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Committee:

House Energy Resources, 79th R.S. (2005)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Abandoned oil wells | Energy policy | Environmental protection | Natural gas industry | Nuclear power plants | Oil Field Cleanup Fund | Oil industry |

Library Call Number:

L1836.79 En27

Description:

[23 pages File size: 3,130 kb]

Charges:
1. Review the effects of universal bonding on the oil and gas industry with respect to the population of oil and gas operators, economic consequences of bonding and whether bonding had had an effect on the number of abandoned wells being placed into the Oil Field Cleanup Fund.
2. Examine the feasibility of offering economic incentives to promote the plugging of inactive wells by operators.
3. Study the alternatives to increased appropriations to the Railroad Commission, including exploration of potential efficiencies, for administrative functions currently funded by the Oil Field Cleanup Fund.
4. Examine technological advancements in the energy industry. Discuss whether creating legislative incentives for the use of these technologies is appropriate.
5. Study the efficacy of private litigation and government agency investigation to accomplish remediation of natural resources impacted by historical, and current oil and gas operations.
6. Examine the feasibility of additional nuclear generated power in Texas, focusing on supply and demand issues, current state nuclear projects, and possible federal government assistance. (Joint interim charge with Regulated Industries)
7. Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction.
Committee:

House Regulated Industries, 79th R.S. (2005)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Alternative energy | Cable telecommunications providers | Coal-fired power plants | Electric Reliability Council of Texas | Electric utility deregulation | Energy policy | Nuclear power plants | Providers of last resort | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Rights of way | Telecommunications deregulation | Underground utility lines |

Library Call Number:

L1836.79 R265

Description:

[29 pages File size: 7,157 kb]

Charges:
1. Gather and review information on the generation capacity and fuel diversity of the Texas electric market. Recommend changes to Texas law that would encourage new investment and technological innovation in emerging energy fields, such as clean coal and next generation nuclear technologies.
2. Examine the effects of retail competition on the Texas electric market including provider of last resort options for residential customers. Recommend changes to Texas law, including incentives for market participants and residential customers.
3. Monitor the implementation of the state-issued cable and video franchise system. Recommend updates that would further encourage competition and economic investment in the Texas broadband cable and video market.
4. Research and report on the transition to competition of incumbent telecommunications providers in Texas, and examine the effects of deregulation on local level competition, pricing and service offerings. Recommend changes to Texas law that would support further deregulation of the Texas telecommunications market.
5. Study the current repayment mechanism to the county or municipality for utility relocations in the public rights-of-way. Report on the number of relocations statewide each year, total estimated costs for relocations, associated impacts with relocations, and possible alternative systems for funding utility relocations and associated impacts.
6. Review current industry mechanisms used to provide compensation to municipalities for use of the public rights-of-way, specifically whether all inter-modal communications providers receive equal treatment under the current system, and whether all providers of communications services pay for use of the public rights-of-way. Recommend possible alternative compensation systems.
7. Examine the feasibility of additional nuclear generated power in Texas, focusing on supply and demand issues, current state nuclear projects, and possible federal government assistance. (Joint interim charge with energy resources)
8. Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction.
9. Examine issues related to the creation and purchase of out-of-state renewable energy credits by non-ERCOT Texas utilities and determine possible alternatives for establishing a regional approach that does not allow the double-counting of renewable energy credits for non-ERCOT utilities to meet their renewable goals.
Committee:

Joint Telecommunications, Interim, 73rd R.S. (1993)

Title:

Interim report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Electric utility deregulation | Energy policy | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Counsel, Office of | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Telephone deregulation | Telephone service |

Library Call Number:

L1836.73 t235

Description:

[100 pages File size: 8,945 kb]

Charges:
1. Study and develop a long term telecommunications policy that promotes technological innovation, economic competitiveness, customer service and universal service while protecting consumers of monopoly services.
2. Study and make recommendations for the appropriate regulatory framework to promote the state's telecommunications policy, including any necessary statutory changes to achieve that framework.
3. Study and make recommendations for changes to the Public Utility Regulatory Act to implement the state's telecommunications policy.
4. Study and make recommendations for any other legislative changes needed to achieve the state's telecommunications goals.
Committee:

House Statewide Energy Plan, Select, 70th R.S. (1987)

Title:

Interim report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Electric power plants | Electric utilities | Electricity transmission and distribution | Energy policy | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act |

Library Call Number:

L1836.70 en27p

Description:

[25 pages File size: 878 kb]

Charges:
1. Study the current status of the state's electrical power industry, as well as its potential role in promoting the revitalization of Texas through the development of a statewide energy plan. In addition to making recommendations concerning the legislative implementation of such a plan, the committee shall examine alternatives to methods currently used to generate and transmit electricity and evaluate rate-setting policies to ensure that all consumers receive electricity at the lowest possible cost.
Committee:

House Ways and Means, 68th R.S. (1983)

Title:

Interim report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Banks and banking | Energy policy | Federal taxes | Franchise taxes | Housing Agency, Texas | Oil and gas severance taxes | Sales tax exemptions | Sales taxes | State taxes |

Library Call Number:

L1836.68 w364

Description:

[80 pages File size: 2,208 kb]

Charges:
1. To monitor all activities and have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 33.
2. To review the new federal tax laws as they relate to taxes in the state.
3. To make a comparative analysis of taxes in Texas and other states.
4. To examine and compile all exemptions under the general sales tax.
5. To study the Texas Housing Authority's on-going loan programs and financial benefits to home owners to determine if changes need to be made.
6. To study the feasibility of imposing a corporate franchise tax or some other equitable tax on banking corporations doing business in Texas.
7. To assist the Select Committee on Public Education and the House-Senate Joint Committee on State Fiscal Policy.
Committee:

Senate Natural Resources, 67th R.S. (1981)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Energy conservation | Energy policy | Fish | Fisheries | Municipal annexation | Municipalities | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Radioactive waste | Solid waste disposal | Trout |

Library Call Number:

L1836.67 n219s

Description:

[112 pages File size: 3,671 kb]

Charges:
1. Conduct a study to make a determination that the newly implemented nuclear and industrial waste disposal law is positive, designed to mandate the safest locations for disposal and transportation, and is adequately enforced.
2. Study legislative alternatives for encouragement of renewable energy resources including incentives on the local level for policy formulation.
3. Study the conflict of interest between coastal home-rule cities and offshore oil interests regarding the issue of annexation.
4. Study problems relating to reports of declining numbers of redfish and speckled sea trout in Texas coastal waters and determine the reasons for the wide variance between statistics relating to Texas redfish and speckled sea trout released by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and those released by federal and independent studies.
Committee:

Senate Natural Resources, 67th R.S. (1981)

Title:

SR 719

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

SR 719

Description:

[4 pages File size: 1,047 kb]
Committee:

Senate Natural Resources, 67th R.S. (1981)

Title:

Interim update - redfish, hazardous waste, coastal annexation, marine traffic safety, energy, and marine accretion, August 10, September 10, and November 16, 1981

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1803.9 N219 67

Description:

[19 pages]
Committee:

House Energy Resources, 66th R.S. (1979)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Air pollution | Coal mining | Coal-fired power plants | Energy and Natural Resources Advisory Council, Texas | Energy policy | Mexico | Mining | Municipal annexation | Municipalities | Natural gas leases | Oil leases |

Library Call Number:

L1836.66 en27

Description:

[155 pages File size: 5,579 kb]

Charges:
1. Thoroughly review the research grants both quantitatively and qualitatively awarded by the Governor's Energy Advisory Council (currently the Texas Energy and Natural Resources Advisory Council) to determine the benefits resulting from the expenditures.
2. Catalog all rules and regulations which exist regarding coal and thereby determine the feasibility of using coal as a boiler fuel.
3. Explore the feasibility of an energy exchange program between Texas and Mexico considering such resources as coal, natural gas and biomass, etc.
4. Study the economic impact on the production of oil and gas, as well as state revenue, of the annexation of submerged land by home-rule cities.
Committee:

House Energy Resources, 66th R.S. (1979)

Title:

Summary of Committee Action

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1801.9 EN27 66

Description:

[17 pages]
Committee:

Senate Natural Resources, 66th R.S. (1979)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Agriculture | Alternative energy | Electric utility rates and charges | Energy conservation | Energy policy | Fuel conservation | Hazardous waste | Natural disasters | Natural gas utility rates and charges | Ports | Radioactive waste | Ships and shipping | Solid waste disposal | Vehicles | Wind energy |

Library Call Number:

L1836.66 n219s

Description:

[262 pages File size: 9,858 kb]

Charges:
1. Study hazardous waste and toxic waste disposal in Texas; access the risk that existing toxic waste sites pose; review current waste disposal and waste management laws, and make recommendations. *
2. Study all aspects of the regulation of the disposal of uranium mill tailings; the problem of the disposal of low-level radioactive waste and problems concerning the disposal of toxic industrial waste.
3. Study the hazards affecting the Texas coastal areas and the Gulf of Mexico, including hazards such as hurricanes, tropical storms, tornadoes, subsidence, erosion and ground faults. *
4. Investigate ways to reduce the risk of maritime accidents, and better manage shipping in or near Texas ports. *
5. Investigate ways in which the state can encourage energy conservation and energy efficient construction practices. *
6. Study the obstacles to developing solar energy and wind energy resources, and suggest possible legal or regulatory changes which would promote the use of solar and wind energy sources.
7. Review the methods used for rate design, and the impact of rate structure on energy production and energy use.
8. Suggest ways that the state could reduce use of gasoline and other fuel for transportation. *
9. Investigate future demands of agriculture, and suggest legislative alternatives to encourage the growth of agricultural production. *
10. Analyze Texas laws' impact on small-scale hydroelectric development and recommend possible legislative action. *
Committee:

Senate Natural Resources, 66th R.S. (1979)

Title:

Bills Referred to Committee

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1803.9 N219 66

Description:

[25 pages]
Committee:

House Urban Needs, House Joint, 66th R.S. (1979)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Crime prevention | Energy policy | Health care providers | Mental health services | Municipal budgets | Municipalities | Population growth | Social service agencies | Transportation | Transportation planning | Workforce |

Library Call Number:

L1836.66 ur1n

Description:

[154 pages File size: 6,492 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate developments in Texas in the next decade and corresponding needs which the Legislature could address.
2. Investigate developments in Texas for the rest of the 20th century, including: the needs of Texas cities; energy needs; human services; transportation; the effect of growth on labor availability; and crime prevention. *
3. Consider the effects of population growth on the demand for government services, and review possible sources of additional revenue. *
4. Study the economics of Texas' cities, including such issues as revenue projections, expenditure levels, grants, etc.
5. Study Texas' energy needs for industrial, commercial and residential purposes.
6. Study the need for expanded human resources, such as mental and physical heath services, social service availability and related issues. Forecast future needs.
7. Study the future of transportation in urban areas.
8. Determine crime prevention needs in terms of law enforcement, neighborhood efforts and other related matters.
9. Study industrial and commercial growth and its effect on labor availability.
Committee:

House Agriculture and Livestock, 65th R.S. (1977)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Agriculture | Alternative energy | Aquaculture | Eminent domain | Energy policy | Grain elevators and warehouses | International trade | Livestock | Property rights |

Library Call Number:

L1836.65 ag83

Description:

[65 pages File size: 2,161 kb]

Charges:
1. A study of the systems and techniques used by grain storage elevators with particular emphasis on safety techniques currently proposed or in operation to prevent explosions and related disasters.
2. Review the procedures involved in the importation and exportation of livestock. *
3. A study of the power of eminent domain as it relates to land use for agricultural purposes.
4. A study and evaluation of alternate sources of energy for agricultural use and production.
5. A comprehensive evaluation of the current and projected problem areas encountered in developing both a healthy economic climate conducive to commercial mariculture and a viable market for the products of such ventures. The scope of the study shall include, but not be limited to, the problems of issuance of permits, taxation, economics of operations, market development, and the underutilization of current resources.
Committee:

House Energy Resources, 65th R.S. (1977)

Title:

Committee Report

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1801.9 EN27 65

Description:

[25 pages]
Committee:

House State Energy Plan, House Joint, 65th R.S. (1977)

Title:

Interim Report - Volume 2

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Alternative energy | Coal mining | Energy conservation | Energy policy | Natural gas | Oil production |

Library Call Number:

L1836.65 en27 2

Description:

[279 pages File size: 9,875 kb]

Charges:
1. A study of the energy situation of the state, both present and long-term, designed to result in recommendations for legislation and regulations to implement a State Energy Plan for Texas. This study should include surveys of all the energy resources of the state and the fiscal implications of state and federal action and proposals.
Committee:

House State Energy Plan, House Joint, 65th R.S. (1977)

Title:

Interim Report - Volume 1

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Alternative energy | Coal mining | Energy conservation | Energy policy | Natural gas | Oil production |

Library Call Number:

L1836.65 en27 1

Description:

[86 pages File size: 4,096 kb]

Charges:
1. A study of the energy situation of the state, both present and long-term, designed to result in recommendations for legislation and regulations to implement a State Energy Plan for Texas. This study should include surveys of all the energy resources of the state and the fiscal implications of state and federal action and proposals.
Committee:

House State Energy Plan, House Joint, 65th R.S. (1977)

Title:

Joint committee studies.

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

LRL

Description:

[7 pages]
Committee:

House Energy Crisis, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Energy conservation | Energy policy | Natural gas industry | Nuclear power plants | Oil industry |

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 en27r 1975

Description:

[75 pages File size: 4,366 kb]

Charges:
1. Begin immediately a thorough study of the energy crisis and seek possible solutions to this most serious problem.
2. Look into, study and report on the following: (1) The effect and importance of the unitization bill that passed the house this session; (2) The curtailment of gas supplied by Coastal States to Texas cities and industrial users and the regulatory powers of the Texas Railroad Commission regarding establishment of priorities; (3) The effect of fuel rationing on our agricultural economy and the establishment of agricultural users as a high priority; and (4) The development and use of nuclear power as an energy and fuel alternative.
Committee:

House Energy Crisis, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Committee documentation

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 EN27P

Description:

[1 pages]
Committee:

House Energy Crisis, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Energy trends and their future effects upon transportation

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 en27e

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

House Energy Crisis, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report, June and July of 1973

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

LRL

Description:

[3 pages]
Committee:

House Energy Crisis, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report, August and September of 1973

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

LRL

Description:

[3 pages]
Committee:

House Energy Crisis, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Energy shortages and the Texas economy

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 en27es

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

House Energy Crisis, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Potential geothermal resources in Texas

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 en27po

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

House Energy Crisis, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report, December 1973 and January 1974

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

LRL

Description:

[5 pages]
Committee:

House Energy Crisis, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Energy policies for Texas

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 en27l

Description:

[0 pages]
Committee:

House Natural Resources, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Energy conservation | Energy policy | Mining | Natural gas industry | Oil industry | Rural areas | Subsidence | Wastewater management | Water supplies |

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 n219

Description:

[26 pages File size: 833 kb]

Charges:
1. Hear testimony on the issue of unitization of oil and gas properties. Consider the advantages and disadvantages of allowing owners of large interests in an oil or gas reservoir should be allowed to compel smaller owners to merge interests and consolidate the operations of the reservoir. *
2. Review issues related to surface mining and land reclamation, land surface subsidence, water supplies, waste disposal, and water law. *
3. Undertake a study of the energy crisis in rural areas and make legislative recommendations *
Committee:

House Natural Resources, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Subcommittee Members

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1801.9 N218H 63

Description:

[1 pages]

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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