Sentences with phrase «nonprofit lobbying law»
«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.
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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.
Grandeau, now a private lobbying compliance lawyer and a frequent JCOPE critic, said his conversation with Agata took place at an Albany deli next to JCOPE's offices not long after the nonprofit disclosure law passed in June 2016.
Public records indicate that legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.
The law, which was passed by the Legislature late in the night in June on the final day of the legislative session, would require 501 (3) charities to disclose all their donors of more than $ 2,500 over six months if they contribute more than $ 2,500 to substantial lobbying campaigns run out of issue - oriented 501 (4) nonprofits.
But 91 % of parents surveyed said the school was better after the change than before, said Gabe Rose of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles nonprofit that lobbied for the law and has helped parents use it.
«If you pay twice the amount of the minimum, that repayment period gets cut in half,» says Ed Mierzwinski, who lobbied for laws requiring these disclosures as the consumer program director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a federation of nonprofits.
Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation is a nonprofit 501 (c)(4) grassroots lobbying organization which works to enact, strengthen and protect state animal welfare laws.
In some states, veterinary associations have successfully lobbied for laws that limit nonprofit services to pets of people who make less than a certain income.
The Oakland, California - based nonprofit, which lobbies lawmakers on how to improve their states» medical marijuana laws and seeks to educate patients on their rights, will work with Orrick lawyers to update a series of manuals on state medical marijuana laws.