Sentences with phrase «per diem expense»

The bill would require that state lawmakers disclose details of their sources of outside income, even law clients, and that they prove they were actually in Albany (using an electronic card swipe system) before they are entitled to per diem expense payments.

Until less than a year ago, there was no oversight of how lawmakers used, or misused the per diem expense payments they receive while in Albany.

The bill would require that state lawmakers disclose details of their sources of outside income, even law clients, and that they prove they were actually in Albany, using an electronic card swipe system, before they are entitled to per diem expense payments.

In the Senate, Catherine Young had the biggest per diem expense, a total of $ 23,485, although the Olean Republican trailed nine others for total reimbursements, including Sen. William Stachowski, $ 34,436, who flew from Buffalo a lot, costing $ 12,782; Suzi Oppenheimer, $ 28,898; Martin Dilan, $ 28,734; Velmanette Montgomery, $ 27,285; and former Sen. Dale Volker, $ 26,478, who also flew occasionally.

Nolan demurred, too, when asked if lawmakers should reconsider their support for Heastie given reports about his high rate of reimbursement for per diem expenses, missed votes, heavy reliance on itemized campaign finance expenditures (which drew the attention of the now - defunct Moreland Commission), as well as member items being directed to campaign donors.

Gov. Paterson has called lawmakers back this Wednesday and he's saying he'll keep them here until the budget is completed — which means more per diems expenses.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo announced late Tuesday that he and Assembly Democrats have agreed on an ethics package that would require legislators to disclose their business and law clients and to use swipe cards to prove they were in Albany on days when they claim per diem expenses.

Since 2010, Heastie was second in per diem expenses to only Assemblyman William Scarborough, who has been criminally charged for misusing the expense - account system.

The plan would also reform the per diem expenses paid to members of the legislature for their time spent in Albany.

In May, Heastie announced new rules for acceptable documentation to prove a member is in Albany when he or she claims per diem expenses.

Travel and per diem expenses incurred while a person is on temporary assignment shall be paid by the agency to which the person is assigned.

Not exact matches

Those payments, unlike direct salary, don't have to be reported on your personal tax forms as wages, as long as they qualified as legitimate business expenses, and remained under the IRS's per diem cap rules.

While traveling overnight for business you may deduct either the actual meal expense or the IRS approved per diem — the standard meal allowance.

Klein pays each a small per diem and hotel expenses.

At no time did Puma pay any expenses for these players, nor did Puma provide any assistance in the form of travel, per diem, product, meals, soda pops and / or free goods for their families.

Michele Vennard, president of the Albany County Convention and Visitors Bureau, said legislators» per diem rate, the amount they're reimbursed for daily meal and lodging expenses, fell by six dollars.

Astorino's plan calls for the replacement of automatic per - diem reimbursements with a simple reimbursement system based on the submission — under penalty of perjury — of expense receipts for travel, lodging and food.

The state's per diem system to reimburse lawmakers for travel expense is again under scrutiny after the FBI collected records from an assemblyman who has racked up a very big bill.

Given the number of lawmakers who normally seek reimbursement for their meal and lodging costs, the daily cost of the extraordinary session will top more than $ 30,000 per day in per diems, not including mileage reimbursements or staff expenses and other costs not easily measured.

«This commission would be charged with not only evaluating pay, but also legislative per diems, expense reimbursement, and other non-salary benefits.

Among his recommendations, Astorino favors switching elected officials from the defined - benefit pension plan to a defined - contribution plan; replacing the per diem system for lawmaker expenses to one requiring stricter bookkeeping; and scrapping the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics in favor of a new independent ethics watchdog appointed by the judiciary.

The governor also said he would push for a change to the state constitution that would deprive a convicted public official of a pension, end the use of campaign funds for personal use and curtail legislative «per diem» payments to cover only actual expenses.

In the meantime, he says his office and federal prosecutors will continue to scrutinize lawmakers whose per diem payments and other travel expenses don't add up.

Cuomo is proposing a five - point plan, including public financing of campaigns, full and complete disclosure of lawmakers» outside income, and reform of the legislative per diem system where the governor says lawmakers come to Albany just to make money through the daily expense payments.

Per diems are no small expense.

Legislators are reimbursed for in - state travel expenses, which include mileage and per diem.

«If you think about the per diem system, this is in addition to travel expenses, this is not just travel expenses,» the AG continued.

According to per diem information retained by the state Comptroller's Office obtained through a Freedom of Information request, Stevenson racked up $ 28,858 in travel expenses between April 2012 and right up until his April 2013 arrest.

Hooper, a Long Island Democrat who is routinely the Legislature's top recipient of per diems and other travel expenses, received $ 26,180.93 in 2015, according to data published by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

Members of both houses earn a salary of $ 79,500 annually, plus per diem reimbursements to compensate for travel and lodging expenses.

-- Legislators would be required to confirm they were in Albany by using a «swipe card» system to claim a $ 172 daily expense per diem, Kaminsky said.

Verification required for per diem travel expenses.

He also proposed that lawmakers convicted of corruption be required to forfeit their taxpayer - funded pensions, that per diems be given either to reimburse specific travel expenses or as a lump sum, and that more stringent campaign finance laws be enacted to prevent campaign funds from going to personal use.

«Only Andrew Cuomo would believe that replacing a state legislator who claimed per diems for expenses when not at work with a former Governor who was fined for shaking down the Yankees for playoff tickets is a solution to the ethical problems within the Democratic Party,» said Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate who will face off against Cuomo if he wins the Democratic Party nod for a second term.

The indictment says that Boyland received «tens of thousands of dollars» in mileage expenses and per diem payments that he was not entitled to collect.

■ New York needs an ethics makeover, meaning real disclosure of outside income for lawmakers and an accounting of every dollar of expenses that count toward their per diem reimbursements.

The commission also conducted «dozens of interviews» with public officials, lobbyists and their clients, political insiders, whistleblowers and both «expert and lay witnesses,» and sought lawmakers» payrolls, timesheets, per diems and travel expenses, records of when they entered and exited official buildings, and any other records that could «potentially improper personal and political uses of public funds,» according to the report.

The charges stem from an investigation into Mr. Scarborough's per diem payments — the money Albany lawmakers are paid in expenses for each day they report they are staying in Albany, the subject of much scrutiny in conversations surrounding ethics reforms.

In addition to ending outside income, Mr. Schneiderman also called for an end to per diem payments to Albany legislators — $ 172 a day doled out to lawmakers to cover their expenses for traveling to Albany, without receipts required.

In their cross hairs from the outset were the pots of money that had long spawned scandals in the Legislature: campaign donations and spending; the easy - to - abuse expense reimbursements known as per diem payments; and the outside income that some lawmakers earned in lucrative part - time jobs, often at law firms representing clients with business before the state.

Heastie stands out for claiming the third - largest expense haul of any Assembly member in 2014 — collecting mileage and per diems exceeding $ 22,000.

Addressing the federal allegations, Scarborough denied that he fraudulently collected per diem reimbursements, and said he paid for some expenses for which he wasn't reimbursed, suggesting the government and his campaign might owe him money.

Not after the government and local officials and foreign consultants, with their five - star hotels and travel and per - diem expenses, have all taken their share.

Special advisory and technical experts and consultants appointed pursuant to this subsection shall, while performing their functions under this section, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding the daily pay rate, for a person employed as a GS - 18 under section 5332 of title 45, United States Code, including traveltime, and while serving away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of such title 5 for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.

(2) Any such experts or consultants shall, while serving pursuant to such contracts, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding the pro rata pay rate for a person employed as a GS - 18, under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, including traveltime, and while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.

634) is amended to read as follows: (b) Each member of the Commission who is otherwise in the service of the Government of the United States shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for such other service, but while engaged in the work of the Commission shall be paid actual travel expenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistence expenses when away from his usual place of residence, in accordance with the provisions of the Travel Expenses Act of 1949, asexpenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistence expenses when away from his usual place of residence, in accordance with the provisions of the Travel Expenses Act of 1949, asexpenses when away from his usual place of residence, in accordance with the provisions of the Travel Expenses Act of 1949, asExpenses Act of 1949, as amended

However, payments received in excess of the greater of per diem tax maximum limits or actual expenses paid are probably going to be taxable as income.

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«They not only cover the cost of fuel, but also a per diem for the volunteers and motel expenses for the three day trip.

The absolute changes are economically more germane to counties with respect to shelter expenses because expenditures are based on the per diem cost of maintaining individual cats.