Sentences with phrase «reforming ethics laws»

Chief on their list is reforming ethics laws, fighting corruption, opening the state's closed primary elections, enacting term limits for state legislators, streamlining the court system and codifying the rights of women.

After Newsday's reports on Terry's taxes, the North Hempstead Town Board reformed its ethics laws, requiring contractors who advise town boards to file financial disclosure forms and anyone who files the forms to identify family members who work for the town.

«I would rather have us move faster than we're moving to reform the ethics law, but the fact that we're in serious negotiations with the Assembly is a big step forward,» Schneiderman said.

Not exact matches

Democrats were more than happy to seize on McGrath's insistence that he would not step away from his law practice if elected and, at the same time, was dismissive of calls for ethics reforms.

«In Albany, ethics laws and campaign reform, they have a long way to go, I think.

«At his first official campaign event, Chris McGrath outrageously confirmed he is against ethics reforms to ban outside income and will continue to line his pockets through his outside law practice.

Kaminsky, meanwhile, released a five - point ethics reform platform that include bans on lawmakers earning outside income, expanding penalties for corruption, campaign finance law changes and enhancing the powers of local district attorneys.

``... In truth, what New York needs is wholesale reform of its ethics laws, not a jerry - rigged solution.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

Top issues for state lawmakers to tackle when they return to Albany from their two - week spring break include NYC mayor's control, ethics reform and changes to the election laws.

Cuomo in his budget plan included issues such his slate of ethics reforms and criminal justice law changes that have little fiscal impact.

Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers, confirmed that issues such as voter reform measures and changes to the state's ethics laws had fallen out of the budget talks.

Democrats have also been resistant to substantive ethics reform efforts in recent years, passing a weak law last year that barely limits who politicians can take money from.

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

Under a newly passed ethics reform law — which Ambrosino, King Sweeney and Blakeman voted against — Ambrosino would be barred from working for the town or running for re-election if he is convicted of the felony charges.

Onondaga County lawmakers passed an ethics reform law during its meeting Tuesday.

Now, as Cuomo's closest friend and former top advisor, Joseph Percoco, is about to be indicted for rigging bids on state contracts, the governor proposed a raft of ethics reforms on Wednesday that stand little chance of ever getting made into law.

Governor Cuomo and Senator Addabbo have successfully worked together to create on - time budgets, and fight for important legislation to implement common sense gun laws, bring ethics reform to Albany, and expand access to quality education for New York children.

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

In 2011, Cuomo made the first of what would be several attempts to reform the state's ethics laws, ultimately brokering the agreement that would create JCOPE and a little noticed database called Project Sunlight, which allows users to view the details of meetings outside entities have with state officials from every agency in the state.

That helps reveal, Orzechowski said, how many reforms are tangled in a morass of Albany power players» political self - interest, leading to unlikely bureaucratic arrangements, such as an ethics agency that is not subject to transparency laws.

After lawmakers failed to pass the ethics reforms he proposed last year — including closing the LLC loophole — Cuomo formed a Moreland Commission to investigate corruption and recommend new campaign finance laws.

State legislators would be required to report outside income of more than $ 1,000 and disclose the name of law clients who pay them more than $ 5,000 under an ethics - reform package unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

Klein and Cuomo had sought public finance and other reforms, as part of a budget deal, but in the end settled for a more limited ethics package that would strengthen the regulation of campaign violations and enact stiffer anti bribery laws.

«We urge the Elections Committee to pass Senator Squadron's legislation, and the full Senate and Assembly to pass this critical reform that would improve our campaign finance and ethics laws by reducing the influence of big contributions on the decisions made by our elected officials.»

TheTimes - Union said that the trial was a troubling demonstration that ethics and campaign finance laws need to be reformed in Albany.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today outlined his ethics reform agenda for the 2015 legislative session at the NYU School of Law in New York City.

Reform groups are giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo an A for effort on his ethics proposals, but they say some of them need to go further, and Cuomo needs to follow through and actually get the plans enacted into law.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

In January, the governor unveiled a «comprehensive package» of ethics and good government reforms, which included appointing a chief procurement officer, expanding the Freedom of Information Law to the state legislature, and closing the «LLC loophole,» which essentially allows corporations to exceed campaign donation limits.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a New York state ethics panel over a story in the New York Times that says the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

During his 2018 State of the State speech on Wednesday in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo spent little time on government ethics reform, but did address at somewhat greater length his proposals to increase access to the ballot box and change state campaign finance law.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a state ethics panel over a report in the New York Times that the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

With one good - government leader calling this session Albany's «Watergate moment,» a lawmaker from the Hudson Valley has introduced an ethics reform package trying to create distance between those who seek to influence the law and those who make the laws.

She has pushed to livestream board meetings and for ethic reforms, including an anti-nepotism law.

«The new ethics reform law brings an aggressive new approach to returning integrity to the halls of our Capitol.»

Instead, Astorino, the Republican county executive of Westchester took a direct shot at the Legislature, releasing a 10 - point ethics reform package that called for everything from term limits and a less generous state pension system for state lawmakers to an overhaul of the state's Byzantine campaign finance laws.

They include ethics reforms, amending the state's hate crimes laws and a pay raise for legislators.

A new law signed Monday in New York will change the way ethics investigations and disclosure works for lawmakers there, the Associated Press reports: «This new ethics reform law brings an aggressive new approach to... Read More

Seven of the eight candidates vying to become the next Speaker of the New York City Council convened at New York Law School on Monday night for a forum focused on government reform, running the Council, transparency, ethics, voting, and elections.

The Budget agreement includes landmark education reforms and investment, an ethics package with the nation's strongest disclosure laws for... Continue reading →

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the only one left standing of the «three men in a room» who made every major decision on New York's laws and budgets in January, praised the verdict and like Bharara and others in Albany said it should spur ethics reforms.

«Politicians in Albany had the chance after both leaders were arrested on corruption charges last year to enact tough ethics reform laws and they failed.

The audience at New York Law School probably didn't know it, but Gov. Cuomo drove from Albany in a snowstorm to lay down the law to Albany lawmakers — ethics reform... or else, CBS2's Marcia Kramer reportLaw School probably didn't know it, but Gov. Cuomo drove from Albany in a snowstorm to lay down the law to Albany lawmakers — ethics reform... or else, CBS2's Marcia Kramer reportlaw to Albany lawmakers — ethics reform... or else, CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported.

Reform groups are giving Governor Cuomo an A for effort on his ethics proposals, but they say some of them need to go further, and Cuomo needs to follow through and actually get the plans enacted into law.

Republicans built in a protection for themselves in the ethics reform law of 2011, giving them three appointments even if they fall into the minority (or, in this case, form a coalition).

With the Memorial Day weekend approaching, Cuomo did not release any new program bills for ethics and campaign finance reform, but did lament while on Long Island the existing loopholes in the law.

Cuomo has sought ethics and disclosure measures, as well as campaign finance reform laws virtually every year since taking office.

George is the only candidate that has actually lowered taxes, he has stood on the front line pushing for stronger ethics reforms and he has fought for common sense gun laws.