Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 59
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(2) elimination of inefficiencies in the provision of state services; and
(3) the following state agencies: the Texas Incentive and Productivity
Commission and the Sunset Advisory Commission.
Sec. 18 [41]. HIGHER EDUCATION. The committee shall have nine
members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
(1) education beyond high school;
(2) the colleges and universities of the State of Texas; and
(3) the following state agencies: the Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, the Texas Engineering Extension Service, the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board, the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation, the State
Medical Education Board, the Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board, and the
Texas Transportation Institute.
Sec. 19 [4-4]. HOUSE ADMINISTRATION (PROCEDURAL). The
committee shall have 11 members, with jurisdiction over:
(1) administrative operation of the house and its employees;
(2) the general house fund, with full control over all expenditures from
the fund;
(3) all property, equipment, and supplies obtained by the house for its
use and the use of its members;
(4) all office space available for the use of the house and its members;
(5) the assignment of vacant office space, vacant parking spaces, and
vacant desks on the house floor to members with seniority based on cumulative
years of service in the house, except that the committee may make these
assignments based on physical disability of a member where it deems proper;
(6) all admissions to the floor during sessions of the house;
(7) all proposals to invite nonmembers to appear before or address the
house or a joint session;
(8) all radio broadcasting and televising, live or recorded, of sessions of
the house;
(9) the electronic recording of the proceedings of the house of
representatives and the custody of the recordings of testimony before house
committees, with authority to promulgate reasonable rules, regulations, and
conditions concerning the safekeeping, reproducing, transcribing of the
recordings, and the defraying of costs for transcribing the recordings, subject to
other provisions of these rules;
(10) all witnesses appearing before the house or any committee thereof
in support of or in opposition to any pending legislative proposal; and
(11) the following state agency: the State Preservation Board.
Sec. 20 [4-]. HUMAN SERVICES. The committee shall have nine
members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
(1) welfare and rehabilitation programs and their development,
administration, and control;
(2) oversight of the Health and Human Services Commission as it
relates to the subject matter jurisdiction of this committee;
(3) mental retardation and the development of programs incident
thereto;Thursday, January 13, 2005 HOUSE JOURNAL
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 2005; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth97462/m1/63/?q=%222005-01-11%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.