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Committee:	Senate Criminal Justice
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Senate Criminal Justice Committee interim report to the 79th Legislature.
Subjects:	Alternatives to incarceration | Crime Victims' Compensation Fund | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Drug courts | Identity theft | Law Enforcement, Texas Commission on | Parole | Police departments | Police officers | Prison population | Privately-operated prisons | Probation | Technical parole violations | Underage drinking |
Library Call Number:	L1836.78 C868
Session:	78th R.S. (2003)
Online version:	View report [95 pages  File size: 643 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study identity theft and its effects, and the impact of recent legislation addressing the issue (HB 2138, 78th R.S., SB 473, 78th R.S., and SB 566, 78th R.S.). Make recommendations for enhancing the Texas' ability to implement effective programs to prevent identity theft. Monitor federal legislation regarding identity theft to ensure that state and federal laws are complementary and make recommendations for improvements.
2.	Study and identify best practices for probation and community supervision programs including: the Community Justice Assistance Division; local probation management structure; the use of Drug Courts and the courts' impact on recidivism; programs to reduce underage drinking; mental health issues and continuity of care; use of the Community Supervision Tracking System (CSTS) and other data issues related to Criminal Justice information system components; and the implementation of HB 2668, 78th R.S.. Make recommendations for legislative changes to achieve best practices.
3.	Study the management efficiency and organizational structure of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, including implementation of recent restructuring by the TDCJ Board, and make recommendations on additional improvements, including possible consolidation of agency functions and other cost saving measures.
4.	Study the use and effectiveness of current parole guideline policies and make recommendations for changes to improve the policies. Develop innovative options that improve efficiency and enhance safe and effective correctional policy.
5.	Study and make recommendations relating to improving the use of specialized police agencies and officers, specifically, the necessity, accountability, qualifications, and jurisdictions of such police agencies.
6.	Review the Crime Victims Compensation Fund (Fund), including state and local competition, use in state agency methods of finance, evaluation of grant programs, possible diversion of funds from crime victims as a result of prior legislation, and whether the Fund meets the objectives of its authorizing legislation.
7.	Study the number of foreign citizens serving sentences in Texas prisons, including information relating to prison terms, recidivism, and types of offenses. Make recommendations for reducing the costs of providing prison services for this population, including leveraging of federal immigration funds and possible international agreements to pay home countries to transfer the prisoners to their respective countries to serve the remainder of their terms.
8.	Study and make recommendations concerning the cost effectiveness and efficiency of private prisons, including private services performed at state-owned prisons.
Committee:	House Licensing and Administrative Procedures
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Licensing & Administrative Procedures, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2004 : a report to the House of Representatives, 79th Texas Legislature
Subjects:	Architectural Examiners, Texas Board of | Bingo | Electricians | Interior designers | Licensing and Regulation, Texas Department of | Lottery Commission, Texas | Mold remediation | Occupational licenses | Underage drinking |
Library Call Number:	L1836.78 L616
Session:	78th R.S. (2003)
Online version:	View report [36 pages  File size: 268 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Actively monitor the implementation of HB 2519, 78th R.S., to streamline bingo processes at the Lottery Commission, review the commission's processes for leasing of facilities and the commissions's audit authority. Also compare the distributions to charities as a percentage of revenues in Texas with charitable bingo in other states.
2.	Monitor the implementation of SB 283, 78th R.S., sunset legislation for the Board of Architectural Examiners. Pay particular attention to the interior designer's transformation to a "Practice Act."
3.	Monitor the implementation of HB 1487, 78th R.S., creating a state wide license for electricians. Pay particular attention to any unintended consequences, such as any erosion in Texas right-to-work laws.
4.	Monitor the implementation of HB 329, 78th R.S., licensing mold remediators.
5.	Identify licenses and duties that could be handled more efficiently at the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Estimate cost savings and policy implications associated with such moves.
6.	Study ways to reduce the incidence of underage drinking in Texas. Include and analysis of best practices in other states.
7.	Monitor agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction.
Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services
Title:	Interim report - Immunization programs & restricting access to alcohol and tobacco
Library Catalog Title:	Improving immunization programs and restricting children's access to tobacco and alcohol : interim report, September, 1996.
Subjects:	Immunizations | Tobacco advertising | Tobacco industry | Tobacco laws and regulations | Underage drinking | Underage smoking |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 h349
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [101 pages  File size: 4,077 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study and make recommendations to improve immunization programs for children and identify the necessary steps required to limit access to tobacco and alcohol by children.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services
Title:	Interim minutes, letters to Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock with enclosures, and charts reflecting legislative recommendations submitted to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1803.9 H88 74
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View document [461 pages  File size: 10,303 kb]
Committee:	Senate Juvenile Driving While Intoxicated Laws, Interim
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report of the Senate Interim Committee on Juvenile Driving While Intoxicated Laws.
Subjects:	Alcohol laws and regulations | Alcohol-related deaths | Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Texas | Blood alcohol concentration | Driver education | Driver licenses | Driving while intoxicated | Graduated driver licenses | Teenage drivers | Traffic fatalities | Underage drinking | Zero tolerance laws |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 j9882
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [107 pages  File size: 4,903 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study and make recommendations regarding the establishment of a lower driving while intoxicated blood alcohol threshold for juveniles than for adults. Study and make recommendations regarding the penalties applicable to juveniles for DWI offenses in light of the penalties for adult DWI. Study and make recommendations as to whether changes in the penalties and procedures for dealing with related intoxication offenses, such as public intoxication, could reduce the incidence of juvenile DWI. Study and make recommendations as to whether changes are needed in the laws prohibiting sales of alcoholic beverages to minors or in enforcement of such laws. Identify prevention and intervention measures that hold promise for reducing the incidence of juvenile DWI and that merit expansion. Monitor any federal legislation regarding juvenile DWI issues to determine whether changes are needed in Texas statutes to participate fully in federal programming. Study and make recommendations regarding such other issues that come before the committee in relation to the above charges that the committee deems appropriate for consideration.
Committee:	House Public Health
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 72nd Texas Legislature / Committee on Public Health.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Health maintenance organizations | Medical research | Pharmaceutical industry | Pharmacists | Prescription drug costs | Prescription drugs | Substance abuse | Texas Pharmacy Act | Underage drinking |
Library Call Number:	L1836.71 h349
Session:	71st R.S. (1989)
Online version:	View report [39 pages  File size: 1,612 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To study substance abuse problems of Texas youth.
2.	To study the benefits and public necessity of licensing and regulating medical laboratories in Texas, including the relative merits of state regulation versus federal regulation.
3.	To study prescription drug programs provided under health insurance policies or contracts and employee benefit plans.
Committee:	House Liquor Regulation
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the Committee on Liquor Regulation, Texas House of Representatives, Seventieth Legislature : to the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, Seventieth Legislature.
Subjects:	Alcohol laws and regulations | Alcohol-related deaths | Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Texas | Alcoholic beverages | Alcoholism | Driving while intoxicated | Military bases | Open container laws | Sobriety tests | Traffic fatalities | Traffic safety | Underage drinking |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 l669
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [104 pages  File size: 4,115 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 22.
2.	To study the industry response and ramifications of the trainer serving program as mandated by HB 1963, 70th R.S., including a review of the Alcohol Beverage Commission's rules.
3.	To study the law enforcement reaction to new laws enacted during the 70th Legislature with regard to driving while intoxicated and open containers.
4.	To study the impact and relationship of the 21 year old drinking age limit on highway and road safety.
5.	To study the feasibility and impact of requiring military installations to purchase liquor from state distributors.
6.	To study the production of an educational video designed to be distributed to primary and secondary schools in Texas informing students of effects of alcohol and alcohol awareness.
Committee:	House Liquor Regulation
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the Committee on Liquor Regulation, Texas House of Representatives, 69th Legislature : to the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 69th Legislature.
Subjects:	Alcohol laws and regulations | Driving while intoxicated | Open container laws | Underage drinking | Wine and wine industry |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 l669
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [81 pages  File size: 3,336 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 21.
2.	To study the possibility of increasing the legal drinking age from 19 to 21 years of age.
3.	To do a comparative study of other state's laws prohibiting open alcoholic beverage containers in moving vehicles.
4.	In cooperation with the House Committee on State Affairs, study the wine and grape industry in Texas, and how other states have encouraged the development of this industry.
Committee:	House Health Services
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	To the speaker and members of the House of Representatives, 68th Legislature : interim report / of the Health Services Committee, Texas House of Representatives, 67th Legislature.
Subjects:	Alcoholism | Autism | California | Drug rehabilitation programs | Drug trafficking | Hazardous substances | Health care providers | Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Texas Department of | Mental health services | Mentally disabled persons | Patients' rights | Pesticides | Services for persons with disabilities | State agency budgets | Substance abuse | Underage drinking | Veterans | Veterans health care |
Library Call Number:	L1836.67 h349
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View report [103 pages  File size: 4,438 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Investigate the problems of alcohol addiction and drug abuse among youth.
2.	Oversight functions shall be conducted for all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned to this committee for appropriative purposes during the 67th Regular Session of the Legislature. In addition, a study should be made of the impact of any federal cuts, and the differences in the operational aspect of the agencies under block vs. categorical grants. Close scrutiny should be given to each agency to ascertain if legislative intent is being carried out in the rules promulgated by the agency and if the rules are feasible and practical in their application. These agencies include: Department of Health Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Governor's Commission on Physical Fitness Health Facilities Commission Texas Commission on Alcoholism Board of Morticians Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners Texas Board of Examiners in the Fitting and Dispensing of Hearing Aids Board of Nurse Examiners Texas Optometry Board State Board of Pharmacy Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners Texas Board of Podiatry Examiners Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists State Board of Dental Examiners State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners and Texas State Board of Medical Examiners.
3.	Study the operations of the Health Systems Agencies in Texas.
4.	Examine California's statutes relating to freedom of choice in selecting health care services and providers and determine if similar changes should be made in Texas' statutes.
5.	Coordinate efforts with the Joint Committee on Autistic Citizens to develop possible alternatives to institutionalization of mentally retarded and autistic persons.
6.	Monitor the activities and progress of the programs designed to provide aid to veterans suffering from Agent Orange. Look at number of veterans served, percentages with abnormalities, costs, etc.
7.	Study the impact of pesticides on health in Texas.
8.	Study the proposed construction of the Houston Psychiatric Hospital.

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