CHAPTER 6. COMMITTEES
Rule 6.1. Standing Committees; select committees
A. There shall be sixteen standing committees of the House of Representatives
whose duties respectively shall be to take into consideration all such subjects as properly
pertain to the subjects and purposes assigned to each of them and which may be referred to
them by the House. The sixteen standing committees of the House shall be the following:
(1) Administration of Criminal Justice.
(2) Appropriations.
(3) Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
(4) Civil Law and Procedure.
(5) Commerce.
(6) Education.
(7) Health and Welfare.
(8) House and Governmental Affairs.
(9) Insurance.
(10) Judiciary.
(11) Labor and Industrial Relations.
(12) Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
(13) Natural Resources and Environment.
(14) Retirement.
(15) Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
(16) Ways and Means.
B.(1) The Speaker may establish select committees for specific studies or
investigations or other specified purposes.
(2) The Speaker shall appoint the members of each select committee and designate
the chairman and vice chairman of each select committee.
(3) A select committee established pursuant to this Paragraph shall have the same
powers, duties, and authorities and shall be subject to the same rules as standing committees.
Specifically, each select committee is expressly granted the power and authority to hold
hearings, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, require the production of books and records,
and to do all things necessary to accomplish the purpose assigned to it by the Speaker, in the
same manner and subject to the same procedures provided in House Rule 14.51 for standing
committees and joint committees and subcommittees thereof.
Mason's Manual: Sec. 600-602
HR 3, 1973; HR 4, 1976; HR 4, 1980; HR 2, 1992 Org. Sess.; HR 1, 1996 Org. Sess.;
HR 13, 2003; HR 1, 2004 1st Ex. Sess.; HR 1, 2008 Org. Sess., eff. Jan. 15, 2008; HR 1,
2022, eff. March 23, 2022.