Bill Text: TX HB751 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the attendance by a quorum of a legislative standing committee at a caucus meeting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-10 - Referred to Administration [HB751 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB751-Engrossed.html
| By: Lewis | H.B. No. 751 | |
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| relating to the attendance by a quorum of a legislative standing | ||
| committee at a caucus meeting. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 301.015, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) The attendance at a legislative caucus meeting by | ||
| members of a standing committee who constitute a quorum of the | ||
| committee is not considered a meeting of the standing committee | ||
| under other law or under the rules of procedure for the house | ||
| creating the standing committee. | ||
| (d) In this section, "legislative caucus" means an | ||
| organization that is composed exclusively of members of the | ||
| legislature, that elects or appoints officers and recognizes | ||
| identified legislators as members of the organization, and that | ||
| exists for research and other support of policy development and | ||
| interests that the membership hold in common. An organization | ||
| whose only nonlegislator members are the lieutenant governor, the | ||
| governor, or a former member of the legislature remains a | ||
| "legislative caucus" for purposes of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
