This joint rules resolution amends Joint Rules, Title 6, Legislative Ethics and Adjudication of Ethics Complaints.
This resolution:
- removes term limits for a member of the Independent Legislative Ethics Commission (commission);
- modifies the circumstances under which the commission may dismiss a complaint;
- authorizes, under certain circumstances, the chair of the commission or the chair of the House or Senate Ethics Committee (committee) to designate a member of the commission or committee to preside;
- clarifies provisions related to the commission's and a committee's subpoena powers;
- requires an affidavit from the complainants, respondent, and each witness involved in a complaint;
- clarifies commission staff's role in reviewing a complaint;
- clarifies provisions related to the privacy of an ethics complaint;
- clarifies that the commission's recommendation is a private record; and
- makes technical and conforming changes.