Sentences with phrase «state lobbying laws»

(See: In violation of state lobbying laws, corporate education reform group develops Malloy's disastrous special education funding proposal.)

In 2017, Glenwood, which was not charged with wrongdoing in the Silver trial, admitted it had violated state lobbying laws in connection to its relationship with both Silver and former New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

He's talking about the possibility of campaign finance reform, election reform, even possible changes to state lobbying laws.

-- State lobbying laws requiring disclosure by firms and officials would be extended to municipalities with a population greater than 5,000.

Enforcement of those state lobbying laws is the province of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, a 14 - member body where six of the members and the executive director are selected by the governor.

Not exact matches

Emails WEDC released to the Wisconsin State Journal under the state open records law show that WMC, the state's largest business lobby, alerted WEDC in June that other states were seeking to lure Kraft Heinz facilities out of WiscoState Journal under the state open records law show that WMC, the state's largest business lobby, alerted WEDC in June that other states were seeking to lure Kraft Heinz facilities out of Wiscostate open records law show that WMC, the state's largest business lobby, alerted WEDC in June that other states were seeking to lure Kraft Heinz facilities out of Wiscostate's largest business lobby, alerted WEDC in June that other states were seeking to lure Kraft Heinz facilities out of Wisconsin.

Adapt has worked with state legislators and federal policymakers about adjusting laws and removing burdens for access, and spent $ 470,000 on lobbying in 2016 and 2017, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks political spending.

They're challenging a 2011 state statute, backed by the gun lobby, that outlines penalties for elected officials who try to enact local gun laws, including a $ 5,000 fine and the prospect of being removed from office.

Diocesan lawyers filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Hartford May 29 asking that a decision by the Connecticut Office of State Ethics determining the Bridgeport Diocese was subject to laws governing lobbying organizations be overturned.

In the early 2000s, the Church lobbied successfully for a law returning church property that had been confiscated by the Soviet state.

Some say the emphasis should be on new federal legislation, while others support local and state laws, and still others lobby for a constitutional amendment.

The lobbying efforts of this group contributed to the liberalization of abortion laws in the State of New York before Roe v. Wade, and no doubt had an indirect effect on that decision itself.

Evangelicals have increasingly embraced state versions of the federal government's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and some have lobbied for same - sex marriage laws to include sufficient religious exemptions.

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New laws making it illegal to take pictures or film agricultural animals came into force in the US states of Utah and Iowa, lobbied for by an industry attempting to keep secret what happens on factory farms.

Led by Adam Silver and the NBA, but followed with the fervor of a new convert by Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball, the leagues have done a 180 on this and are now actively lobbying states in an effort to help craft the sports gambling laws.

«There are many changes in state law that will be coming up in the next few years, and I wouldn't want to be without lobbying power» in Springfield, she said.

Since 2009, the league, to its credit, has also been lobbying hard in favor of laws - now in place in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and with more sure to follow this year - requiring concussion education of parents and athletes, banning same - day return - to - play after a suspected concussion, and requiring medical clearance before a concussed athlete is allowed back on the playing field, diamond or ice.

«There's a lot more to nutrition than that,» said Lemon, whose organization lobbied for a change in the state law.

We lobbied the Montana legislator to pass a concussion education and return to play law in our state.

Illinois supporters lobbied for two decades before a 2007 law authorized a pilot program that allows 10 free - standing centers around the state.

Doesn't Dean Skelos have a law firm which also lobbies the state?

What Brodsky was referring to was actually a series of press releases from the state DAs Association, which vehemently opposed, and lobbied to block, drug law reform both in 2004 when the first changes were signed into law by then - Gov.

Also at 5:30 p.m., an opening reception for «Their Glory Can Never Fade: The Legacy of the Harlem Hellfighters,» will be held in the lobby outside the Vietnam Memorial Gallery in the Robert Abrams Building for Law and Justice at the Empire State Plaza, Albany.

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In our eyes, JCOPE will have little credibility until new laws are passed which prohibit the Committee from appointing an executive director, or senior managers, who have worked for a sitting governor, attorney general, comptroller, the legislature, or a firm which lobbies the state of New York.

This law is the direct result of strong lobbying efforts by our union and others and it will beneficially impact all Hotel Trades Council members employed in New York State.

The measure would make changes to the state's lobbying laws, campaign finance limits for state legislative candidates, and legislative redistricting process.

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January 13, 2010 (readMedia)-- On January 12th over 1,500 gun owners celebrated the Second Amendment in Albany and lobbied their representatives in the State Assembly and Senate to reform NYS gun laws and bring them into line with the landmark legal decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.

«If the governor is going to hire people for his political operation, he should be much more transparent and not bury them in corners of state government so as to avoid scrutiny,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of the government reform group Citizens Union, which is currently in litigation with the Cuomo administration over a 2016 nonprofit lobbying law.

But tenant groups went to Albany on Tuesday to lobby for the repeal of the vacancy allowance, which they call the «eviction bonus,» in the state's rent law.

Moss is chairman of the state's Sheriffs Association, an influential law enforcement lobbying organization that knows Albany well.

ALBANY — The end of session reform package passed by lawmakers early Saturday morning includes a dozen changes to the state's campaign finance system, lobbying law, and constitution.

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Former State Lobbying Commission Executive Director David Grandeau tells us why he thinks Judge Kaye's report clearly suggests that Gov. Paterson violated the Public Officer's Law.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»

Horner wrote a letter to the Times Union in 2014 in defense of the state's Scaffold Law, which is supported by the trial lawyers» lobby.

Alan Van Capelle, the executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA), the state's LGBT lobby group, and out gay Chelsea Democratic Senator Thomas K. Duane, the measure's lead sponsor, both reiterated their confidence in the wake of an election in which a Republican marriage equality supporter was forced from an upstate congressional race and voters in Maine narrowly opted to repeal the gay marriage law there.&rState Pride Agenda (ESPA), the state's LGBT lobby group, and out gay Chelsea Democratic Senator Thomas K. Duane, the measure's lead sponsor, both reiterated their confidence in the wake of an election in which a Republican marriage equality supporter was forced from an upstate congressional race and voters in Maine narrowly opted to repeal the gay marriage law there.&rstate's LGBT lobby group, and out gay Chelsea Democratic Senator Thomas K. Duane, the measure's lead sponsor, both reiterated their confidence in the wake of an election in which a Republican marriage equality supporter was forced from an upstate congressional race and voters in Maine narrowly opted to repeal the gay marriage law there.»

New York's lobbying law requires anyone who spends more than $ 5,000 in an attempt to influence any local law or ordinance, or any pending procurement action, to register its activities with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The coalition is a state - funded group that lobbies for anti-tobacco laws in hopes of cutting the state's smoking rate.

Albany, NY — The state ethics commission is cracking down on receptions held by lobby groups at the state Capitol, and has charged three groups, including the trial lawyers and a police association with violating a new law that bans gifts worth more than an ordinary cup of coffee.

Following several tragedies in recent months, Cuomo made an impassioned plea during his address on Wednesday for the state's legislature to ignore pressure from gun lobbies and deliver New York the toughest gun laws in the nation.

For years, Syracuse University has contracted Whiteman Osterman & Hanna - an Albany law firm - to lobby on its behalf with New York state officials.