Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 54
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79th LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION
(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;
(4) problems and issues particularly affecting rural areas of the state;
and
(5) 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 Produce Recovery Fund Board, the Texas Structural Pest Control
Board, the board of directors of the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation,
Inc., the Office of Rural Community Affairs, and the Texas Animal Damage
Control Service.
Sec. 2. APPROPRIATIONS. (a) The committee shall have 29 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 [--]. BORDER AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. The
committee shall have seven members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining
to:
(1) the relations between the State of Texas and other nations;
(2) international commerce and trade;
(3) international and border area economic development, public health
and safety issues affecting the border, tourist development, and goodwill, and
economic development, tourist development, and goodwill in other areas of the
state that have experienced a significant increase in the percentage of the
population that consists of immigrants from other nations, according to the last
two federal decennial censuses or another reliable measure; and
(4) the provision of public services to persons residing in proximity to
Texas' international border or in other areas of the state that have experienced a
significant increase in the percentage of the population that consists of
immigrants from other nations, according to the last two federal decennial
censuses or another reliable measure.54
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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/m1/58/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.