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Sara Niccoli, Democratic candidate for the 46th Senate District is calling for ethics reforms including a Congressional - style limit on outside income of 15 percent.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Wednesday night formally confirmed the push for a pair of constitutional amendments that would ban outside income and term limit the state Legislature as talk of a special session before the end of the year heats up.

While Avella ran on a reform platform and the state has taken steps to be more transparent in the areas of ethics reform, he said more should be done, including limiting legislators» outside income.

He told Syracuse.com he opposes Cuomo's calls for the Legislature to approve public financing of political campaigns, is undecided on closing the LLC loophole that lets wealthy donors contribute almost unlimited amounts to politicians, and is against the governor's call to limit the outside income of lawmakers to 15 percent of their $ 79,500 base salary as legislators.

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

They include greater accountability measures for the awarding of government contracts, more transparency for «lump - sum» budget appropriations and expenditures, and limits on outside income for lawmakers.

Lerner says the groups also have varying proposals on limiting lawmakers outside income to a small percentage of their total government salaries.

Those who did respond offered a variety of thoughts; many said they had resisted limits because they believe a ban on outside income would lead to a chamber full of career politicians.

Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, said he believed that lawmakers should enact a limit on outside earned income but also that they deserved a modest raise.

The governor also reiterated his call for legislators to pass restrictions on outside income that would limit them to earning 15 percent of their annual salaries from side jobs, which has been previously rejected by the Senate and passed in a less - restrictive version by the Assembly.

In past years, the group of breakaway Democrats have proposed a new system for campaign contributions and limits on outside income.

And some members of the Legislature took their criticisms further, charging that promises Cuomo's appointees made of a salary bump in exchange for limits on lawmakers» outside income crossed the line into an illegal quid pro quo.

Good government groups used the occasion of Silver's sentencing to renew their calls for comprehensive ethics reform, including limits on lawmakers» outside income and a comprehensive overhaul of the operation of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Cuomo has been sympathetic to the push for a salary hike, but has said he wants lawmakers to take up sweeping campaign finance and ethics reform in the process, including the public financing of political campaigns and limits on outside income for lawmakers.

But while Cuomo has worked well with Senate Republicans on a variety of issues, he's signaled in recent weeks he would push for limits on the income lawmakers can earn outside of the Legislature as well as the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants.

If a good portion of the corruption comes from downstate Dems that is more reason for Flanagan to stand up for limits on outside income and meaningful campaign finance reform.

Senate Democrats on Monday unveiled a package of ethics reform legislation that would cap outside income, strengthen disclosure requirements and close a loophole in campaign finance laws that guarantees unlimited contributions from limited liability corporations.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio gave his stamp of approval to a city commission's plan to raise the salary of elected officials, and to make the City Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first term.

The Assembly majority's ethics plan, released after 5 p.m. on Friday, would set a much higher limit on outside income than one suggested by Cuomo, allowing the state's part - time legislators to earn tens of thousands of dollars in addition to their $ 79,500 base salary.

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.

ALBANY — An ethics proposal from the Democrat - dominated New York State Assembly would set a much higher limit on outside income than one suggested by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, allowing the state's part - time legislators to earn tens of thousands of dollars in addition to their $ 79,500 base salary.

Two weeks ago, he suggested that while his proposed reforms — including limits on lawmakers» outside income and closure of the so - called «LLC loophole» — are included in his executive budget package, they might fall off the negotiating table in hopes of seeing action before the session's end in June.

A combined 96 seconds of his 92 - minute speech were spent on issues like campaign finance, outside income rules, term limits and early voting.

Most of the commission's recommendations have long been on the wish lists of good - government groups: lower limits on campaign donations, further disclosure of outside income and business clients, a $ 5,000 limit on LLCs, to reduce their power to amplify individuals» donating power, a $ 25,000 limit on donations to soft - money «housekeeping» accounts and, perhaps most controversially, the public campaign finance system.

SILVER listed on his official public disclosure forms that his outside income consisted of «limited practice of law in the principal subject area of personal injury claims on behalf of individual clients,» which was false and misleading.

Mayor Bill de Blasio gave his stamp of approval to a city commission's plan to raise the salary of elected officials, and to make the City Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first term.

These include limiting or banning outside income for legislators and closing the notorious LLC campaign finance loophole that was on full display during the veto of my annexation oversight bill.

Otherwise, Senate Republicans are pointing to legislative term limits — a nonstarter in the Assembly — as evidence of action, and the Democrats who dominate the lower chamber point to a suite of bills, including some restrictions on outside income, that were approved with full knowledge that they were dead on arrival in the State Senate.

Cuomo's stated agenda during the campaigns included public financing of political campaigns (no specifics on that, as yet), limits on the outside income for legislators, raising the age of criminal responsibility and extending public tuition assistance programs to undocumented immigrants.

He called for a new Office of Ethics and Compliance led by a non-legislator, new limits on how much outside income lawmakers can earn and greater reporting of outside income and legislative stipends.

Silberstein said that, under congressional rules, the payment to Racalto appears to exceed the $ 25,000 annual limit on the amount of outside income senior congressional staff members can earn for political work.

Issues on the table include caps on outside income for lawmakers, term limits and permission for ridesharing apps like Uber to operate in the state outside of New York City.

The majority want to see legislators convicted of felonies stripped of their public pensions, but are split on whether outside income should be limited.

On Monday, Heastie outlined his reform proposal, calling for a new Office of Ethics and Compliance led by a non-legislator, new limits on how much outside income lawmakers can earn, and greater reporting of outside income and legislative stipendOn Monday, Heastie outlined his reform proposal, calling for a new Office of Ethics and Compliance led by a non-legislator, new limits on how much outside income lawmakers can earn, and greater reporting of outside income and legislative stipendon how much outside income lawmakers can earn, and greater reporting of outside income and legislative stipends.

The list of what's needed is long and well known, including closing the loophole that allows secretive corporations to evade limits on campaign spending, strictly limiting outside incomes, publicly financing all candidates for state offices and otherwise curbing the influence of lobbyists and crooks.

Cuomo said that he'd be rolling out additional efforts to boost his ethics reform agenda in the final days of the session, including limits on lawmakers» outside income and proposed term limits.

But if Albany is serious about fixing its problems, a better system of contracting, new limits on campaign finance, new ethics restrictions on outside income, and the creation of an independent enforcer, are major components of meaningful reforms.

The two leaders may find more common ground on their shared rejection of strictly limiting or outright banning outside income, something that both Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein recommended in their speeches from the floor.

Cuomo has sought restrictions on lawmakers» outside incomes and term limits, limits on campaign donations from those involved in the state contracting process and more review of potential conflicts of interest involving the outside incomes of lawmakers and the executive.

Only on questions of limiting additional stipends to members and requiring greater disclosure of outside income did support for reform just barely win a majority.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

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For example, a search on December 1, 2016, on Fannie Mae's eligibility tool appears to indicate that there was not any income limit for most of Boston's East Boston neighborhood; however, in areas outside of the 484 low - income census tracts, the income limit appears to be $ 94,000 for most of the Greater Boston area.