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House Committee on Ethics

Thursday, February 19, 2026·59m·▶ Watch / Listen

Key Actions

·Ethics Complaint – Preliminary Investigation: Rep. Bradley vs. Rep. WeinbergNo Vote

Controversies

Utility of swipe key data request for Representative Weinberg

Representative Soper argued the swipe key data for December 31, 2024 and January 1, 2025 would corroborate allegations about Representative Weinberg's presence and access, stating 'if we had swipe key data that showed he entered on New Year's Eve and then we have the photograph of him allegedly at the Dome also on New Year's Eve. The corresponding elements would be that if he had access a key or already had custody of a key, then the swipe data would confirm that.' Representative Mabrey disagreed, stating 'I kind of disagree that we need it because I don't know that just knowing he entered the building on New Year's Eve means anything to me. I think a lot of members come here for a lot of different reasons, and I generally don't necessarily think it's against the rules to bring your family into the building.' Madam Chair added uncertainty about whether the photographs could be definitively tied to the swipe data given they are not date or time stamped.

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Notable Quotes

“The rules aren't clear about this. Now, I don't think that the fact that something could be determined or adjudicated as a crime would certainly mean that you don't have jurisdiction, because otherwise, when would this ever apply because it talks about violations of statute or constitution.”

Ed Dicco, Office of Legislative Legal Services — Ed Dicco was responding to Representative Soper's question about whether the House Ethics Committee has jurisdiction over allegations — such as campaign finance violations and harassment — that can also be addressed through other venues such as the Secretary of State or the legislative workplace harassment process.

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TranscriptPreview
House Ethics Committee will come to order. Ms. Bergen, please call the roll. Representatives Garcia, Sander, Mabry. Here. Woodrow. Here. Soper. Here. Madam Chair. Here. All right, today I will. I'm going to be opening it up a little bit for just comments from the committee, but I wanted to frame what we've gotten so far and how we intend to process that information. And I don't know how you all are doing it, but I started to go through a way to chunk out each allegation and then look at the evidence received so far, both in support of the allegation or evidence that is that refutes the allegation and try to put those into various categories. And we'll go into that a little bit more here so that we can hear from each other. But first I want to turn it over to OLLS and see if you have some updates for us or guiding remarks, Ms. Chase. Thank you, Madam Chair. CHRISTY Chase, Office of Legislative Legal Services. Just to give you a quick update from where we are now, based on where we left off last Thursday morning, based on your direction, we reached out to…
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