Sentences with phrase «pass ethics bills»

If the legislators were serious about reform (which they are not), they could simply pass ethics bills in each house outside the budget process and present it to Cuomo for signature.

The time has come for the Republican Majority to finally join with the Senate Democrats and pass the ethics bills we have introduced and supported for years,» she said in a statement.

Schneiderman was on Long Island on Friday, and said he was confident there was enough time to pass his ethics bill, calling three weeks at the Capitol a lifetime.

The governor insists that he'd declared from the outset that he'd shutter the commission when the Legislature passed an ethics bill, and that's true.

For example: he threatened to convene a special panel to investigate legislators if they do not pass an ethics bill he feels provides adequate oversight.

Not exact matches

This week they will pass an «ETHICS» reform bill, what a joke it has a board bigger than the US Supreme Court.you will never clean up Washington, Albany, or City Hall until restart electing proper who have not lost their «MORAL COMPASS» Plus Rudy says «I have liabilities,» that is an understatement, the past scandal will destroy him, Russell Harding, Ray Harding, etc, etc, etc,

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.

«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.

The Senate and Assembly each passed their own one - house ethics reform bills earlier this year, but their leaders have failed to reach a deal on the issue.

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.

Asked how she could get her new ethics bill passed by a Republican Congress, Slaughter said: «Only if»60 Minutes» takes it up — and we've talked to them about it.»

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.

If not, he said, he will work with the new Democratic majority in January to pass an ethics reform bill.

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.

Moreland Commissions have their place — and they're a powerful tool — but I think they'll stay in the Governor's back pocket regardless of whether an ethics bill is passed.

Cuomo: So far, the governor has used the threat of the Moreland Act to try to get lawmakers to pass a proposed ethics reform bill.

Although passed by the Legislature in the 2011 ethics bill, several lawmakers have been concerned about this unprecedented disclosure of their personal income.

A government ethics reform bill, jointly passed by the state Legislature Monday for a second time, amends the state constitution and allows the state to reduce or revoke the pension of a public officer that has been convicted of a crime related to his or her official duties.

Following his comments on the ongoing investigation, Cuomo told reporters that ethics reform is among the bills he wants passed and on his desk to sign before State Legislators adjourn later this month.

After all, it worked for him with the highly imperfect ethics bill he passed in June.

«I wish I could say the crap that came out about Shelly and Skelos is enough to get the governor and legislature to do something real on election reform and ethics, but left to their own devices they are going to pass some Mickey - Mouse bill that tinkers around the edges,» he said.

However, critics are calling the Republican - sponsored ethics reform bill that narrowly passed the House last week a «sham,» a «snow job,» and «worse than window dressing.»

Last week, Governor Cuomo announced that he and his senior staff would tour the state in order to speak directly to the people of New York about, among other issues, creating a property tax cap, cleaning up Albany by passing ethics reform and passing a marriage equality bill.

and he says it provided the «stimulus» to pass a new ethics bill, which Cuomo called «historic reform.»

Mr. McGrath has said that he supports some ethics reforms, like term limits for legislators and stripping pensions from lawmakers convicted of a felony; Mr. Kaminsky's spokesman, Evan Thies, defended his attendance record as «excellent,» noting that he had sponsored 16 bills that eventually passed, a freshman record.

The law, passed in 2011 as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first ethics reform bill, requires lobbyists or their clients who pay a state employee more than $ 1,000 in a year to submit a form detailing the exact amount every six months.

Now that the session has adjourned, the Republican from the 45th district tells WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley she was successful at passing a number of bills, but frustrated with the lack of substantive movement on issues such as ethics reform.

Senate Democratic Leader Malcolm A. Smith said the ethics reform bill passed by the State Senate today «contains many of the provisions Senate Minority have been trying for years to enact.»

The state's top ethics agency is seeking to require consultants and public relations professionals who are paid to influence the passage of legislation to disclose information about how much they're being paid and what bills they're attempting to pass or defeat.

The Assembly passed the ethics reform bill.

Lawmakers agreed to pass some ethics reform bills as part of the deal.

The governor himself does not have the same leverage he did on the budget or on a potential ethics bill, where he has suggested he would use a Moreland Commission to investigate legislators if a reform bill doesn't pass.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in the fall of 2014 that any effort to pass paid leave would have to wait until the state had passed a suite of bills codifying a woman's right to secure an abortion into the state's health code, and later Cuomo said the Legislature, mired in ethics scandals, «lacked the appetite» to consider paid leave.