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Texas House reads multiple bills on first reading and refers each to its named committee
Summary
In a brief session, the clerk read a list of bills and a proposed constitutional amendment on first reading and referred each to the committee named in its title; the House then stood adjourned until 3 p.m.
The House of Representatives convened for a short session in which the clerk read several bills and a constitutional amendment item on first reading and identified the committees to which each should be referred. No debate or votes were recorded during the reading, and the House adjourned until 3 p.m.
Among the items read were: HB 2 by King, relating to the creation and operation of the Texas Interoperability Council and a council-administered grant program, listed for referral to the committee on disaster preparedness and flooding; HB 4 by Hunter, addressing the composition of districts for election of members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas, listed for referral to the committee on congressional redistricting; and HB 5 by Vandiver, concerning regulation of certain hemp-derived products, licensing, fees and administrative penalties, listed for referral to the committee on public health.
The clerk also read HB 11 by Shaheen, described as relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the state's election laws (referred to the committee on state affairs); HB 13 by Bella Montgomery, about credits against impact fees for water conservation and reuse projects (referred to the committee on intergovernmental affairs); and HB 14 by Hepner, relating to files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees (referred to the committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs).
The list included an item transcribed as "H a r number 1 by Shaheen" proposing a constitutional amendment specifying that the attorney general has authority to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the state's election laws; the clerk instructed referral of that item to the committee on state affairs. The transcript label for that item appears garbled in the reading and is reproduced here as read by the clerk.
Because these items were read on first reading and assigned to committees, no final actions or votes on bill passage were recorded in the session. The House then stood adjourned "until 3PM today," as announced at the close of the clerk's list.
