A committee designed to address one specific issue in the legislative process. Its function is temporary and is disbanded when the function is complete.
What is an ad hoc committee?
100
The amount paid each day the a legislator is working, both in regular and special sessions and when committees meet during the interim between sessions.
What is per diem?
100
The lieutenant governor who is also the president of the Texas senate.
Who is Dan Patrick?
100
The legislature where the members do not hold a full-time professionally paid position.
What is a "citizen legislature."
100
Districts that are represented by one representative that should be equal in population.
What is a Single-member district?
200
Permanent committees that function throughout the legislative session.
What is a standing committee?
200
To take official action, both houses require two-thirds of the total membership to be present.
What is a Quorum?
200
The 2017 Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Who was Joe Straus?
200
A ten-member board responsible for creating the state's initial budget and providing planning, analysis, and impact of the budgeting process.
What is the Legislative Budget Board?
200
The practice of drawing district lines in such a way as to give candidates from a certain party, ethnic group, or faction an advantage.
What is gerrymandering?
300
Committee that meets between legislative sessions.
What is an interim committee?
300
Charges by lawyer-legislators for services to clients, including those who have business with state agencies or may have lawsuits against state agencies.
What is a retainer fee?
300
The 2003-2013 Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from Midland, Texas.
What was Tom Craddick?
300
He holds the record for a 43 hour filibuster.
Who is Former Texas Senator Bill Meier?
300
The redistricting or redrawing district lines after every census to reflect the population changes over the previous decade.
What is Reapportionment?
400
A compromise between the house and senate versions of a bill reached by a committee and the delivered to each house.
What is a conference committee report?
400
A person who holds a position automatically because they also hold some other office.
What is an Ex officio board member?
400
He wrote an article comparing two "first-term" Texas speakers.
What is Mark P. Jones?
400
She used the filibuster to protest the spending cuts to public education.
Who is Senator Wendy Davis?
400
Gerrymandering technique in which members of a party are concentrated into one district. thereby ensuring that the group will influence only one election rather than several.
What is Packing?
500
The entire 31-member senate.
What is Committee of the Whole?
500
The currently elected official.
What is an incumbent?
500
The basis of a joint resolution of congratulatory recognition for his "noted activities and unconventional techniques involving population control and applied psychology."
What was Albert De Salvo?
500
A group of legislators that recommends keeping, abolishing reorganizing, or giving a new scope and authority to an agency.
What is a Sunset Advisory Commission?
500
It was ruled unconstitutional in the SCOTUS case, Shaw v. Reno (1993).