“My number one priority is putting money back in the pockets of our taxpayers and working to ensure fairness and transparency throughout this budget process."
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (right,) announced the appointment of State Rep. Carrie Isaac, Representative-House District 73, to important committees for the 88th Texas Legislative Session. Representative Isaac was appointed to the House Appropriations Committee and to the Business & Industry Committee.
“The legislature has one thing it must do: pass a balanced budget. I am honored to have been chosen for these important committees and look forward to the work ahead,” said Representative Isaac."The lens through which I will look will be one of someone struggling to pay their property taxes, facing a disconnect notice from a utility, cutting back on groceries because of rising inflation, and all Texans that are threatened by the border crisis,” said Representative Isaac.
One of Representative Isaac’s priorities is utilizing the surplus of over $33 billion to provide much-needed property tax relief to Texas’ taxpayers.
“My number one priority is putting money back in the pockets of our taxpayers and working to ensure fairness and transparency throughout this budget process. I am thankful and appreciate the trust that the Speaker has placed in me and I am ready to get to work,” added Isaac.
Appropriations
The committee shall have jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
- all bills and resolutions appropriating money from the state treasury;
- all bills and resolutions containing provisions resulting in automatic allocation of funds from the state treasury;
- all bills and resolutions diverting funds from the state treasury or preventing funds from going in that otherwise would be placed in the state treasury; and
- all matters pertaining to claims and accounts filed with the legislature against the state unless jurisdiction over those bills and resolutions is specifically granted by these rules to some other standing committee.
- The appropriations committee may comment upon any bill or resolution containing a provision resulting in an automatic allocation of funds.
The committee shall have jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
- industry and manufacturing;
- industrial safety and adequate and safe working conditions, and the regulation and control of those conditions;
- hours, wages, collective bargaining, and the relationship between employers and employees;
- unemployment compensation, including coverage, benefits, taxes, and eligibility;
- labor unions and their organization, control, management, and administration;
- the regulation of business transactions and transactions involving property interests;
the organization, incorporation, management, and regulation of private corporations and professional associations and the Uniform Commercial Code and the Business Organizations Code;- 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;
- privacy and identity theft;
- homeowners’ associations;
- oversight and regulation of the construction industry; and
- the following state agencies: the State Office of Risk Management, the Risk Management Board, the Division of Workers’ Compensation of the Texas Department of Insurance, the Workers’ compensation research and evaluation group in the Texas Department of Insurance, the Office of Injured Employee Counsel, including the ombudsman program of that office, and the Texas Mutual Insurance Company Board of Directors
State Representative Isaac serves as the State Representative for House District 73, which includes Comal County and part of Hays County.
