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Sutter test #3 | Questions And Answers Latest {2024- 2025} A+ Graded | 100% VerifiedCurrent House Speaker Joe Straus - unseated Craddick in 2009. Republican from San Antonio.
bicameral Texas legislature - the legislature has two bodies, a House of Representatives and a Senate
only state legislature in U.S. that is not bicameral - Nebraska
size of the Texas Senate - 31 members
size of the Texas House - 150 members
bill must pass both houses (in the same language) to go to governor for approval or veto - ..
which chamber has responsibility of initiatins action to raise revenue? - house
which chamber has responsibility of approving gubernatorial nominations? - senate
impeachment process and the separate, unique duties of the two chambers: - Article 15 of the Texas
Constitution allows the house to impeach public officials and the Senate to try and, if convicted, remove
impeached officials from office. Impeachment requires a majority vote in the House, and conviction
requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
length of terms for Texas House members: - two year terms with no term limits
length of terms for members of the Senate - four year terms with no term limits
staggered terms members of the Texas Senate - fifteen seats are up for election; then two years later,
the other sixteen are up for election. In the first election after redistricting, all senators must run
, because new district boundaries are drawn. Senators then draw lots to see who serves a two-year term
and who gets a four-year term, so that membership returns to a staggered election.
House is up for reelection - every two years
regular session of the Texas Legislature - the biennial 140-day session of the Texas Legislature, beginning
in January of odd-numbered years.
special (called) session - a legislative session of up to thirty days, called by the governor, during an
interim between regular sessions.
Legislature Redistricting Board - made when rural legislators could not or would not do it due to
redistricting meaning to lose party seats to urban areas in the mid-20th century.
president of the Texas Senate - the lieutenant governor of Texas, serving in his constitutional role as
presiding officer of the Senate (Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst)
Speaker of the Texas House - the state representative who is elected by his or her fellow representatives
to be the official leader of the house (Republican Joe Strauss)
committee - a sub-unit of the legislature, appointed to work on designated subjects. Most legislative
work is done in committees.
standing committees - a committee created at the beginning of a legislative biennium, which continues
in existence throughout the biennium.
power of Lieutenant Governor and Speaker to appoint members to committees: - appoint legislators to
committees and appoint the committee chairs.
speakers race - the campaign to determine who shall be the Speaker of the Texas House for a given
biennium.
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