Tex. Government Code § 301.019

This is the official text of Tex. Government Code § 301.019, part of Texas’s Government Code — covers the structure and operation of Texas state and local government.

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§ 301.019. JOINT GENERAL INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE HEARINGS.

Official statutory text

(a) On a majority vote of each general investigating committee, the committees may conduct joint hearings and investigations. The committees may adopt joint rules to govern the hearings.

(b) If the general investigating committees conduct joint inquiries or investigations, the chairman of the senate committee shall be the chairman and the chairman of the house committee shall be the vice-chairman.

(c) A majority of the members from each house's committee constitutes a quorum of a joint general investigating committee.

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