Sentences with phrase «legislative ethics laws»

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In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today outlined his ethics reform agenda for the 2015 legislative session at the NYU School of Law in New York City.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

State lawmakers will have to disclose more details about their outside earnings and business relationships under new ethics laws agreed to by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders.

Indeed, any sort of election law or ethics overhaul legislation is yet to be agreed to as the legislatives session enters its final 48 to 72 hours in Albany.

Despite the string of arrests doing little to help Albany's reputation for corruption, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the new state legislative leaders acknowledge there is little they can do to stem the arrests by passing new ethics and anti-corruption laws.

Talking to Bartiromo on Sunday, Cuomo stuck by his position that the defunct ethics panel was a success, and that while legislative leaders didn't enact all of the ethics reform he had sought, lawmakers still approved a package of laws that moves things forward.

«There can be no question that a full ethics investigation into this improper exertion of state legislative influence by Senator Libous is required, either by virtue of this complaint or on the Commission's own initiative, in order to hold the state senator fully accountable to the standards of ethical conduct and public integrity state law requires of all members of the legislature.»

The Assembly should therefore take concrete steps to overhaul the rules that keep it from functioning effectively as a legislative body, and make clear to New Yorkers that it is serious about enacting comprehensive and much - needed reforms to its ethics laws.

At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who publicly insists he wants meaningful ethics reform, is privately resisting one of Cuomo's key proposals, a requirement that all lawmakers disclose the clients they represent in their private law firms, legislative insiders said.

What is notable is what is not in the agreement — legislative compensation overhaul, desperately needed stronger ethics enforcement with greater public transparency of votes, comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing that closes the LLC loophole and bans all personal use of campaign funds, strong disclosure and accountability for all executive and legislative discretionary lump sum funds, and a commitment to undertake the necessary examination and full - scale overhaul of our ethics and campaign finance laws.

«Regardless how today's United States Supreme Court decision on the so - called «honest services» law is interpreted in Senator Bruno's case and going forward, the Legislature and the Governor must act this legislative session to toughen ethics oversight.

After Libous» conviction of a single felony count of lying to the FBI about using his public post to get his son, Matthew, a job at a politically connected law firm — a decision that automatically ejected him from his Senate seat — six good government groups renewed their call for a special legislative session to address ethics reform.

During the first legislative session after her election as governor, her administration passed a state ethics law overhaul.

Established in 2011, Jcope oversees the executive and legislative branches and investigates violations of state ethics and lobbying laws.

Russ Haven, the group's legislative counsel, said it disagreed with the commission's interpretation of the ethics laws and would ask the commission to reconsider its finding.

There's been little public talk by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie or Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan during the legislative session, about passing tough new ethics laws, and no reforms have been approved by the Legislature.

Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi called the Schimminger legislation «another smokescreen,» saying he'd push changes that would affect lawmakers if he were serious about ethics reforms — like having the state freedom of information law cover the Legislature, banning pork - barrel spending known as «member items,» imposing term limits and eliminating legislative stipends.

FPI's Executive Director, Ron Deutsch joins Barbara Bartoletti, Legislative Director for the League of Women Voters of New York State and Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG on WCNY News to discuss the failure of lawmakers to pass contract procurement and ethic reforms and voting laws.

The Senate, for instance, in its resolution regarding the version of the proposed 2017 - 18 state budget, they say the «Senate denies the Executive proposal to subject the legislature and the legislative ethics commission to the same freedom of information law provisions to which executive agencies are subject.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will call for an overhaul of Albany's ethics laws, including an end to outside income and per diem payments, and an increase in legislative pay, in a speech to the good government group Citizens Union on Monday evening.

The Daily News reports on Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr. — who has already been accused of corruption by the U.S. Attorney's Office and violating state ethics laws by the Legislative Ethics Committee — owes more than $ 21,350 in unpaid penalties to the Board of Elections for failing to file financial statements, according to Board spokesman John Conklin.

However, when the ethics commission was formed in June, 2011, the accompanying announcement said JCOPE would indeed «have jurisdiction to investigate potential violations of law by legislators and legislative employees ``, and deliver its findings to the Legislative Ethics legislative employees ``, and deliver its findings to the Legislative Ethics Legislative Ethics Commission.

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