Sentences with phrase «legislative ethics package»

A New York State Senator from the Hudson Valley says a legislative ethics package unveiled this week by the Senate Democratic Conference includes one of his bills.

The governor's now pushing a host of remedies, including a new legislative ethics package.

Not exact matches

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

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The groups wrote Cuomo a letter and are requesting that the governor meet with legislative leaders to work out an ethics reform package that includes restructuring of the Board.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

The pilot program was created as part of settlement between Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders back in March, as part of an ethics reform package.

The pilot program was created as part of a settlement between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders back in March, as part of an ethics reform package.

Since then, there have been quite a few high - profile legislative corruption cases, and when lawmakers balked at passing Cuomo's ethics package to address that, he created a Moreland Commission to investigate them.

At the end of the legislative session last year, Cuomo was annoyed that lawmakers had rejected his ethics reform package, even after several lawmakers had been indicted, jailed, or found to be wearing wires in ongoing FBI probes.

Several legislative sources on Tuesday expressed doubt that, at this point, a special session would be possible to approve a series of ethics measure, whether public financing is a part of the package or not.

The ethics package comes as lawmakers in Albany this legislative session have been largely focused on the economic measures Cuomo is touting: A $ 15 minimum wage and a proposed 12 - week paid family leave program.

Talking to Bartiromo on Sunday, Cuomo stuck by his position that the defunct ethics panel was a success, and that while legislative leaders didn't enact all of the ethics reform he had sought, lawmakers still approved a package of laws that moves things forward.

The groups wrote Cuomo a letter and are requesting that the governor meet now with legislative leaders to work out an ethics reform package that includes restructuring of the Board.

Legislative leaders wrote memos to their members, saying they believe Cuomo is using the tactic to try to coerce or threaten lawmakers into agreeing to the governor's ethics reform package.

The governor is promising to introduce his own ethics reform package before the legislative session ends in June.

Despite the arrests of the legislative leaders and the on going corruption probes, there is no new ethics reform as part of the end of session package.

He then attacked Heastie and Cuomo for negotiating the ethics package at the same time Cuomo has proposed a commission on legislative and executive pay, calling it «unseemly.»

As a result, the 2010 ethics package undid the ethics commission created under Spitzer, breaking it up into three distinct agencies - legislative, executive, and lobbying.

The governor made it clear that legislative leaders had made a bad choice by refusing to take action on his ethics reform package.