Sentences with phrase «latest ethics bill»

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco on Thursday in a radio interview decried what he sees as «out of control» disclosure laws after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the latest ethics bill into law.

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Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous said the Republican conference would take up an ethics package later this session, but he said it's unclear what the final bill would look like.

This is an ethics reform bill that needs to be adopted sooner rather than later,» said Murray.

The ethics bill was the latest attempt by Cuomo and legislators to respond to the wave of investigations, arrests and convictions that have tainted state government for nearly a decade, starting with the arrest of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi in a probe that revealed state pension fund bribes and kickbacks.

Cuomo put the bill on the table late in the legislative session after it had become clear that the majority of the ethics reforms he proposed in his State of the State address would not pass in the Legislature, especially the Republican - controlled Senate.

As Cuomo negotiated the ethics bill — which delegates no authority to the attorney general — Schneiderman in late May reached an agreement with Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.

However, it's unclear if the latest corruption news — including the FBI raid of Queens Assemblyman Bill Scarborough and the reported investigation into a land purchase by Senator Kathy Marchione — will spur officials to include ethics in the budget.

Following his comments on the ongoing investigation, Cuomo told reporters that ethics reform is among the bills he wants passed and on his desk to sign before State Legislators adjourn later this month.

Cuomo signed Albany's latest iteration of an ethics bill on Wednesday, but good - government groups were deeply critical of the measure's provisions.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in the fall of 2014 that any effort to pass paid leave would have to wait until the state had passed a suite of bills codifying a woman's right to secure an abortion into the state's health code, and later Cuomo said the Legislature, mired in ethics scandals, «lacked the appetite» to consider paid leave.