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Volume I of the definitive practitioner's guide to Texas political ethics law.

A board appointee in Texas may serve for years—meeting monthly, voting on agenda items, drawing little or no compensation—without ever being told that the conflict-of-interest, gift, and disclosure rules of a state public servant apply to him in full. The rules governing public officials are categorical, the governing authority is large, and the price of getting one wrong is immediate: a sworn complaint, a civil penalty, a headline. Yet that authority sits scattered across statutes, Commission rules, advisory opinions, and a long record of enforcement orders that few public servants ever see in one place.

Volume I — Public Servant Conduct & Lobbying changes that. It is a comprehensive analysis of the Texas Ethics Commission's advisory opinions, sworn-complaint orders, statutes, and rules governing the conduct of public officials and those who seek to influence them—collected, classified, and explained in a single, organized reference.

This volume covers:

- Bribery and corrupt influence
- Conflicts of interest and abuse of office
- Gifts, benefits, and honoraria
- The revolving door and post-employment restrictions
- Lobbying registration, reporting, and the rules that govern lobbyist activity
- Personal financial statements
- Officeholder expenditures
- Legislative ethics
- Local-government disclosure obligations
- Selected sworn-complaint enforcement, integrated throughout

Drawing on the Commission's own enforcement record, the volume pairs each governing doctrine with the orders that show how it is actually applied—so the reader sees not only what the rule says, but how the Commission has read it, charged it, and penalized its breach. The result is a working map of the conduct rules that bind every Texas public servant, from the appointed board member serving without pay to the county officer filing a first report to the legislator navigating the gift and disclosure regime.

Written for the public servants of Texas and the lawyers who advise them, Volume I is organized for fast reference and built for use under deadline pressure. It is the book to keep within reach before a vote is cast, a gift is accepted, a financial statement is filed, or a sworn complaint is answered.

Volume I of a four-volume set. Volume II covers Campaign Finance: Money & Reporting; Volume III covers Judicial Ethics & Late-Filing Enforcement; Volume IV covers Political Advertising & Disclosure Enforcement. Each volume stands on its own, but together they form the most complete practitioner's treatment of Texas political ethics available.

First Edition, 2026. By Eric Dick.