95.971             A More Ethical Legislature and Advancing Medicine’s Agenda

95.971             A More Ethical Legislature and Advancing Medicine’s Agenda

The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) will advocate for legislation and regulation to promote improved ethics and transparency in the state legislature including but not limited to:

•  Measures that would sensibly limit all campaign contributions.
•  Measures that would restrict the campaign contributions made by law firms of which a legislator is a member, to that legislator only,
•  Measures to promote greater transparency and accountability with regard to the lawmakers’ professional activities outside the legislature.

MSSNY will pursue collaboration with health care stakeholders as well as key affinity groups to promote legislative accountability by means of

•  Limiting campaign financing,
•  Improved transparency and accountability, and
•  Limiting the outside impact of the relationship between lawmakers and the legal profession, in order to promote unity and more effective advocacy particularly as it relates to medical liability reform.  (HOD 2012-112; Reaffirmed HOD 2022)