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a week. If the committee fails to meet this deadline, any
member may move to re-refer the bill to another committee,
with the vote required to approve this motion the same as
for a motion to instruct a committee to report (Rule 7, secs.
45, 46).
When a committee reports unfavorably on a bill (thus
"killing" it), committee members on the losing side may
notify the committee of their intention to file a minority
report. This notice generally must be given before the
committee adjourns or recesses. Minority reports must
be signed by at least four members of committees of 21
or more members, three members of 11- to 20-member
committees, or two members of committees with 10 or
fewer members. As with a majority report, a minority
report must be filed with the chief clerk within two days of
the committee vote. (During the final 15 days of a regular
session and the final seven days of a special session, the
filing deadline is reduced to one day.) The House then has
five legislative days to adopt a motion "to print the bill on
minority report." This requires a majority vote for bills
and a two-thirds vote for joint resolutions. If the House
adopts the motion, the bill is forwarded to the Calendars
Committee (Rule 4, secs. 28, 29).
Subcommittees. Committee chairs may refer
legislation to a subcommittee. The subcommittee chair
decides whether the legislation will receive a subcommittee
hearing. Subcommittee hearings are governed by the same
rules as committee hearings, except that subcommittees
cannot issue subpoenas. A subcommittee report must be
distributed to committee members at least 24 hours before
consideration by the full committee. Any amendment or
substitute previously adopted by the full committee is
voided when a bill is sent to subcommittee (Rule 4, secs.
43-50).
Committee reports. Every committee report must
be addressed to the speaker and contain the following (Rule
4, sec. 32):
* the record vote adopting the report;
* the committee's recommendations;
* any recommendation that legislation be sent to
the Local and Consent Calendars Committee for
placement on the Local, Consent, and Resolutions
Calendar,
* the date on which the recommendations were
made;* for Senate legislation, the primary House sponsor
and all House joint sponsors or cosponsors;
* a notation that the legislation has been forwarded
for preparation of a fiscal note or impact statement,
if applicable;
* for a proposed constitutional amendment, the
bill number of its enabling legislation, or for
enabling legislation, the joint resolution number
of the proposed constitutional amendment that the
legislation would implement;
* a detailed description, in either summary or
section-by-section form, of the bill's subject
matter, including background information on what
the bill proposes to do, an analysis of its content,
and a separate statement listing each statute or
constitutional provision that would be repealed;
* a statement indicating whether any rulemaking
authority is expressly delegated by the legislation
and identifying the sections where the rulemaking
is delegated;
* a statement of differences between a committee
substitute and the original version, if applicable, or
a brief explanation of each amendment adopted by
the committee;
* a summary of the committee action; and
* a list of persons who submitted sworn statements
indicating that they were present at the hearing, the
persons or entities that they represented, and their
position on the bill.
All committee reports must be signed by the
committee chair or by a majority of committee members.
The author of the bill and the committee may request that
the Texas Legislative Council prepare the committee report
analysis (Rule 4, secs. 6, 32). The committee chair must
provide a copy of the committee report analysis to the
House author or sponsor as soon as the report is complete
(Rule 4, sec. 32(e)).
A point of order raised against a committee report
analysis will be sustained only if the analysis is materially
or substantially misleading (Rule 4, sec. 32(f)). Omitting
from the list of hearing witnesses in a committee report
those who submitted a sworn statement but were not
recognized by the chair to address the committee also
would not be a sustainable point of order (Rule 4, sec. 32(b)
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