Committees
The Senate has various committees that are charged with overseeing different areas of the state government and drafting legislation. These committees are bipartisan and contain between three and eleven members split between the parties according to their ratio of members in the Senate. Each committee chairman is a member of the majority party. The current committees include:
- Agriculture and Small Business
- Appointments and Claims
- Appropriations
- Civil Matters Subcommittee
- Commerce, Public Policy & Interstate Cooperation
- Corrections and Criminal Subcommittee
- Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters
- Courts and Juvenile Justice Subcommittee
- Economic Development Subcommittee
- Economic Development and Technology
- Education and Career Development
- Elections & Redistricting Subcommittee
- Energy and Environmental Affairs
- Ethics
- Financial Institutions Subcommittee
- Health and Provider Services
- Homeland Security, Transportation & Veterans Affairs
- Insurance Subcommittee
- Insurance and Financial Institutions
- Joint Rules
- Judiciary
- Local Government Subcommittee
- Local Government and Elections
- Natural Resources
- Pensions and Labor
- Probate Code and Trusts Subcommittee
- Provider Services Subcommittee
- Public Health Subcommittee
- Public Safety Subcommittee
- Rules and Legislative Procedure
- Tax and Fiscal Policy
- Technology Subcommittee
- Transportation Subcommittee
- Utilities & Regulatory Affairs
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