Sentences with phrase «required lobbying disclosure»

After the case became public, Mangano, a Republican, issued executive orders, later passed into law by the county legislature, that established the lobbyist registry and required lobbying disclosure with each contract given to lawmakers.

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The three lobbyists tapped by Dick's to push for gun control are listed by name in the federal disclosure forms, which are required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to be filed quarterly: Joel Johnson, who worked for both President Bill Clinton and Senate Democrat leadership; Andrew King, who worked for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)

During this morning's JCOPE meeting the state ethics board released a draft report on disclosure rules requiring lobbyists and lobbying groups to disclose individual donors who give more than $ 5000.

County officials, however, said that disclosures are required for all «lobbying activity,» regardless of company title.

At the same time, new disclosure rules for lobbying Albany are taking effect, which would require more expansive disclosure of how the committee is funded.

The agreement also reverses a proposal from the ethics and lobbying regulator known as JCOPE that would require the disclosure by a consultant when they have contacted an editorial board in an effort to influence an opinion piece.

The Legislature in 2011 adopted an ethics overhaul measure that required greater disclosure of sources of outside income for state elected officials, as well as the creation of the latest lobbying regulator, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

-- State lobbying laws requiring disclosure by firms and officials would be extended to municipalities with a population greater than 5,000.

New York will be the first state in the nation to require donor disclosure from the not for profit lobbying entities like the Committee to Save New York, in the future.

Skelos (R - Nassau), an attorney with Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a large Long Island firm that represents health - care industry clients before state agencies and has a subsidiary that lobbies the Legislature, has in the past backed legislation requiring the disclosure of outside income.

A law approved in 2011 aimed at requiring more disclosure for state officials who earn outside income from lobbying entities to appears to be rarely enforced by state ethics regulators.

The new bill sets the total lobbying disclosure threshold at $ 15,000, while requiring disclosure of donations of more than $ 2,500, as well as those donors» personal information.

Now, more disclosure is required of smaller donors after nonprofits spend smaller amounts of total money on lobbying.

That law also required public disclosure of the amount of money — within a narrow category — that officials receive from outside employment and investments, and mandated that some lobbying groups list the donors that fuel their advocacy campaigns.

A coalition of the state's leading political public relations firms filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, claiming its new rules requiring disclosure of outreach to editorial boards represents an unconstitutional expansion of the definition of «lobbying.»

A third application, from the conservative group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, wasn't voted on after JCOPE staff noted that it didn't spend enough money on lobbying to meet the threshold requiring disclosure.

The ethics agreement will also expand disclosure requirements by political consultants who do work for elected officials as well as for clients with business before the state or local governments, and increase the number of donors to groups that perform lobbying who will be required to disclose their identities.

readers now know that despite the plethora of Connecticut laws requiring honest and public disclosure when it comes to lobbying state officials, Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst organization failed to file any of the appropriate Connecticut forms or reports despite spending over $ 352,000 lobbying in Connecticut during February and March of this year.

«If you pay twice the amount of the minimum, that repayment period gets cut in half,» says Ed Mierzwinski, who lobbied for laws requiring these disclosures as the consumer program director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a federation of nonprofits.

However, the real estate industry has firmly resisted disruption, successfully lobbying for state laws banning commission rebates, preventing the public disclosure of residential sales prices, and requiring consumers to purchase real estate services that they may not want, as well as blocking third parties from accessing listing data.