Sentences with phrase «of pension forfeiture bills»

The Senate and Assembly passed different versions of pension forfeiture bills in 2015, so the measure did not become law.

«There's several version of pension forfeiture bills out there,» said Assemblyman Dan Stec, a Republican from Queensbury.

My first priority was to work for the passage of a pension forfeiture bill.

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But voters will understand neither the horse - trading nor the heady implications of the bill, and several Assembly members said they were simply happy and hoping to act on a pension forfeiture amendment — whichever one it was.

As for the pension forfeiture bill, Speaker Heastie says lawmakers actually have until the end of 2016 before they have to finalize the first step to change the state's constitution, so he says there's plenty of time to agree on a new bill.

In March last year, the Senate passed a broader pension forfeiture bill that applied to all members of the state pension system, not just those who are elected.

«I don't think... anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done, like at least the pension forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year — which still hasn't been passed — the LLC loophole, which is just an obvious anomaly that could be passed easily, in my opinion, which would at least reflect the sense of the people that this has been a wholly unprecedented year in terms of investigations of legislators,» the governor said after speaking at a minimum wage rally outside the Capitol.

The pension forfeiture portion of the bill would apply to all public employees who are sworn in subsequent to the bill's enactment — they would also be subject to the hefty financial penalty of up to twice the sum they unlawfully collected.

Stec, who has positioned himself as the state legislature's leading voice on stripping corrupted officials of their pensions, theorized something happened when three men went into a room on March 31, and hours later, the assembly opted against voting on their pension forfeiture bill.