run schools for most of his time in his office, he declared last week that charter - school protections are an
essential part of the state budget negotiations.
The claim — by del Lago Resort & Casino — comes as the Rochester developer who owns the casino, located between Rochester and Syracuse, was in Albany Tuesday looking for a state financial bailout of some kind as
part of the state budget under discussion at the Capitol.
The scholarship was passed as
part of a state budget deal in early April and signed that same month to great fanfare, with Cuomo extolled by Hillary Clinton.
ALBANY — The Republican leader of the State Senate said Thursday morning that a minimum wage increase is
not part of the state budget, but said negotiations over a new spending plan are proceeding toward completion by the March 31 deadline.
The city says the plan under discussion as
part of the state budget talks due to conclude by April 1 could hurt the city's ability to fund services like public safety, education and social services.
Attorney General Schneiderman praised Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for pushing ethics reform as
part of the State budget process, but called for more dramatic changes, even if doing so delayed enactment of the budget.
Advocates vowed to press ahead, saying that Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has said in the past that the Dream Act was «a priority,» could still move to include the legislation as
part of the state budget due by April 1st.
ALBANY — With chances of a congestion pricing plan being
part of the state budget fading, a coalition of 83 groups is making a last - ditch effort to revive the issue.
As part of December's deficit reduction package, Albany lawmakers took dedicated transit tax revenue from MTA operations to fund
other parts of the state budget.
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg had tried to hide cigarettes from the counters of convenience stores, and health care and education are the
largest parts of the state budget.
The state's budget - writing Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines 12 - 4 on a GOP motion to expand the Special Needs Scholarship Program (SNSP) as
part of the state budget bill.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature struck a deal as
part of state budget negotiations that will toughen gun - control laws for people convicted of domestic abuse.
Gallivan was one of the GOP negotiators on a measure that would raise the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18 as
part of the state budget.