Not exact matches
The new
legislative package, agreed on late Sunday, consists of the pension
reform and direct and indirect tax
reforms, which will allow the government to achieve some 5.4 billion euro spending cuts and to ensure savings to meet a 3.5 percent budget surplus target by 2018.
Sen. Dick Durbin will introduce a
package of
legislative reforms Tuesday designed to bolster the safety of school meals by requiring more stringent tests for disease - causing organisms and by giving school authorities more information about the safety records of food suppliers.
The police
reform bills were passed on Tuesday evening during the City Council's final stated meeting of the year, as the
package made it into the
legislative session just under the wire.
The groups wrote Cuomo a letter and are requesting that the governor meet with
legislative leaders to work out an ethics
reform package that includes restructuring of the Board.
In other words, as we've known since late last week, there will be no vote today or tomorrow, unless a
package deal on constitutional redistricting
reform and the House maps gets done by
legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spurring the governor to provide a message of necessity to circumvent the three - day bill aging requirement.
The pilot program was created as part of settlement between Governor Cuomo and
legislative leaders back in March, as part of an ethics
reform package.
«The governor believes that his
reform package is a balanced approach that would correct real and perceived inequities that exist within the system and he is intent on passing them in the remaining weeks of the
legislative session,» Cuomo counsel Alphonso David said, following the governor's meeting with the families in his second floor office in the Capitol.
The pilot program was created as part of a settlement between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and
legislative leaders back in March, as part of an ethics
reform package.
The dramatic
reform package — called the «Clean Up Albany Act of 2011» — creates an independent Joint Commission on Public Ethics with «robust enforcement powers» to investigate both the executive and
legislative branches of government.
At the end of the
legislative session last year, Cuomo was annoyed that lawmakers had rejected his ethics
reform package, even after several lawmakers had been indicted, jailed, or found to be wearing wires in ongoing FBI probes.
Klein's
legislative package includes virtually every
reform proposal that's been introduced in Albany for the last decade.
The senator said yesterday that he does not support a full ban on outside income, which has been floated — though not formally proposed — by the governor, and endorsed by the IDC as part of a larger
legislative reform package.
DiNapoli's
reform package also aims to make the state's notoriously opaque budget process more open and transparent by requiring the overall impact of
legislative changes to the budget to be disclosed before the budget is adopted and the cost of new and existing programs to be included.
Talking to Bartiromo on Sunday, Cuomo stuck by his position that the defunct ethics panel was a success, and that while
legislative leaders didn't enact all of the ethics
reform he had sought, lawmakers still approved a
package of laws that moves things forward.
In doing so, he revived a
package of
reforms he unsuccessfully pushed in December during a failed attempt for a special
legislative session that would have paved the way for a
legislative pay raise.
ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by Erie County Commissioner of Social Services Carol Dankert - Maurer to detail a
package of
legislative reforms designed to improve the provision of Child Protective Services («CPS») to children and families across New York State.
The groups wrote Cuomo a letter and are requesting that the governor meet now with
legislative leaders to work out an ethics
reform package that includes restructuring of the Board.
Legislative leaders wrote memos to their members, saying they believe Cuomo is using the tactic to try to coerce or threaten lawmakers into agreeing to the governor's ethics
reform package.
Governor Cuomo, who was already planning on pushing for campaign finance
reform in the second half of the
legislative session, says he now plans a larger «more robust»
package that could also look at strengthening the State's Board of Elections investigatory powers, and perhaps ending party cross endorsements in elections.
The governor is promising to introduce his own ethics
reform package before the
legislative session ends in June.
Later in the
legislative session, in June, Cuomo created and won passage of a
package of
reforms that define new restrictions on coordination among candidate campaigns, former government employees, and Super PACs; and stricter reporting requirements of donors to Super PACs.
Barbara Bartoletti, the
legislative director at the New York State League of Women Voters, said the latest
package of voter
reforms have been a long time coming.
At the same time, Cuomo and
legislative leaders have been in talks about a
legislative package of
reforms that could obviate the commission's work.
Cuomo has already said campaign finance
reform is a top priority for the second part of the
legislative session, and says now that his planned
reform package could be widened.
Despite the arrests of the
legislative leaders and the on going corruption probes, there is no new ethics
reform as part of the end of session
package.
Yet the final
legislative package at the end of the 2015 session came and went without including any of Schneiderman's
reforms.
«Our rules
reform package will strengthen the Council by making ours the most inclusive, equitable
legislative body it can be,» said Council Member Helen Rosenthal.
The governor made it clear that
legislative leaders had made a bad choice by refusing to take action on his ethics
reform package.
On a parallel track, the governor confirmed that he's talking with
legislative leaders about a
reform package that could change campaign finance laws.
Governor Cuomo has been talking behind the scenes with
legislative leaders about a possible
reform package that could be voted on in the New Year.
Major issues during the 2013
legislative session included education
reform, providing healthcare for low - income and other uninsured residents, and a tax relief
package that sought to lower property taxes.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been calling for a move away from incremental
reform and laid out a
legislative package to move the needle and prevent conflicts of interest and corruption.
«Any comprehensive
reform package should include the
legislative and the executive branch, said Senate Republican spokesman Scott Reif.
A delicate coalition in Alabama that recommended nearly $ 500 million in tax - and education -
reform measures has begun to crumble in response to cuts in the
legislative package made by the Senate.
Malloy's «education
reform» bill is the driving force behind the Common Core testing scheme and the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system — a
legislative package that passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 149 - 0.
«School choice was an important part of the
legislative education
reform package enacted in 2015,» Sandoval said.
On July 1, a new Detroit school district was created as part of a major
legislative reform package — the old district will remain but serve only as a tax collecting entity.
The bill is part of a
package of court transparency and liability
reform legislation put forth by the South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition, a business and industry group, during this
legislative session.
The governor vowed to get a
package of school - safety
reforms approved before the end of the
legislative session.
WASHINGTON (November 9, 2017)-- Senate Republicans today unveiled their vision for tax
reform with a
legislative package that includes the elimination of state - and - local tax deductions and a near doubling of the standard deduction, among other provisions.