Sentences with phrase «ethics reform package before»

The governor is promising to introduce his own ethics reform package before the legislative session ends in June.

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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has said lawmakers can choose to clean up their acts or face repeated prosecutions, said Cuomo's package was «welcome news,» but hoped lawmakers would «use today's announcement as another clear sign that Albany must pass comprehensive ethics reform before the end of session.»

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo and leaders of the scandal - scarred Legislature agreed on a sweeping ethics - reform package late yesterday that will at long last force lawmakers to publicly disclose their outside incomes and name clients they represent before the state.

But that did not happen before Cuomo was able to use the commission's report to get state lawmakers to agree to a package of ethics reforms, which created new crimes for violating the public trust and corrupting government.

Gov. Cuomo is signaling he wants a stronger package of ethics reforms from state lawmakers before signing off on a pay raise for state lawmakers.