Committee on Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services

The committee shall have nine members, with jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to:

(1) banking and the state banking system;
(2) savings and loan associations;
(3) credit unions;
(4) the regulation of state and local bonded indebtedness;
(5) the lending of money;
(6) benefits or participation in benefits of a public retirement system and the financial obligations of a public retirement system;
(7) the regulation of securities and investments;
(8) privacy and identity theft as it relates to the jurisdiction of the committee; and
(9) the following state agencies: the Finance Commission of Texas, the Credit Union Commission, the Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner, the Office of Banking Commissioner, the Texas Department of Banking, the Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending, the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company, the Texas Public Finance Authority, the Bond Review Board, the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System, the Board of Trustees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, the Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System of Texas, the Board of Trustees of the Texas County and District Retirement System, the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, the State Pension Review Board, and the State Securities Board.