Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 59
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Commission, the Texas Strategic Military Planning Commission, and the San
Jacinto Historical Advisory Board.
Sec. 33. STATE RECREATIONAL RESOURCES. The committee shall
have nine members, with jurisdiction over:
(1) the creation, operation, and control of state parks;
(2) the regulation and control of the propagation and preservation of
wildlife and fish in the state;
(3) the development and regulation of the fish and oyster industries
of the state;
(4) hunting and fishing in the state, and the regulation and control
thereof;
(5) the regulation of other recreational activities; and
(6) the following state agencies: the Office of Gulf States Marine
Fisheries Compact Commissioner for Texas and the Parks and Wildlife
Department.
Sec. 34. TRANSPORTATION. The committee shall have nine members,
with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
(1) commercial motor vehicles, both bus and truck, and their control,
regulation, licensing, and operation;
(2) the Texas highway system, including all roads, bridges, and ferries
constituting a part of the system;
(3) the licensing of private passenger vehicles to operate on the
roads and highways of the state;
(4) the regulation and control of traffic on the public highways of
the State of Texas;
(5) railroads, street railway lines, interurban railway lines, steamship
companies, and express companies;
(6) airports, air traffic, airlines, and other organizations engaged in
transportation by means of aerial flight;
(7) water transportation in the State of Texas, and the rivers, harbors,
and related facilities used in water transportation and the agencies of
government exercising supervision and control thereover; and
(8) the following state agencies: the Texas Department of
Transportation and[-] the Texas Transportation Commission [, and the Teas
Sec. 35. URBAN AFFAIRS. The committee shall have nine members,
with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
(1) cities, municipalities, and town corporations, including their
creation, organization, powers, government, and finance, and the
compensation and duties of their officers and employees;
(2) home-rule cities, their relationship to the state, and their powers,
authority, and limitations;
(3) the creation or change of metropolitan areas and the form of
government under which those areas operate;
(4) the regulation of metropolitan transit;
(5) problems and issues particularly affecting metropolitan areas of
the state;
(6) other units of local government not otherwise assigned by these
rules to other standing committees;Thursday, 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/m1/63/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.