Sentences with phrase «income for public officials»
Cuomo said he would push for ethics reform, including a ban or limits on outside income for public officials, including legislators.
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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.
New York should adopt rigorous disclosure requirements for public officials and their immediate family members, including the disclosure of outside employment income and clients.
Officials will have to disclose to the public all the outside income they receive, from who, for what and whether there is any connection to the state government or the office that they hold.
Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor, made passage of stringent reforms on the income and pensions for public officials the center of his campaign in the brutal fight with Republican candidate Chris McGrath.
Ethics Reform Includes Nation's Strongest and Most Comprehensive Disclosure Laws for Public Officials with Outside Income
Cuomo, as is custom for statewide elected officials, made public his taxes today, showing he earned $ 218,100 last year and is no longer receiving income from the proceeds of his 2014 memoir, «All Things Possible.»
The Legislature in 2011 adopted an ethics overhaul measure that required greater disclosure of sources of outside income for state elected officials, as well as the creation of the latest lobbying regulator, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
Assembly Democrats on Friday evening released a package of ethics and campaign finance reform measures including limits to outside income, while holding out for negotiations for a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture by public officials convicted of corruption.
Cuomo did win ethics legislation in recent years that included new income disclosure laws for state lawmakers and statewide elected officials as well as new crimes for bribery and public corruption.
These public forums provide an opportunity to increase citizen awareness and participation in the Consortium's federal Community Development program by allowing the general public, as well as agency advocates for low and moderate income individuals, the elderly and handicapped to offer suggestions and information on the needs of these populations to County and municipal officials.
Supporters of Mr. Cuomo's proposals — which include increased disclosure of outside income, restricting personal use of campaign funds and pension forfeiture for public officials convicted of crimes — say they would probably cost little to put into effect.
Cuomo proposes to extend a system of public campaign finance to all statewide offices and legislative races, ban the use of campaign funds for personal expenses, require the disclosure of outside income and the clients who supported it and change the state Constitution to allow prosecutors to claw back the pensions of officials convicted of public corruption.
Greater disclosure of outside income for lawmakers and other public officials was addressed in the 2015 state budget deal.
The annual disclosure forms legislators are required to submit to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics only asks the elected officials to provide income ranges, not specific dollar amounts, for their outside income as well as the value of stock and property owned by them or their spouse.
For decades scholars and public health officials have known that people with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health than their counterparts who have less money or schooling.
Confident that more of Washington's low - income public school students will apply for the tuition vouchers next year, federal officials said a study would be launched at that time.
With a focus on low - income and under - served families and schools, Project Appleseed works to improve schools, build public awareness, enable public engagement, advance policy positions and advise elected officials and other decision - makers on best practices for creating optimal educational environments.
Boston residents 16 and older and with an income of less than 400 % above the official poverty level or receiving public housing assistance are eligible for the Prescribe - a-Bike program.