Sentences with phrase «votes in a special session»
Assembly Democrats have the vast majority of the votes in a special session and there is case law precedent for them appointing replacements in statewide office vacancies.
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Resentments still linger between the governor and the Senate GOP, with Cuomo's office blaming the Republicans for failing to marshal the needed votes to pass legislation that could have been considered in a special session of the Legislature.
Onondaga County legislators have scheduled a special session Aug. 31 to vote on a proposed consolidation of jail operations under the sheriff's office in time to get a proposition on the ballot Nov. 7 for a public referendum.
Cuomo has said he would not want to call lawmakers back to Albany for a special session without a firm plan in place for the Legislature to vote on.
He noted that the vote came in a special December session, and there was no opportunity to amend it at that time.
The chamber's GOP conference currently has a bare, 32 - vote majority in the 63 - seat chamber, and several Republican members have said in recent weeks they don't think a special session is prudent.
On Wednesday, Cuomo suggested any bills acted on in a special session would be negotiated before rank - and - file lawmakers return to the Capitol and then voted upon soon after finalized text is made public.
A map proposal isn't expected until Wednesday, on which the full General Assembly would then vote on Thursday and Friday in a special session.
The Town of Ulster board will meet in special session Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m. to vote on whether to release the contents of a police dashboard camera regarding a charge of speeding against county legislator Jennifer Schwartz Berky on May 24.
In order to get that referendum on the ballot, the county legislature would need to vote on the law at a special session or or before Sept. 1.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County legislators have scheduled a special session Aug. 31 to vote on a proposed consolidation of jail operations under the sheriff's office in time to get a proposition on the ballot Nov. 7 for a public referendum.
Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins would support voting on criminal justice and grand jury reforms in a special session, she told reporters in Albany on Tuesday.
For now, there has been no significant move to have lawmakers return to Albany in a special session to take up that legislation and vote themselves a raise.
When lawmakers return to the capital for a special session, probably after the November election, they will vote on a change to keep existing tax abatements in place.
Pundits are agog over the possibility of state legislators voting themselves a raise in special session next month.
With control of more than one - third of the seats in the State Senate, the Democrats invoked a two - thirds rule, preventing a vote on the redistricting plan during the first special session.
One possibility to change the vote tally before the legislative session concludes in June would have been for Cuomo to call special elections.
Paterson had originally not included the bill in a list of legislative items to be taken up in the special session, but after an outcry from gay - rights advocates, he told the Times last night that «he would make sure that the State Senate votes on same sex - marriage legislation before it breaks for the summer.»
Most of the discussion during both special meetings took place in executive session with the Town Board then returning to public session to vote on the resolutions.
The Common Council has called a special session for later today to vote on the property tax exemption for a developer planning to build a Syracuse University bookstore and fitness center in the University Hill neighborhood.
The school board will meet in special session at noon at City Hall to vote on Dr. Kriner Cash as the next superintendent.
Buffalo School Board members will meet in a special session Tuesday to vote on naming Dr. Kriner Cash as the district's next superintendent.
WCBS reports: «While the governor can't force senators to vote on or debate bills, the New York Constitution grants him the power to call a special legislative session — and experts say he can even keep the senators in the state house with the help of state police.»
If a raise is recommended by the seven - member panel, it will go into effect unless the Legislature returns to Albany in special session to vote against it — an unlikely prospect.
The Oregon legislature drafted the new tax proposal in a special session last month, stipulating that a majority of the state's cities, counties, and school districts must signal their backing for a statewide vote before it can be held, in March or May of next...
Meeting in a special session, the legislature voted overwhelmingly to implement the 13 - month tax on Dec. 1, in time to capture revenue from the Christmas shopping season.
The bill that was the subject of the hearing could be brought to the Senate floor for a vote in a second special session, if there's enough support for it, he said.
If 21 members of the Senate and 81 members of the House of Representatives judge by vote taken by call of the yeas and nays that such assembling of the General Court is necessary, specifying in such vote the facts constituting such necessity, the General Court shall then complete its organization as a special session, proceed to the consideration of the suspension of Joint Rule 12A which if suspended by the required two - thirds of the members of both branches shall permit the General Court to proceed to the consideration of matters properly before it.