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11 Document(s) [ Subject: Ethics complaints ]
| Committee: | Senate State Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Campus carry | Eminent domain | Employees Retirement System of Texas | Ethics Commission, Texas | Ethics complaints | Freedom of religion | Government ethics | Guardianship | Guns | Judge salaries | Judicial selection | Military personnel | Open carry | Organized labor | Police chiefs | Public Integrity Unit | Public retirement systems | Religious conservatives (Politics) | Religious discrimination | Straight ticket voting | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | Texas Rangers (Law enforcement) | Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act | Voting systems | Weapons | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.84 St29a | |
| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View report [70 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Religious Liberty: Examine measures to affirm 1st Amendment religious liberty protections in Texas, along with the relationship between local ordinances and state and federal law. Make recommendations to ensure that the government does not force individuals, organizations or businesses to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs. | |
| 2. | Union Dues: Examine the practice of using public funds and employees for the payment processing of union dues. Make recommendations on whether Texas should end this practice. | |
| 3. | Chief Law Enforcement Officers: Examine whether there are chief law enforcement officers within the state who deny NFA applications without any cause. Examine the application and certification process and recommend ways to eliminate no-cause denials. | |
| 4. | Judicial Matters: Examine the need to adjust Texas judicial salaries to attract, maintain, and support a qualified judiciary capable of meeting the current and future needs of Texas and its citizens. Study and recommend whether Texas should delink legislators' standard service retirement annuities from district judge salaries. Examine the effect of eliminating straight-party voting for candidates for judicial office and make recommendations to ensure candidates are given individual consideration by voters. | |
| 5. | Eminent Domain: Gather and review data on the compensation provided to private property owners for property purchased or taken by entities with eminent domain authority. Examine the variance, if any, between the offers and the fair market values of properties taken through eminent domain. Make recommendations to ensure property owners are fairly compensated. | |
| 6. | Ethics: Review current ethics laws governing public officials and employees and recommend changes necessary to inspire the public’s confidence in a transparent and ethically principled government. Review public officials’ reporting requirements to the Texas Ethics Commission. Examine the categorization of ethics reporting violations and make recommendations to encourage accurate reporting and timely correction to inadvertent clerical errors. | |
| 7. | Monitoring Charge: Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on State Affairs during the 84th R.S. and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation. Specifically, monitor the following: 1) Implementation of open and campus carry legislation and determine if the current laws regulating the places that handguns can be carried are easily understood or if clarification is needed to ensure the average citizen understands when, where, and under what circumstances it is lawful to carry a weapon, versus when it is a criminal offense for which there may be a defense; 2) Requirements for guardianships; 3) The electronic voting program for certain military members serving overseas; 4) Changes made to the Employment Retirement System regarding member contributions and proposed reforms to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; and 5) The establishment of a public integrity unit under the authority of Texas Rangers. | |
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Report -- Feb. 11, 1909 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Subjects: | Conflicts of interest | Ethics complaints | Ethics laws | Government ethics | Lobbyists | Rules of the Texas Senate - Sanctions | | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., R.S. 381 (1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View report [9 pages File size: 335 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Investigate charges of violations of the Anti-Lobbying Statute by the Senate and decide whether or not Senator H. Bascom Thomas has forfeited his right to membership in the Senate. * | |
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Report -- Feb. 18, 1909 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Special Committee Report | |
| Subjects: | Conflicts of interest | Ethics complaints | Ethics laws | Government ethics | Lobbyists | Rules of the Texas Senate - Sanctions | | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., R.S. 421 (1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View report [3 pages File size: 81 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Investigate charges of violations of the Anti-Lobbying Statute by the Senate and decide whether or not Senator H. Bascom Thomas has forfeited his right to membership in the Senate. * | |
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Report -- Mar. 9, 1909 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Special Committee Report | |
| Subjects: | Conflicts of interest | Ethics complaints | Ethics laws | Government ethics | Lobbyists | Rules of the Texas Senate - Sanctions | | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., R.S. 809 (1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View report [4 pages File size: 132 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Investigate charges of violations of the Anti-Lobbying Statute by the Senate and decide whether or not Senator H. Bascom Thomas has forfeited his right to membership in the Senate. * | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Proceedings -- Feb. 10, 1909 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of Committee of the Whole | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., R.S. 284 (1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View document [28 pages File size: 1,896 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Proceedings -- Feb. 8-9, 1909 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Proceedings | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., R.S. 274 (1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View document [10 pages File size: 660 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Proceedings -- Mar. 9, 1909 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of Special Investigation Committee | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., R.S. 1197 (1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View document [99 pages File size: 6,600 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Statement by Senator Thomas | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Statement | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., R.S. 1149 (1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View document [8 pages File size: 455 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Proceedings -- Mar. 13, 1909 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Proceedings had in the Thomas matter before the Senate on March 13, 1909 | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., R.S. 1162 (1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View document [17 pages File size: 1,100 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Speech of Senator Senter | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Personal privilege | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., 1st C.S. 92 1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View document [5 pages File size: 284 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate H. Bascom Thomas Expulsion, Committee of the Whole Senate | |
| Title: | Oath of Office | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 31st Leg., 1st C.S. 306 (1909) | |
| Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
| Online version: | View document [3 pages File size: 47 kb] | |
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