House Committee on Ethics

Thursday, February 12, 2026·1h 0m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Committee on Ethics convened to conduct a preliminary investigation into whether Representative Ron Weinberg may have violated ethical principles under a complaint filed by Representative Brandi Bradley, reviewing incoming evidence across seven categories of allegations and directing new evidence requests. No probable cause determination was made; the investigation remains in its preliminary phase.

Key Actions

·Ethics Complaint Preliminary Investigation – Representative WeinbergNo Vote

Controversies

Whether to verify the authenticity of documents included in Representative Weinberg's answer

OLLS staff [Mr. Di Checco / Ticheco — UNCLEAR] suggested the committee might not need to 'pressure test the answer' and that the Chair could give such documents less probative weight without further inquiry, stating 'I just wonder if it really is necessary to go back and kind of test, pressure test the answer in a way that you weren't necessarily doing to the on the documents.' Representative Soper disagreed, stating 'I have to now ask the question, as a member of the committee, is this document before me?... did that person make that statement? Especially when that statement is coming from the respondent.' Representative Woodrow sided with Soper, noting that individuals who said they had no documents had nevertheless appeared as statement-givers in Representative Weinberg's answer.

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Notable Quotes

“Your task is right now, which is conducting a preliminary investigation to determine whether probable cause exists that Representative Weinberg may have violated any of the law's principle, ethical principles or policies outlined in the complaint. As a reminder, in making this determination, you are to consider the complaint, any answer that has been filed now, as well as evidence that you request and receive. But you're not allowed to consider testimony.”
Christy Chase, Office of Legislative Legal Services — Chase was explaining to committee members the legal standard and evidentiary limits governing their preliminary investigation into the complaint filed by Representative Brandi Bradley against Representative Ron Weinberg.

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TranscriptPreview

House Ethics Committee will come to order. Ms. Berger, please call the roll. Representatives Garcia, Sanders. Present. Mabry. Here. Woodrow. Here. Soper. Excused. Madam Chair. Here. All right. We are here to have our second meeting of the House Ethics Committee. And just as a review and last week we met, we went over the allegations and came up with a list of potential requested evidence that we wanted our OLLS staff to collect. And we also, during that week, I directed them to make sure that they were screening that incoming evidence or items to make sure that we were provided only the things that we requested and that we did not receive into our files, anything that we did not ask for, and to make sure that there was no extraneous testimony in there. So thank you for that. We appreciate you being there for that duty. We also talked about last week having a request posted on the committee's website to, as a general, ask to folks that we may not have thought of to also be able to give us some of those items that may be in their possession, written communication or otherwise. And we…

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