Sentences with phrase «passed state budget»

The Legislature passed a state budget Sunday with a big funding increase for K - 12 schools that pleased school district leaders and a last - minute statutory change that angered them.

The state Assembly passed the state budget bill late last night on a vote of 57 - 39 with all Democrats and five Republicans (Reps. Scott Allen of Waukesha, Janel Brandtjen of Menomonee Falls, Bob Gannon of West Bend, Adam Jarchow of Balsam Lake and Joe Sanfelippo of New Berlin) voting NO on the bill.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger,...

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger, inexperienced teachers big gains while shortchanging veteran teachers who have gone to great lengths to build on their teaching credentials.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger faulted E.S.D. for seeking an emergency rule change to delay publication of the report until after the state budget passed, and said he would have opposed a provision in the just - passed state budget increasing its funding if he knew the results.

And on April 1, lawmakers passed a state budget granting a significant benefit to medical malpractice insurance companies operating in the red, such as PRI, a measure Cuomo reportedly opposed but eventually assented to at legislative leaders» insistence.

Senator Breslin also shares his thoughts on the recently passed state budget.

His announced departure came the day after the Republican - controlled budget committee passed a state budget that the Assembly is to debate on Wednesday.

The minority leader talks about Governor Spitzer's campaign finance reform proposals, the recently passed state budget, and his support for legislation to allow the death penalty for people convicted of killing law enforcement personnel.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was in Lake Placid this morning to tout the benefits of the just - passed state budget for the North Country region.

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

Fair Fares did not make it into the recently - passed state budget, and the Council is now calling for $ 212 million for the program, which it estimates would also benefit about 16,411 veterans living in poverty and would extend the program to veterans attending city colleges.

In the recently passed state budget, the city saw something of a mixed bag, though de Blasio appeared mostly pleased with the outcomes.

Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared in Buffalo on Tuesday morning to celebrate several components of the newly - passed state budget and to promote the next phase of his ambitious Buffalo Billion program.

Cuomo, putting the best face on the potential lack of action, says he and the legislature already accomplished a lot earlier in the year, when they passed the state budget.

The Wisconsin Assembly passed the state budget Wednesday after Democrats decided against offering any amendments or prolonging debate, saying the $ 70 billion spending plan is so bad it can't be fixed.

They discuss the implications of this change, as well as the recently passed state budget.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Assembly Republicans passed the state budget after a 10 - week delay Wednesday, sending the $ 76 billion spending plan to the state Senate, which has been paralyzed by GOP infighting.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the state's new minimum wage bill, approved in the recently - passed state budget, this morning.

Leaders of independent, Catholic and Jewish schools reacted with elation to expanded funding for nonpublic schools for the 2016 - 17 academic year included in the just - passed state budget.

The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle calls the recently passed state budget a «lesson in compromise.»

The recently passed state budget, hailed by Cuomo as «the best plan the state has produced,» was «woefully short» of fulfilling the promises made to the HIV / AIDS community, according to Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group.

The recently passed state budget restrains spending growth, but it also contains temporary resources and revenue assumptions that may fall short.

Cuomo will discuss the recently passed state budget and his priorities for the rest of the year at the ABNY breakfast in Manhattan this Friday.

More than $ 40 million was included in the recently passed state budget to help those affected by flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River

Sen. Jeffrey Klein on Wednesday denied an allegation a former staffer made to the HuffPost that he forcibly kissed her outside an Albany bar the night the Legislature passed the state budget in 2015.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued his publicity tour Monday on the recently passed state budget with a stop in Syracuse.

They'll talk about the recently passed state budget and the tough financial condition facing the state.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during an event to highlight the newly passed state budget at the Rev. Smith Family Life Center, Tuesday, April 11, 2017.

Governor Cuomo is on a statewide tour to promote the newly passed state budget, saying it shows that New York is functional again.

Governor Cuomo, on an upstate tour to promote the recently passed state budget, is dogged by questions about the scandal instead.

The recently passed state budget, hailed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as «the best plan the state has produced,» was «woefully short» of fulfilling the promises made to the HIV / AIDS community, according to Charles King, CEO of Housing Works, an HIV / AIDS advocacy group.

That's one of the unintended consequences that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature created when they passed a state budget Friday.

New York's governor and legislature are touting progress in higher education funding in the just - passed state budget.

The recently - passed state budget eliminates a cap on New York's burgeoning industrial hemp industry.

Funding included in the recently passed state budget will allow New York City subway cars to be repaired more quickly, Cuomo said while unveiling an effort aimed at improving service for a transit system notorious for frequent breakdowns.

Lawmakers worked through the night to pass a state budget that gives teachers a pay raise and schools a funding bump.

Sen. Todd Kaminsky of Long Island and Assemblyman James Skoufis of Woodbury are urging their fellow legislators not to pass a state budget without including new rules for political ads on social media.

Mario Cuomo famously said «you campaign in poetry; you govern in prose» and if he was the orator, his son is the operator, the one who passes state budgets on time and — as when he resolved a threatened Long Island Rail Road strike last year — makes trains run on schedule.

Lawmakers are required to pass a state budget before Friday, but that seems like an impossible deadline for them to meet.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Two New York state lawmakers are urging their fellow legislators not to pass a state budget without including new rules for political ads on social media.

«We are now about one week from an April 1 deadline for a new state budget and either the legislature will pass or will fail to pass the state budget that I have proposed,» he says in the ad.

On the heels of passing a state budget that excludes Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed city mansion tax, state Sen. Marty Golden wants to do away with the state mansion tax altogether.

In the month of April, after the deadline for passing a state budget lapsed, Albany sent out checks totaling about $ 6.5 million to reimburse the expenses of hundreds of groups that supporters say provide vital community services, including programs that help the elderly and the disabled, according to state data.

He commended the State House of Assembly for passing the state budgets in record time since 2015 to enable implementation to commence by 1st of January.

Republicans said they were being very cautious because of the state's projected $ 1.7 billion deficit and the resulting uncertainty that state funds to the town may be reduced next month as the legislature tries to pass a state budget.

On the heels of passing a state budget that excludes Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed city mansion tax, state Sen. Marty Golden wants to...

It should not be long before the legislature's Democrats and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman pass a state budget and send it to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to sign.

Schneiderman, like Cuomo a Democrat, detailed his objections Tuesday in a letter to the governor and legislative leaders, who will be negotiating Cuomo's proposed changes before the March 31 deadline to pass the state budget.

But more voters place importance on passing the state budget than they do on passing the ethics reforms Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he will require for on - time approval of the spending plan.