Sentences with phrase «to amend the state constitution»

The process of amending the state Constitution is cumbersome and takes several years: two successively elected crops of lawmakers have to pass a measure that must then be ratified by voters during a November election.

The changes require amending the state constitution, which can be done either at a constitutional convention or by legislative initiative.

They found that 71 % of respondents knew that Governor Cuomo and Albany lawmakers were considering amending the state constitution in order to allow the legalization of casino gambling.

Proposition One, which voters will decide on next Tuesday, would amend the state constitution for how congressional, state Senate and Assembly districts are drawn.

It would also amend the state constitution to require lawmakers convicted of corruption charges to surrender their pensions, make changes to the per diem system, and create a commission to examine the possibility of a pay increase for state commissioners and lawmakers.

The current fight began in 2011, when New Jersey voters overwhelmingly approved amending the state constitution to allow sports betting.

«For this to apply to officials who entered the retirement system before enactment of the pension forfeiture law in 2011, we need to adopt a resolution amending the State Constitution.

Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York, spoke Wednesday at a news conference about amending the state constitution.

Since the minimum time it takes to amend the state constitution through a legislatively referred constitutional amendment is four years, getting a partisan policy added to the constitution is a significant victory.

ALBANY — The Senate began amending the state constitution to reform how the Legislature draws its voting district lines — in 2022.

A coalition of progressive groups including the NYCLU and Legal Aid Society announced its opposition to a ballot measure on Nov. 7 that asks whether New Yorkers should hold a convention to revise and amend the state constitution next year.

That's why I voted for — and continue to support — stronger ethics measures to increase transparency, create term limits for legislative leadership and amend our State Constitution so that all lawmakers and state officials who are convicted of crimes will forfeit their taxpayer - funded pensions.»

Now a bipartisan group of first - term lawmakers wants to correct it by amending the state constitution to allow courts to strip convicted lawmakers of their state pension, including those who were grandfathered into a limited forfeiture provision in an ethics reform law last year.

Nevada voters could be drawn into an all - out battle to decide how big a priority school funding should be if two initiatives to amend the state constitution find their way to the ballot.

Georgia's constitution is strong on «local control» (which is why the state's highest court struck down the original version of a statewide charter authorizing body, later reconstituted via a referendum amending the state constitution).

On March 2 of this year, Representative Zemke co-sponsored House Joint Resolution H which calls to amend the state constitution recognizing education and access to literacy as fundamental human rights.

Both sides may instead focus on amending state constitutions.

«Each state constitution is somewhat different,» McKinney says, «but we would generally encourage policymakers to amend state constitutions if statutory caps on noneconomic damages are invalidated.»

Nebraska: Educare of Omaha was part of a coalition which convinced the State of Nebraska to dramatically increase its investments in early learning programs, including amending the State Constitution to declare that learning begins at birth and the creation of a new $ 60 million public / private endowment funding birth - to - three services for low - income children in Nebraska.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

Conklin noted it's up to lawmakers to change voter registration laws, and automatic registration would require amending the state Constitution, which means two straight sessions of the Legislature would have to pass identical bills before it would go to voters on the ballot.

A prime example of K12's involvement in state politics can be found in the role it played in Georgia's referendum to amend its state constitution in order to make it easier to open charter schools in that state.

The Cuomo plan would also amend the state constitution to revoke the pension of anyone who violates the ethics laws.

As recently as 2016 with House Bill 689, the legislature considered a measure to amend the state Constitution to allow for a graduated income tax.

Instead, they set their sights on a court fight with Proposition 8, whereby a majority of voting Californians had amended their state constitution to undo a judicial decision that had found a never before seen right to gay marriage.

I remember a few years ago, several churches in my area got really involved in the Tennessee legislature's effort to amend the state constitution to include a ban on gay marriage.

So, using this logic, shouldn't we amend state constitutions to ban divorcees from getting remarried?

You could also argue, using the same logic, that we should amend state constitutions to ban interreligious marriages, which are also described as sinful in the Bible.

Cuomo wants to amend the state constitution to protect abortion rights in New York if a conservative Supreme Court curtails them nationally.

Cuomo and legislative leaders actually agreed over a year ago, in March 2015, to amend the state constitution to end the pensions for elected officials who are convicted felons.

[51] In order to amend the State Constitution, it is necessary for an amendment first to receive sufficient support at two state constitutional conventions, which is a joint meeting of the two houses of the General Court (the House of Representatives and the Senate), held during two successive two - year sessions, before going before the voters in a referendum during a normally scheduled November election.

New York voters will decide in November whether or not to hold a convention to amend the State Constitution, and on Tuesday at 7 p.m. the East Hampton Democratic Committee will lead a deliberation on the matter at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in...

A November ballot proposition would amend the state constitution to allow judges to reduce or revoke a pension of a public official convicted of a felony related to his or her duties.

Emails indicate that over the next several months, following NYCO's initial meeting with Mr. Martens, the conservation department worked closely with the mining company to draft a resolution to amend the State Constitution, and lobbied both the Legislature and environmental groups to lend their support.

The referendum would amend the state Constitution to allow up to seven commercial casinos.

The long list of bills that failed to materialize included comprehensive ethics reforms (in a capital troubled by corruption and scandal); a proposal to amend the State Constitution to assure a right to clean air and water; and a measure to give victims of childhood sexual abuse a much longer window in which to bring civil or criminal cases.

Jack Martins, the GOP candidate for Nassau County executive, on Thursday pressed for passage of a November ballot proposition to amend the state constitution to allow judges to revoke pensions of elected officials convicted of corruption.

They'll discuss the effort to convene a constitutional convention in New York to amend the state constitution.

At present, local officials must ask the state legislature to amend the state constitution every time they need to access state land for infrastructure projects.

The measure, which a spokesman said would be applied only to corrupt elected officials and policymakers, would set in motion the process to amend the state constitution, which now guarantees public pensions to all public - sector workers.

One proposition will amend the state constitution to allow politicians convicted of corruption charges to be stripped of their pensions.

It would create a land bank to allow communities in the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve to accomplish small projects without the need to amend the state constitution.

One resolution will call upon the State Senate and Assembly to pass and Governor Cuomo to sign Senate Bill S. 3048 and Assembly Bill A. 6263 to amend the state constitution to authorize the forfeiture of retirement benefits earned during the term of office of any New York elected official who is convicted of a felony offense against public administration that was committed during their time in office.

He will announce, probably without fanfare, and possibly only by press release, that he has settled on a far - reaching compromise, and that he is doing so with great regret, but that he has won a commitment to amend the state constitution in a way that changes the once - a-decade process going forward.

Question of whether to hold convention to amend State Constitution will be on the ballot this November

Yes, the State Assembly and Senate can always vote to amend the state constitution.

Several Republicans — including former Sen. Frank Padavan — have signed on to a good government campaign for resdistricting reform just as the Senate GOP is poised to pass a bill that would amend the state Constitution to create an independent redistricting panel, but not in time to redraw the lines for the 2012 elections.

We do have a referendum process; it is required for bond issues and to amend the state constitution.

«You have voiced your interest in amending the state constitution to protect women's reproductive rights,» the group wrote in the letter.