Not exact matches
The policy was adopted a month ago as the province
lobbied Governor Andrew Cuomo to drop his proposed New York Buy American Act, which would have
required state
entities to buy from U.S. companies on all purchases more than $ 100,000 (U.S.).
Cunningham reiterated that CSNY has in fact registered as a
lobbying entity and will be filing a report as
required with the CPI.
At the moment, neither Public Campaign Action Fund or a related organization, Friends of Democracy, has filed an intent to
lobby letter with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — a documented
required when the cost of seeking to influence state government is expected to be more than $ 5,000 for any given
entity.
Cuomo, speaking at an appearance in Batavia, says he supports the ethics board's decision to only
require that
lobbying entities report donors going forward, not retroactively, as some reformers had called for.
NYCLASS was also forced to admit that it failed to register with JCOPE as a
lobbying entity and must file the
required documents as part of the settlement.
«We can find no exception to the requirement that those
entities register as lobbyists and report their
lobbying as
required under state law.»
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.
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.
Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the city hopes to model its construction funding plan on a groundbreaking schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been
lobbying city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would
require a nonprofit or other
entity to float the bonds on behalf of the school system.