Legislative Rules Reform
Resource Page
(Backstory to How the Legislature Operates)
Budget
Resource Page --
Constitutional, Statutory, Legislative Rule Provisions, Caselaw,
Etc.
CJA's 2017 FOIL
Requests
What's
happening with the FY 2017-18 state budget?
"RED
ALERT:
The NYS budget is OFF the constitutional rails"
Article VII, §§1-7; Article IV, §7;
Article III, §10 of NYS Constitution --
hand-out to Westchester Co. Legislators at Feb.
3, 2017 local budget hearing
1.
Fiscal Year 2017-2018
budget documents
2.
CJA's
correspondence with legislative leaders
in advance of the
Legislature's budget hearings
on Jan. 30, 2017 & Jan.
31, 2017
3.
VIDEO:
CJA's testimony at the
Legislature's
Jan. 30, 2017 budget hearingon "local gov't
officials
/general gov't"
4.
VIDEO:
CJA's testimony at the
Legislature's
Jan. 31, 2017 budget hearing on "public protection"
5.
CJA's February 6,
2017 letter
to
Legislative leaders
6.
CJA's March 29, 2017 Order to Show Cause
& Verified Supplemental Complaint in 2nd
Citizen-Taxpayer Action
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Also, see
CJA's April 5, 2017 e-mail to Assembly Members Goodell,
Lopez,
Castorina, Malliotakis, Murray, Stec, Butler,
Crouch, McLaughlin --
"Your DUTY to expose
the '3-men-in-a-room'-'amended budget bills as treason to
the NYS Constitution --
violating Article VII, Secs. 4,
5, 6 & Article III, Sec. 10"
CJA's April 5, 20217 second e-mail to them
--
"AG Schneiderman's duty to advise the
Legislature that the behind-closed-doors,
'3-men-in-a-room'-'amended' budget bills of Heastie,
Flanagan & Cuomo violate Article VII, Secs 4, 5, 6 & Article
3, Sec. 10 of the NYS Constitution -- & are a treason
thereof"
CJA's April 13, 2017 e-mail to Legislative Director
to Assemblyman Richard Gottfried --
"Assemblyman Gottfried's powerful April 8th statement on the
Assembly floor regarding the workers' compensation drug
prescription legislation in budget bill #A.3009-C"
Assemblyman Gottfried's Legislative Director's April
13, 2017 e-mail
CJA's January 8, 2018 e-mail to Assemblyman Gottfried --
"Assemblyman Gottfried's participation tomorrow as a
panelist
in City & State's forum on this year's budget
priorities"
CJA's January 9, 2018 e-mail to Assemblyman Gottfried,
Assemblyman Weprin & Assemblywoman Solages --
"EDUCATING THE PUBLIC
about the constitutional
constraints that pertain to the budet --
TONIGHT's City
& State panel discussion"
attached constitutional provisions
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The Press in Action
