Sentences with phrase «legislative ethics reforms»

Republicans in the New York State Senate are in talks with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about legislative ethics reforms as demands for changes mount after the recent arrest of the former Assembly speaker.

A new Siena College poll finds a majority of New Yorkers thInk legislative ethics reforms will do little or nothing to reduce state government corruption.

Cuomo on Monday said he would not sign a budget for the state this year that doesn't include a plan for legislative ethics reform.

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Talk about ethics reform in the new legislative session has been largely muted this year, even as a year filled with corruption trials involving prominent New York figures is underway, including the ongoing trial this week of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo.

In our first year, we passed sweeping ethics reform, opened the books on Senate expenditures for the first time in history, and made every legislative action the Senate takes available to the public.»

Depending on who you ask, the legislative session was a productive six months in which a range of policy measures from an increase to the state's minimum wage, paid family leave to new ethics reform and anti-heroin addiction legislation was accomplished.

At 9:30 a.m., an hour before former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is sentenced for corrupting his office, government watchdog groups will weigh in on the heightened need for ethics reform before the end of the legislative session, Foley Square, intersection of Lafayette, Worth, and Centre streets, Manhattan.

Cuomo has insisted ethics reform remains a top priority for lawmakers at the end of the legislative session.

«We need to pass a property tax cap, ethics reform, and marriage equality during this legislative session.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

When the legislative session ended on June 21, lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform proposals in light of an economic development scandal in the Cuomo administration.

Legislative leaders already seem to be hedging on the chances of ethics reform being part of the budget.

When the state legislative session ended on June 21, lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform proposals made in light of the economic development scandal in the Cuomo administration.

Did passage of the state budget signal the end of Albany's legislative session for 2017, or will other matters, including ethics reform, get done before the lawmakers adjourn in June?

An ethics reform measure approved by the New York State Legislature at the end of the legislative session still hasn't been signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo concedes that ethics reform is unlikely to be a part of the New York state budget this year, despite the conviction of the two former legislative leaders on major corruption charges.

This year's state legislative session has produced no agreements on ethics reform, even though Albany is in the midst of a what some call a corruption crime wave.

Leaders of prominent good government groups gathered at the state Capitol to decry not only the inability of Cuomo and legislative leaders to achieve ethics reform in the budget process, but also the lack of transparency in the ongoing three - men - in - a-room negotiations.

The clock on the legislative session is winding down, and yet there's been little to no public progress made on ethics or campaign finance reform in Albany.

Cuomo and legislative leaders had a three - way meeting on ethics reform.

An ethics reform measure approved by the New York legislature at the end of the legislative session still hasn't been signed by Governor Cuomo.

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

Tedisco also became the first Capital Region lawmaker to sign the «Clean Conscience Pledge» (photo attached) sponsored by Common Cause NY to support real ethics reform that includes closing the LLC Loophole for campaign finance reform, full disclosure in how legislative leaders spend tax dollars, and limiting outside income for legislators to reduce conflicts of interest.

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.

With the legislative session down to the wire, groups for and against bills, including expansion of Uber ride services and ethics reform, came to the Capitol to make their voices heard.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today outlined his ethics reform agenda for the 2015 legislative session at the NYU School of Law in New York City.

There also is no shortage of good ethics reform proposals from the governor and some of the legislative conferences.

He also vowed to pursue ethics reform in the next legislative session.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says in a legislative session in which the leaders of the state Assembly and Senate are both indicted on corruption charges, the need for ethics reform in Albany is shockingly clear.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo tamped down hopes for a special session of the legislature before the year ends, saying legislative leaders have still not agreed to ethics reforms that the governor is seeking.

Much of Curran's ethics reform agenda, including the appointment of an inspector general to oversee county contracting, would require legislative approval.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released a 1,600 - word statement last week outlining his priorities for various state - level ethics reforms for the upcoming legislative session that begins in January.

With a recent poll showing that nearly 90 % of New Yorkers believe that unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government a month before former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are sentenced for public corruption, the governor and legislative leaders have an obligation to New Yorkers to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform.

The county executive also served on the now - defunct corruption - busting Moreland Commission, which drew the attention of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara after the governor shut it down early in exchange for an ethics reform deal with legislative leaders.

Today is the final day of the legislative session in Albany, and state lawmakers in both chambers have been under pressure to pass some version of ethics or anti-corruption reform measures in the wake of corruption scandals that have engulfed both chambers.

At 4:36 p.m. on the nose, a press release from Gov. Andrew Cuomo announcing he and the legislative leaders have reached an three - way agreement on «historic ethics reform» landed in the CapTon inbox.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tamped down hopes for a special session of the legislature before the year ends, saying legislative leaders have still not agreed to ethics reforms that the governor is seeking.

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.

With hours left in the 2016 legislative session, lawmakers have agreed on some items like permitting drinking at Sunday brunch, while some others, like ethics reform, are still unresolved.

Flyers sent this week accuse Rivera of «Playing Us For Fools» and excerpts heavily from the June 21 New York Times editorial, «The Old Albany Hustle,» which criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders for failing to enact any meaningful ethics reforms this year.

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.

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.

Last year, with ten days remaining in legislative session and confronted with a major ethics reform proposal from Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters, «Let me make this as a blanket statement: It is late in the day for anything.»

Cuomo also talked a bit about the «dramatic» ethics reform he's working on with legislative leaders, although he didn't offer much in the way of details on that, other than to say: «Is dramatic reform hard to accept and hard to pass?

The $ 142 billion budget increases school funding by $ 1.4 billion, enhances legislative ethics rules and includes several of Cuomo's education reforms.

On Wednesday, with only four days remaining of this year's legislative session, Cuomo announced a new prong to his ethics reform agenda: an ambitious plan to better regulate the activities of political action committees and limit the impact of shadowy independent expenditures that he says are all too often not actually independent from the candidate they are supporting.

Bartoletti and other government reform groups say they are also disappointed that the budget will not include any ethics reform, despite the conviction of the two former legislative leaders on multiple corruption charges.

«Our candidates including John Flynn for District Attorney, and our state legislative candidates Monica Wallace, Amber Small, Tom Loughran and Steve Meyer exemplify the progressive values of the Democratic Party and our commitment to ethics and reform in government.

ALBANY — Despite having previously praised an ethics deal enacted by the Legislature in June, Gov. Cuomo will not support a legislative pay raise unless the Legislature agrees to more comprehensive reforms, an aide said Sunday.