Sentences with phrase «state lobbying disclosure»

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

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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.

The new 14 - member commission will oversee financial - disclosure requirements for state officials as well as regulate the state's $ 200 million - a-year lobbying activities.

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.

AG Eric Schneiderman has relaunched a website first created by then - AG Cuomo containing public information to match lobbying disclosures with specific legislation proposed and passed by state lawmakers.

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

Mr. Feerick, who is dean of the Fordham Law School, also lobbied for an ethics law for local government officials primarily aimed at conflicts of interest in land development and governmental purchases and a separate state agency to enforce the disclosure provisions of state election 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.

One day before the state ethics commission is to hold hearings on new rules for lobbying disclosures, there are more revelations about a multi million dollar advocacy group associated with Governor Andrew Cuomo.

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.

JCOPE unanimously passed «emergency» regulations that will govern the state's lobbying disclosure rules should Gov. Andrew Cuomo sign an ethics reform package, as expected.

The only detailed information in Parkside's disclosure report covering activity in September and October is that they lobbied Assembly staffer Joseph Garba and the offices of the chairmen who oversee gaming: Assemblyman Gary Pretlow and State Sen. John Bonacic.

David Grandeau, an Albany - area consultant who spent years as the state's top lobbying regulator, is advising the authority on «updating and amending» its code of ethics and financial - disclosure policies, according to Steve Coleman, a Port Authority spokesman.

According to disclosures filed with the state, the organization's lobbying efforts were related to property taxes, rent regulation, building safety and water rates.

Those changes came after the public disclosure of state and federal investigations into potential bid - rigging and improper lobbying — and after much of the money allocated for major projects had been spent.

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.»

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The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.

Financial disclosure statements from a former senior aide and campaign manager to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, currently at the center of an investigation involving improper lobbying and conflicts of interest, show that he earned at least $ 70,000 in consulting fees in 2014 from two entities that do business with the state.

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.

According to a Boston Globe report, The Massachusetts Teachers Association, the state's National Education Association (NEA) affiliate, is lobbying to strip at least one disclosure provision from the bill citing «technical issues.»

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.

These examples are likely just the tip of the iceberg, because lax lobbying disclosure requirements at the federal level and in most states mean we don't know what position ExxonMobil has taken on the many of the bills it has lobbied on.

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.