Sentences with phrase «state budget extender»

ALBANY, NY (05/10/2010)(readMedia)-- The New York State Legislature has approved state budget extender legislation which includes mandatory one day per week furloughs for state employees.

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In the interview, DeFreancisco indicated Cuomo himself had already started hedging on an on - time budget at the beginning of last week when he suggested the state may have to pass a temporary extender measure to fund the governor.

The Legislature passed temporary budget extender measures to keep state government running through the end of May in the absence of a full budget deal, avoiding a full government shutdown and buying themselves some more time to keep negotiating.

State lawmakers passed a third round of bare bones budget extenders, which will keep the state running through ApriState lawmakers passed a third round of bare bones budget extenders, which will keep the state running through Apristate running through April 25.

Last week, Paterson sent a bill separate from budget extender to the Legislature that would have provided him with power to furlough state workers.

During an interview with WCBS 880 AM Radio, Paterson stressed that he has not yet included his plan to furlough public employees one day a week in emergency budget extenders, which would essentially force legislators to choose between infuriating state worker unions and a government shutdown.

The Senate deemed the budget extender bill illegal this afternoon, and then promptly passed it anyway, choosing to risk angering the (already very upset) state worker unions over infuriating the rest of New York State but shutting down the governstate worker unions over infuriating the rest of New York State but shutting down the governState but shutting down the government.

Andrew Cuomo's embrace of my call to include a tax cap in the next budget extender is even more evidence that he is just what this state needs at this very critical time.»

The Legislature is expected to approve a budget extender bill that includes state worker furloughs that aren't slated to start until May 17.

The weekly budget extenders that have kept our state afloat for the past 45 days are only a temporary band - aid and do nothing to move our state forward.

New York State Sen. Roy McDonald, R - Saratoga, defended the industry last week on the Senate floor as the Democratic majority shot down his second attempt to amend an emergency budget extender bill to include funds for NYRA.

Cuomo has now made it crystal clear that he will won't hesitate to force the Legislature into accepting his budget in the absence of an «amicable» deal by putting it into an extender and forcing lawmakers to choose between adopting his plan as - is and shutting down all but essential state operations.

However, even if the Legislature won, Benjamin said, the decision would only apply to extenders and not the budget itself — and the legal fight likely wouldn't improve the already acrimonious climate at the Capitol, which is contributing to the ever - later state budget.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

Gov. David Paterson has apparently included $ 775 million in cuts to state funding for health care services in his latest budget extender bill, making good on his pledge to try to force the Legislature's hand on some of his proposed spending reductions.

State law requires pay to be withheld when a budget is late, though Cuomo could include it in the budget extender.

Well rather than pass a budget before the April 1 deadline, Cuomo and the state legislature agreed to so - called extenders, continuing government funding and pushing the deadline for a new budget back until the end of May.

To that end, Paterson predicted state lawmakers will pass the budget extender he sent to them last week that includes furloughs for some 70 percent of the state workforce, and again attacked the unions for refusing to negotiate a deal to help close the $ 9.2 billion deficit.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo raises the possibility of an «extender» budget blamed on federal government - level uncertainty over potential cuts in spending to the state, the Fiscal Policy Institute has released a report examining the impact of D.C. aid to New York state and local governments.

Despite decades of late budgets, Monday's action marked the first time a governor has enacted a portion of the final state budget through a temporary budget extender bill.

The battle turned brutal in recent days as two renegade Bronx Democratic senators, Pedro Espada Jr. and Ruben Diaz Sr., threatened to shut down state government by voting against the next budget extender.

But in May he realized a little trick: he was the only one who could draft «extender» bills, the temporary, customarily skeletal budget bills that pay for the functioning of New York's government while state leaders are working out the real budget.

Paterson, grappling with a $ 9.2 billion deficit and lawmakers who fear for their re-election, has been funding state government with weekly budget extenders since failing to win passage of a state budget on April 1.

The raise the age issue was a key policy concern for Heastie to have accomplished in the state budget, and Cuomo last week indicated he was satisfied with the passage of a budget extender bill that funded the government until May 31, but did not include the juvenile justice reform.

The budget is turning from stalemate to brinksmanship on Tuesday, a day after lawmakers approved an eight - week temporary extender measure that funds state government until May 31.

For AQE, which is pushing for education spending on par with a decade - old court ruling, the problem for them was Cuomo suggesting a short - term extender may be a viable option for the state budget considering the uncertainty emanating from Washington over the federal government's budget cuts.

In an effort to avert a shutdown of New York's state government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced late Sunday evening he would introduce a temporary budget extender that would fund the government until May 31.

Meanwhile, despite the lack of a budget or an enacted extender, the state's massive bureaucracy will just grind along.

Mr. Cuomo, who has boasted of on - time budgets, appeared relaxed after the New York State Assembly passed an emergency extender budget.

Following Monday's passage of a two - month «extender» designed to keep government operating following the failure to craft a 12 - month budget deal by the March 31 deadline, Tuesday had seen a sudden late - night rush of action on budget bills in the Republican - controlled state Senate.

The state budget was due Friday; once it lapses, the governor has unilateral authority to dictate the terms of temporary spending extenders like the ones approved Monday.

An unswayed Paterson vowed to slip a provision calling for one - day - a-week furloughs for 100,000 state workers into the emergency budget extenders he sends to the Legislature next week.

As the state legislature huddles with the governor over the now - late state budget, local projects have been included in the extender signed on Monday, April 3.

That's the message from Gov. Paterson's emboldened administration, which is vowing to escalate its new and unprecedented tactic of putting major spending cuts into the weekly «extenders» that have kept the state functioning without a completed budget since April 1.

ALBANY — State Budget Director Robert Megna confirmed Friday that the next one - week budget extender will include the 4 percent raises to unionized state workers, as demanded by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal jState Budget Director Robert Megna confirmed Friday that the next one - week budget extender will include the 4 percent raises to unionized state workers, as demanded by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal Budget Director Robert Megna confirmed Friday that the next one - week budget extender will include the 4 percent raises to unionized state workers, as demanded by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal budget extender will include the 4 percent raises to unionized state workers, as demanded by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal jstate workers, as demanded by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge.

He is basically daring the Legislature to shut down the whole state — by rejecting the budget extender — or accept mandatory spending cuts.

As state lawmakers await a potential budget extender from Gov. Andrew Cuomo this evening, Senate Democrats are calling on the governor include a package of left - leaning legislation that would force Senate Republicans to either accept it or potentially risk a shutdown of state government.

The very busy state Budget Director, Robert Megna, is crunching the numbers to see what would actually happen if next week's budget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shutBudget Director, Robert Megna, is crunching the numbers to see what would actually happen if next week's budget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shutbudget extender bills do not pass and the government has to shut down.

Unions also aren't thrilled with the Democrats» voting in favor of creating a fifth tier in the state pension fund and their failure to demand that Gov. David Paterson include funding for construction projects in budget extenders.

Before the 2017 talks, Cuomo presided over a string of budgets passing in the Legislature before the deadline passed or on April 1, making for «on time» or «timely» budgets that did not require extenders to keep state government funded.

Cuomo was poised Sunday night to introduce legislation that would temporarily extend the current budget, a backup plan known as an extender, to keep money flowing into state programs, salaries and projects.

Cuomo said, under the budget extender, New York becomes the first state to cap the growth of prescription drug spending in its Medicaid program, which he said has grown 25 percent over the past three years.

Arguing that «this process has got to end,» Gov. David Paterson on Wednesday said that if lawmakers can't come to a final agreement on the state's 2010 - 2011 fiscal plan by June 28, he'll force - feed them his own budget blueprint in a weekly extender bill.

So the governor's office drafted a 1,700 - page extender budget late Sunday for lawmakers to approve in order to keep the state government operating until May 31.

New York State Assembymember Dov Hikind, representing District 48, voices his opinion during a vote on a budget extender at the Capitol on Monday, April 3, 2017 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

After a day of closed - door negotiations with legislative leaders, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in an interview with Spectrum News NY1 Monday evening that uncertainty about how a new Republican president and Congress might affect the state could lead to an «extender» of the current budget rather than a new one.

«Our anticipation is that the budget extender will pass, that people will not want to shut down government,» said Robert L. Megna, the state budget director, who briefed reporters on the plan at the Capitol on Friday evening.

Cuomo and the Legislature had passed a budget «extender» on Monday to keep state operations running, but continued to negotiate throughout the week in order to put a full fiscal year budget together.

«Picking a number now, and saying this is going to be the number, and not knowing what's going to happen next week and next month and when the federal government passes the budget or when they don't pass the budget, or when they do the next continuing resolution, is very hard,» said Cuomo, who again mentioned that everyone will know a lot more from Washington by the end of May, which is when the state «extender» runs through.

«So despite the fact that everyone knew furloughs (for state workers) were going to be in the budget extender this week, there were no three - way leaders» meetings in the last week?