Statewide Ethics Training Initiative

 The Ethics Commission Reform Act of 2022 (ECRA) requires that all state officers and employees, approximately 330,000 individuals, receive live or online ethics training every year.  The Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government is responsible for developing and administering this important training mandate. 

Executive Law § 94 (8) details the requirements of the ethics training mandate:

• new hires are required to complete live training within 90 days of employment;
• live training is required every other year; and
• Ethics refresher training is required on the intervening years that live training is due.  

Please refer to the employee training schedule for more information.

2023 CETC Schedule for State Employees

COELIG will present live Comprehensive Ethics Training Course sessions ('CETC') via Webex until further notice. You must have a computer or iPad connected to the internet, and a working telephone connection, to participate in this format. Continuing Legal Education Credits (“CLE”) are not available at this time.

Training opportunities for January and February 2024:

• Thursday, January 4, from 1-2:30 p.m.

• Thursday, January 11, from 1-2:30 p.m.

• Thursday, January 18, from 1-2:30 p.m.

• Thursday, January 25, from 1-2:30 p.m.

• Thursday, February 1, from 1-2:30 p.m.

• Thursday, February 8, from 1-2:30 p.m.

• Thursday, February 15, from 1-2:30 p.m.

• Thursday, February 22, from 1-2:30 p.m.

• Thursday, February 29, from 1-2:30 p.m.

ENROLL NOW

COELIG has provided an online on-demand ethics training course for state employees with access to the Statewide Learning Management System ('SLMS').

This course satisfies the Ethics Refresher requirement for employees who have already completed live instructor-led training.  Additionally, this online course serves as an interim training solution for those new hires and seasoned employees who are unable to immediately attend live training.  

Agency SLMS Primary or Secondary administrators – are able to enroll their employees in the training.

The on-demand ethics training course is available on the statewide learning management system (‘SLMS’).  For agencies unable to utilize SLMS and can host SCORM or HTML training courses within their own learning management systems, please email us at [email protected] for more information.

SLMS Course Information:

• Course long name:  COELIG On Demand EthicsTraining (CETC) 2023

• Course short name: COELIG OD

• Course Code: COELIG-OndemandCETC-2023

The Education Team has been busy designing an online application to help agency ethics officers and training compliance officers streamline their monthly reporting obligation.  Stay tuned for more on this exciting development.