Sec. 27. PUBLIC EDUCATION. The committee shall have 13
members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
(1) the public schools and the public school system of
Texas and the financing thereof;
(2) the state programming of elementary and secondary
education for the public school system of Texas;
(3) proposals to create, change, or otherwise alter
school districts of the state; and
(4) the following organizations and state agencies:
the State Board of Education, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas
representatives to the Education Commission of the States, the
[Office of] Southern Regional Education Board [Compact
Commissioner for Texas], the Texas School for the Blind and
Visually Impaired, the State Board for Educator Certification, and
the Texas School for the Deaf.