Sentences with phrase «pension sweetener bills»

Five somewhat less sweeping pension sweetener bills passed by both houses of the Legislature are summarized on the Citizens Budget Commission scorecard.

As expected, Cuomo also vetoed several pension sweetener bills, including a measure restoring early retirement rights for uniformed state court officers.

Here's Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, railing against a pension sweetener bill that Democratic Sen. Diane Savino was forced to pull off the floor this afternoon when it became clear it did not have sufficient votes to pass.

Not exact matches

More than 90 pension - and benefit - sweetener bills have been introduced in the state Legislature that could cost state and local governments at least $ 200 million.

New York taxpayers are at risk of hundreds of millions in added costs from the 119 pension - sweetener bills now before the Legislature.

ALBANY — The annual tradition in the State Legislature of proposing «sweeteners» to state pensions for workers and retirees represented by politically powerful unions has produced 120 bills so far worth hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits, according to the independent Citizens Budget Commission.

The governor vetoed 23 more bills, including one that would have required retailers to sanitize used mattresses to kill bedbugs and a pension sweetener for prison guards.

Among a handful of so - called «pension sweeteners» passed in the final days of the 2014 session by both houses of the Legislature was a bill that would be the first rollback of Tier 6 — a pension reform championed and touted by the Cuomo administration.

If Mayor Bill de Blasio thinks he can solve his problem with the police with a pension sweetener, he's wrong on two counts.

More than 90 pension - and benefit - sweetener bills have been introduced that could cost state and local governments at least $ 200 million.

As noted here, the bill was one of several pension sweeteners passed by huge margins (57 - 4 in Senate, 133 - 1 in Assembly) in the final days of the legislative session in June.

Beyond the immediately affected group of veterans, the veto sends an encouraging signal that Cuomo will take a hard line against other pension sweeteners passed by the Legislature this year — including a bill, not yet sent to the governor's desk, resurrecting early retirement for uniformed court officers hired since 2012.

Albany, NY — Gov. David Paterson has vetoed 23 policy bills from the Legislature, including a pension sweetener for prison guards.

Over the next decade, Syracuse's pension bill grew by 729 percent, from $ 2.4 million to $ 19.9 million, increases due to the pension sweeteners and the 2008 housing crash.