Sentences with phrase «session ethics package»

It's the third standard Cuomo has set this year for an end - of - session ethics package, and with just one week before the state Legislature leaves Albany, he's hoping it's one that can be cleared with minimal fuss and maximum bragging rights.

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Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous said the Republican conference would take up an ethics package later this session, but he said it's unclear what the final bill would look like.

State lawmakers are expected to consider a package of ethics and campaign finance reform measures when they return to Albany for the post-budget session next Tuesday.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie also recommitted to closing the loophole in his opening remarks for the 2016 session, and the Assembly passed it once again as part of a broad ethics package, this time nearly unanimously.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has said lawmakers can choose to clean up their acts or face repeated prosecutions, said Cuomo's package was «welcome news,» but hoped lawmakers would «use today's announcement as another clear sign that Albany must pass comprehensive ethics reform before the end of session.»

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.

At the end of the legislative session last year, Cuomo was annoyed that lawmakers had rejected his ethics reform package, even after several lawmakers had been indicted, jailed, or found to be wearing wires in ongoing FBI probes.

Cuomo insisted on Wednesday the blow up over the budget had nothing to do with a scuttled pay raise, denied to lawmakers in December after they failed to coalesce around a package of ethics measures in a special session that never materialized.

Several legislative sources on Tuesday expressed doubt that, at this point, a special session would be possible to approve a series of ethics measure, whether public financing is a part of the package or not.

The ethics package comes as lawmakers in Albany this legislative session have been largely focused on the economic measures Cuomo is touting: A $ 15 minimum wage and a proposed 12 - week paid family leave program.

«We started out this session being told we had to do something about ethics,» said state Sen. Diane Savino (D - Staten Island), who went on to say the package didn't touch on any of the problems highlighted in the recent trials.

The governor is promising to introduce his own ethics reform package before the legislative session ends in June.

Despite the arrests of the legislative leaders and the on going corruption probes, there is no new ethics reform as part of the end of session package.