Legislators who are attorneys will have to disclose their legal clients and those of their firms if those clients are doing business with the state, are involved in proceedings before state agencies or are seeking to get legislation passed under an agreement on ethics reforms announced Friday by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders.
The long-discussed bill, dubbed the Clean Up Albany Act of 2011, will create a new Joint Commission on Public Ethics to take the place of the Commission on Public Integrity, and give the new entity authority to punish corruption in both the executive and legislative branches and to regulate lobbyists. The public integrity commission has no power to investigate legislative misdeeds. The measure will also establish a new civil forfeiture proceeding in which the attorney general or local prosecutors can seek to strip the government pensions of officials convicted of felonies related to their public duties.
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