Sentences with phrase «new ethics law»

You may want to look at our BHPK Alerts issued in December 2009 and January 2010 for a reminder about ongoing requirements under the new ethics law.

MOBILE, Alabama — This Christmas, students won't be able to give their public school teachers gift certificates or anything deemed valuable without breaking Alabama's new ethics law.

The task before her is especially important because of the need for this agency to succeed as an impartial panel charged with oversight and enforcement of our state's new ethics law and the pressing need to restore the public's faith in our government and elected officials.»

The biggest single change in the package is an entirely new ethics law, melding a series of them into one law, with more power for the Board of Ethics and stronger public employee disclosure rules.

Operatives and donors behind the Committee to Save New York are saved, too — from the need to publicly disclose their activities as required under a new ethics law.

The group also says it has no plans to spin its self off from the Brennan Center and become a 501 (c) 4, which would then have to disclose contributions above $ 5,000 once part of the new ethics law takes effect in June.

Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will sign a new ethics law that passed a divided Common Council earlier this month.

Since the new ethics law was signed last August, there has been a kind of limbo period, with no active investigations of lawmakers for any alleged ethics violations.

To clean up the government and restore trust with New Yorkers, we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure as well as a law that calls for a real independent monitor.

Cuomo has said he agreed to end his Moreland Act Commission in a fair exchange for a new ethics law.

The new ethics law being touted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo parcels equal roles to Democrats and Republicans in investigating lawmakers of both parties suspected of questionable conduct.

He fought for a tough new ethics law and the lowest tax rates in 50 years.

«To clean up the government and restore trust we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure.

Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will sign a new ethics law that passed a divided Common Council earlier

Working with the new majority in the Erie County legislature, I have been able to secure a new ethics law that increases transparency and reinforces public faith in the integrity of elected officials.

In addition to legalization of same - sex marriage and implementation of a 2 - percent annual property - tax cap, his first year in office included: a new ethics law, a partial rollback of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority payroll tax, the first cut in state spending in 15 years, and a rewrite of the tax code to tax the wealthy at a higher rate and cut rates for middle income New Yorkers — an idea he opposed in the spring, only to reverse himself later as the state deficit grew.

The sticking point now in the debate over a new ethics law is over whether legislators must disclose clients in their law and consulting businesses to identify any conflicts.

Erie County has their first new ethics law for elected officials in 30 years.

«To clean up the government and restore trust we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure,» Cuomo says.

«We must prove once again that state government can be trusted, and that means passing tough new ethics laws and creating a system that deters, detects and punishes individuals who seek to abuse and corrupt,» he said last week in a

State lawmakers will have to disclose more details about their outside earnings and business relationships under new ethics laws agreed to by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders.

The governor got some new ethics laws out of his Moreland maneuvers.

Six new ethics laws were proposed Friday, the deadline to get on the agenda for the legislature's Sept. 5 meeting.

After a string of corruption scandals hit the Legislature, Cuomo impaneled the commission to investigate the Legislature when lawmakers failed to reach an agreement with him on new ethics laws.

ALBANY — The Legislature's top leaders said there will be no new ethics laws sought by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the state budget deal due by April 1.

Last month, they told those same pollsters that corruption remains a serious problem in Albany but new ethics laws will have no real effect on reducing corruption in state government.

Asked about the new ethics laws on Thursday, Cuomo told reporters that it wasn't everything he was hoping for, but still important.

He noted the fallout from the federal corruption convictions last month of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), and said lawmakers up for re-election in November may find it hard to avoid adopting new ethics laws.

Mr. Cuomo met with Republican senators on Tuesday to discuss his proposal for new ethics laws, particularly a measure requiring legislators who work part time as lawyers to reveal more of their clients, which has prompted concerns among the Republicans.

Cuomo shut down the commission before it completed its cases, after he and lawmakers reached a deal on new ethics laws.

There's been little public talk by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie or Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan during the legislative session, about passing tough new ethics laws, and no reforms have been approved by the Legislature.

At the end of March, Cuomo said that he was shutting the Moreland Commission down, and that new ethics laws targeting corruption would take its place.

Not exact matches

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Trump's daughter and son - in - law, will remain the beneficiaries of a sprawling real estate and investment business still worth as much as $ 740 million, despite their new government responsibilities, according to ethics filings released by the White House Friday night.

«It's the funders that create the problem,» says Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics.

Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor and expert on legal ethics, called Daniels» claim that the missing signature invalidates the agreement a «weak argument.»

It is worth noting that Judge Miner's inability to parse that distinction was not shared by the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, a twenty - four member commission appointed by Governor Cuomo in 1985 to advise on questions of biomedical ethics.

The Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey (where I work) is now accepting applications for six summer seminars, on topics ranging across ethics, politics, law, medicine, philosophy, and religion, for every age cohort from high school to post-baccalaureate students.

In one aspect they are addressed to all and sundry, laying down the lines of an absolute ethic determined by the coming of the kingdom of God; but insofar as individuals accept them as such, and commit themselves, the new Israel is being formed, and the ethical teaching of Jesus becomes the new law by which it is to be governed.

The genius of Catholicism has been displayed in its achievement of uniting the moral teaching of the Bible with the rationalistic tradition of Aristotelian ethics, Stoicism, and the tradition of natural law, and in its continuing capacity to adjust and refine its moral tradition in the light of new situations.

It can not be too strongly stressed, in contrast to a secular moralism which finds its base in social adjustment, or a balancing of human values, or a natural law of morality, that the center of New Testament ethics lies in the love requirement which in turn stems from the free gift of God's love to the undeserving.

For a «Supreme Court justice to express himself so freely on religious matters is unequaled in the modern era,» observed Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at New York University Law School, one of many alarmed respondents cited by Chandler.

When that happens, there is absolute conflict between them or they join hands in defending ethics of reaction against all new conceptions of justice in law as shariat and natural law did in the recent Cairo World Conference on Population.

Once the ethic of law is totally separated from the relation to the transcendent or the futurist vision of perfection, it loses dynamism and becomes static and gets absolutized and made irrelevant to new historical situations.

Professor E. F. Scott, however, passes a not unfair judgment on James: «Conceiving of the new message as a «law,» and not as a power which creates a new life, he misses what is deepest, both in the Christian religion and the Christian ethic.»

Once the ethic of law is totally separated from its relation to the transcendent or the futurist vision of perfection, it loses dynamism and becomes static and gets absolutised and made irrelevant to new historical situations.

Together these philosophers have supplied a new interpretation of Aristotle's ethics and the Thomist natural law tradition which has allowed Robert P. George and like - minded writers to make a fruitful (in some aspects) and definitely noticeable moral critique of American politics and culture.

Cuomo's subpoena - empowered commission was close down following an agreement on ethics legislation last year that included new anti-corruption laws and independent enforcement at the state Board of Elections.

``... In truth, what New York needs is wholesale reform of its ethics laws, not a jerry - rigged solution.

Also at 11 a.m., the City of Mount Vernon Department of Law Corporation Counsel Lawrence R. Porcari will hold a press conference to announce new anti-corruption and public ethics measures, which include full funding of an independent Inspector General as required by Mount Vernon charter, City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon.

The plan left out some long - sought measures advocates had pushed for, including ethics laws and new spending oversight, an extension of the statute of limitations for child sex - abuse victims and more traffic - safety cameras.