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11 Document(s) [ Subject: Computers and government ]
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Appropriations | |
| Title: | Subcommittee on Disaster Impact and Recovery, subcommittee meeting handouts and testimony, April 18, 2018 (Economic Stabilization Fund) | |
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| Session: | 85th R.S. (2017) | |
| Online version: | View document [209 pages File size: 12,113 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Government Transparency and Operation | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Computer networks | Computers and government | Criminal records | Data centers | Electronic security | Law enforcement | Public information | Public Information Act, Texas | State agencies | State purchasing | Video cameras and recordings | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.84 G747T | |
| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View report [76 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Identify and address potential gaps in the state's cybersecurity policies and ensure that personal information held by state agencies is secure. Address whether industry-accepted cybersecurity standards have been met by state agencies and state data centers and determine ways to promote a culture of cybersecurity awareness among users of state information resources. | |
| 2. | Examine purchasing practices by state agencies to ensure such practices are efficient and transparent. | |
| 3. | Study issues related to access to public information held outside of the custody or control of the governmental body by current or former officers or employees. Assess whether the Public Information Act's procedures for response to repetitious or redundant public information requests adequately protect small governmental bodies from the financial burdens imposed by such requests. | |
| 4. | Study the use of commercial cloud computing by state agencies and institutions of higher education, including efficiencies surrounding a utility-based model, security impacts of transitioning to cloud computing, and cost-savings achieved by the utilization of commercial cloud computing services. | |
| 5. | Review the process of dissemination by public entities of criminal records containing incomplete or inaccurate information, assess options for the subjects of such records to correct the misinformation specifically as it interferes with their ability to obtain employment, and determine the need for greater regulations over this process. (Joint charge with the House Committee on Homeland Security & Public Safety) | |
| 6. | Study the impact of emerging technologies used by law enforcement and issues related to appropriate dissemination of the data provided by those technologies, including the impact of technologies on the operation of law enforcement agencies, the operation of the Public Information Act, and any appropriate safeguards for citizens and law enforcement officers who interact with those technologies or whose data is recorded. (Joint charge with the House Select Committee on Emerging Issues in Texas Law Enforcement) | |
| 7. | Conduct legislative oversight and monitoring of the agencies and programs under the committee’s jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 84th Legislature. In conducting this oversight, the committee should: a. consider any reforms to state agencies to make them more responsive to Texas taxpayers and citizens; b. identify issues regarding the agency or its governance that may be appropriate to investigate, improve, remedy, or eliminate; c. determine whether an agency is operating in a transparent and efficient manner; and d. identify opportunities to streamline programs and services while maintaining the mission of the agency and its programs. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Government Transparency and Operation | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, April 5, 2016 (Cyber security, purchasing efficiency and transparency, cloud computing) | |
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| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View document [157 pages File size: 7,747 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate Health and Human Services | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas | Child abuse | Child Protective Services | Computers and government | Contraceptives | Dental Examiners, Texas State Board of | Family planning | Foster care | Healthy Texas Women | Homelessness | Medicaid | Medicaid fraud | Medically uninsured | Mental health services | Mentally ill persons | Office of Inspector General, Health and Human Services Commission, Texas | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Substance abuse | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | Welfare eligibility | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Women's health | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.83 H349 | |
| Session: | 83rd R.S. (2013) | |
| Online version: | View report [58 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review the Department of Family and Protective Services’ efforts to reduce child fatalities. Review the process by which the Department of Family and Protective Services collects and uses data to evaluate agency performance and improve outcomes for children in the Child Protective Services system. Make recommendations to ensure the process effectively uses data to strategically improve caseworker performance, and identify and improve upon deficiencies within the system and improve overall outcomes for children and reduce child fatalities. | |
| 2. | Monitor the implementation of programs that were created or expanded by the 83rd Legislature to improve mental health and substance abuse services and assess these efforts' contribution to improved outcomes such as reduced recidivism in state hospitals, diversion from emergency rooms and county jails, and access to permanent supportive housing. Identify and address gaps in the current mental health and substance abuse system and make recommendations to better coordinate services across agencies and programs. | |
| 3. | Build on previous legislative achievements in women's healthcare by examining women’s access to preventative health care, pregnancy services, and post-partum care, and exploring ways to expand access and improve quality, particularly in rural and underserved areas of the state. Monitor the implementation of women's health programs in Texas. Assess these programs' impact on outcomes such as improving access to preventative services, reducing unplanned pregnancies, and achieving cost savings. Recommend ways to better coordinate the various programs in a manner that increases the number of women served, ensures adequate provider capacity statewide, and maximizes efficiencies to the state. | |
| 4. | Identify cost-effective alternatives to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to better connect low income individuals to health care services through private market-based solutions, including Medicaid block grants and waivers. Recommendations should strive to encourage cost sharing, promote personal responsibility, reduce uncompensated care costs, contain increasing health care costs, improve access to care, address access to emergency department care issues in rural areas, promote the use of existing private coverage or employee sponsored coverage, reduce non-?emergency use of emergency departments, and reduce the need for federal approval to the state Medicaid plan. | |
| 5. | Evaluate the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program structure. Make recommendations to improve the program's operations and ensure the program achieves outcomes that allow TANF recipients to find employment and achieve self-sufficiency. Recommendations should seek to ensure Texas is using the most effective work-related requirements and drug testing protocols. | |
| 6. | Evaluate the current state of prescription drug abuse and strategies for reducing prescription drug abuse in Texas. Make recommendations on how these policies can be improved or modified to enhance the State of Texas’ handling of services, treatments and education related to prescription drug abuse and to reduce the overall prevalence of prescription drug abuse. | |
| 7. | Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation, including but not limited to:
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| Committee: | House Government Reform | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Computers and government | Databases | Inspectors general | Occupational licenses | Prescription drug costs | Prescription drugs | School buildings | State government reorganization | State purchasing | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.80 G747r | |
| Session: | 80th R.S. (2007) | |
| Online version: | View report [95 pages File size: 12,260 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Research, investigate, and make recommendations on how electronic documents can be created, maintained, exchanged, and preserved by the state in a manner that encourages appropriate government control, access, choice, interoperability, and vendor neutrality. The committee shall consider, but not be limited to, public access to information, expected storage life of electronic documents, costs of implementation, and savings. | |
| 2. | Research, investigate, and make recommendations regarding litigation brought by school districts receiving state funds under Chapter 46, Education Code, for defective construction of instructional facilities and the state's interest in ensuring the use of such funds for the repair or reconstruction of defective facilities or the return of state funds. | |
| 3. | Review authorized offices of inspector generals and assess the benefit of having a statewide office of inspector general for all executive branch agencies. | |
| 4. | Study and review current laws regarding licensing and regulation of professionals, as well as current laws regarding practice acts, and make recommendations on creating limitations and streamlining of licensure requirements, such as the public policy implications of decriminalization of license-related violations. | |
| 5. | Review a wide variety of state agencies with an eye to streamlining state government. Recommend the amendment or repeal of unnecessary statutory requirements, the deregulation of certain industries if in the public interest, and ways to implement agency efficiency recommendations identified by the Legislative Budget Board, the State Auditor's Office, and the Sunset Advisory Commission. | |
| 6. | Evaluate and make recommendations, if necessary, regarding state contracts with pharmacy benefit managers. Assess the feasibility of combining prescription drug programs of state health insurance programs. All recommendations should take into consideration any budgetary impacts. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Pensions and Investments.) | |
| 7. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | House Appropriations | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Appropriations Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1996 : a report to the House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Computers and government | Councils of government | Databases | Overtime pay | State agencies | State agency performance measures | State employee salaries | State employees | University employee salaries | University faculty | Year 2000 computer problem | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.74 ap65 | |
| Session: | 74th R.S. (1995) | |
| Online version: | View report [110 pages File size: 4,996 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Conduct a review of performance-based budgeting and strategic planning, as currently implemented. Review the original goals and theories supporting these processes and assess the extent to which goals have been attained. Develop performance measures to assess future success of the planning and budgeting processes. | |
| 2. | Review the overall salary and benefit levels of state employees and assess how they compare with the private sector. | |
| 3. | Review special issues related to state compensation, including merit pay; salary increases for exempt employees; the achievement bonus program; severance pay and "golden parachutes;" non-monetary emoluments such as housing or personal services; and parity in compensation for similar work performed at different agencies. | |
| 4. | Review the state's means for overseeing the planning and implementation for major information systems by state agencies and institutions. Include a history of the state's efforts to accomplish such oversight. Review major projects that have not met goals, including timeliness and budgets. | |
| 5. | Review the efficiency of funding numerous local programs through Councils of Governments or other similar intermediary organizations. The Committee should consider the accountability of the state, regional and local entities for funds used for such programs. | |
| Committee: | House Appropriations | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 69th Texas Legislature, Texas House of Representatives / Appropriations Committee. | |
| Subjects: | Computers and government | Databases | Distributed electricity generation | Electric power plants | Energy conservation | Government travel costs | Health insurance | Job training programs | State agencies | State agency budgets | State budgets | State buildings | State employees | Tuition | University finance | Welfare-to-work | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.68 ap65 | |
| Session: | 68th R.S. (1983) | |
| Online version: | View report [55 pages File size: 1,748 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | To monitor all activities and have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 2. | |
| 2. | To investigate the feasibility of having state offices in foreign countries for use of various state agencies, including but not limited to: a. The Department of Agriculture b. The Industrial Commission c. The Tourist Development Agency | |
| 3. | To review the capital outlay requirements of various facilities operated by the state in order to: a. Determine the need for state-owned floor space in Travis County. b. Set priorities in regards to the capital outlay of all state agencies and institutions. | |
| 4. | To review state employees group insurance to: a. Determine the most cost effective bidding procedures available to the state. b. Examine alternatives to reducing state costs for the employees' group health insurance program. | |
| 5. | To have interim oversight of all automated services in state government to: a. Determine the role of automation in state government. b. Research the possibility of coordination of automated services of small state agencies into a Central Automated System. | |
| 6. | To review the travel policies and the transportation needs of state agencies to: a. Analyze the necessity of travel and the reimbursement policies of state agencies and institutions. b. Consider the feasibility of advanced telecommunication in lieu of travel. c. Explore the feasibility of having a motor pool for all Austin based state agencies. d. Examine the use of TDC in repairing and reconditioning state owned vehicles. | |
| 7. | To review funding sources and general revenue to determine: a. Policies concerning estimates of local income as an offset to general funding. b. The appropriate policy in the application of indirect cost as it relates to federal and private funding in the method of financing state agencies and institutions. c. The impact of general rider provisions, with particular emphasis of Sec. 67, Art. V, as it relates to proportional funding of selected agencies. d. Review budget and agency policies (including salary, leave, and travel policies) of those agencies whose budgets are not controlled by the General Appropriations Act. | |
| 8. | To study the possibility of state agencies and institutions developing sources of energy for their own consumption. | |
| 9. | To conduct a comparative study to determine the most effective means of helping the welfare-unemployed enter the state work force. | |
| 10. | To review in cooperation with the House Committee on Higher Education in tuitional policies of institutions of higher education as it pertains to exemptions, particularly in payment of tuition of out-of-state students. | |
| 11. | To review planning and coordination of research by state agencies for the purpose of recommending those changes which will improve effectiveness and utility of the research product. Review shall include, but not be limited to: a. Research funded through state appropriations, federal grants, private grants, and interagency contracts. | |
| 12. | To review the advantages and disadvantages of annual vs. biennial appropriations. | |
| Committee: | House Automatic Data Processing in State Government | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of the House Interim Committee on the Utilization of Automatic Data Processing in State Government. | |
| Subjects: | Computers | Computers and government | Databases | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 au82 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View report [8 pages File size: 281 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the proper utilization of automatic data processing in State Government, and see if more capitalization of this equipment would be more economical. | |
| 2. | Examine the current usage of all electronic data processing equipment including transmission of data from one location to another. The Committee shall seek the advice of State agencies as well as private industry and may examine the experience and practices of State governments in other states, private industry and the Federal Government, and report its findings and recommendations to the 62nd Legislature. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Automatic Data Processing in State Government | |
| Title: | Transcripts, Volume 1, December 18-19, 1969; January 8-9 and April 2-3, 1970; including committee roster and witness lists | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 AU82M V. 1 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View document [459 pages File size: 166,741 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Automatic Data Processing in State Government | |
| Title: | Transcripts, Volume 2, April 30-May 1, August 14, and October 2, 1970; including committee roster and witness lists | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 AU82M V. 2 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View document [239 pages File size: 105,816 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Automatic Data Processing in State Government | |
| Title: | Proposed actions to achieve the maximum utilization of electronic data processing and communication technology in the state of Texas | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Proposed actions to achieve the maximum utilization of electronic data processing and communication technology in the state of Texas / prepared for the Senate Committee on ADP. | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 C739 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
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