Amend H.R. No. ___ (adopting the house rules) by amending
Rule 3, Sections 31 and 32, to read as follows:
      Sec. 31.  STATE AFFAIRS.  The committee shall have 15
members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
            (1)  questions and matters of state policy;
            (2)  the administration of state government;
            (3)  the organization, powers, regulation, and
management of state departments and agencies;
            (4)  the operation and regulation of public lands and
state buildings;
            (5)  the organization, regulation, operation, and
management of state institutions;
            (6)  the duties and conduct of officers and employees
of the state government;
            (7)  the duties and conduct of candidates for public
office and of persons with an interest in influencing public
policy;
            (8)  <the various branches of the military service of
the United States;>
            <(9)  the defense of the state and nation;>
            <(10)  veterans of military and related services;>
            <(11)>  the operation of state government and its
agencies and departments; all of above except where jurisdiction is
specifically granted to some other standing committee;
            (9) <(12)>  access of the state agencies to scientific
and technological information; and
            (10) <(13)>  the following state agencies:  the Council
of State Governments, the National Conference of State
Legislatures, the Commission on Human Rights, the Governor's
Office, the General Services Commission, <the Texas National Guard
Armory Board, the Adjutant General's Department, the Texas Veterans
Commission,> the State Aircraft Pooling Board, the State
Conservatorship Board, the Texas Incentive and Productivity
Commission, the Texas Ethics Commission, the Department of
Information Resources, the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the
Office of Public Utility Counsel, and the Sunset Advisory
Commission.
      Sec. 32.  STATE, FEDERAL, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.  The
committee shall have nine members, with jurisdiction over all
matters pertaining to:
            (1)  federal and international commerce and trade;
            (2)  the relations between the State of Texas and the
federal government;
            (3)  the relations between the State of Texas and other
sovereign states of the United States;
            (4)  the relations between the State of Texas and other
nations;
            (5)  international trade, economic development, tourist
development, and goodwill;
            (6)  cultural resources and their promotion,
development, and regulation;
            (7)  historical resources and their promotion,
development, and regulation;
            (8)  promotion and development of Texas' image and
heritage;
            (9)  preservation and protection of Texas' shrines,
monuments, and memorials;
            (10)  interstate tourist promotion and development;
<and>
            (11)  the various branches of the military service of
the United States;
            (12)  the defense of the state and nation;
            (13)  veterans of military and related services; and
            (14)  the following state agencies:  the Office of
State-Federal Relations,  the Antiquities Committee, the Texas
Commission on the Arts, the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission, the Texas Historical Commission, the Texas National
Guard Armory Board, the Adjutant General's Department, the Texas
Veterans Commission, and the San Jacinto Historical Advisory Board.