JCOPE to Stream Hearing on New Lobbying Disclosure Requirements

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics’ (JCOPE) public hearing on reportable business relationships and source of lobbying funding that is scheduled for 11:00 am today will be streamed through their web page (the link to the broadcast will be posted shortly before the hearing begins is here for Windows Media Player and here for Real Media).  The hearing agenda is here.

JCOPE has posted to their site the written comments they have received so far:

• The Business Council of New York State
• Citizens Union
• Common Cause New York
• The Farm Bureau
• Greenberg Traurig, LLP on behalf of the Life Insurance Council of New York, Inc.
• The League of Women Voters
• The New York Advocacy Association
• The New York Public Interest Research Group
• Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, LLP