The Senate
passed additional amendments that will create a parent training center, an arts council, yearly school safety meetings, and expanded oversight of principals by superintendents.
Not exact matches
in the past, and Hochul raised it again in a statement criticizing Collins» proposal: «If the Collins
amendment passed, the state would need to raise income taxes or the counties would have to forgo their share of sales tax in exchange for the state picking up the
additional Medicaid costs.»
The idea has been floated by some county leaders in the past, and Hochul raised it again in a statement criticizing Collins» proposal: «If the Collins
amendment passed, the state would need to raise income taxes or the counties would have to forgo their share of sales tax in exchange for the state picking up the
additional Medicaid costs.»
In order to spare the hedge funders from an
additional tax, the Legislature actually would have to approve a chapter
amendment to the revenue bill that the Assembly already
passed and the Senate has yet to take up.
The 2017 budget, which was
passed by the Board of Legislators on Monday by a slim margin of 10 - 7, and modifies a previous budget submitted to the legislative chamber by Astorino last month, will retain the county executive's proposed flat tax rate, but will also add four
additional engineering positions to the county's depleted Department of Public Works roster, in addition to injecting $ 1 million to the county's Title XX child care program as a result of legislators»
amendments.
With
additional financial support from the Koch Brother's Americans for Prosperity StudentsFirst, the Walton Family Foundation and other major corporate education reform players, the
amendment passed with proponents outspending the opposition by about ten - to - one.
Later that year a law was
passed to roll back and cap property taxes and then put a constitutional
amendment on the January 2008 ballot that voters adopted for
additional tax savings.