House Committee on Ethics

House Ethics Committee will come to order. Ms. Berger, please call the roll. Representatives Garcia Sanders. Present. Mabry. Here. Woodrow Here. Soper. Representative. So, Representative Soper, can you hear us? You need to come online. Excused. Madam Chair. Here. All right. Today, just as a review, is the day that we will address each of the complaints. And I wanted to just let everyone know that we are at the stage of the preliminary investigation deadline, which is within 30 days after the appointment of the committee pursuant to House Rule 49C. And that deadline is February 26th. And that deadline tells us that we had those 30 days. And then at the end of that investigation, the committee must determine whether an ethics violation has not occurred, and the complaint must be dismissed or there is probable cause to believe an ethics violation may have occurred. And then from there, if necessary, Representative Weinberg will have seven days to respond. Also, just for the record, and for those of us that are not attorneys, I wanted to just review the overview of what probable cause is. We are tasked with determining if there is and was enough evidence before…