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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.

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.

Not exact matches

In addition to supporting the pension forfeiture, 66 percent of those polled also support banning political contributions by companies that do business with the level of government they contribute to, and 55 percent back banning elected officials from earning income outside of their government salary.

Five points, very strong, and by the way focusing on the issues arising from the case: pension forfeiture, outside income.

That means greater disclosure of business and law clients from legislators» side jobs, a ban on the personal use of campaign funds, greater safeguards for per diem reimbursement, pension forfeiture for lawmakers convicted of public corruption and greater disclosure by independent expenditure campaign accounts.

An agreement on pension forfeitures was reached by the governor and Legislature in March.

«What the public is hungry for, post Shelly Silver, is ethics reform — specifically, the pension forfeiture bill that was agreed to last year and promptly reneged on by the Assembly,» said Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for the Democratic governor.

For a state capitol that began the legislative session shellshocked by the convictions on corruption charges of two of its most powerful leaders, Sheldon Silver and Dean G. Skelos, the most significant action was perhaps the pension - forfeiture measure, which had fizzled last year.

Another biggie: Certain public officials who commit crimes related to their public offices may have their pensions reduced or forfeited in a new civil forfeiture proceeding brought by the attorney general or the prosecutor who handled the conviction of the official.

The unions also saw a pre-election win in the push to scale back the pension forfeiture constitutional amendment known as Prop. 2, which was also approved by the voters — albeit by a smaller margin than Prop. 1.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).