House Business & Industry Committee

Chairman

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Vice-Chairman

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Committee Information

Clerk: Jeff Madden
Room: E2.128
Phone: (512) 463-0766

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Partisan Split

Republicans: 4 | Democrats: 5

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Jurisdiction

The committee shall have nine members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:

1. Industry and manufacturing
2. Industrial safety and adequate and safe working conditions, and the regulation and control of those conditions
3. Hours, wages, collective bargaining, and the relationship between employers and employee
4. Unemployment compensation, including coverage, benefits, taxes, and eligibility
5. Labor unions and their organization, control, management, and administration
6. The regulation of business transactions and transactions involving property interests
7. The organization, incorporation, management, and regulation of private corporations and professional associations and the Uniform Commercial Code and the Business Organizations Code
8. The protection of consumers, governmental regulations incident thereto, the agencies of government authorized to regulate such activities, and the role of the government in consumer protection
9. Privacy and identity theft
10. Homeowners’ associations
11. Oversight and regulation of the construction industry
12. The following state agencies:
    • State Office of Risk Management
    • Risk Management Board
    • Division of Workers’ Compensation of the Texas Department of Insurance
    • Workers’ Compensation Research and Evaluation Group in the Texas Department of Insurance
    • Office of Injured Employee Counsel, including the ombudsman program of that office
    • Texas Mutual Insurance Company Board of Directors