Jim Pitts
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James R. Pitts (born January 1, 1947), known as Jim Pitts, is an American state politician and lawyer who served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1993 to 2015.
He was the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee for four legislative sessions.
He is a Republican from Waxahachie in Ellis County, south of his native Dallas, Texas.
Education and career before politics
He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration, a Master of Business Administration, and a Juris Doctor degree at Southern Methodist University. He has been practicing law in Waxahachie for the past 30 years, with a focus on general and real estate law. He also owns the Ellis County Abstract and Title Company.
Legislative career
Pitts was elected as the state representative for District 10, which includes Hill and Ellis counties, on November 3, 1992. The district was established following the state's redistricting of 1991.
Pitts served on the House Committee on Economic Growth and Transportation during the 1993 session of the Texas Legislature. In 1995, he was appointed to the Committees on Criminal Jurisprudence and Corrections for the 74th Legislative Session. Pitts served as a member of the Appropriations Committee and the State, Federal, and International Relations Committee during the 75th Legislative Session.
Pitts introduced legislation in April 1998 that would have allowed capital punishment for offenders as young as eleven years old, but he said that the policy was not drafted with the intention of such sentences becoming commonplace. The bill did not pass, and was disapproved by then-Governor George W. Bush, who claimed that he supported the then-present minimum age of seventeen (the minimum age, according to the US Supreme Court's decision in Stanford vs. Simmons (1988) was five years old, although Roper vs. Simmons (2005) increased it to eighteen).
Pitts was elected to serve on the House Committees for Appropriations, Financial Services, and Redistricting in 1999, during the 76th Legislative Session; he retained these positions in the 77th Session. Pitts also chaired the Appropriations subcommittees for Enforcement Agencies and Major Information Systems.
He also served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Regultive Agencies and as a member of the Select Committee on Teacher Health Insurance.
Pitts served his third term on the House Appropriations Committee, was elected to the Ways and Means Committee, and the Redistricting Committee during the 78th Legislative Session in 2003. Pitts was also elected to serve on the Select Committee on Public School Finance and as Chairman of the Subcommittee on High Schools.
Pitts was nominated as the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee prior to the 79th Legislative Session in 2005. At the start of the 79th Legislative Session, he was subsequently reappointed chairman.
Pitts served as the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee during the 1981 Legislative Session in 2009. He also served on the Redistricting Committee, Federal Economic Stabilization Funding Committee, and the Fiscal Stability Committee.
By the State of Texas, Frank Phillips College in Borger, as well as Ranger College in Lake Jackson, Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, and Odessa College in Odessa, were all scheduled for closing in 2011. The Texas Association of Community Colleges fought vainfully to keep the four colleges open. TAAC representatives in a letter sent to Texas House Speaker Joe Straus of San Antonio and Representative Pitts as the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee at the time referred to state budget limitations: at the time, state budget constraints were not mentioned.