This is the number of people in the Texas House of Representatives.
What is 150?
100
This is the number of Texas state senators.
What is 31?
100
This is the current Governor of Texas.
Who is Greg Abbott.
100
This person must be a practicing farmer and promotes the sale of agricultural goods among other duties.
Who is the Commissioner of Agriculture?
100
This is time when redistricting take place in Texas.
What is every ten years after the national census?
200
This is the name for the legislative session that is held every other year for 140 days.
What is a regular session?
200
How long is a senator's term in Texas?
What is four years?
200
This is the age you must be (at least) to be the Governor of Texas.
What is 30?
200
The veto power, special sessions power and message power are all this type of power.
What is legislative power?
200
This is how many times are bills read in each the House and Senate before they can become a law.
What is they are read three times in each.
300
Who presides over the Texas House of Representatives?
Who is the Speaker of the House (Hon. Joe Strauss)?
300
Who presides over the Texas Senate but can only vote to break a tie?
Who is the Lieutenant Governor (Dan Patrick)?
300
On what type of legislation can the Governor use an item veto in Texas?
What are appropriations bills?
300
This power to appoint the adjutant general of the Texas National Guard and also direct the guard to protect lives and property is called ____________________.
What is the law enforcement or military power?
300
This is an evaluation of the need for the continued existence of a program or an agency. It is an aspect of bureaucratic oversight.
What is a sunset review?
400
What is the person or group that puts bills onto the calendars in the Texas House?
What is the House Committee on Calendars?
400
This person was the first African-American Texas Senator since Reconstruction and was elected in 1967.
Who was Barbara Jordan?
400
This is the part of government where the impeachment of a governor would originate.
What is the House of Representatives?
400
Name two of the four major offices that make up the plural executive.
What are the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Comptroller of Public Accounts and the Attorney General?
400
This is the term for ignoring a pending bill by placing it to the side.
What is pigeonholing?
500
How long does each speaker usually have to debate on the House floor?
What is about 10 minutes?
500
This is the yearly salary of a Texas Senator.
What is $7,200 (plus a per diem)?
500
Name three of the top offices in the line of succession to the governor's office.
Who are the Lt. Governor, the President Pro Tempore, the Speaker of the House, the Attorney General, the Chief Justices of the Courts of Appeals?
500
This person is tasked with keeping the Seal of Texas safe, among other things.
Who is the Texas Secretary of State?
500
This is the term for when the governor will only make an appointment if given the go-ahead from the Senator in whose district the nominee resides