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When the unreformed House of Lords attempted to amend the welfare reform and pensions bill last year, Alistair Darling referred to the interference as «a constitutional matter», saying: «The House of Lords has to accept that we are the elected chamber.»
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The bill allowing all veterans to buy added pension time was vetoed by Cuomo last year because, notwithstanding a clause in the governor's Tier 6 pension reform, it failed to appropriate money to cover the projected state and local government share of the «past service» catch - up cost of the measure.
Last year, after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the other three of the city's five pension funds to further divest their holdings in companies that manufacture weapons and ammunition.
Because of the collapse of the financial markets in the Great Recession, cities and counties have been billed increasing amounts in the last few years to keep the New York State Pension Fund healthy.
«We saw more and more of these bills leading up to the financial crisis and the bursting of the last pension bomb in New York state.»
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the Senate had agreed to a pension - stripping bill last year, but the Democratic - controlled Assembly refused to go along.
A meeting of black leaders was convened last weekend in Mt. Vernon by the Rev. Al Sharpton and attended by people like former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (Cuomo's primary opponent in 2002), political consultants Bill Lynch and Roberto Ramirez (who got caught up in Cuomo's pension fund pay - to - play probe), Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, Senate President Malcolm Smith, Rep. Greg Meeks and the NAACP's Hazel Dukes.
In March last year, the Senate passed a broader pension forfeiture bill that applied to all members of the state pension system, not just those who are elected.
«What the public is hungry for, post Shelly Silver, is ethics reform — specifically, the pension forfeiture bill that was agreed to last year and promptly reneged on by the Assembly,» said Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for the Democratic governor.
«I don't think... anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done, like at least the pension forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year — which still hasn't been passed — the LLC loophole, which is just an obvious anomaly that could be passed easily, in my opinion, which would at least reflect the sense of the people that this has been a wholly unprecedented year in terms of investigations of legislators,» the governor said after speaking at a minimum wage rally outside the Capitol.
He introduced a bill last month to strip pensions from state and local public officials convicted of a felony if the crime is a «breach of public trust.»
«Overall, I find it disappointing,» Cuomo said, adding later: «I don't think anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done like the pension - forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year.»
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When the Assembly came to order on June 17 for a session that would last until 5:09 a.m. the next day, it still needed to pass an anti-heroin package, a roll - back of the state's Blue Laws, the legalization of daily fantasy sports, a constitutional amendment that could make more elected officials convicted of felonies forfeit their pensions, a government transparency measure, and 57 other bills.
In an agreement with the last Labour Government, workers pick up the bill if people end up living longer than expected and pension costs overshoot projections.
Lawmakers on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee held the last of three meetings to approve bills that, once bundled together, will form a companion to the House of Representatives's mammoth 21st Century Cures bill.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Alexander was also a key negotiator in hammering out agreements between the Senate and the House of Representatives on the Cures bill unveiled last Friday.
CSBA Legislative Advocate Brian Rivas noted in a letter to the Assembly Appropriations Committee last month noted the bill would help charter schools maintain their eligibility for public pension plans and ensure they operate openly.
Fallout from the public spending scandal in the southern California community of Bell has resulted in a number of bills passing out of the Legislature during the last days of session aimed at reforming pensions and salaries of government officials.
Dan Porter said a bill signed last spring allowed rural school districts to hire retired teachers full - time without hurting their pensions.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee already included social and emotional learning in its version of the ESEA reauthorization bill late last year.
For at least the last 25 years, Louisiana has never paid its pension bills in full, causing the debt to grow and grow.
U.S. Senators held discussions last Thursday regarding simplifying the federal student loan process.The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held meetings last Thursday to continue discussing potential changes to the education bill which were first brought up towards the end of the year.
Last April, the Department of Finance unveiled Bill C - 27 on pension reform and it's been winding its way through the House of Commons.
Until the election last fall, Bill Morneau was executive chairman of the company, which describes itself as Canada's largest provider of pension - administration technology and services.