Sentences with phrase «passed in a special session»

«We do not support the substitute legislation passed in this special session.

So, the governor added it to an omnibus bill that the legislature passed in a special session in late June, and was signed the next day.

Though the state of Texas previously adopted minimum salary schedules for virtually all categories of personnel, including paraprofessionals, those schedules fell by the wayside as a result of the landmark reform bill, House Bill 72, passed in a special session in 1984.

House Bill 21, which passed in the special session, allocated some immediate funding to public schools.

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He discussed calling a special session starting in late July to pass the needed legislation.

Resentments still linger between the governor and the Senate GOP, with Cuomo's office blaming the Republicans for failing to marshal the needed votes to pass legislation that could have been considered in a special session of the Legislature.

There has been ample speculation about why the Senate decided to pack it in early on the evening of Monday's special session while the Assembly toiled into the wee hours of Tueday morning and then returned later Tuesday afternoon to pass, among other things, the NYC OTB bailout bill and a hydrofracking moratorium that had been passed by the Senate earlier in the year.

The move comes after Cuomo was unable to get a law passed in the most recent Albany legislative session to appoint a special prosecutor.

In 2008 several pieces of legislation were passed during a special session on ethics and accountability reform that lasted from February 10 to February 26.

Lawmakers passed a controversial bill on Monday that takes aim at the Gary School Board — cutting its meetings and allowing the district to make mid-year staff layoffs in a rare one - day special session.

Assemblyman Peter Lopez, R - Schoharie, will formally call on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to call a special session of the Legislature later this year in order to pass measures that would help storm - ravaged parts of upstate.

Ms. Reiter said the governor's appointees would support a meaningful raise only if the Legislature — which is not due back in the capital until early January — held a special session before the end of this year to pass legislation that would «address the public's concern and opposition by making the position effectively full - time and limiting outside income.»

Cuomo was criticized during an all - night session in mid-March for issuing special messages of necessity to allow the Senate and Assembly to pass bills as soon as deals were struck on topics like a new pension tier for public workers, and redistricting lines.

Lawmakers won't be called back for a special session to pass more ethics and campaign - finance reform measures, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he would like to see broader changes included in a constitutional convention.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is calling on Cuomo and Albany leadership to pass legislation that would limit New York's involvement in federal immigration enforcement during the rumored special session this year to stave off Trump's mass deportation plans.

The current State Senate and Assembly won their seats in 2014 and came up for re-election again earlier this month, so they could hypothetically pass the governor's changes in a special session this year — then do so again next year.

Cuomo has said that if lawmakers don't agree on reform of the care of the disabled by end of session, he'll keep them in Albany in special session until they do, saying it would be a «tragedy» if the measure is not passed.

It passed in a December special session.

The redistricting plan was passed in a third special legislative session.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Albany leadership to pass legislation that would limit New York's involvement in federal immigration enforcement during the rumored special session this year to stave off President - elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plans.

(He's siding with the governor in rejecting good government advocates» calls for a special session to pass more ethics reform, saying that despite recent corruption convictions of former senators, it's impossible to «legislative morality»).

After the state Senate and Assembly left Albany two weeks ago without a deal on Home Rule legislation regarding the extension of sales tax increases for numerous counties — including Essex, Franklin, Clinton and Warren — Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a special session last week which resulted in the requests being passed.

The prospects for any of those reforms passing both legislative houses is uncertain, especially considering the bad blood between Cuomo and lawmakers that was exacerbated by the scuttling of plans for a proposed December special session, which could have resulted in the first legislative pay increase since 1999.

The state legislature failed to bring up the bill when they passed the state budget in special session last week.

Other groups are calling for Governor Cuomo to hold a special session in December to focus on passing new anti-corruption laws.

If «Black Lives Matter», we should expect the same zeal in passing legislation for oversight and a State Wide Special Prosecutor in the 2015 legislative session.

In a last - minute move pushed by Mayor Shayne Gallo, the Common Council on Tuesday night passed a resolution calling on state lawmakers to convene a special session to restore the county's full 4 percent sales tax.

Cuomo has tried to salvage his women's agenda, asking the state Assembly to come back for a special session to act on the other items in the package that do not include abortion rights that the Senate already passed.

Mississippi lawmakers in a special session have passed a $ 145 million increase in K - 12 spending for the new fiscal year — more than Gov. Haley Barbour and some legislators had proposed, but not enough to improve financing substantially for many districts.

Florida lawmakers will trudge back to the state capital soon for their second special session in as many months, after failing to pass a rewrite of the laws that govern the state's education system.

«It feels like Montoy when the... Kansas Legislature adopted a formula (in 2005) that did not pass Supreme Court muster and we went into a special session, went on the cusp of a constitutional meltdown,» Rupe says.

He maintained it would help schools since it also comes on the heels of an increase in overall school funding passed during last week's special session.

As part of the compromise that ended the state shutdown, the task force was not created until the special session in July 2011, four months after the alternative certification law was passed and weeks before the law was to go into effect.

The Senate passed the measure last week, and in recognition of the urgent need to move quickly before the start of the school year, members of the House returned from their summer recess and passed the bill during a special session today.

Given his past support for renewable energy in the state, Arnold calling a special session to pass this bill is a definite possibility.

Those who pass the exam and meet all other requirements for admission to the practice of law in Ohio will be sworn in on May 7 during a special session of the Ohio Supreme Court at the historic Ohio Theatre in downtown Columbus.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia did not rule on the legality of allowing physician - assisted death, but he issued an oral ruling saying lawmakers acted illegally in passing the law during a special session devoted to other topics, said lawyers for supporters and opponents.

Establishes a hard cap of $ 500,000 on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (the $ 500,000 cap that was passed during a special session in 2002 contained an escalator clause which would have raised the cap to $ 750,000 in 2011 and $ 1 million in 2017).

The $ 335 million incentive package — including $ 215 million in tax credits, contingent on completion of the $ 1 billion factory, and upward of $ 175 million in publicly - funded infrastructure near the site — dates to late 2015, when the Nevada legislature passed laws during special sessions to authorize the Faraday deal.

It was with this backdrop that Governor Perry truly «earned» the Gynotician of the Year award, after he signed HB 2, the extreme and dangerous bill that's projected to block one in three Texas women from accessing safe and legal abortion, a bill that 80 percent of Texas voters opposed passing during the special session.