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Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco on Thursday in a radio interview decried what he sees as «out of control» disclosure laws after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the latest ethics bill into law.

ALBANY, N.Y. — One day after signing his fourth ethics bill into law since taking office as governor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday there's still more work that's needed to be done.

Not exact matches

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

A version of the bill was included in an Assembly Minority ethics reform package and did not make it into the budget.

But he does believe that the additional disclosure requirements, tucked into a bill passed last June, was payback for past critiques by government reform groups on lack of ethics reforms in Albany.

But Cuomo's posture on inserting ethics legislation into spending bills has met opposition in the Legislature, where lawmakers want to be able to negotiate the finer points of the agreement.

But with the new ethics bill (apparently about to be signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo) requiring new disclosure of outside income, that's looking like a less attractive option for some senators and assembly members.

An ethics bill New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says will increase accountability and transparency was signed into law Wednesday.

Cuomo is reportedly planning to send an ethics program bill to the Legislature in hopes of pressuring members into taking a public stand on the measure.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his 30 - day budget amendments, which jammed the Legislature by stuffing ever more policy (particularly ethics reforms) into appropriations bills, on Feb. 21 — almost two weeks ago.

The ethics refresher was ordered as the burgeoning federal probe into police corruption has resulted in the transfers of nine officers, including eight high - level supervisors, many of them stripped of their guns and badges, for their dealings with two wealthy Brooklyn businessmen who are also large donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio and were on his Inauguration Team.

On that August day in 2011 when he signed the bill into law, there was no hint that the new ethics commission was anything short of a miraculous cure.

Calls for ethics legislation — varying measures have been approved virtually every year Cuomo has been governor — come as still more investigations are underway into the state's economic development programs in upstate New York and Mayor Bill de Blasio's political activities in New York City.

The new ethics bill would temporarily halt any current investigations by the Public Integrity Commission, including the probe into former SUNY Research head John O'Connor.

However, it's unclear if the latest corruption news — including the FBI raid of Queens Assemblyman Bill Scarborough and the reported investigation into a land purchase by Senator Kathy Marchione — will spur officials to include ethics in the budget.

The Senate and Assembly draft their own small - bore ethics bills bound for nowhere, and everyone hopes the issue slides into oblivion.

Gov. Cuomo repeated a threat he's made several times in his effort to win approval for a tough ethics reform bill now pending in the Legislature, one that would finally put teeth into enforcement.

The non-endorsement comes after Mayor Bill de Blasio's ethics are once again being called into question after a donor testified at a corruption trial of union boss Norman Seabrook how he was able to secure influence and face time with the mayor after contributing to his campaign.

ALBANY — Top lawmakers emerged from a private meeting with Governor Andrew Cuomo today saying they might consider proposals to change the state laws on ethics and education as standalone bills, despite Cuomo's attempt to bake language into his $ 141.6 billion spending proposal.

East Hampton Town Ethics Committee East Hampton Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson announced last Thursday night that the town ethics board had found no wrongdoing after being asked to look into whether Len Bernard, the budget officer, had acted improperly in corresponding from his town office with the state comptroller and a member of the press regarding assertions in campaign literature for Zachary Cohen, Mr. Wilkinson's Democratic challenger in the November election.

The agenda for New York's six - month legislative session promises big debates over the cost of higher education, government ethics and Uber's proposal to expand into upstate cities like Buffalo and Syracuse, as well as a bill that would «Raise the Age» — therein ending the state's practice of prosecuting 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in the fall of 2014 that any effort to pass paid leave would have to wait until the state had passed a suite of bills codifying a woman's right to secure an abortion into the state's health code, and later Cuomo said the Legislature, mired in ethics scandals, «lacked the appetite» to consider paid leave.

The concerns about Bill C - 27 have caught the attention of the ethics commissioner, who says she's looking into the accusations to determine whether an investigation is necessary.

At the end of the day, perhaps it's economics, rather than legal ethics, will drive the practice of bill padding into extinction.

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