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- Committee:
- House Elections, 76th R.S. (1999)
- Title:
- Interim Report
- Document type:
- Report
- Subjects:
- Campaign contributions | Campaign contributors | Campaign finance reform | Early voting | Elections | Persons with disabilities | Voter registration | Voters | Voting by mail |
- Library Call Number:
- L1836.76 el25he
- Description:
- [82 pages File size: 2,260 kb]
- Charges:
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- Review and assess all issues related to the financing of campaigns, including so-called "soft-money" and other funds whose source is unclear, the influence of out-of-state political action committees, and so-called "late-train" contributions.
- Examine the benefits of reducing the number and changing the dates of uniform elections.
- Examine the procedures for early voting by mail, including simplification of the application, deadlines, distribution of lists, and similar matters.
- Review Title 15, Election Code, to consider changes to make it easier to understand and follow.
- Consider methods to make voter registration rolls more accurate and easier to use.
- Assess the need for better accommodation of voters with visual impairments.
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- Committee:
- Senate State Affairs, 76th R.S. (1999)
- Title:
- Charge 9 RFRA and electronic filing
- Document type:
- Report
- Subjects:
- Campaign contributions | Campaign contributors | Freedom of religion | Religion | Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act |
- Library Call Number:
- L1836.76 st29a 9
- Description:
- [55 pages File size: 1,720 kb]
- Charges:
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- Monitor the implementation of the following bills enacted during the 76th R.S.: SB 138, 76th R.S., relating to government restrictions on the exercise of religion; and HB 2611, 76th R.S., relating to electronic reporting of certain political contributions and political expenditures.
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- Committee:
- House Elections, 75th R.S. (1997)
- Title:
- Interim report
- Document type:
- Report
- Subjects:
- Campaign contributions | Campaign contributors | Campaign finance reform | Early voting | Election fraud | Elections | Political advertising | Soft money | State officials' campaign contributions | Voter registration | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
- Library Call Number:
- L1836.75 el25he
- Description:
- [45 pages File size: 2,287 kb]
- Charges:
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- Determine the feasibility of gaining Texas' release from requirements to pre-clear all changes in state and local election law under the U.S. Voting Rights Act.
- Examine and evaluate the role of financial contributions in campaigns for election to state offices. Identify practices or trends that may be detrimental to the public interest and study ways to eliminate or reverse those trends. (Joint with House Committee on State Affairs)
- Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction, and monitor implementation of major elections-related legislation passed by the 75th Legislature.
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- Committee:
- House State Affairs, 75th R.S. (1997)
- Title:
- Interim report
- Document type:
- Report
- Subjects:
- Alternative energy | Biotechnology industry | Business taxes | Campaign contributions | Campaign contributors | Campaign finance reform | Cloning | Councils of government | Electric utility deregulation | Ethics | Genetic research and testing | Long distance telephone service | Privacy | Public Utility Commission of Texas | Public Utility Regulatory Act | Soft money | State agencies | State taxes | Telephone deregulation | Telephone service | Vehicles |
- Library Call Number:
- L1836.75 st29h
- Description:
- [119 pages File size: 6,856 kb]
- Charges:
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- Examine and evaluate the role of financial contributions in campaigns for election to state offices. Identify practices or trends that may be detrimental to the public good and study ways to eliminate or reverse those trends. (Joint with the House Committee on Elections)
- Study the threats to personal privacy due to technological advances in the capacity to store data and the increasing use of electronic transaction in government, business, and everyday life. Examine the uses made of such information by governments and commercial enterprises, and the potential for abuse. Assess legislative options.
- Review conditions in the telecommunications industry. Examine changes that have occurred since the passage of HB 2128, 74th R.S., and compare current conditions to expectations at the time of passage. Assess the need for revisions to keep the transition to competition on track.
- Inventory the kinds of public-private arrangements that currently exist in Texas government, and examine any new ethical or accountability issues that arise when the state relies on private entities in non-traditional ways.
- Study the legal, social, and economic issues likely to arise because of developments in the fields of genetics and bioethics. Such issues may include those related to altered foodstuffs, cloning, reproduction, eugenics, and genetic testing.
- Examine whether Regional Planning Commissions (COG's) have fulfilled the purposes for which they were established originally, and whether their functions or enabling legislation requires change.
- Examine the feasibility of combining agency automobile fleets into a pooled fleet that could be centrally administered to obtain efficiencies of operation.
- Assess the state and local tax impacts of possible changes in the structure of the electric power industry.
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- Committee:
- House State Affairs, 71st R.S. (1989)
- Title:
- Interim report
- Document type:
- Report
- Subjects:
- Bribery | Campaign contributors | Conflicts of interest | Ethics | Financial disclosures | Lobbyists | Public Utility Commission of Texas |
- Library Call Number:
- L1836.71 st29
- Description:
- [71 pages File size: 2,032 kb]
- Charges:
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- To monitor all activities and to have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 32.
- To study the organization and management of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (coordinate with Governor's Task Force on PUC).
- To study financial disclosure laws, including benefits for public officials and Chapter 305 of the Government Code.
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- Committee:
- House Heads of State Departments, Investigate, 27th R.S. (1901)
- Title:
- Majority Report
- Document type:
- Report
- Subjects:
- Campaign contributors | Comptroller of Public Accounts campaigns and elections | State employees |
- Library Call Number:
- H.J. of Tex., 27th Leg., 2nd C.S. 50 (1901)
- Description:
- [3 pages File size: 106 kb]
- Charges:
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- Investigate whether any State departments have demanded that clerks contribute ten percent of their salaries to the heads of the department and report to the House the findings and recommendations.
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- Committee:
- House Heads of State Departments, Investigate, 27th R.S. (1901)
- Title:
- Minority Report
- Document type:
- Report
- Subjects:
- Campaign contributors | Comptroller of Public Accounts campaigns and elections | State employees |
- Library Call Number:
- H.J. of Tex., 27th Leg., 2nd C.S. 51 (1901)
- Description:
- [4 pages File size: 146 kb]
- Charges:
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- Investigate whether any State departments have demanded that clerks contribute ten percent of their salaries to the heads of the department and report to the House the findings and recommendations.
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- Committee:
- House Heads of State Departments, Investigate, 27th R.S. (1901)
- Title:
- Minutes
- Document type:
- Supporting document
- Library Call Number:
- H.J. of Tex., 27th Leg., 2nd C.S. 57 (1901)
- Description:
- [25 pages File size: 1,584 kb]
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