Commerce Committee Jurisdiction

To this committee shall be referred, in accordance with the rules, all legislative instruments, messages, petitions, memorials and other matters relating to the following subjects:

• Commerce generally.
• Banking and the regulation thereof.
• Communication by telephone, telegraph, radio and television.
• Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats.
• Navigation and laws relating thereto.
• Regulation of common carriers by water.
• Consumer protection.
• Laws relating to merchandising.
• Regulation, licensing, or certification of occupations and professions generally, except those fields which are health related.
• Interest rates.
• Savings and loan and homestead associations.
• Small loan companies.
• Regulation and licensing of businesses and occupations.
• Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies.
• Corporations.
• Tourism.