Mr. Rogers is barred by ethics regulations from lobbying his former colleagues for a year after leaving the Government.

The governor later paid a fine and restitution for that trip and others, which violated the state's ethics regulations.

But today's report concluded that even though no ethics regulations were violated, "many of the contacts detailed in the report are troubling."

Since then, the committee's ethics regulations forbid gifts or excessive favors from a city bidding to be the host for an Olympics.

Other measures increased public disclosure of lobbyists' expenditures and heightened enforcement of ethics regulations.

The Commission issued a 100-day report after holding hearings across the state and examining ethics regulations in states across the country.

The transaction does not violate the law or the United States Senate's ethics regulations.

The announcement is the latest that Mr. Codey has made in recent months to strengthen ethics regulations.

He had held the position even when he was counsel to the Vice President, in seeming conflict with ethics regulations.

Despite that defeat, Common Cause, the Government watchdog group, condemned the new ethics regulations as a step backward.