Sentences with phrase «pass ethics measures»
With ethics back in the headlines due to the pending sentencing for Skelos as well as former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, lawmakers may want to pass an ethics measure in some form before running for re-election later this year.
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The measure, introduced by Bob Goodlatte, the House's judiciary chairman, passed 119 - 74 and is being lauded as a more fair way for ethics investigations to be carried out.
The move is most likely an attempt to prod Skelos on passing some sort of ethics measure.
Cuomo earlier this month told reporters he was skeptical measures such as voting and ethics reforms could pass in the Legislature, a position Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins rejected.
The governor said he believed this year's session was successful, despite the inability to agree on the schools and the failure to pass an ethics overhaul as well as other long - sought measures such as a longer time period within which victims of child sex abuse could sue their abusers.
«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 budget that passed did contain new ethics measures, which at least to some extent, requires more disclosures of outside income by lawmakers.
Now, as governor, Cuomo is trying to pass an ethics overhaul measure that may require legislators to reveal more details about their outside income and clients who do business with the state.
Cuomo in February set out to pass what he said would be the most stringent ethics and disclosure measures in the nation — a push that was undertaken after the arrest of now former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on charges of fraud and extortion.
Today is the final day of the legislative session in Albany, and state lawmakers in both chambers have been under pressure to pass some version of ethics or anti-corruption reform measures in the wake of corruption scandals that have engulfed both chambers.
The ethics package in the budget was just the latest in a series of measures passed by lawmakers and agreed to by the governor following a public outcry after the arrest of a state lawmaker.
She said the Legislature had so far shown «obstinacy» in failing to pass such ethics measures.
In March amid the budget negotiations, Cuomo suggested lawmakers may not receive a pay hike should ethics agreements measure not pass or the spending plan not be approved on time.
Cuomo was pushed by ethics watchdogs this past legislative session to focus on government reform measures, many of which stood little chance of passing in the Assembly and Senate.
Cuomo has sought to challenge lawmakers this year to pass new ethics reform measures by tying the proposals to spending in his 30 - day budget amendments.
Lawmakers won't be called back for a special session to pass more ethics and campaign - finance reform measures, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he would like to see broader changes included in a constitutional convention.
The move suggested a larger push to reach a deal on ethics reform measures before the budget is due to pass next week.
Cuomo, however, is prodding state lawmakers to pass stronger ethics measures in the wake of a series of corruption scandals.
«There have been many ethics reform measures that have been passed into law and there are continuing discussions on ethics,» Young said.
Another legislative source said Silver, under intense pressure from Cuomo and his fellow Assembly members to pass meaningful ethics reform, concluded the ethics measure was needed to «to help the Legislature get out from under a cloud of scandal.»
In anticipation of this week's special election in Harlem, the IDC released a video, calling on all 32 Democrats — the number required to pass legislation — to join them in declaring their support for progressive measures like ethics and voting reform, codifying a woman's right to choose, and more.
If passed, the measure would dramatically expand on a pension forfeiture provision of a 2011 ethics reform package that only applied to public officials not already in the state pension system at the time — that is to say, no sitting lawmakers.