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shootnfish wrote:I found this information about conference committees in the
Guide to Texas Legislative Information at http://www.tlc.state.tx.us/gtli/legproc ... oncom.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; :

" A conference committee’s charge is limited to reconciling differences between the two chambers, and the committee, unless so directed, may not alter, amend, or omit text that is not in disagreement. Nor may the committee add text on any matter that is not in disagreement or that is not included in either version of the bill in question."

So what can the conference committee legitimately do, when there are not any substantive differences between the bills?

RPBrown wrote:I will hold my theories and statements until it is over. I have been afraid of this for sometime though and have said so here.

gljjt wrote:

PBR wrote:Well looks like -- Appointed (05/27/2015) Phillips (Chair) | Burns | Geren | King, Phil | Nevárez (2 voted for it 3 against it)

Will be overseeing the committee for the House, when and where can you see who from the Senate will be there and when this committee will get started on this?

Phil King voted nay, but he supports OC. I am sure he will do everything he can to get OC moving in conference. In spite of his vote today, he is in the "us" camp. I think we should hold public anger until all is said and done. This thing is so close, let's don't throw a wrench in the gears. Contacting our reps in anger and threatening to vote for someone else next election probably would cause more harm than good. IMHO.

isa268 wrote:

Teamless wrote:

v7a wrote:It's Wednesday May 27th today... so yeah, stick a fork in SB11.

Sorry a bit behind here, you mean "fork" = "done" (passed) or (dead)?
and if dead, why? what have I missed now? if House passed the Senate Version, it should be good, right?

Dead.

The clock would run out before a conference committee could vote on it.