Sentences with phrase «state budget measure»

Children aboard a yeshiva school bus, which a new state budget measure would require to drop students off within 600 feet of their homes instead of the current quarter - mile.

Proposed state budget measure would expand funding for busing of private school students, like these at Chasan Sofer School in Brooklyn.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's state budget measure would exclude 100 acres for the proposed Middle Island Solar Farm from the Pine Barrens core preservation district.

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He also sits on the Board of Directors, and in May 2015 he made a donation of $ 133,000 to the foundation to make up for funding it had lost as a part of the austerity measures put in place by Governor Bruce Rauner to address the state's $ 1.5 billion budget deficit.

ALBANY, N.Y., March 31 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $ 168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

Or, depending on who you ask, it was a monumental disappointment, a heap of compromises and half - measures in the state budget and later an anti-climatic finish that seemed more about sticking it to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and boozing it up at brunch than doing anything all that meaningful.

Cuomo is pushing a package of ethics reform proposals including public financing of political campaigns and strengthened disclosure of outside income for elected officials — measure he says must be in the final state budget agreement.

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.

The effort to get these measures through the Legislature is similar to Cuomo's tour in the lead up to the state budget.

The proposed $ 152 billion budget proposal as unveiled by Cuomo did not include a contingency plan for repealing the measure, which is projected to result in a $ 3.7 billion gap in the state's revenues.

Both measures had been initially included in the state budget proposal from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but dropped by the end of the negotiations.

Cuomo isn't giving up on a bill that would help child sex abuse victims obtain justice as adults — even though the measure was left out of the state budget, saying he'll continue to push for the Child Victims Act, along with other policy items not in the final deal, in the post-budget session.

For the next year, New York state will allow testing of self - driving cars on public highways thanks to a measure in this year's state budget.

Flanagan all but declared the Child Victims Act dead as part of the state budget, which would be a crushing blow to abuse survivors who were hoping Cuomo's inclusion of the measure in his budget proposal would give the issue momentum.

Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers, confirmed that issues such as voter reform measures and changes to the state's ethics laws had fallen out of the budget talks.

At 1:45 p.m., Skoufis, Gianaris, Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, Assemblymen Ken Zebrowski and Angelo Santabara, and Sen. Todd Kaminsky call on the Legislature to include a measure in the final budget that will prevent anonymous political ads on social media, outside the Senate chamber, state Capitol, third floor, Albany.

New York's state's $ 168.3 billion budget reduces transparency and oversight measures, expands «back - door borrowing» and includes new lump - sum appropriations, according to a report released Friday by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

But state lawmakers there, like in the Republican - controlled Senate, will likely consider measures designed to alter education policies approved in the 2015 - 16 state budget, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said on Wednesday.

The measure is part of the state budget package, which is due on March 31.

The city's five primary public defender organizations have teamed up to put pressure on the state legislature to pass meaningful criminal justice reforms after the measures were left out of the state budget.

That involves using budget measures to control aspects of how the city runs, putting state police in the city to ensure Cuomo's involvement in the event of a terror attack, and slapping state monitors on city facilities.

Ammerman said he hopes the veto is not related to the disputes, and really is about the measure not being part of the state budget.

The new state budget includes anti-sexual harassment measures that will apply to both government and private - sector workplaces.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Senate Democrats stepped further away Tuesday from Governor Andrew Cuomo by introducing a package of measures they said would fix education policy changes included in the state budget.

The measure has majority party sponsors in each house who hope it can be approved as part of the state budget.

Sen. Simcha Felder threw the state budget into chaos by demanding language about «substantially equivalent» education measures for non-public schools.

The new state budget includes anti-sexual harassment measures that will apply to both government and private sector workplaces.

The New York State Association Of Counties released its to - do list of budget priorities for the coming fiscal year, with the local government officials backing a variety of measures aimed at easing the burden on municipal - level officials and taxpayers.

Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo had agreed last year to an amendment, but the Democratic - led Assembly balked at a vote on the measure, which came with a broader agreement on the state budget.

The measure itself means about $ 12 million revenue for the state, but the repeal of the sales tax was considered as part of the state budget approved in April.

Levy went on to note that a number of the cost - saving measures Paterson says he supports, including the property tax cap and wage freeze for state employees (or, alternatively, layoffs), were not included in the governor's proposed budget.

Additional space is needed after the «Raise the Age» measure was included in the final 2017 - 18 state budget agreement.

The measure is part of the state budget package, which is due on March 31st.

ALBANY — Fifty - five state parks and historic sites will remain closed, at least for the time being, after a funding measure fell victim to an unusually ferocious case of budget brinkmanship between Gov. David Paterson and lawmakers Monday.

The New Yorkers joined 13 Republican representatives from other high - tax states like New Jersey in opposing the budget measure, H. Con.

Cuomo has been pushing hard for a phased in $ 15 an hour minimum wage, putting the proposal into his state budget and campaigning for the measure with Vice President Joe Biden.

Democrats say it doesn't go far enough, but say in some aspects it is better than a proposal by Governor Cuomo, who has asked that anti-sexual harassment measures be considered as part of the state budget.

«The Senate continues to be at the forefront of efforts to battle the state's heroin crisis and was instrumental in securing $ 214 million in this year's budget for measures to prevent and treat heroin and opioid abuse,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Cuomo and state lawmakers agreed in the budget to have a package of measures including requiring lawyers to disclose their legal clients who they took on beginning next year.

The governor is tying the measures to spending in the state budget — a move that tests the limits of the governor's legal authority.

The 2014 - 15 state budget adopted in large measure a package of tax cuts aimed at property owners and businesses as Cuomo gears up for a re-election campaign.

Lawmakers who support the legislation have demanded to meet with Cuomo to urge him to take a larger role in shaping the measure and fold it into the state budget.

When he vetoed the legislation in October — the second time in as many years — Cuomo had said he was willing to discuss the measure in the context of the state budget.

Elia's selection comes at a crucial time for education policy in New York: State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved a new teacher evaluation measure in the 2015 - 16 state budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of teState lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved a new teacher evaluation measure in the 2015 - 16 state budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of testate budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of testate's teachers unions for its weakening of tenure.

The ethics package in the budget was just the latest in a series of measures passed by lawmakers and agreed to by the governor following a public outcry after the arrest of a state lawmaker.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's seven - round limit on magazines sold in New York will be suspended «indefinitely» by a measure in his $ 136.5 billion budget set to be passed this week, said Dean Skelos, a State Senate majority leader, said.The ban on magazines holding more than seven bullets was set to start April 15.

The measure was created when the state had a $ 10 billion budget deficit.