Ethics Reform Package Advancing?

The Daily News reports that progress is being made on an ethics reform bill that would:

– permit public officials, legislators and staff to accept gifts valued at less than $10 from lobbyists (current law prohibits the accepting of anything greater than “nominal value,” which the CPI has determined is the value of an ordinary cup of coffee;

–  permit the forfeiture of pensions for public officials convicted of corruption;

– authorize the Commission on Public Integrity to investigate lawmakers and refer findings of criminality to law enforcement; and

– requiring lawmakers who are also lawyers to disclose their clients if they made more than $100,000 from a firm, as well as any new clients who have business with the state.