Sentences with phrase «lobbying law»

-- State lobbying laws requiring disclosure by firms and officials would be extended to municipalities with a population greater than 5,000.

Recent news reports, however, indicate that companies have more trouble with state and local lobbying laws.

These activities aren't regulated by traditional lobbying laws because they don't include the direct interaction of a lobbyist with a government official.

He's talking about the possibility of campaign finance reform, election reform, even possible changes to state lobbying laws.

For the first time in its 20 - month history, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics held a hearing to discuss specific allegations of lobbying law violations.

In 2017, Glenwood, which was not charged with wrongdoing in the Silver trial, admitted it had violated state lobbying laws in connection to its relationship with both Silver and former New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The report also notes the $ 200,000 fine that Glenwood Management paid earlier this year for violating lobbying laws, related to former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

In a separate settlement, Nislick and Neu settled allegations of lobbying law violations, admitting that they had sought to influence legislation on replacing horse carriages in Manhattan with electric vehicles that they donated to the Campaign for One New York.

Its mission included reviewing the adequacy of state laws against official misconduct, campaign finance oversight, compliance with lobbying laws and adequacy of enforcement.

The group's Russ Haven says gaping holes in the state's lobbying laws for local governments allow most of the activity to go on unchecked.

McDonnell lobbied law makers in 2010 to change the rules for public schools, and she thinks it's about time the same happens for rec leagues.

«The only exception to this rule is that legislators and their staff acting in their official capacity are expressly exempted from the procurement lobbying law and may communicate with anyone regarding the Casino License RFA.»

The $ 100 million, 540,000 - square - foot shopping center on the site of a defunct U.S. Army clothing manufacturing plant, will be anchored by Home Depot and BJ's Wholesale Club... Rochester, N.Y., mall developer Wilmorite, which operates the Rotterdam Square Mall in Albany, N.Y., has been ordered to pay the state $ 25,000 for breaking lobbying laws.

A disclosure form filed by lobbyist William J. Coyne, Jr., shows that Coyne took «oppose» positions on both carbon tax bills on behalf of his «client» ExxonMobil (see here for an overview of Massachusetts lobbying law).

In Ohio and other states, ALEC dodges lobby laws through corporate - funded «scholarship» programs that are thoroughly documented by the Center for Media and Democracy through open records requests.

Next, lobby the Law Society to lobby the government to truly streamline all litigation.

«If the governor is going to hire people for his political operation, he should be much more transparent and not bury them in corners of state government so as to avoid scrutiny,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of the government reform group Citizens Union, which is currently in litigation with the Cuomo administration over a 2016 nonprofit lobbying law.

New York's lobbying law requires anyone who spends more than $ 5,000 in an attempt to influence any local law or ordinance, or any pending procurement action, to register its activities with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Sources close to the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice told Gotham Gazette that the new rules on nonprofit donor disclosure would have had no impact on the MCCEJ as they lower the thresholds for nonprofits to report donors, but donations to the MCCEJ were already covered by the old lobbying law.

However, as this report documents, sweeping lobbying laws in 36 states threaten to strangle grassroots movements in red tape and bureaucratic regulation.

The Florida trip, which cost $ 8,300, was clearly billed as «educational,» rather than «influential,» by PEFNC in an effort to ensure that the trip did not violate NC lobbying laws.

You should lobby that laws restricting cats from roaming free be enforced.

On Wednesday, the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) joined legislators, animal advocates and other animal organizations for a special event at the Massachusetts State House, to directly lobby law makers for the passage of S. 2347: An Act to Protect Animal Welfare and Safety in Cities and Towns (PAWS II).

There haven't been many criticisms of JCOPE's handling of routine violations of lobbying law, though the agency hasn't secured many large settlements, like the $ 250,000 and public apology Grandeau forced from Donald Trump in 2000.

If consultants are contacting public officials, at a certain level they bear the responsibility to make sure that people are complying» with state lobbying laws, said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

One form related to procurement lobbying law, which after «extensive conversations» with SUNY officials, OSC agreed not to require foundations to sign, Porter said.

ALEC was behind all of these on behalf of its corporate members, who are eager to dodge lobbying laws and get relatively cheap access to our Statehouses.

If you (generic you) are truly serious about improving access to justice, then, for a start, lobby the Law Society to lobby the government to bring to Ontario the 30 - year - old - and - working - well pan-European custody regime of automatic joint custody alterable only by either mutual agreement or court order obtainable only by proving, on a high threshold, unfitness of the other parent.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner says under the state's lax local lobbying laws, most of the behavior is allowed.

He got into trouble with Google when he self - lobbied a law in Nevada and California to allow self - driving car tests.

The group is calling on Cuomo to lead the effort to modernize the state's lobbying laws for local governments.

The British Columbia registrar of lobbyists has fined a key aide to Premier Christy Clark for failing to comply with the province's lobbying law.

«The lobbying law of Connecticut is being used to limit free speech, to limit assembly, to limit freedom of religion,» Bishop William E. Lori said in announcing the lawsuit in a video posted on the diocesan Web site.

It is our understanding that The Committee to Save New York, acting as both a client and its own lobbyist, was non-compliant with its registration requirements under the state Lobbying Law and under the Commission's rules,» the groups stated.

Others, such as Reinvent Albany Executive Director John Kaehny, said reformers should look beyond the traditional nonprofit regulators and instead bolster enforcement of lobbying laws and rules because most concerns centered around conflicts in that industry.

The measure would make changes to the state's lobbying laws, campaign finance limits for state legislative candidates, and legislative redistricting process.

ALBANY — The end of session reform package passed by lawmakers early Saturday morning includes a dozen changes to the state's campaign finance system, lobbying law, and constitution.

As for the NYT's complaints about unknown contributors to «NYC is NOT for Sale,» I assume that the group will comply with all lobbying laws... just like the Committee to Save NY» did.

The lobbying law is not a place to insert reporting requirements and restrictions.

The state's main lobbying and ethics regulator on Monday announced lobbyists connected to Mayor Bill de Blasio's Campaign for One New York has agreed to pay a $ 50,000 in fines to settle an investigation into alleged violations of the state's lobbying laws.

Good government advocates and the Center for Justice & Democracy called last month for Sachs to reveal his client list and for the PIC to investigate whether he had violated the lobbying law by failing to register.

Election law doesn't require state parties and committees to divulge their donors as frequently as the state's lobbying laws, which are done on a quarterly basis.

The way I read it, the opinion had nothing to do with the Lobbying Law, but the restrictions on state employees after leaving state employment, so your headline mentioning the lobby law doesn't make sense.

«We believe that certain activities of the Democratic, Republican, Conservative and Working Families political parties have been oriented toward passage of state legislation and may be considered lobbying under the definition contained in the state's Lobbying Law,» NYPIRG writes in the letter.

«While we can not be sure, we assume that such reporting ensures compliance with the state's Lobbying Law,» Horner and Haven write.

«We believe that certain activities of the Democratic, Republican, Conservative and Working Families political parties have been oriented toward passage of state legislation and may be considered lobbying under the definition contained in the state's Lobbying Law,» wrote NYPIRG's Blair Horner and Russ Haven.

Reform advocates say perhaps the governor and his former top aide have discovered what they call a «sweet spot,» a loophole in the state's lobbying laws.

It also portrayed an administration where senior officials bullied and threatened underlings into not leaving their Cuomo government posts, lobbying laws of a longtime Cuomo loyalist being all but ignored and a massive amount of state workers — and resources — used to carry out each of Cuomo's highly choreographed public appearances.