Legislative Department |
The Legislative department at NYSCOPBA serves many functions, including but not limited to, membership education, preparing annual testimony for the budget hearings, and maintaining a direct relationship with your legislators, BUT obtaining legislation that supports our members’ rights, working conditions, wages, and other areas of concern utilizing the legislative process is the priority. Click here for our legislative history |
Chris Leo - Legislative Director |
2009-2010 Legislative Reports
 January 2010- Sen. Klein/Sen. Savino report - Cutting spending at the Department of Correctional Services | Senators probe prison supers' housing |
| February 18, 2010 - The Assembly standing committee on corrections (Chaired by Assemblyman Aubry) released their 2009 ANNUAL REPORT | March 2010 - Assembly Minority Task Force on Workforce Issues in the Correctional System |
| March 24, 2010- Senate Task Force on Government Efficiency Examines Spending at Department of Correctional Services Administration - Chaired by Senator's Klein and Savino | Seventeen Years of Fraud by the Former Director of the Department of Correction Services' Food Production Center |
| Most recently, NYSCOPBA's (Building #2) flowchart on abundant administration, leads to investigation by Channel 6 News in Albany. |
Legislative Information
Each year the NYSCOPBA legislative department drafts new legislation seeks Senate/ Assembly sponsorship and then aggressively lobbies for the passage of our legislation. Of the approximately 14,000 bills introduced each year, only 2,000 are acted upon and of those only 800 are signed into law on average. Together, with our professional lobbyists, we have consistently shown results (Legislative History) through the many bills that have been signed into law each year since we’ve become an independent Union. Our relationship with the Legislators has been built on respect, honesty and professionalism. We keep your legislators informed year round on law enforcement and corrections issues and ask you to help us during scheduled lobby day (click here for schedule).
NYSCOPBA has made a dramatic impact on the legislative process and achieved our incredible results through membership involvement, membership education and proper use of our financial resources. We have a state of the art database, conducted statewide seminars , lobby days, make selective endorsements, voter registration drives and participated in many campaigns across the state to name a few. We encourage all members to contact their legislators on a regular basis by calling, visiting, or writing.
At each Executive Assembly (bi-monthly), your Chief Sector Steward receives an update on the status of our legislation. Each member can follow our legislation daily by clicking Legislative Tracking Sheet . This update gives the bill number, a description, the legislative sponsor, and the current status of the legislation.
Additional information can be found for the New York State Assembly and Senate at http://assembly.state.ny.us/ or http://www.senate.state.ny.us/. The Governor’s web site http://www.state.ny.us/governor/, New York State Comptroller http://www.osc.state.ny.us/ and the NYS Attorney Generalhttp://www.oag.state.ny.us/.
U.S. Congress Home , U.S. Senate Home, and the President of the United States http://www.whitehouse.gov/. Additional federal government information can be obtained by clicking http://www.governmentguide.com/main.adp
