Sentences with phrase «pension forfeiture»

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

The Senate approved an agreed - to pension forfeiture amendment last year during the budget talks, only to have Assembly Democrats balk at the provision.

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

Many believe that the only hope for government ethics reform is agreement on pension forfeiture for elected officials convicted of public corruption.

The Democratic Assembly has passed pension forfeiture laws also.

The Senate passed pension forfeiture legislation as part of the State Budget.

The deal seemed to include pension forfeiture for public officials who are convicted of public corruption.

Monday afternoon, I received roughly a dozen emails from both Republicans and Democrats celebrating the second passage of pension forfeiture legislation.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders are close to a deal in which the state Senate will approve a modified pension forfeiture resolution and Democrats in the state Assembly will assent to a one - year extension of mayoral school control, legislative sources said.

The Assembly passed a resolution approving pension forfeiture late Thursday, and the Senate was expected to follow suit on Friday.

«I'll reiterate, discussions are ongoing with pension forfeiture,» Flanagan said.

And in a separate TimeWarner / Siena poll upstate voters strongly supported pension forfeiture after felony conviction.

Lawmakers also voted to strip state pensions from corrupt elected officials and «policy makers,» promising to «require pension forfeiture if any legislator or policy maker is convicted of a crime related to their public office, regardless of when the policy maker entered service or when the legislator was elected to office.»

Under current law, public officials who began their jobs after 2011 already are subject to pension forfeiture if they commit felonies.

Assembly Democrats on Friday evening released a package of ethics and campaign finance reform measures including limits to outside income, while holding out for negotiations for a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture by public officials convicted of corruption.

The package includes private client disclosure, per diem reform and the pledge to pass a constitutional amendment to expand pension forfeiture for officials convicted of corruption.

But the League's Jennifer Wilson said the threat of pension forfeiture does not go far enough in fighting corruption at the Capitol.

The Assembly's pension forfeiture plan includes more constitutional language about which employees could be subject to sanction, while the Senate was sticking to language agreed to in 2015 that left such definitions in statute.

The governor also proposed the adoption of a joint resolution requiring pension forfeiture after a legislator is convicted of a crime related to their public office, regardless of the date of their election.

Little, Stec say legislature needs to take a serious look at pension forfeiture, leadership term limits in wake of Silver conviction more

If only the Dems would do something about pension forfeitures.

The ethics measures advanced by the Governor and Speaker are an improvement over the status quo — stronger and more complete disclosure of outside income, pension forfeiture risks for all public officials convicted of corruption, per diem reform with verification, and marginally tighter restrictions on personal use of campaign funds.

Citing last month's sentencing of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos on a raft of federal corruption charges, Stec also hammered his colleagues for failure to execute what he called «meaningful» ethics and pension forfeiture reform this session.

Yet the Assembly of which he's a member didn't even take up an agreed upon pension forfeiture law last year.

When asked which proposal to combat corruption they support the most, 44 percent of respondents — the most — chose pension forfeiture.

In the statement, McGrath revived an attack on Kaminsky from the special election, in which he pointed to the lawmaker not supporting a version of pension forfeiture favored by Republicans (Kaminsky has backed the Democratic bill and has been instrumental in crafting ethics reform language when he was in the Democratic - led Assembly).

Here's a win for the Democrats, they were able to water pension forfeiture bill down so about as useful as a 1 armed paper hanger.

Assemblyman David Buchwald, a Democrat from Westchester County who has pushed the reform measure, said pension forfeiture was a priority for the conference.

And if that wasn't clear enough, he later added: «I clearly said we are not going to leave the session without pension forfeiture being resolved.»

The LLC bills, introduced «a la carte» on May 24, have been a non-starter for the Republican - controlled state Senate, leaving only pension forfeiture.

Assemblyman Dan Stec (114th - Queensbury) debates pension forfeiture on the state assembly floor on June 16, 2015.

People want elected politicians to face pension forfeiture; theAssembly laws support that.

«I believe in a very expansive pension forfeiture legislation.

Under withering criticism from government watchdogs for failing to pass any ethics reform laws this year, the Assembly judiciary committee voted 21 - 0 in favor of the same pension forfeiture bill that the state Senate passed in 2015.

It defies logic that a comprehensive pension forfeiture law is still not on the books.

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.

The lawmaker in the past has sponsored his own pension forfeiture bill and proposed legislation for campaign finance reform and term limits.

So the overriding goal here is to get pension forfeiture passed.

Despite the appearance of a March 2015 agreement on pension forfeiture among Cuomo, Skelos — still weeks away from arrest — and Silver's successor, Carl Heastie, the deal was scuttled in the second half of the legislative session.

Cuomo has also pushed lawmakers to reach an agreement on pension forfeiture for those convicted of corruption through a constitutional amendment.

On Tuesday, the second - term lawmaker also slammed lawmakers in both houses for failing to include pension forfeiture bills in ethics reform packages earlier this year.

Limiting outside income, passing pension forfeiture, more disclosure, more transparency, closing the LLC loophole.

But we've made very clear we will not leave here in June without passing something with pension forfeiture.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week announced Assembly Democrats backed his disclosure and per diem reform proposals along with a constitutional amendment to expand pension forfeiture.

But the League's Jennifer Wilson says that the threat of pension forfeiture does not go far enough in fighting corruption at the Capitol.

Little, Stec say legislature needs to take a serious look at pension forfeiture, leadership term limits in wake of Silver conviction

Politicians elected after 2011 are already subject to pension forfeiture if they are convicted of serious crimes.

Good Government Groups See Agreement That Still Leaves Much Unfinished Reform on the Table The ethics measures advanced by the Governor and Speaker are an improvement over the status quo — stronger and more complete disclosure of outside income, pension forfeiture risks for all public officials convicted of corruption, per diem reform with verification, and -LSB-...]

Senate Republicans are not rushing back to the bargaining table when it comes to a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture by officials convicted of corruption.