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2 Document(s) [ Subject: Fort Bliss ]

• Committee:

  Senate Veteran Affairs and Military Installations Subcommittee on Base Realignment and Closure, 80th R.S. (2007)

  Title:

  Interim Report

  Document type:

  Report

  Subjects:

  Base realignment and closure | Brooks City-Base | Fort Bliss | Fort Sam Houston | Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant | Military bases | Military Facilities Commission, Texas | Naval Station Ingleside | Red River Army Depot |

  Library Call Number:

  L1836.80 V641b

  Description:

  [343 pages  File size: 12,169 kb]

  Charges:

  1. Monitor national and overseas BRAC developments and Department of Defense redevelopment efforts.
  2. Monitor and analyze the closure process for the following installations and communicate with district Senators and communities: Naval Station Ingleside; Brooks City-Base, San Antonio; and Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant.
  3. Monitor and analyze the realignment of the various installations across the state, including but not limited to, Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Fort Bliss in El Paso, and Red River Army Depot in Texarkana.
  4. Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Subcommittee on Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), 80th R.S., and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation. Focus on implementation of the following:
     • SB 962, 80th R.S., relating to school districts affected by troop reassignments at military installations,
     • SB 1237, 80th R.S., relating to defense base development authorities,
     • SB 1724, 80th R.S., relating to the Texas Military Facilities Commission,
     • SB 1743, 80th R.S., relating to the Red River Redevelopment Authority,
     • SB 1956, 80th R.S., relating to areas affected by defense restructuring, and
     • HB 3879, 80th R.S., relating to defense base development authorities

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• Committee:

  Senate Veteran Affairs and Military Installations, 79th R.S. (2005)

  Title:

  Interim Report

  Document type:

  Report

  Subjects:

  Dental care | Fort Bliss | Job training programs | Military personnel | Subprime lending | Veterans | Veterans cemeteries | Veterans Commission, Texas | Veterans health care | Veterans homes | Voting by mail | Voting rights | Workforce Commission, Texas |

  Library Call Number:

  L1836.79 V641

  Description:

  [44 pages  File size: 2,250 kb]

  Charges:

  1. Examine issues and problems with overseas military voting and explore the possibility of establishing a single point of contact for Texas military voters. Consider requirements of the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act and review systems established in other states.
  2. Compile an inventory of state veterans' benefits, including health care facilities and nursing homes across the state, the state veteran cemetery system, job training programs, educational benefits, and re-employment rights issues, and the Texas Veterans Land Board Loan Programs, and make recommendations for improving efficiency and effectiveness.
  3. Monitor the implementation legislation transferring the veteran employment programs under the Texas Workforce Commission to the Texas Veterans Commission. Monitor the implementation of legislation establishing a database in the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that tracks veterans' usage of the Hazlewood higher education tuition exemption.
  4. Examine other issues facing the 80th Legislature, such as oral health of guardsmen and reservists, Ellington Field and Fort Bliss, predatory lending, TRICARE provider shortages, business and employment issues for veterans, and the need for a VA hospital in the Rio Grande Valley.

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