Tex. Gov't Code § 301.016 · Subchapter B. COMMITTEES AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE
SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) By rule or resolution, each house acting individually or the two houses acting jointly may create special committees.
(b) A special committee shall perform the duties and functions and exercise the powers prescribed by the rule or resolution creating the committee.
(c) Except as limited by the rule or resolution creating the special committee, a special committee shall have and exercise the powers granted under this subchapter to a standing committee. A special committee also has any other powers delegated to it by the rule or resolution creating the committee, subject to the limitations of law.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1250 (H.B. 4181), Sec. 6, eff. June 14, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.301.htm
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- sha256 5930a656e34fa78c4942a67ee045dc8aa7c9015a057ac1b75dd2adf85c364127
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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