Sentences with phrase «part of the state budget increases»

Legislation enacted as part of the state budget increases the EITC limit from $ 75 million to $ 100 million in 2012 - 13.

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Republican lawmakers in the chamber have for the past several legislative sessions pushed for an ease to regulations in the state, and this year the GOP conference renewing that effort after ultimately backing an increase to the state's minimum wage in the budget, with the floor growing to $ 15 in some parts of the state over the next several years.

Local officials are grappling with the likely increased costs associated with the raise the age legislation that recently became law as part of the new state budget.

Cuomo proposed increasing state aid by 3 percent, or $ 769 million, to a total of $ 26.4 billion as part of the budget.

Governor Cuomo has proposed raising the minimum wage as part of his budget plan, even though the increase would not cost New York State any money.

State Senate Republicans, some of whom resisted such a large increase, now seemed resigned to accept a some kind of minimum wage compromise as part of the budget.

But he predicts that the continued Wall Street boom, and the increased tax revenues that brings to the state, could allow the governor and legislature to continue «investment» in the two biggest parts of the budget, education and health care.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.

Despite the governor's focus on the rallies, it's not certain whether the minimum wage increase will be a part of the state budget.

As part of New York state's 2016 - 17 state budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that promises an increase in minimum wage from $ 9 to $ 15 per hour in New York City and its surrounding areas by 2021.

The panel was formed earlier this year after the passage of the 2016 - 16 state budget included an increase in the state's minimum wage in some parts to $ 15, a move that was opposed by business - backed organizations.

The rebate program was part of the 2014 - 15 state budget agreement that spreads nearly $ 1 billion in relief over the next two years providing that local governments and school districts budget within the state's cap on property - tax increases.

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ALBANY — Lawmakers completed one of the latest budgets in New York State history on Tuesday night, passing a last piece of legislation that will raise an additional $ 1 billion — in part by increasing taxes on the sale of clothing and on a variety of businesses.

Cuomo said the leaders of the state Legislature have agreed to the increase in education funding as part of a broad $ 156 billion budget deal he was announcing.

The state currently has no budget in part because Doyle and fellow Senators Joan Hartley of Waterbury and Gayle Slossberg of Milford have balked at various tax increases.

On February 3 the State Legislature approved increasing health insurance taxes by $ 348 million as part of the DRP to help close the current year's $ 1.6 billion budget deficit.

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 deadState 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 deadstate budget, but said negotiations over a new spending plan are proceeding toward completion by the March 31 deadline.

Cuomo wants the state Legislature to approve this month as part of the state budget a gradual increase of the minimum wage from $ 9 to $ 15 by 2018 in New York City and by mid-2021 elsewhere in the state.

That increase was approved in 2013 as part of the state budget.

The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, an association that represents most of Connecticut's towns and cities, is hoping a 1 percent sales tax increase will be part of any budget agreement reached by state lawmakers.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who agreed to the phase - in of the minimum wage hike as part of the current state budget, now wants the increase to happen even faster.

As part of the budget framework he and legislative leaders announced on Tuesday, the state will increase the charter schools cap.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who's been campaigning for a phased in $ 15 an hour minimum wage, said recently he thinks that the increase does not have to be part of the state budget.

These parts of the state will receive 76 percent of the hike and 69 percent of all school aid, according to Cuomo's Budget Briefing Book.This means New York City stands to gets almost $ 6.4 billion next year, an increase of 2.6 percent over the approximately $ 6.2 billion it is getting this year.

Governor Cuomo, who's been campaigning for a phased in fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage, said recently he thinks that the increase does not have to be part of the state budget.

Cuomo said the leaders of the state Legislature have agreed to the increase in the minimum wage as part of a broad $ 156 billion budget deal he announced Thursday night.

This week, as part of his proposed budget, the governor is tying a four percent increase in the $ 20 billion in subsidies given by the state to traditional school districts and charter schools to implementation of the new teacher evaluation system by next year.

It's the «scariest part» of the school budget, district officials say, because increases can be big, and state limits on revenue can make them hard to cover.

As part of a state budget deal in March, the Legislature created a framework for evaluations that increased the role of test scores, but it left the precise weight of scores on state versus local tests to the Board of Regents, whose members the Legislature selects.

But while the people reel from the impact of the major tax increases and deep spending cuts to vital services that are part of the new budget, there is one group that is overjoyed with the state budget that is receiving so much criticism from across the political spectrum.

Sen. Andy Billig, who is among legislators negotiating parts of the budget related to education, agreed that regardless of the one - day teacher strikes around the state, the Legislature is moving toward significant increases in education spending.

«While the fees are not part of state formula aid, which has been held at no less than flat for districts, the fees nonetheless reduce a school district's budget and the high increase was another bad surprise,» read prepared testimony from Lynne Strickland, director of the Garden State Coalition of Schstate formula aid, which has been held at no less than flat for districts, the fees nonetheless reduce a school district's budget and the high increase was another bad surprise,» read prepared testimony from Lynne Strickland, director of the Garden State Coalition of SchState Coalition of Schools.

ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE FOR POOR AND LOW - INCOME NEW YORKERS: I formed a Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York... The Task Force found that we are meeting, at best, 20 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor and working poor in New York, and recommended that we include $ 25 million for civil legal services in the Judiciary Budget for the coming fiscal year, as part of a four - year effort to increase civil legal services funding in this State by 50 percent....

The federal budget for fiscal year 2019 will increase the amount of LIHTCs distributed by a part of the LIHTC program that accounts for about half of the program's activity, in which state and local housing agencies hold competitions for developers to win LIHTCs.