Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 49
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registration or record vote unless specifically granted permission by the house
or directed by the speaker prior to the announcement of the final result; and
(5) lock the voting machine of each member who is excused or who
is otherwise known to be absent when the house is in session until the
member personally requests that the machine be unlocked.
RULE 3. STANDING COMMITTEES
Sec. 1. AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK. The committee shall have
nine members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
(1) agriculture, horticulture, and farm husbandry;
(2) livestock and stock raising, and the livestock industry;
(3) the development and preservation of forests, and the regulation,
control, and promotion of the lumber industry; and
(4) the following state agencies: the Department of Agriculture, the
Texas Animal Health Commission, the State Soil and Water Conservation
Board, the Texas Forest Service, the Office of South Central Interstate Forest
Fire Protection Compact, the Office of Chief Apiary Inspector, the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station, the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, the
Texas Food and Fibers Commission, the State Seed and Plant Board, the State
Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, the Texas Veterinary Medical
Diagnostic Laboratory, [the Egg Marketing Advisory Board,] the Produce
Recovery Fund Board, the Texas Structural Pest Control Board, the board of
directors of the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, Inc., and the
Texas Animal Damage Control Service.
Sec. 2. APPROPRIATIONS. (a) The committee shall have 27 members,
with jurisdiction over:
(1) all bills and resolutions appropriating money from the state
treasury;
(2) all bills and resolutions containing provisions resulting in
automatic allocation of funds from the state treasury;
(3) all bills and resolutions diverting funds from the state treasury or
preventing funds from going in that otherwise would be placed in the state
treasury; and
(4) all matters pertaining to claims and accounts filed with the
legislature against the state unless jurisdiction over those bills and
resolutions is specifically granted by these rules to some other standing
committee.
(b) The appropriations committee may comment upon any bill or
resolution containing a provision resulting in an automatic allocation of
funds.
Sec. 3. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY. The committee shall have nine
members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
(1) industry and manufacturing;
(2) industrial safety and adequate and safe working conditions, and
the regulation and control of those conditions;
(3) hours, wages, collective bargaining, and the relationship between
employers and employees;
(4) the regulation of business transactions and transactions involving
property interests;
(5) the organization, incorporation, management, and regulation ofThursday, January 14, 1999
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 1999; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth97442/m1/53/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.