Sentences with phrase «file state legislator»

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke), and Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I - Schoharie) today called for a «Spirit of «76» revolt by rank and file state legislators to clean up corruption and break the stranglehold on the Capitol that's been exerted by powerful leaders who time after time have prevented common sense reforms from becoming law in New York.

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The three - term legislator filed his papers with the secretary of the state's office Thursday to have his name placed on the Aug. 14 primary ballot.

· Empower Individual Legislators: Attorney General Schneiderman also proposed reforms to the way the State Senate and Assembly operate that would empower rank - and - file lawmakers, as a means of attracting more talented people to legislative service.

State legislators in Lansing have also filed bills to legalize cannabis as well.

The starting salary for a rank - and - file legislator is $ 79,500 (compared to $ 136,000 for the average state Supreme Court justice).

That law allowed for the pensions of subsequently elected legislators to be taken after a criminal conviction, and defined «public official» in a way that also included rank - and - file state employees but excluded police officers, firefighters and teachers.

Even though it is a part - time job, legislators qualify for pension benefits equal to full - time jobs because they file a form with the state comptroller's office each year that declares that they do in fact work more than 30 hours a week.

Rank and file legislators fear a repeat of the 2010 bid rigging scandal over gambling at the Aqueduct that cost the State Senate's Democrats their majority, but don't want to be shutout of the dealing on the lucrative casino licenses.

For example, without clicking into each report, they'd be unable to determine that Albany - based Ostroff Associates represents American Traffic Solutions, the county's red - light camera vendor — which also ran the short - lived school - zone speed - camera program — or that Uber, which has its own filing, is also represented in a filing by Craig Johnson, a former Democratic state senator and Nassau County legislator.

Every year, the same story plays out in Washington, D.C.: Alaska legislators sometimes file bills to change the name from Mount McKinley to Denali, and every year, someone in the Ohio congressional delegation — the home state of the 25th President William McKinley — files legislation to block a name change.

-- Lawyer - legislators would be required to disclose and provide an explanation of any source of income over $ 1,000 in forms filed annually with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Last week, state legislators running for reelection, and those challenging them, filed financial disclosure reports with the state's Board of Elections.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Prosecutors want disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to spend at least 14 years in prison — more than any jail term given to other convicted New York state legislators — for his conviction on corruption charges, according to papers filed in federal court Wednesday.

Rank - and - file legislators have yet to see specific school aid runs, which show how much state aid will be sent to various school districts.

In modern times, though, the state's power and budget have swelled and the responsibility of rank - and - file legislators has theoretically grown.

State legislators in both the Assembly and Senate sought to require REDC members to disclose their finances, deliberate in the open and file public notices of any of their ties to organizations seeking state mState legislators in both the Assembly and Senate sought to require REDC members to disclose their finances, deliberate in the open and file public notices of any of their ties to organizations seeking state mstate money.

ALBANY — Law firms that employ state legislators have filed a motion to block a Cuomo - backed panel from finding out who their clients are, according to court papers.

Morales filed paperwork with the Board of Elections stating the I.D.C. Initiative's intent to aid State Senator Tony Avella, the newest member of the I.D.C., Erie County legislator Betty Jean Grant, and Jesse Hamilton, the heir apparent to former State Senator Eric Adams, in September's primary.

ALBANY — State legislators have introduced bills that would require emails from rank - and - file state employees to be retained for a minimum of seven years — reversing a Cuomo administration policy of automatically deleting messages after 90 days — and in one case open the Assembly and Senate to the Freedom of InformationState legislators have introduced bills that would require emails from rank - and - file state employees to be retained for a minimum of seven years — reversing a Cuomo administration policy of automatically deleting messages after 90 days — and in one case open the Assembly and Senate to the Freedom of Informationstate employees to be retained for a minimum of seven years — reversing a Cuomo administration policy of automatically deleting messages after 90 days — and in one case open the Assembly and Senate to the Freedom of Information Law.

Rank - and - file members of the state House of Representatives share assistants — about one constituent aide for every five legislators — and those House members serve nearly twice as many constituents as Hartford council members do.

A group of educators and state legislators have filed suit against Hanna Skandera, the secretary - designate of the New Mexico Public Education Department, seeking to invalidate the department's teacher evaluation policies that Skandera enacted without legislative approval.

Even as NEA and AFT affiliates rallied rank - and - file members to the state capital in order to remind legislators that they will attempt to make them pay for opposing the union's will, Parent Power groups such as Black Alliance for Educational Options rallied members to call state senators and made clear that families would no longer sit on the sidelines.

According to the group's most recent filing with the State Ethics Commission (filed yesterday), the corporate funded education reform advocacy front group also spent $ 14,000 for subway sandwiches and $ 6,771 to Staples to pay for the signs demanding that Connecticut legislators hand over nearly $ 21 million in scarce taxpayer money so that the infamous Steve Perry can open a publicly funded, but privately owned charter school in Bridgeport and a Bronx, New York charter school chain can save Stamford by opening up a charter school there.

More Information: Further details of Mr. Vaad's deep and substantive ties with ALEC, details of IRS 501 (c)(3) tax fraud charges filed against ALEC by Common Cause and ALEC model legislation calling for repeal of state Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the ALEC Market - Power Renewables Act that directly seeks to influence state legislators and public utility commissioners to weaken clean energy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the Colorado PUC

Lobbyists for the utility industry have filed disclosure forms populated with expenditures on meals and events for state legislators.

Two state legislators that have sponsored and introduced bills to help Arizona's largest utility, Arizona Public Service, recently filed a complaint against the committee working to increase the state's renewable energy standard — Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona.

ALEC's annual meeting is taking place in Chicago this week, just as Common Cause and CMD have filed a complaint to the IRS over ALEC's corporate - funded «Scholarships» for state legislators — ALEC is a tax exempt non-profit despite their mission of facilitating an exchange of company - crafted laws with state legislators in closed - door meetings.

A number of recent Disney injury cases have been reported in local media outlets, who caught wind either via a public court filing or through the company's own periodic injury report, which it releases voluntarily to the public (part of its deal with legislators to avoid state inspections).