Andrew Brenner used a virtual home office background, but his seatbelt was still visible in his video feed.

His director of communications, John Fortney, told Fox News: “Senator Brenner was simply following the law, using hand-free audio technology.”

The meeting took place on the same day House Bill 283 was introduced, which would ban Ohioans from driving and using any “electronic wireless communications device”, or “any device capable of displaying a video, movie, broadcast television image, or visual image”.