Government Procedural Powers
Government 2306 – 425
EXAM 1
2/4/13
Powers of the Presiding Officers * Procedural powers- directly related to the legislative process * Institutional power- used to affect administrative policy and management of Texas government
Procedural Tools of Leadership * Appoint most committee members and committee chairs * Assign bills to committees- you can manipulate which bills are passed/ not passed you can send it to the wrong/right committee * Schedule legislation for floor action- schedule a vote, if you don’t want bill passed don’t schedule a vote * Recognize members on the floor- you can choose people who want to push your agenda (clean water example) * Interpret procedural rules * Appoint chairs …show more content…
and members of conference committees- it depends if youre for or against the person who’s hiring. If you want the chair position “you scratch my back ill scratch yours” * Speaker appoints to House procedural and appropriations committees:
-Total membership –chair and vice-chair.
Appropriations bills is how much money is going to be used and gained * Speaker determines when/if bills are heard on the House floor. * Limited seniority system determines up to one-half of a committees membership. Speaker appoints other half.
Standing committee chairs appoint to subcommittees:
-Membership –chairs and vice chairs * Appointive powers of presiding officer predicts action of a committee- if you want the position youre going to do whatever the luitenent governor wants you to do
Lieutenant Governor appoints all Senate committees and permanent subcommittees: -Total membership -Chairs and vice chairs -He rewards friends and supporters as well as punishes opponents (most qualified are not getting the chance)
Chairs of standing committees appoint subcommittee membership
Types of Committees in 82nd Legislature * Senate * Total of 27 committees (including Finance and subcommittees)
House Committees * Total of 47 committees and subcommittees
Joint committees * Total of 8 committees * Members are people from senate and house * If a bill is introduced, gets voted on in house gets passed and goes to senate. Senate votes and approves same bill but different because the houses have different views, the members from both house (joint committee) and they iron out the differences, goes back to both houses, and then the bill goes to governors desk.
We redistrict every 10 years
Texas constitution is very complex
Female gov is MA
Committee Functions * Division of labor * Little legislature: have ability to mark up bill, amend it, alter a bill if it doesn’t work or not going to pass after it gets voted on so it increases it chances of passing it * Kills bills: Pigeon holding- goes to committee and goes into a black hole to never be seen again. Tagging- senatorial power, every senator can tag a bill, he contacts a committee chairman so now he gets 48 hours notice about the bill. So committee cant work on the bill until after those 48 hours. * Discharge petition: you file petition that yanks out of committee and straight to floor for debate and vote
The Calendar * Page 195 box on lower right hand corner is wrong, it says there are 8 calendars in the house, those are categories not calendars. There are 4 calendars. * First calendar is the daily house calendar: contains list of new bills and resolutions, scheduled to be heard that day. The calendar must be distributed 36 hours before the session starts. If its special session it must be given out 24 hours ahead of time. * Second type is the supplemental house calendar: contain can contain 5 items, 1) measures passed to a third reading on the previous day- when a bill is put in it must be read 3 times.
2) items that were on calendar that were on previous day but were not gotten to. 3) measures on the daily calendars for that day?? 4) postponed business from a previous day. 5) if there is a bill the previous day they are going to pull the bill and not get to it at all. – this calendar must be given out two hours before the house meets * Third type is the local, consent, and resolution calendar: minor bills that will be passed without any debate. 48 hours before the house meets * Fourth type is the congratulatory and memorial calendar: a list of resolutions and congratulatory. 24 hours before house meets
Senate calendar * 1 calendar: blocking bill- horticultural and nature – this bill will never be discussed it will never be voted on- exists because senate bills state bill must go in order (1,2,3,4…) so they suspend the rule meaning to bring the bill off the calendar onto the floor for debate takes the vote of 2/3 of the senate but they can also let a bill die on the calendar
The Floor * The floor of the house- floor leader(the one speaking about the bill) after debate is over its time to vote. * Point of order- formal question regarding the legitimacy of a legislative process. Successful use of this can be used to postpone of defeat …show more content…
legislation * The floor of the Senate - not as much debate than the house because 2/3 or 66% of the senate has to bring it off the calendar and onto the floor, therefore its going to be passed for sure. * Filibuster so eventually someone will pull a bill and it dies or a senator will eventually compromise the bill with you * In Texas senate we don’t have cloture (sit down and shut up) like federal and also a friend cant step in if they get tired filibuster.
Only one senator can filibuster one bill
Other institutional tools of leadership * Legislative budget board (LBB): has 10 members, meets continuously, permanent join-committee, does 3 things. * 1) develops budget and policy recommendations for legislative appropriations (dishing out money and how much to spend on this legislature) * 2) tells them how much something should cost in the future * 3) reviews to improves effientcy and performance of state and local operations * Legislative council: 14 members, speakers of the leuientant governor co-chair that does bill drafting, computing, research, publishing, document distribution * Legislative audit committee: permanent standing joint committee, 6 members job is to appoint and audit state governor * Sunset Advisory commission: created in 1977, 12 members, review 150 govt agencies in 12 year cycles, looking for waste and effenticeny. Is an agency has a sunset review without intervention from legislation then it will be abolished
2/7/13
FOR OUR PAPER DUE MARCH
7 Policy- 1) Our population is going to grow and we don’t have enough water 2) What can we do about it? We can regulate, conserve, we can use salt water and make it usable, build more lakes to hold water 3) How are we going to build the lakes? We have to create rules and laws for it to be done 4) Implementing the solution 5) Oversight- making sure the solution is working (Congress)
For our paper write about how does legislative body compare to policy process
How can legislative change it?
How does Texas Legislature impact policy?
EXAM 1
2/4/13
Powers of the Presiding Officers * Procedural powers- directly related to the legislative process * Institutional power- used to affect administrative policy and management of Texas government
Procedural Tools of Leadership * Appoint most committee members and committee chairs * Assign bills to committees- you can manipulate which bills are passed/ not passed you can send it to the wrong/right committee * Schedule legislation for floor action- schedule a vote, if you don’t want bill passed don’t schedule a vote * Recognize members on the floor- you can choose people who want to push your agenda (clean water example) * Interpret procedural rules * Appoint chairs …show more content…
and members of conference committees- it depends if youre for or against the person who’s hiring. If you want the chair position “you scratch my back ill scratch yours” * Speaker appoints to House procedural and appropriations committees:
-Total membership –chair and vice-chair.
Appropriations bills is how much money is going to be used and gained * Speaker determines when/if bills are heard on the House floor. * Limited seniority system determines up to one-half of a committees membership. Speaker appoints other half.
Standing committee chairs appoint to subcommittees:
-Membership –chairs and vice chairs * Appointive powers of presiding officer predicts action of a committee- if you want the position youre going to do whatever the luitenent governor wants you to do
Lieutenant Governor appoints all Senate committees and permanent subcommittees: -Total membership -Chairs and vice chairs -He rewards friends and supporters as well as punishes opponents (most qualified are not getting the chance)
Chairs of standing committees appoint subcommittee membership
Types of Committees in 82nd Legislature * Senate * Total of 27 committees (including Finance and subcommittees)
House Committees * Total of 47 committees and subcommittees
Joint committees * Total of 8 committees * Members are people from senate and house * If a bill is introduced, gets voted on in house gets passed and goes to senate. Senate votes and approves same bill but different because the houses have different views, the members from both house (joint committee) and they iron out the differences, goes back to both houses, and then the bill goes to governors desk.
We redistrict every 10 years
Texas constitution is very complex
Female gov is MA
Committee Functions * Division of labor * Little legislature: have ability to mark up bill, amend it, alter a bill if it doesn’t work or not going to pass after it gets voted on so it increases it chances of passing it * Kills bills: Pigeon holding- goes to committee and goes into a black hole to never be seen again. Tagging- senatorial power, every senator can tag a bill, he contacts a committee chairman so now he gets 48 hours notice about the bill. So committee cant work on the bill until after those 48 hours. * Discharge petition: you file petition that yanks out of committee and straight to floor for debate and vote
The Calendar * Page 195 box on lower right hand corner is wrong, it says there are 8 calendars in the house, those are categories not calendars. There are 4 calendars. * First calendar is the daily house calendar: contains list of new bills and resolutions, scheduled to be heard that day. The calendar must be distributed 36 hours before the session starts. If its special session it must be given out 24 hours ahead of time. * Second type is the supplemental house calendar: contain can contain 5 items, 1) measures passed to a third reading on the previous day- when a bill is put in it must be read 3 times.
2) items that were on calendar that were on previous day but were not gotten to. 3) measures on the daily calendars for that day?? 4) postponed business from a previous day. 5) if there is a bill the previous day they are going to pull the bill and not get to it at all. – this calendar must be given out two hours before the house meets * Third type is the local, consent, and resolution calendar: minor bills that will be passed without any debate. 48 hours before the house meets * Fourth type is the congratulatory and memorial calendar: a list of resolutions and congratulatory. 24 hours before house meets
Senate calendar * 1 calendar: blocking bill- horticultural and nature – this bill will never be discussed it will never be voted on- exists because senate bills state bill must go in order (1,2,3,4…) so they suspend the rule meaning to bring the bill off the calendar onto the floor for debate takes the vote of 2/3 of the senate but they can also let a bill die on the calendar
The Floor * The floor of the house- floor leader(the one speaking about the bill) after debate is over its time to vote. * Point of order- formal question regarding the legitimacy of a legislative process. Successful use of this can be used to postpone of defeat …show more content…
legislation * The floor of the Senate - not as much debate than the house because 2/3 or 66% of the senate has to bring it off the calendar and onto the floor, therefore its going to be passed for sure. * Filibuster so eventually someone will pull a bill and it dies or a senator will eventually compromise the bill with you * In Texas senate we don’t have cloture (sit down and shut up) like federal and also a friend cant step in if they get tired filibuster.
Only one senator can filibuster one bill
Other institutional tools of leadership * Legislative budget board (LBB): has 10 members, meets continuously, permanent join-committee, does 3 things. * 1) develops budget and policy recommendations for legislative appropriations (dishing out money and how much to spend on this legislature) * 2) tells them how much something should cost in the future * 3) reviews to improves effientcy and performance of state and local operations * Legislative council: 14 members, speakers of the leuientant governor co-chair that does bill drafting, computing, research, publishing, document distribution * Legislative audit committee: permanent standing joint committee, 6 members job is to appoint and audit state governor * Sunset Advisory commission: created in 1977, 12 members, review 150 govt agencies in 12 year cycles, looking for waste and effenticeny. Is an agency has a sunset review without intervention from legislation then it will be abolished
2/7/13
FOR OUR PAPER DUE MARCH
7 Policy- 1) Our population is going to grow and we don’t have enough water 2) What can we do about it? We can regulate, conserve, we can use salt water and make it usable, build more lakes to hold water 3) How are we going to build the lakes? We have to create rules and laws for it to be done 4) Implementing the solution 5) Oversight- making sure the solution is working (Congress)
For our paper write about how does legislative body compare to policy process
How can legislative change it?
How does Texas Legislature impact policy?