Ethics...yes, ethics
House Speaker Benny Petrus still promises an ethics bill. I expect that he and Chris Thyer will file it tomorrow. They'll probably take out the two-year ban on legislators becoming lobbyists because a one-year ban is still floating between the House and Senate and is proving problematic enough. This new bill will require full disclosure of any and all lobbyist expenditures on legislators. It will put a hard cap of a hundred dollars on allowable gifts to legislators, replacing the current cap which is so soft it is no cap at all, since you'd have to prove the gift was a bribe to disallow it. It would impose conflict of interest disclosures on higher education board members. At least that was some of what it would do the last time I glanced at a draft. These things are fluid.