Sentence examples for assembly proposals from inspiring English sources
But after the meeting on Monday, Mr. Skelos, a Long Island Republican, signaled that he considered the Assembly proposals onerous and unacceptable.
Earlier Assembly proposals would have required much more than the current bill, including coverage of drug- and alcohol-abuse treatment, but they were whittled down in talks with the Senate, until a verbal deal was struck in June.
But Gov. George E. Pataki, who controls the agency and appoints its inspector general, and the Republican-controlled StodaySenathatndicated today that passage of the Assembly proposals was unlikely.
Mr. Pataki said both the Senate and the Assembly proposals, which would add to his $83.6 billion spending plan, were unrealistic given the weakened state of the national economy.
Mr. Roberts assailed Mr. Franks for portraying himself as a would-be reformer and for reviving, from his days in the Assembly, proposals for such things as legislative term limits, ballot initiatives and referendums, and for an elected state auditor general.
The Assembly proposal includes $55 million for treatment slots in prison.
The Assembly proposal would hand judges the discretion to decide whether to send these felons to prison or to treatment.
The Assembly proposal would also restore hundreds of millions of dollars in state money for homeless shelters, aid to New York City, bus and subway passes for city schoolchildren and other spending that Mr. Paterson has sought to cut.
The Assembly proposal also makes no mention of so-called bond covenants, provisions that Mr. Ravitch has said would be inserted into any new bonds that would cut off borrowing if state officials did not maintain a balanced budget.
A state Assembly proposal that would have made it a misdemeanor to operate hotels outside areas where they are allowed by zoning codes died in a legislative committee.
Another idea in our assembly budget proposal is to extend this tax benefit to lower-income Californians who are self-employed.
