Sentences with phrase «ethics proposals included»

«The Senate Democrats will continue pushing our aggressive ethics proposals including a full - time Legislature, restrictions on outside income and stripping the pensions from officials convicted of corruption.»

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Cuomo is pushing a package of ethics reform proposals including public financing of political campaigns and strengthened disclosure of outside income for elected officials — measure he says must be in the final state budget agreement.

Cuomo did include a package of ethics measures in the budget, reiterating proposals such as limits to outside income for lawmakers and term limits through constitutional amendments.

When the legislative session ended on June 21, lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform proposals in light of an economic development scandal in the Cuomo administration.

In his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his vision for New York, including a bold proposal for comprehensive ethics reform.

When the state legislative session ended on June 21, lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform proposals made in light of the economic development scandal in the Cuomo administration.

Under the banner of «Advancing the Democracy Agenda,» the governor's 14 - point plan lays out a familiar suite of reforms, including ethics proposals that «close the LLC loophole» in political spending, procurement reform that would more closely monitor how state contracts are awarded and voting reforms like same - day voter registration and early voting.

Gov. Cuomo Proposes Public Financing of Elections in State of the State Address In his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his vision for New York, including a bold proposal for comprehensive ethics reform.

«They haven't introduced a proposal for ethics reform,» Gianaris said (Republicans have introduced ethics bills, including one seemingly aimed at having the governor's girlfriend, Sandra Lee of the Food Network, release her financial information.

On these issues, our Conference has staked out clear positions that, in the case of ethics reform for example, are even stronger than what is included in the Executive's budget proposals and we look forward to advancing these issues at the appropriate time.»

The budget proposal also includes more money to fund sexual harassment investigations in an oft - criticized state ethics oversight panel.

Young fenced with Democratic State Sen. Daniel Squadron about ethics proposals — including a cap on outside income for legislators — that the GOP did not include in its resolution.

Several of his ethics reform proposals were approved in the most recent state budget, including forcing legislators to reveal all outside sources of income over $ 1,000 and the loss of pension benefits for elected officials convicted of corruption.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo included a public financing system, along with a package of ethics reform legislation, in his $ 142 billion budget proposal.

In January, Cuomo included the plan, along with a suite of ethics and anti-corruption legislation, in his $ 142 billion budget proposal.

Senate Republicans released the details of their one - house budget resolution on Wednesday that includes alternatives to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's property tax as well as plans to modify his education and ethics proposals.

And he consistently opposes ethics reform or disclosure requirements, including a proposal this year that would have required lawmakers to sign their names to earmarks, on the grounds that voters police lawmakers» actions.

The governor said he was disappointed that the GOP - controlled state Senate did not include any ethics measures as part of their budget proposal.

Cuomo has threatened not to approve a spending plan that didn't include his proposals to change ethics and education laws, but according to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, has not mentioned it in private session.

«The Governor's extender should include the real Raise The Age proposal, a college affordability plan including the DREAM Act, fully fund public education, and create real voting and ethics reforms.»

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo's ethics reform plan includes the following proposal:

Major issues during the 2016 legislative session included raising the minimum wage, funding public education, ethics reform, and proposals to allow Uber to expand to upstate New York.

An ethics reform proposal quietly circulated between Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York legislative leaders for a possible special session that could also include a pay raise is getting blasted by the State's Attorney General as possibly unconstitutional.

Legislation enabling ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City will be included in the budget's Article VII bills, as will the government ethics proposals Cuomo announced last week and language to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18.

Gov. Cuomo's budget contains a number of ethics proposals, including one that would limit legislators» outside income to 15 percent of their government salary.

Democratic Sen. Mike Gianaris of Queens stopped by Capital Tonight on Monday to tout his conference's ethics proposal that includes public financing of political campaigns, restrictions on using campaign dollars for criminal defense and stripping those convicted of public corruption of their pensions through a constitutional amendment.

A Cuomo administration official, speaking anonymously because negotiations are ongoing, said an ethics proposal under consideration would force lawmakers to disclose the source of any outside income they receive within narrow bands, including any money «in substantial conflict with public duties» of a lawmaker.

While Mr. Cuomo has remained adamant that his ethics proposals must be included in the budget, he has started to relent on some other issues.

The package is actually the third ethics reform proposal to come out in the wake of twin corruption scandals that have rocked Albany: Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to tighten anti-bribery laws while IDC Sen. Jeff Klein proposed a gigantic package that includes nearly every ethics proposal of the last decade.

The presentation was a combination of Cuomo's state of the state message and his budget proposal, which includes ethics reform.

That sentiment has been echoed in recent days by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat who promised as recently as Tuesday that his agenda for 2016 would include a «very aggressive ethics proposal,» despite his previous assertions that little could be done legislatively to solve venal behavior by lawmakers determined to break the law.

Although touted in the State of the State address and included in Cuomo's executive budget proposal, all of his proposed ethics fixes dropped out by the March 31 deadline.

ALBANY — Calling his government reform proposal «the whole loaf,» «the ultimate remedy,» «the most aggressive ethics reform we've ever seen» and «the most dramatic and aggressive [package] in the country,» Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday reiterated his suggestion he could shut down the government if legislators don't approve a state budget that includes the plan.

ALBANY — Senate Republicans are drafting language on changes to state ethics laws, including a proposal to disclose some law clients, indicating they are close to reaching agreement with Democrats.

When the legislative session ended on June 21, New York lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform proposals in light of an economic development scandal in the Cuomo Administration.

King Sweeney has been calling for ethics reform and Santino's proposal, which passed by a 4 - 3 vote, includes a $ 125,000 outside income cap that King Sweeney has said is a «political hit job» to keep her, an aviation attorney, from running for re-election.

«The Governor has included comprehensive ethics reform in his Executive Budget proposal just as he has every other year,» said Cuomo spokesperson Abbey Fashouer.

In his budget proposal, the governor again included ethics and campaign fund - raising changes, including putting in place a system of public financing for state political campaigns modeled after the one used in New York City, where small donations are matched with public funds.

Schneiderman's ethics proposal contains pieces of Cuomo's 2013 Public Trust Act, plus knottier concepts including a ban on all outside income for lawmakers and a commensurate boost in their pay.

Last month, Mr. Cuomo, also a Democrat, said he would not approve any budget that did not include his five - point ethics plan, including proposals on income disclosure.

Trying to make his reality less gloomy than all that — and, to be fair, surely with the genuine intent of reducing misbehavior in all branches of government — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has included a package of ethics reform proposals in the agenda he laid out in a series of State of the State speeches around the state this week.

While students learn the nuts and bolts of conducting research, including ethics, authorship, the art of asking good research questions, software training, the writing of research proposals, and the conducting of blind peer reviews, they work for eight hours a week alongside a faculty member who is running a research project in the community.

His projects in various media include an opera set in Griffith Park; a live / video performance addressing AIDS in the figure of the glory hole; a trilogy on «the residual space of the Vietnam War;» an extended proposal of Duchamp's oeuvre as a discourse in ethics; a meditation on the site / non-site dialectic by way of Edgar Allan Poe; context - specific works centering on the squatting body as a heuristic cipher; and a twenty - year plus collaboration with the writer and art world figure Warren Niesłuchowski.

Recent ideas for reform have drawn on diverse sources, including the Carnegie Report, 6 as well as newly proposed recommendations for «best practices» in legal education7 and highly publicized accounts of changes in law school curricula at elite schools like Harvard.8 Like several earlier proposals, 9 these reform efforts concentrate on law schools» failure to deal systematically with training for legal practice, as well as on these schools» haphazard approach to teaching legal ethics.

As well as seeking approval from the ethics committee of the academic institution or hospital where the research will take place, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) stipulates that for Aboriginal health research, the ethics approval process must include an assessment by, or advice from, people who have connections with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or knowledge of research in the area, and who are familiar with the culture and practices of Indigenous participants in the study.9 Most states and territories have their own dedicated ethics committee for Aboriginal health research proposals (Box 2).