Sentences with phrase «standalone bill»

And there are standalone bills in both chambers that aren't part of any particular plan.

Phillips represents a battleground Senate district on Long Island and has been a proponent of the gun control legislation that was approved as standalone bill during the passage of the state budget.

Legislators also said the bill could contain language authorizing red light cameras in Albany, New Rochelle and Mount Vernon if standalone bills prove too controversial.

«It's a one - house standalone bill unless it's tied to New York City rent control or something else the Assembly Democrats or the governor want in end - of - session negotiations,» said Assemblyman Bill Nojay, a Republican from suburban Rochester.

Senator Illuzzi had to use the tactic of adding the language to another bill because it was too late in the legislative session to introduce a separate standalone bill.

ALBANY — Top lawmakers emerged from a private meeting with Governor Andrew Cuomo today saying they might consider proposals to change the state laws on ethics and education as standalone bills, despite Cuomo's attempt to bake language into his $ 141.6 billion spending proposal.

Republicans in the Senate last month agreed to a standalone bill that tightens laws against those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence of owning a firearm.

«We'd love it to get done sooner rather than later, so if it can get done in the next few weeks via a vote on the floor on a standalone bill, that would be great.»

Members of the Senate have approved bills with bipartisan support for several years, and state Sen. Joe Griffo said he expected an even larger margin of victory if a standalone bill comes to the floor next month.

The bill was sponsored by Reed in the House, but did not pass as a standalone bill.

But the freshman congressman and Democratic governor laced up their gloves again in April when Faso introduced a standalone bill to do the same thing — drop the counties» Medicaid costs — with five New York colleagues as co-sponsors of the legislation.

Cuomo proposed a Tier VI plan as a standalone bill last June, but the measure went nowhere.

«We're going to pass it as a standalone bill today, and we think it should be passed as a standalone bill.

... We've always treated it as a standalone bill.»

The measure was broken out of the budget and considered as a standalone bill.

Governor Malloy says that's why lawmakers can not delay in taking action on a standalone bill.

It included the same language as the standalone bill.

So instead, the Assembly will try for the second year in a row to pass the Child Victims Act as a standalone bill.

It passed the Senate twice this year, both as part of the IDC's one house budget proposal in March and as a standalone bill in June, however it failed to pass in the Assembly.

He also said that the program should have been included during the annual budget process, not as a standalone bill.

You can't do the standalone bill.

Cooper, a Democrat, has accused Republican lawmakers of «political shenanigans» and «partisan hypocrisy» for not having a standalone bill on the class - size issue.

It also identified 83 policy items that will be pulled from the budget to be considered in standalone bills, according to a memo released this afternoon.

In the end, some of the policy measures, including Medicaid, were repackaged as standalone bills, and a spending deal was struck — closer to the Senate's target than the House's.

It's unclear whether the Senate will address the charter school issue as part of a broader NCLB reauthorization effort or as a standalone bill.

In short, the D.C. voucher legislation has never been able to garner enough votes in both the House and the Senate to pass on its own in a standalone bill.

However, similar language has now been introduced in both chambers of the Ohio General Assembly as standalone bills; SB 331 and HB 573.

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