Sentences with phrase «time legislature which»

Assemblyman Will Barclay, R - Pulaski: No «Capping a legislator's outside income, along with increasing legislative pay, are steps towards creating a full - time legislature which in turn will lead to a professional political class in New York state.

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Apparently, Barack voted «present» rather than take a stand on controversial bills several times in the Illinois legislature, which is apparently a reason to take after him (sounds like a bit of a stretch, but what do I know).

It's also an historic election for the Board, which will have a majority of women for the first time ever — nine out of 17 — and will become the only county legislature in New York State in which women currently comprise a majority.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

Under state law, governors have extraordinary leverage over the legislature to pass an on - time budget, which could mean added pressure on the Senate's Republican majority to accept the measure.

Such an argument fundamentally states that the Legislature — which will meet only a handful of times in the months of January and February 2012 — can resolve an impasse that beset it such that it had to seek a second waiver from DOD simply because the legislature could not agree on resolving the issue for the entire session of 2011.

The New York Times reported that the legislature, which would need to approve most of the plan for imposing the traffic charges, was expected to receive the proposal on Friday.

A part - time legislature comes in and out, and chooses issues they want to be very active on and which they don't.

Which points to the larger problem for Cuomo: Trying to keep his distance from the legislature and dominate it at the same time is becoming an untenable straddle.

If it appears that Liz is giving too much time to the «other side» — which I don't know as I can't see the show — it may be just that we've become so used to unions and their cohorts in the legislature having their side presented disproportionately on the political shows Sunday morning and on NY 1 and the old Inside Albany.

Better wil be for dov to stay quiet so as not to antagonize the opposing members of the legislature which is exactly what happened the previous time.

At the same time, the embattled governor acknowledged his fate rests in the hands of the state legislature, which by many accounts is set to begin the impeachment process when it re-convenes in January, pending the outcome of a state ethics panel investigation into Sanford's travel expenses.

The pardons would allow Cuomo to work around the state legislature, which has not approved any such measure on criminal justice reform, the New York Times reports.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, but subject to such requirements as the legislature shall impose by general or special law, indebtedness contracted by any county, city, town, village or school district and each portion thereof from time to time contracted for any object or purpose for which indebtedness may be contracted may also be financed by sinking fund bonds with a maximum maturity of fifty years, which shall be redeemed through annual contributions to sinking funds established by such county, city, town, village or school district, provided, however, that each such annual contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of the contribution, the same amount of such indebtedness as would have been paid and then be payable if such indebtedness had been financed entirely by the issuance of serial bonds, except, if an issue of sinking fund bonds is combined for sale with an issue of serial bonds, for the same object or purpose, then the amount of each annual sinking fund contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of each such annual contribution, (i) the amount which would be required to be paid annually if such indebtedness had been issued entirely as serial bonds, less (ii) the amount of indebtedness, if any, to be paid during such year on the portion of such indebtedness actually issued as serial bonds.

Which is all the time the committee has left to file a resolution on the highest and best use of the corridor with the full legislature next Tuesday.

And he says at a time of rising corruption convictions, which include the indictment of both leaders of the legislature in 2015, JCOPE's number of actual investigations has been low, and with the exception of a $ 300,000 fine against former Assemblyman Vito Lopez, accused of sexual harassment, the fines have been «meager» and often directed at small community organizations that don't have the money to pay the fines.

At the time, the Ulster legislature was reviewing county executive Mike Hein's proposed 2017 budget, in which he proposed to cut some $ 200,000 in staffing from Auerbach's department.

Article III, Section 7 of the State Constitution states: «No member of the legislature shall, during the time for which he or she was elected, receive any civil appointment from the governor, the governor and the senate, the legislature or from any city government, to an office which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time.»

You mentioned that this is the first time we've had an on - time budget four times in a row in over forty years,» Mr. Glaser said, arguing that not all of the governor's priorities were included in the budget deal, which has to be negotiated with the state legislature.

The implementation and rollout of the Healthy Michigan Plan, which expanded Medicaid at a time when both the governor and the majority of the state legislature are Republican, holds lessons for other «red» states, say the researchers.

In Virginia, the Republicans took control of the legislature for the first time in more than a century, after a campaign in which GOP candidates talked a...

Seat time is clearly a rule left over from our factory - based education system built over a century ago, which legislatures and departments of education ought to abandon.

The 2005 legislative session was relatively quiet on the subject of K - 12 education, despite tension over changes to the state's school accountability system between Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, and the Colorado legislature, which was controlled for the first time in 40 years by Democrats

The 2017 legislature did approve a one - time allocation of $ 20 million in tax credits for an Opportunity Scholarship which is funded with private donations.

In an analysis of the actions of Missouri's state legislature, which increased teacher pensions nine times during a ten - year period from 1991 - 2001 (netting each teacher about $ 75,000 in future benefits and imposing a $ 5.4 billion long - term liability to the state), researchers saw little evidence of any real analysis.

During her time in the state legislature Ms. Morgan was a co-sponsor of the 2012 Constitutional Amendment, which allowed for an alternate state authorizer to open charter schools denied by local school districts.

The package also contains a «Student Bill of Rights» that would hold districts accountable for providing every student with a qualified teacher on day one of each school year.The educator's proposal to the legislature comes at a time when anti-union groups are pushing and paying across the state for support of legislation to restrict collective bargaining for teachers, including the group Stand for Children, which made the largest - ever single contribution to a legislative candidate in Illinois history (he lost).

«We're up against a time limit here,» said Waxenberg, referring to the fact that some of the issues that PEAC can address would require action by the legislature, which adjourns May 4.

America has two parallel legal authorities — statutory law (that which is enacted by the legislature) and common law (judge - made law that protects fundamental individual rights, liberties, and social practices that have evolved over time).

The Idaho legislature has set strict time limits within which personal injury lawsuits must be filed.

For the second time in three years the Pennsylvania legislature has proven itself entirely unable to carry out its most basic function, which is to pass a budget — any budget — which is balanced and otherwise meets constitutional requirements.

This article shall have no time limit within which it must be ratified by the legislatures of three - fourths of the several States.

And in Salvesen v Riddell [2013] UKSC 22 the Supreme Court held for the first time that a devolved legislature had acted outside its competence by passing legislation which violated the ECHR (in this case the right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions under Art 1 of Protocol 1).

However, it did offer a simple solution to the timing of general elections which appears to have worked perfectly well in relation to the devolved legislatures.

From the best information, however, which I have been able to collect on this subject, it appears that the legislature, or General Court of Connecticut, originally possessed and exercised all legislative, executive, and judicial authority, and that from time to time it distributed the two latter in such manner as it thought proper, but without parting with the general superintending power or the right of exercising the same whenever it should judge it expedient.

In Colorado, our state association worked with the legislature to set up a First - Time Homebuyer Savings Accounts Act, which was recently enacted.