Sentences with phrase «ethics reform proposals»

There also is no shortage of good ethics reform proposals from the governor and some of the legislative conferences.

He also asked lawmakers to consider an eight - point ethics reform proposal, a $ 15 minimum wage and a paid family leave program.

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.

When the legislative session ended on June 21st, 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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined ethics reform proposals at his sixth and final State of the State address in Albany on Wednesday.

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's ethics reform proposal includes new regulations that would put political consultants under the same reporting requirement as lobbyists.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A new ethics reform proposal from Gov. Andrew Cuomo might require more detailed reporting of outside income for local elected officials.

Klein said the Legislature's leaders have not negotiated any agreements on other ethics reform proposals, including closing the LLC loophole in campaign finance laws or increasing enforcement on dark money campaign donations by independent expenditure committees.

The indictments come as ethics reform proposals in the state budget are faltering.

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.

He is expected to unveil what he promised will be a «robust» set of ethics reform proposals during his joint State of the State and budget address on Wednesday.

Mr. Heastie also announced that his caucus would unveil its new ethics reform proposals later today.

Last year, with ten days remaining in legislative session and confronted with a major ethics reform proposal from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters, «Let me make this as a blanket statement: It is late in the day for anything.»

The Senate and Assembly's attempt to craft their own ethics reform proposal has angered the governor and his aides.

ALBANY — State Senate Republicans introduced three ethics reforms proposals last night, including a measure that would make domestic partners of lawmakers — like Governor Andrew Cuomo's girlfriend Sandra Lee — disclose their finances.

«I don't want to come back on your show a year form now after we do some half - baked ethics reform proposal and it's not enough, and we're back to where we started from.»

The governor already scrapped ethics reform proposals from the state budget, because he said at the time that lawmakers would not enact them.

After Silver's January arrest Cuomo gave a speech at NYU outlining grand ethics reform proposals like public financing of campaigns and enacting a full - time legislature.

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.

When Cuomo announced the Democracy Project, Gotham Gazette inquired whether New Yorkers should expect campaign finance and government ethics reform proposals from the governor.

Town spokesman Michael Deery responded, «In an unprovoked attack on a progressive ethics reform proposal that would limit outside income for elected officials, Hempstead Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney has aligned herself with an extreme alt - right advocacy group.»

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.

Some of the other ethics reform proposals being pushed by government watchdogs and by Cuomo, will face resistance, promised DeFrancisco, the second most powerful Republican in the Senate.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he'll include ethics reform proposals in his State of the State speech Jan. 13 in Albany, but he has not provided details about his plan.

An ethics reform proposal quietly circulated between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders for a possible special session that also could include a pay raise is getting blasted by the state's attorney general as possibly unconstitutional.

Rep. Peter King endorsed former Republican state Sen. Jack Martins for Nassau County executive, citing his ethics reform proposals and plan to improve transparency in county contracting.

It should be noted that Silver reportedly is ready to get all the way on board with the governor's ethics reform proposal — even the part that would require him to fully disclose his client list at Weitz & Luxenberg, which is something that Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also of counsel (at the Long Island firm of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek), doesn't seem all that interested in doing.

As for possibility of providing more sunlight when it comes to the budget, Peters said: «We continue to engage the legislature towards a variety of ethics reform proposals.»

One ethics reform proposal that has been touted by Democrats has been a public financing system for all elections — using the New York City model.

There's still no final three way deal on an ethics reform proposal at the State Capitol.

But then Cuomo cut the commission's efforts short, agreeing to shut the body down in exchange for the Legislature's approval of some, but not all, of his ethics reform proposals.

They'll also talk about the nomination of Rep. John McHugh to be Secretary of the Army, ethics reform proposals, pension fund losses and much more.

Hempstead Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney, seen in September, has been at odds with outgoing Supervisor Anthony Santino for months over her ethics reform proposal.

While many of his proposals had been previewed over the past 10 days, the governor used the speech to announce a slew of ethics reform proposals, which seek to address issues at the heart of the two high - profile corruption convictions that ended the long careers of former Senate leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

In 2014, the governor's budget proposal contained campaign finance and ethics reforms proposals.

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.

Cuomo intends to insert his lengthy list of ethics reform proposals — pertaining to lawmakers» outside incomes, the warping power of big money in elections, and transparency improvement — into the budget plan, according to Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi.

A Republican - led Senate also likely means a continued stalemate on some ethics reform proposals.

The ethics package outlined by the governor and Assembly speaker Wednesday incorporates just some of this year's the ethics reform proposals.

There's still no final three way deal on an ethics reform proposal at the state Capitol.

Schneiderman went considerably further in his ethics reform proposals, which included a call to ban moonlighting by state lawmakers and giving them a big pay raise to compensate for their lost outside income.

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.

A Republican led Senate also likely means a continued stalemate on some ethics reform proposals.

Rep. Peter King (R - Seaford) endorsed former State Sen. Jack Martins for Nassau County executive Wednesday, citing his ethics reform proposals and plan to improve transparency in county contracting.

But a bitter fissure has apparently opened between Cuomo and GOP leader over the former's combined legislative pay hike and ethics reform proposals.

One of the things that many state elected officials have focused on in their ethics reform proposals is how to regulate legislator's outside income.