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Senate adopts joint resolution limiting ex‑parte communications with judges and administrative law judges
Summary
Senators approved Senate Joint Resolution 6 to add joint rules restricting legislators from communicating with judges or administrative law judges about pending matters, allow incidental contact, and provide ethics committee enforcement; the resolution was placed on the third‑reading calendar.
Senator Valentine introduced Senate Joint Resolution 6 to establish joint rules about communications between legislators and the judiciary or administrative law judges. "There was no rule, no law, no regulation that governed it," Valentine said, describing the resolution as filling a gap for non‑attorney legislators and mirroring existing executive‑branch language for administrative law judges.
Under the proposed rule, legislators…
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