Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 22
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22 HOSEJURA
all proposals to create or change
water supply districts, water control
and improvement districts, conserva-
tion and reclamation districts, and all
similar organs of local government
dealing with water and water supply;
and (7) all matters pertaining to the
Texas Water Commission and the
Texas Water Rights Commission,
their organization, powers, functions,
and responsibilities.
Section 22. Game and Fish. Fifteen
members, with jurisdiction over: (1)
regulation of the propagation and
preservation of game and fish within
the State; (2) hunting and fishing
within the State, and the control
thereof; (3) development and regula-
tion of the fish and oyster industries
on the coast and inland waters of
the State; (4) creation, operation and
control of all state parks; and (5) all
matters pertaining to the Parks and
Wildlife Commission, its organiza-
tion, functions and responsibilities.
Section 23. Labor. Fifteen members,
with jurisdiction over: (1) all pro-
posals affecting the hours, wages, and
working conditions and welfare of
labor and wage earners; and (2) all
matters pertaining to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, its organization,
functions, and responsibilities.
Section 24. Insurance. Twenty-one
members, with jurisdiction over: (1)
all matters relating to insurance and
the insurance industry, including fire,
life, casualty and other types of in-
surance; (2) all insurance companies
and other organizations of any type
writing or issuing policies of in-
surance in the State of Texas, includ-
ing their organization, incorporation,
management, powers, and limitations;
and (3) all matters pertaining to the
State Board of Insurance, its organiza-
tion, functions and responsibilities.
Section 25. Oil and Gas. Twenty-
one members, with jurisdiction over:
(1) all matters relating to the produc-
tion, regulation, transportation, and
development of oil, gas, and other
mineral resources of the State; (2)
all matters relating to mining and the
development of mineral deposits with-
in the State; and (3) the Texas Rail-
road Commission, its organization,
functions and responsibilities, on all
matters pertaining to the regulation
and control of oil, gas and mineral
resources.RULE VIII
ORGANIZATION, POWERS AND
DUTIES OF COMMITTEES
Section 1. Standing committees of
the House, and the number of mem-
bers and general jurisdiction of each,
shall be as enumerated in Rule VII.
All proposed legislation shall be re-
ferred by the Speaker to an appropri-
ate standing committee, subject to
correction by a majority vote of the
House.
Section 2. At the beginning of each
Regular Session, the newly elected
Speaker shall appoint the full mem-
bership of the Committee on Rules
and the Committee on House Ad-
ministration, and shall appoint to each
of the other standing committees a
sufficient number of members to fill
all vacancies thereon. Except for the
Committee on Rules and the Com-
mittee on House Administration, ap-
pointments by the Speaker shall be
limited to the filling of vacancies.
Vacancies on a committee shall arise
only by reason of death, failure to
seek and obtain reelection, resigna-
tion, or removal by a majority vote
of the entire elected membership of
the House. Once appointed to a com-
mittee other than the Committee on
Rules and the Committee on House
Administration, a member shall be en-
titled as a matter of right to remain
a member thereof as long as he is a
member of the House, unless re-
moved therefrom for cause by a ma-
jority vote of the entire elected mem-
bership of the House.
Section 3. At the beginning of each
Regular Session, the newly elected
Speaker shall select the Chairman and
the Vice Chairman of each standing
committee, but until a new Chairman
and a new Vice Chairman are named
by the Speaker, the old Chairman and
the old Vice Chairman shall continue
to serve, if still members of the
House; otherwise, an acting Chairman
and an acting Vice Chairman shall be
determined by seniority, as provided
in Section 4 hereof, from among the
holdover members of the committee.
Section 4. Except for the Chairman
and the Vice Chairman, members of
a standing committee shall rank ac-
cording to their seniority, and mem-
bers with the same seniority shall
rank according to age. Seniority, as
that term is used herein, shall mean22
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 1967; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193874/m1/26/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.