Sentences with phrase «with ethics reform measures»

Heastie, who succeeded Silver last year after his indictment, said he wanted to move forward with ethics reform measures, saying there is a «will» to have a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture approved this year.

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Even without investigations dominating the headlines, lawmakers were likely to contend with growing calls for ethics and campaign finance reform measures following the sentencing of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to 12 years in prison.

The Syracuse Republican said that if Gov. Andrew Cuomo's push to create new ethics measures as well as reform education threaten to hold up a budget deal, both should be removed and dealt with separately.

Still, even as a number of other measures melted away from the budget talks, Cuomo stuck with including education reforms, as well as ethics legislation, in the final budget agreement.

Cuomo is also expected to push for his ethics reform measure, which is being negotiated with legislative leaders in closed - door sessions.

A day after squabbling with state lawmakers over the best way to achieve ethics reform and before the anticipated opening of indictments in a sweeping pay - to - play scandal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday unveiled a long list of anti-corruption measures.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).