Sentences with phrase «government ethics reforms»

There's a chance that the minimum wage will be dealt with, along with several other major policy issues like government ethics reform, in the legislative session following the budget.

Key measures included passage of a balanced two - year state budget, increased funding for K - 12 education, additional money for boosting teacher pay, and sweeping government ethics reform.

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.

Governor Andrew Cuomo forgot about government ethics reform.

He is pro-public school teacher and loudly in favor of government ethics reform.

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.

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

Amid increasing calls for New York to pass bold government ethics reform and minimize the role of money in elections, a bipartisan majority of state lawmakers has taken a symbolic but somewhat significant step in calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution overturning the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case.

Many believe that the only hope for government ethics reform is agreement on pension forfeiture for elected officials convicted of public corruption.

During his State of the State speech last Wednesday, in a brief segment one reporter called «increasingly moldy» and another called «rote,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo talked about government ethics reform.

Schneiderman staked out a position on government ethics reform that let Cuomo's own brokered agreement seem pitiful.

In January, the governor made closing the LLC loophole a key plank of his government ethics reform package.

As always, there are a number of high - profile items, like an increase of the minimum wage or government ethics reform, that could be pushed beyond the budget and into the legislative session to follow.

A government ethics reform bill, jointly passed by the state Legislature Monday for a second time, amends the state constitution and allows the state to reduce or revoke the pension of a public officer that has been convicted of a crime related to his or her official duties.

This governor has talked more about government ethics reform than any governor in memory, and yet the rules and high mindedness never apply to him.»

Albany ended the legislative session without any government ethics reform and without any voting reform.

Senator Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat and longtime advocate for government ethics reform, pushed for a «yes» vote in a June 2016 interview with Effective New York, the think tank founded by Samuels.