Sentences with phrase «former state agency officials»

Wisconsin law bars former state agency officials from lobbying their former departments for 12 months after leaving state service.

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Mass Audubon has named Mary Griffin, former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game and a longtime official with the state environmental agencies, as its Regional Director for the Southeast, Cape & Islands.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

New York's Public Officers Law bans former government officials from appearing before the state agencies where they worked for two years in a paid capacity, and also says state employees can not ever practice, appear before or ever even «communicate» with those agencies on matters over which they were «directly concerned» during their state employment, or which were under their «active consideration.»

The agency paid the state's Environmental Protection Fund $ 945,000 for the former Cascone property in Manorville, DEC officials said, adding that the now - vacant wetlands area has been on the agency's wish list since 2000.

The state Public Officers Law that covers lobbying says no former public official «who has served as an officer or any employee in the executive chamber of the governor shall within a period of two years after termination of such services appear or practice before any state agency.»

The Florida Constitution Revision Commission advanced a sweeping ethics package, which includes a proposed six - year lobbying ban for former state lawmakers, agency heads and local government officials.

A Department of Homeland Security watchdog report blasted the agency's No. 2 official for repeatedly intervening on behalf of well - connected participants in an investor - visa program, including Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Tony Rodham, a brother of former Secretary of State Clinton.

'' Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined today by representatives from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency («ECIDA»), the Empire State Development Corporation («ESD»), the City of Lackawanna, and Tecumseh Redevelopment Inc. along with numerous other officials and agencies to announce Erie County's acquisition of 148 acres of industrial land at the former Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

• Higgins» April blast at state officials for lack of action at the Canalside «Aud Block,» charging the unfilled hole at the former Buffalo Memorial Auditorium site resulted from the harbor development agency being «distracted» by other issues.

He could also campaign for Amendment 8, which would allow an alternative process for approving public schools, including charter schools, rather than by local school boards, and Amendment 12, which would impose a six - year lobbying ban on former state elected officials, state agencies heads and local elected officials.

Compared with Indian representatives, Chinese diplomats have shown greater willingness at international meetings to consider altering the subsidy for waste gas credits, said Stephen O. Andersen, a former United States Environmental Protection Agency official who is now with the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development in Washington.

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Arnold & Porter's national security practice includes a host of former top officials — including former State Department legal adviser John Bellinger III; former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith; and Ronald Lee, who previously served as the general counsel to the National Security Agency.

The Developer offered an affidavit from a former HUD official stating that he believed the agency did not apply these provisions to developments with less than a 100 units.