Archive Financial Services Council
Staff Contact: Marcus Ferguson
Committee Updates
- Tort Reform to Cut Budget Deficit and Create Jobs, December 3, 2010
- Report to the Superintendent of Insurance - Insurance Filings Modernization Initiative, December 2, 2010

- Unions Drop $200K for Passage of Martin Act, October 21, 2010
- Punishing Street: a Pyrrhic Victory, (Op-ed Crain's New York Business, May 10, 2010)

- February 9, 2010
- 1199 SEIU Launches Banker Bonu$ Tax Campaign
- Tell Albany To Support Fiscal Reform!
- Business Council President/CEO Kenneth Adams urges NY Congressional Delegation to oppose "Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee" 1/26/2010
- Business Council/LICONY/NAIFA/AARP Push Senate to Act on Life Settlement Bill, Alert September 8, 2009
- Alert - June 16, 2009
- Council Lobbies in Opposition to Martin Act Expansion Bill
- Stop the Lawyer Tax Coalition Launches Statewide Media/Grassroots Campaign
- Texas Tort Victories
- NYS Remote Shareholder Bill – A.1567/S.5793 (06/15/09)
NEWS
- With Pension Costs Spiraling Out Of Control, A Variety Of Fixes Emerges
- Punishing Street: a Pyrrhic Victory, (Op-ed Crain's New York Business, May 10, 2010)

- Schneiderman's fraud bill blasted as anti-Wall Street (New York Post, CARL CAMPANILE, September 21, 2010)
- Sallie Mae Appoints New Chairman, C.F.O. - The NY Times - 1/7/08
- JPMorgan Plans Asia Hiring Spree - The NY Times - 1/7/08
- Urgently, Washington Responds to Fast-Spreading Market Turbulence – (NY Times) (1.23.08)
REPORTS
- Report to the Superintendent of Insurance - Insurance Filings Modernization Initiative, December 2, 2010

- Derailing New York's Economic Engine
How Albany Punishes New York’s Largest IndustryPublic Policy Institute Report (March 2010)
- Sustaining
New York’s
and the US’ Global
Financial Services Leadership

2009-2010 Legislative Memos
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- SFY 2009-10 Executive Budget
Part SS/Subpart A - Article VII
(A.160-A / S.60-A), Oppose, Sales Tax Data Matching Program
- S.717 (C. Johnson) / A.4319 (Weisenberg), Oppose, Establishes the savings bank, savings and loan association or credit union municipal deposit program
- A.1005-C (Bing) / S.3635-B, Support, An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to revising the standards relating to the incorporation of stock or mutual insurance companies
- A.1567 ( Brodsky, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal) / S.5793 (Krueger), Requires certain corporations to permit shareholders to attend meetings via remote communication and to be deemed present for voting purposes
- S.4398-A (Schneiderman) / A.7558-A (Weinstein), Oppose, Reduces the statute of limitations on resolving consumer credit actions
- S.4770 (Breslin) / A.8543 (Morelle), Support, Employer Choice Group and Blanket Disability Policies
- S.5768 (Schneiderman) / A.8646 (Brodsky), Oppose, Expands the unlimited power of the Martin Act to significantly increase the legal exposure of the business community
- S.6236 (Diaz, Hassel-Thompson, Huntley, Onorato) / A.9439 (Crespo, Benjamin), Oppose, Imposes a fifty-percent franchise tax on business-owned life insurance benefits
- S.6954-C (Breslin) / A.9405-B (Morelle), Support, Abolishes the New York Board of Fire Underwriters
- A.7131-A (Morelle) / S.3655-A (Breslin), Support, Regulation of Life Settlement Business
- S.7220-A (Breslin) / A.10636-A (Morelle), Support, Foster Expansion of the Commercial Insurance Market in New York State
- A.9432 (Glick) / S.6307 (Stavisky, C. Johnson, Schneiderman), Support, CPA Mobility - Allows accountants licensed in other states to have practice privileges in New York State
2005-2006 LEGISLATIVE MEMOS
2003-2004 LEGISLATIVE MEMOS
- A.9184-a/S.6517 - Notification of unauthorized acquisition of personal information