Sentences with phrase «with lobbying laws»
The way I read it, the opinion had nothing to do with the Lobbying Law, but the restrictions on state employees after leaving state employment, so your headline mentioning the lobby law doesn't make sense.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
«It is disturbing that the same companies and investors who have pledged to work with the City to respect California public safety and public realm laws are spending lobbying dollars in Sacramento to repeal them,» San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has been leading the charge to regulate the scooters, told TechCrunch.
So the most evident problem with this new venture is that it is illegal and in the current political climate, no matter the lobbying dollars involved, is unlikely to change the laws sufficient to allow this business to ever launch.
Former Republican Congressman Jim Greenwood, who is now the president and CEO of biotech's largest trade association and lobbying outfit, BIO, is out with an editorial in The Hill celebrating the five - year anniversary of the JOBS Act becoming the law of the land.
Tillerson, who flew to DC in 2010 to lobby against the section of the law driving the rule, argued that it placed an unfair burden on US companies that their foreign counterparts don't have to deal with — requiring them to disclose trade secrets.
Matt said career options can range from working directly with animals to less hands - on — but still very important — endeavors, including lawyers and lobbyists who help animals by writing animal protection laws and lobbying their legislators to get them passed.
He got into trouble with Google when he self - lobbied a law in Nevada and California to allow self - driving car tests.
With a solar tile roll out slated for the next few months, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk will no doubt be watching to see the impact the lobbying efforts and traditional power money have on actual laws.
Adapt has worked with state legislators and federal policymakers about adjusting laws and removing burdens for access, and spent $ 470,000 on lobbying in 2016 and 2017, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks political spending.
With one of the most sophisticated and well - heeled lobbies in the country ($ 8 to $ 9 million annual budget), the NRA fiercely stymies all efforts by legislators to pass gun laws, even though the results of local attempts have shown beyond reasonable doubt that such laws can be effective.
Hurt people carry their wounds with them: into politics and lobby groups, into industry and commerce, into professional life in law and medicine and academia.
Gol, I inferred that you would be perfectly ok with a Christian lobby trying to get their beliefs voted into a law.
Led by Adam Silver and the NBA, but followed with the fervor of a new convert by Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball, the leagues have done a 180 on this and are now actively lobbying states in an effort to help craft the sports gambling laws.
Since 2009, the league, to its credit, has also been lobbying hard in favor of laws - now in place in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and with more sure to follow this year - requiring concussion education of parents and athletes, banning same - day return - to - play after a suspected concussion, and requiring medical clearance before a concussed athlete is allowed back on the playing field, diamond or ice.
The couple, who are planning a hospital birth with a nurse - midwife for their baby due this summer, have lobbied Illinois legislators to change the law.
With restrictions to formula distribution, the corporations become more devious, lobbying governments, challenging the law and establishing clinics and hospitals as marketing agents and centers.
The flyer accuses Golden, who is a former cop himself, of being a «puppet» of the gun lobby and urges his constituents to call on him to «stand with law enforcement and vote «yes.»»
If Cohen was instead lobbying on behalf of any of these companies by contacting government officials, including Trump, on their behalf, he may have violated federal lobbying registration laws, which punish knowing and corrupt violations with up to five years in prison.
January 13, 2010 (readMedia)-- On January 12th over 1,500 gun owners celebrated the Second Amendment in Albany and lobbied their representatives in the State Assembly and Senate to reform NYS gun laws and bring them into line with the landmark legal decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.
As a result of this investigation, Howe was fired in 2016 from his job at Whitman Osterman & Hanna Government Solutions, a Washington lobbying firm with ties to an Albany law firm.
«If the governor is going to hire people for his political operation, he should be much more transparent and not bury them in corners of state government so as to avoid scrutiny,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of the government reform group Citizens Union, which is currently in litigation with the Cuomo administration over a 2016 nonprofit lobbying law.
Others, like Lerner with Common Cause, says the lobbying groups should have to reveal donors going back at least ten months, to when the new law was signed by Cuomo, on August 15, 2011.
Andrea Miller with the National Institute for Reproductive Health lobbied for the law for years in her former role with NARAL New York.
«PUSH Buffalo's arbitrary, noisy, harassing intrusion in the Ellicott Square Building on June 2, 2017, with bullhorns, signs and arrogant people seeking to disturb, intimidate and frighten tenants and visitors to the building and its lobby was not only a trespass and a violation of the law, but also an ignorant, mindless imposition on privacy in a private building and clear evidence of your malicious intentions in slandering and defaming me and my companies,» Paladino wrote.
Ms Trimingham more recently courted controversy by touting for lobbying business, highlighting her excellent links with Lib Dem ministers and whose attempt to introduce a privacy law via the courts failed, resulting in one of the most damning verdicts I have read.
New York's lobbying law requires anyone who spends more than $ 5,000 in an attempt to influence any local law or ordinance, or any pending procurement action, to register its activities with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
Albany, NY — The state ethics commission is cracking down on receptions held by lobby groups at the state Capitol, and has charged three groups, including the trial lawyers and a police association with violating a new law that bans gifts worth more than an ordinary cup of coffee.
After repeatedly and roundly criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio for not visiting Albany until this week to lobby for changes to real estate and rent laws, Mr. Cuomo indicated that Mr. Schneiderman is similarly late with the ambitious package of reforms he debuted on Wednesday.
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.
For years, Syracuse University has contracted Whiteman Osterman & Hanna - an Albany law firm - to lobby on its behalf with New York state officials.
Grandeau, now a private lobbying compliance lawyer and a frequent JCOPE critic, said his conversation with Agata took place at an Albany deli next to JCOPE's offices not long after the nonprofit disclosure law passed in June 2016.
In a separate settlement, Nislick and Neu settled allegations of lobbying law violations, admitting that they had sought to influence legislation on replacing horse carriages in Manhattan with electric vehicles that they donated to the Campaign for One New York.
MPs will today meet with older people for a mass lobby of parliament ahead of the age discrimination law review.
The piece of the NYFCF lawsuit that was allowed to move forward alleges the Open Meetings Law was violated in the days leading up to the same - sex marriage vote, with deliberations and lobbying — including by the governor hismelf — taking place largely in secret.
«The only exception to this rule is that legislators and their staff acting in their official capacity are expressly exempted from the procurement lobbying law and may communicate with anyone regarding the Casino License RFA.»
Instead, Ryan filed an ethics complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics pointing to testimony in a Yonkers corruption trial from disbarred attorney Anthony Mangone that alleged Libous had arranged for his son to receive a job at a law firm paid for by $ 50,000 from a lobbying organization.
«While we can not be sure, we assume that such reporting ensures compliance with the state's Lobbying Law,» Horner and Haven write.
-- State lobbying laws requiring disclosure by firms and officials would be extended to municipalities with a population greater than 5,000.
But Catsimatidis is a client of a state - registered lobbyist with business before the state and is therefore subject to the lobbying law.»
Others, like Lerner with Common Cause, says the lobby groups should have to reveal donors going back at least ten months, to when the new law was signed by Cuomo, on August 15th, 2011.
«We are pleased with the decision reaffirming JCOPE's authority to enforce the State's lobbying laws.
The Commission oversees compliance by public officers with ethics laws and by lobbyists with the state laws that govern lobbying in order to avoid conflicts of interest on the part of those holding elected office or public employment in the State of New York.
He said, however, that Cuomo's biggest benefactors remain the traditional lobbying powers: businesses supporting his initiative to cap the growth of property taxes; landlords, developers and tenant advocates who sought the continuation of New York City's rent control law; and more from contributors with interests in health care and education.
Former Lobbying Commission Executive Director David Grandeau weighed in on the Kaye report during an interview with me that will air on «Capital Tonight» this evening, saying the former chief judge overlooked a violation by the governor of the Public Officers Law.
His white - shoe law firm — which has yet to receive a penny from him despite nearly a year's worth of legal work, essentially extending him a line of credit — itself lobbies city agencies on behalf of clients with business before the city.
«Regardless of whether or not Duffy violated state law by interviewing for a job with a private lobbying entity — he'll recuse himself from any future matters involving economic development in his home region — he has committed a mortal political sin: He created an ethics dilemma for a governor currently hammering the state Legislature over its own ethical record, including its lack of transparency on sources of outside income,» Casey Seiler writes in his column, which includes speculative odds on Duffy's successors.
With the city's rent laws set to expire this month, tenant advocates are planning to head in force to Albany on Tues., June 9, to lobby for their extension.
Multiple sources involved with the company say the firm saw the price of donations and lobbying as pennies on the dollar compared to the savings — or expense — a change in law could bring.
State officials on Wednesday ordered Glenwood Management to pay $ 200,000 for violating the state's lobbying laws in connection with ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
A coalition of upstate business groups is in Albany today to lobby for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed 2 percent cap on local and school property taxes, meeting with Assembly Democrats in an effort to push the measure into law.