A complex proposal to expand early retirement benefits to state workers was also held up along with the other two issues.

There have been proposals to expand the regular season schedule to 17 or 18 games per team.

Among some Republicans, proposals to hire teachers and expand financing for research are popular.

A proposal to expand an office park on the edge of the business district has also drawn strong opposition from residents.

No fewer than 21 proposals to build plants or expand existing ones are before the state.

Efforts to settle failed, as did a proposal to expand the number of districts from five to seven.

The proposal to expand the highway without a tunnel would take one year to design, 18 months to build and cost $175 million.

But the proposals to expand access to this data will be likely to spur objections.

But he overruled a proposal to expand the firefighters' authority further.

Voters in 2002 rejected a proposal to expand the board of trustees to five members.