Sentences with phrase «ethics reform proposal includes»
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.
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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.»
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.