Sentences with phrase «government ethics proposals»

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo put a positive spin on the just - concluded legislative session on Wednesday, and said he will not recall lawmakers to the Capitol to tackle some government ethics proposals that went unaddressed.

Legislation enabling ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City will be included in the budget's Article VII bills, as will the government ethics proposals Cuomo announced last week and language to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18.

Not exact matches

A fiscally conservative good - government group last week credited Republican Hempstead Town Supervisor Anthony Santino for offering some «common sense proposals» to combat conflicts of interests and nepotism as part of a plan to update the town's ethics code.

Also at 2:30 p.m., Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis discuss state government corruption and promote proposals to change state government ethics regulations, during a roundtable discussion for reporters and photographers; Royal Restaurant, 7609 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn.

The matter of prioritization for the bill - signing also underscores questions about the bill being necessary in the first place, but also issue that many took with Cuomo's abandonment of other, more pressing government ethics and campaign finance reform proposals, many of which he had previously claimed to champion.

During his 2018 State of the State speech on Wednesday in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo spent little time on government ethics reform, but did address at somewhat greater length his proposals to increase access to the ballot box and change state campaign finance law.

Cuomo's briefing book described his latest proposals as «the most ambitious ethics and good government reform package ever to restore New Yorkers confidence in their representatives.»

«The Senate supports enhanced disclosure to ensure transparency and accountability in government, and will modify the Governor's ethics proposals, as well as the education reform initiatives advanced as part of the Executive budget,» the Republican conference stated.

Meanwhile on Monday, Astorino unveiled a 10 - point ethics proposal, calling for term limits, a shorter legislative session and other changes that he says will help combat government corruption.

According to the official, Cuomo will detail his proposals for government reform and ethics during a speech in Albany on Wednesday.

Gov. Cuomo's budget contains a number of ethics proposals, including one that would limit legislators» outside income to 15 percent of their government salary.

In a major departure from his predecessor, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie publicly laid out his conference's proposals for government ethics reform during a wide - ranging speech and interview Friday morning.

Voting, government ethics, and campaign finance reforms are among many of Cuomo's 2017 policy proposals that did not materialize last year, either due to resistance from the Legislature, a lack of more aggressive lobbying by the governor, or other challenges.

The governor has not yet released any proposals around government ethics or campaign finance reform, which are annual topics of controversy in Albany.

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

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.

The New York City Bar Association's committee on government ethics said the proposal «is both practical and sensible, and presents an opportunity to build toward obtaining the goal of providing the public and government officials with an accurate picture of who is spending what to influence the exercise of governmental power by those officials» but urged the tightening of a definition.

Among other things, the proposal calls for «wider authority» for the state ethics board to root out conflicts of interest by local government officials.

The proposal nearly passed by the Senate would return ethics oversight to a separate board to investigate government officials and another to regulate lobbying.

The agenda for New York's six - month legislative session promises big debates over the cost of higher education, government ethics and Uber's proposal to expand into upstate cities like Buffalo and Syracuse, as well as a bill that would «Raise the Age» — therein ending the state's practice of prosecuting 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults.

The Republican majority in the Senate, on the other hand, rejected virtually all of Cuomo's «good government and ethics» proposals.

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.