Sentences with phrase «veto bills»

Others have proposed new powers for the electorate to trigger an election or referendum and veto bills passing through parliament.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill in October that would have increased the amount of money Madison County gets from slot machine profits within the county.

However, the Governor vetoed the bill on December 31, 2016.

He has been criticized most recently for vetoing a bill in December, which passed the Legislature unanimously in June, to have the state pay for the costs of mandated legal services counties must provide for poor people accused of crimes.

White House advisers today announced that they will recommend that President Barack Obama veto the bills if they reach his desk in their current form.»

Cuomo vetoed the bill on Friday.

Part of the injunction prohibits the governor from vetoing a bill that would permanently stop the merger.

Outside the Hall of Governors on Jan. 31, protesters faulted Cuomo for vetoing a bill that would have had the state assume responsibility for indigent legal defense.

White House advisers today announced that they will recommend that President Barack Obama veto the bills if they reach his desk in their current form (statements here and here).

To that end, he has even taken the eyebrow - raising step of vetoing a bill he proposed.

Gov. David A. Paterson vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature last year that would have formally banned hydrofracking, but effectively put a ban into place until further study was completed.

Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill in September — Senate Bill 344, by Sen. Alex Padilla, D - San Fernando Valley — that laid out requirements for parent engagement, and board members have shown no intent to be prescriptive either.

Then the president, who enjoys creating tension and drama, announced he would not veto the bill in an event carried on live television.

Governor David Paterson vetoed the bill at Mayor Michael Bloomberg's urging.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg vetoed a bill yesterday that aimed to increase the wages of maintenance workers in privately owned buildings that have business with...

Gov. Pete Wilson of California last week vetoed a bill aimed at ending a decades - long power struggle between the state schools chief and board of education.

Mr. Bush vetoed the bill because it would have allowed federal funding of abortions for victims of rape and incest — a provision anti-abortion House members had kept out of appropriations bills for almost a decade.

Bryant, who has previously expressed support for the bill, will have five working days to sign or veto the bill before it passes into law without his signature.

Brown, who started two charter schools when he was mayor of Oakland, last year vetoed a bill that would have banned for - profit charters.

Governor Christie vetoed the bill the next day and called for a constitutional amendment for same - sex marriage to be presented to the voters as a ballot referendum.

Gov. Dayton also vetoed a bill intended to limit Medicaid reimbursement for abortion to cases of life endangerment, rape or incest (currently the state is court ordered to pay for all medically necessary abortions for Medicaid enrollees).

But don't forget: Just two days ago, Cuomo vetoed a bill requiring that the state fund legal services for the poor.

Cuomo vetoed a bill late last year that would have increased the fund with unclaimed bottle refunds.

Astorino vetoed the bill on Wednesday.

«Ninth Circuit allows for Bivens suit against operator of private federal prison Main Connecticut governor vetoes bill which would have created a state sentencing commission»

Democratic Senator Michael Gianaris says he's looking to Governor Cuomo to follow through on a threat to veto any bill with gerrymandered districts.

Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed a bill allowing adults to carry firearms without a license and signed a bill to let private agencies deny placing a child for adoption based on religious beliefs.

If Bush vetoes the bill again, and if Congress forces repeated vetoes, that could push the issue into the 2008 election.

At the behest of state legislators, the governor has vetoed a bill offering a retroactive tax exemption to an Orthodox Jewish congregation in Ramapo that illegally converted a house into a school.

Cuomo recently vetoed a bill leaders of the village said would restrict its development.

Golden (R - C - Bay Ridge - Southwest Brooklyn) is joining a chorus of public officials, including de Blasio, in calling for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill approved by the state legislature that seeks to change the definition of a gravity knife to allow more people to carry them.

Although both the Minnesota House and Senate passed HF 4, an omnibus tax reform bill containing a tax - credit scholarship policy, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed the bill.

The bill's introduction comes less than three months after Gov. John Kasich vetoed a bill in December that would have effectively extended a freeze on the state's clean energy standards by preventing any enforcement for at least two more years.

THIS is why it's absolutely critical to have an unwavering champion for women's health in the White House: President Obama just vetoed a bill that would block millions of patients from receiving care at Planned Parenthood health centers!

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last month vetoed a bill that critics viewed as an attempted end run around the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the state control board — and by extension Curran.

MANHATTAN — Gov. David Paterson vetoed a bill Sunday that would have offered rent relief to New Yorkers with HIV or AIDS, saying that the state didn't have the money to cover the proposed law.

However, Governor Cuomo missed a big opportunity to put the Port Authority on the right track by vetoing the bill reforming governance.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who is mulling a run for governor in 2018, said he was having trouble following Cuomo's logic behind vetoing a bill that would have waived Thruway tolls in the Syracuse area.

Christie indicated in 2009 that he would veto any bill legalizing same - sex marriage in the state, [92] saying, «I also believe marriage should be exclusively between one man and one woman....

According to Crain's, the Bloomberg administration had fought hard to exclude all of the IBZs from the law, asking Paterson to veto the bill unless all 16 were protected.

Crist's veto of Florida House Bill 1143 is yet another example of the governor vetoing a bill favored by Florida Republicans.

These donations were made less than a week after the governor vetoed a bill leaders of the Hasidic village described as restricting its development.

Muttering something about how New Hampshire's voucher bill would be available to families regardless of their income, Governor Lynch vetoes the bill.

However, former Governor Christie repeatedly vetoed those bills.

For instance, in mid-2017, Florida vetoed the bill effectively banning texting while driving laws.

President Donald Trump tweeted concerns and possible plans to veto the bill over insufficient funding for the border wall and the absence of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) legislation.

But President Clinton vetoed the bill in October, and there's now little likelihood of getting any but a few provisions enacted, Verstandig says.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday vetoed a bill that would have allowed Syracuse drivers to travel through five exits of the New York State Thruway for free.