Sec. 33. URBAN AFFAIRS. The committee shall have nine
members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:
(1) municipalities, including their creation,
organization, powers, government, and finance, and the
compensation and duties of their officers and employees;
(2) home-rule municipalities, their relationship to
the state, and their powers, authority, and limitations;
(3) the creation or change of metropolitan areas and
the form of government under which those areas operate;
(4) problems and issues particularly affecting
metropolitan areas of the state;
(5) other units of local government not otherwise
assigned by these rules to other standing committees;
(6) establishing districts for the election of
governing bodies of municipalities;
(7) land use regulation by municipalities; and
(8) the following state agencies: the Texas
Department of Housing and Community Affairs and the Texas
Commission on Fire Protection.