House Committee on Ethics

Fix will come to order. Ms. Berger, please call the roll. Representative Garcia Sander. Present. Mabry. Here. Woodrow. Excused. Soper. Here. Here. All right. We called this meeting to order, to talk about next steps and as permitted by House Rule 49D, when we found probable cause that violations may have occurred on March 4th and then, well, on March 4th, Rep. Weinberg requested a hearing, and he did so in a timely manner. And under the rule, he's entitled to appear, present evidence, cross examine witnesses, and be represented by counsel at the hearing. House 49D also specifies that the committee may take testimony under oath and may issue subpoenas to compel witnesses to appear and produce evidence, and directs that we must commence the hearing within 14 days after that hearing request, which means the formal hearing must begin by March 18th. And I want to make it clear that today's meeting is not commencement of the formal hearing process. So before we can commence that hearing, we have to adopt some rules of procedure as permitted under House Rule 49I. So the purpose of today's meeting is to do just that. What our procedures are going to…