T rying to get legislators to attend sessions dealing with legislative ethics is like herding cats.
Not only are state lawmakers extremely busy juggling more balls than they can keep aloft, they are skeptical that much good will come from chatting about such an amorphous subject as ethics. Contrary to their beliefs, the discussion of ethical issues among legislative colleagues can have substantial value. A number of states now require by law that legislators take ethics training on an annual or biennial basis. Others require that an ethics session be scheduled, but not that members attend. In some states, while not mandated to do so, periodically legislators come together to hash over the subject.