The agreement would force legislators, many of whom have part-time law practices, to disclose the names of clients who have business before the state; would allow prosecutors to seek to strip pensions from future elected officials convicted of felonies; and would for the first time allow officials appointed by a governor a role in overseeing legislative compliance with ethics laws.
There is only one purpose to the behavior you see on this video: to intimidate legislators into compliance and prevent what would otherwise be open, democratic debates about policy.
The Diet, too, should stop its internal bickering for a moment to form a bipartisan committee to monitor events in Iran and reach out to Iranian legislators across a range of issues, including compliance with universal norms of human rights.
The responsibility for compliance falls to domestic actors: executives, legislators, and judiciaries.
Because of a putrid 2010 law called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA for short, because Washington legislators are nothing if not subtle), U.S. citizens and their spouses who hold more than $10,000 total in non-American financial institutions must file annual disclosures listing the maximum exchange-rate value of each and every such account during the previous year.
In Michigan, which this year became the 17th state to enact a standard belt law, Mr. Conyers, one of the senior black legislators in Congress, said that lawmakers should pursue both better compliance with seat-belt laws and an end to discrimination in law enforcement.
State legislators adopt education laws that are rife with top-down compliance, discouraging the growth of new charter schools.
Legislators from coal-dependent states want free allowances to mitigate costs of compliance and give emitters time to switch to cleaner fuels.
"We're dedicated to operating in full-compliance with state and local laws, but in many markets legislators haven't even addressed what we're trying to do.
State Senator Diane J. Savino of Staten Island, a Democrat and the president of the Conference of Italian-American Legislators in Albany, said she was pressing for joint hearings into the university's compliance with the 1994 settlement.
