Sentences with phrase «of ethics bills»

And, legislators and good government advocates say there may be no one more familiar with the challenges associated with moving ethics reform through the legislature, as Schneiderman was a prodigious and prominent sponsor of ethics bills during his time representing Manhattan in the state Senate.

Flanagan is getting involved in the race to keep former Sen. Dean Skelos» Long Island seat in Republican hands — blasting the Democratic candidate, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, for his backing of an ethics bill that would boost legislative pay.

Cuomo signed Albany's latest iteration of an ethics bill on Wednesday, but good - government groups were deeply critical of the measure's provisions.

«They said this was the smallest part of the ethics bill,» said Angelo Mazzone, owner of 677 Prime in Albany and the Glen Sanders mansion in Scotia, «but we think it's important.»

State Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan is getting involved in the race to keep convicted crook Dean Skelos» former Long Island seat in Republican hands — blasting Democratic candidate Todd Kaminsky's backing of an ethics bill that would boost legislative pay.

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Advisors should be able to directly answer your questions and have detailed, documented proof of fees; fiduciary standards; a client bill of rights and code of ethics; and a succession solution.

Advisors who strictly adhere to a code of ethics and client bill of rights have defined standards in place that they can share with clients.

Tillerson's ethics agreement also helped him to avoid an immediate federal income tax bill of as much as $ 72 million, according to tax specialists who reviewed his plan at the time.

The bill, now on its way to the Senate, would require the two leading advisors in the Crescent Point dispute, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass Lewis & Co., to formally register with the SEC and within those filings «disclose their potential conflicts of interest and codes of ethics.»

Whereas the old sections of the ethics code generally include the legislators and staffs» spouses and dependent children as beneficiaries of lobbyist expenditures, the new bill does not.

My favorite part though is that whereas Missouri ethics law generally requires «amounts» and «total expenditures» as part of the reporting for such largesse, the sex bill includes the qualification, «The reporting of sexual relations for purposes of this subdivision shall not require a dollar valuation.»

The left complains about an ascendant «neo-Puritanism,» especially in relation to sexual ethics, and especially in the aftermath of the scandals surrounding Bill Clinton.

Bill's background, in contrast, causes him to feel that the essence of religion is ethics and the intelligent person can do better without the institutional expressions of religion, with all their pettiness and irrelevancies.

Cuomo approved what was widely considered to be the ethics bill of the legislative session, a measure designed to address the Citizens United era of super PAC political spending, as well new requirements for lobbyists and consultants.

Cuomo was applauded by reformers for pushing through an ethics overhaul bill that includes new requirements for lawmakers to disclose their outside sources of income — a major and long - sought goal.

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

The Senate Democrats are again trying to use a 2009 chamber rule change to their advantage in hopes of forcing a public hearing on their reform agenda, which is contained in five ethics and campaign finance - related bills.

Cuomo has been negotiating behind closed doors with legislative leaders over an ethics bill for weeks now (much to the chargin of the NY Times editorial page, which called over the weekend for these talks to go public).

A version of the bill was included in an Assembly Minority ethics reform package and did not make it into the budget.

Without his skillful use of the bully pulpit and sage tactics at the negotiating table, traditional Albany dysfunction probably would have dealt this ethics bill a mortal wound months ago.

But he does believe that the additional disclosure requirements, tucked into a bill passed last June, was payback for past critiques by government reform groups on lack of ethics reforms in Albany.

And a number of sought - after items, including cash bail, early voting, changes to statutes regarding child molestation, New York's DREAM Act, and ethics reform fell out of the final bill, unable to pass a divided legislature.

But Cuomo's posture on inserting ethics legislation into spending bills has met opposition in the Legislature, where lawmakers want to be able to negotiate the finer points of the agreement.

An ethics bill signed this past summer puts ethics investigations for both the legislative and executive branches in the hands of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio challenged his predecessor, former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, on his work ethic, saying he needs a bigger staff of special assistants because his agenda is more ambitious than Bloomberg's was.

For his part, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans a roll out of ethics reform bills over the next several days.

But with the new ethics bill (apparently about to be signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo) requiring new disclosure of outside income, that's looking like a less attractive option for some senators and assembly members.

«In addition to the enacted measures, the Assembly Majority has independently passed a number of ethics - related bills that were not taken up by the State Senate.

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.

The investigation also found that Ponte, in violation of city ethics rules, drove his city - issued car 18,500 miles on trips to and from coastal Maine and billed taxpayers for gas and tolls.

The ethics bill was the latest attempt by Cuomo and legislators to respond to the wave of investigations, arrests and convictions that have tainted state government for nearly a decade, starting with the arrest of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi in a probe that revealed state pension fund bribes and kickbacks.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

Cuomo called for ethics reforms in his State of the State, but neither chamber has presented matching bills.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

Cuomo is reportedly planning to send an ethics program bill to the Legislature in hopes of pressuring members into taking a public stand on the measure.

Coffey has made a point of calling for more stringent ethics reform than his primary opponents, saying the bill sponsored by Schneiderman, passed by both houses of the Legislature and vetoed by Gov. David Paterson doesn't go far enough in its disclosure requirements.

«They haven't introduced a proposal for ethics reform,» Gianaris said (Republicans have introduced ethics bills, including one seemingly aimed at having the governor's girlfriend, Sandra Lee of the Food Network, release her financial information.

The matter of prioritization for the bill - signing also underscores questions about the bill being necessary in the first place, but also issue that many took with Cuomo's abandonment of other, more pressing government ethics and campaign finance reform proposals, many of which he had previously claimed to champion.

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.

Spitzer said he was a «f — ing steamroller» who would roll over Tedisco as he criticized the governor for cutting him out of negotiations on an ethics enforcement bill.

The ethics refresher was ordered as the burgeoning federal probe into police corruption has resulted in the transfers of nine officers, including eight high - level supervisors, many of them stripped of their guns and badges, for their dealings with two wealthy Brooklyn businessmen who are also large donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio and were on his Inauguration Team.

With ethics troubles of his own (he's been accused of taking bribes to pay his legal bills for another alleged scandal), William Boyland Jr. is being forced to fend off a gaggle of challengers, including Roy Antoine, Anthony Herbert, Anthony Jones, David Miller, Nathan Bradley and Christopher Durosinmi.

The bill that created JCOPE required the creation of a commission to review how well the new ethics regime worked.

All of the proposals on Mr. Cuomo's ethics wish list must be approved by the Legislature, which has declined to pass similar bills in the past.

The ethics bill was «stunningly inadequate» in a year of «unprecedented» lawmaker lawbreaking, said New York Public Interest Research Group director Blair Horner.

you wouldn't get a lot of people to answer yes,» said Bill Samuels, a longtime progressive activist and advocate for ethics reforms.

The ethics bill specifically authorizes the board to retain private counsel in situations where there is a conflict of interest.

On that August day in 2011 when he signed the bill into law, there was no hint that the new ethics commission was anything short of a miraculous cure.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.