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11 Document(s) [ Subject: Teacher%20retirement ]
| Committee: | House Higher Education | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Financial investments | Foreign investments | Higher education | Higher education affordability | Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas | Hinson-Hazlewood College Student Loan Program | Investment of public funds | Job training programs | Permanent University Fund | Russia | School discipline | Student aid | Teacher retention | Teacher retirement | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | Teacher shortages | Teacher training | University finance | Veterans | Workforce | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.88 Ed84hh | |
| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [98 pages File size: 10,030 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 87th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
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| 2. | Review progress toward the goals of the 60x30TX plan, including institutional strategies for responding to changing workforce needs and demands, including workforce education, industry certification, and degree programs to address healthcare shortages. | |
| 3. | Examine factors that have contributed to the rising costs of higher education, including the effect of statutory tuition and fee waivers and exemptions, the cost of compliance with state and federal mandates, and the increase in the number of non-faculty staff. Make recommendations for controlling these costs and ensuring a sound fiscal approach to managing college affordability for the future. | |
| 4. | Evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the state’s teacher workforce and current practices to improve the recruitment, preparation, and retention of high-quality educators. Explore the impact of the educator preparation program regulatory environment. Make recommendations to improve educator recruitment, retention, and preparation throughout the state. (Joint Charge with Committee on Public Education) | |
| 5. | Review the impact of investments of endowment and other trust funds, including the Permanent University Fund, by university systems and institutions of higher education in businesses and funds owned or controlled by the Russian government or Russian nationals, and determine the need for investment restrictions. Consider the impact of any proposed investment restrictions on fund performance. | |
| Committee: | House Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Bonds | County government | Employees Retirement System of Texas | Foreign investments | Pension Review Board, Texas | Public retirement systems | Russia | Tax evasion | Teacher retirement | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | | |
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| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [44 pages File size: 1,440 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee's jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 87th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
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| 2. | Review and evaluate the actuarial soundness of the Employees Retirement System (ERS) and Teacher Retirement System (TRS) pension funds. | |
| 3. | Review the Texas Local Fire Fighters Retirement Act to ensure proper governance and financial oversight. Examine whether the Pension Review Board has proper oversight and authority to implement necessary corrective measures. | |
| 4. | Evaluate the actuarial soundness of the Law Enforcement and Custodial Officer Supplemental Retirement Fund and Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan 2. Identify strategies to reduce and eliminate existing unfunded liabilities and recommend structural enhancements that improve the financial health and viability of the funds moving forward. | |
| 5. | Review the impact of investments by public retirement systems of their endowment and other trust funds in businesses and funds owned or controlled by the Russian government or Russian nationals, and determine the need for investment restrictions. Consider the impact of any proposed investment restrictions on fund performance. | |
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| Committee: | House Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, June 6, 2022 | |
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| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View document [64 pages File size: 7,128 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, August 16, 2022 | |
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| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View document [66 pages File size: 1,886 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Public Education | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Border education | Border issues | Career preparedness | Children's mental health | Coronavirus | Educational accountability | Educational tests | Federal funds | Parent-school relationships | Public schools | School finance | Sex education | Special education | State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness | Teacher retention | Teacher retirement | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | Teacher salaries | Teacher shortages | Teacher training | Undocumented immigrant students | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.87 Ed84h | |
| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [118 pages File size: 5,785 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Examine the impact, including any financial impact, to the Texas public school system of an increase in the number of children crossing the Texas-Mexico border. Review the history, any applicable precedents, and the legal landscape regarding the education of migrant children in Texas’s public schools. | |
| 2. | Review the ongoing development of federal laws, rules, and regulations associated with the distribution of the federal pandemic recovery funds, including reporting requirements, and make recommendations to the House Committee on Appropriations for use of the funds to respond to the Texas-Mexico border crisis. | |
| 3. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 87th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
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| 4. | Complete study of assigned charges related to the Texas-Mexico border issued in June 2021. | |
| 5. | Identify and examine efforts to ensure that parents have a meaningful role in their children’s education. Recommend necessary changes in both independent school district board and open- enrollment charter governing board governance to protect the right of parents to participate in their child’s education. | |
| 6. | Examine partnerships between K-12, higher education institutions, and employers that promote postsecondary and career readiness and identify current obstacles that public schools, higher education institutions, and employers face. Make recommendations to ensure career and technical education programs, internships, apprenticeships, and other opportunities are more accessible. | |
| 7. | Evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the state’s teacher workforce, and current practices to improve the recruitment, preparation, and retention of high-quality educators. Explore the impact of the educator preparation program regulatory environment. Make recommendations to improve educator recruitment, retention, and preparation throughout the state. (Joint charge with Committee on Higher Education) | |
| 8. | Study the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 learning loss and best practices that exist to address learning loss. Monitor the implementation of state and local plans to address students' achievement gaps. Make recommendations for supporting the state and local efforts to increase academic development. | |
| 9. | Examine the impact of COVID-19 on students' mental health, including the availability and workload of mental health professionals across the state and their role in the public school system. Make recommendations to reduce or eliminate existing barriers to providing mental health services in a traditional classroom setting or through teletherapy. | |
| 10. | Study the unfulfilled recommendations from the 2016 Commission on Next Generation Assessments and Accountability. Evaluate the state’s progress on assessments and accountability and consider possible legislation to support the recommendations from the report. Study and recommend measures needed at the state level to prevent unintended consequences to students, campuses, and districts, including changes that could improve the system for students or help public schools serving a disproportionate number of educationally disadvantaged students impacted by the pandemic. | |
| Committee: | Joint TRS Health Benefit Plans | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Teacher health insurance | Teacher retirement | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.84 T22 | |
| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View report [200 pages] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Review the health benefit plans administered by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas and propose reforms to address the financial soundness of the plans, cost and affordability of plan coverage, and sufficiency of access to physicians and health care providers. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Joint TRS Health Benefit Plans | |
| Title: | Committee Rules | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.84 T22M | |
| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View document [2 pages File size: 110 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2010 : a report to the House of Representatives, 82nd Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Consumer credit and debt | Economic development | Public retirement systems | School administration | Teacher retirement | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.81 P387 | |
| Session: | 81st R.S. (2009) | |
| Online version: | View report [37 pages File size: 868 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the impact of the debt relief industry, including debt management and debt settlement organizations, and the implications of regulating that industry. | |
| 2. | Examine Texas school districts' administration of their employees' optional retirement investments. | |
| 3. | Review and study the overall history, goals, and performances of the state's economic development program, Certified Capital Company. Identify and recommend changes as necessary. | |
| 4. | Examine the performance and accountability of the Texas public pension funds and make recommendations as needed. | |
| 5. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | House Return-to-Work, House Joint | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Joint House Committee on Return-to-Work, House Appropriations Subcommittee, House Committee on Pensions and Investments, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Public retirement systems | Retire/Rehire | State employees | Teacher retirement | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.77 r314 | |
| Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
| Online version: | View report [23 pages File size: 907 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | The Joint House Committee on "Return-to-Work" will examine the cost impacts on the state budget and the pension funds of allowing state and certain school district employees to "return-to-work" while receiving retirement benefits. The committee will consider policy issues raised by such action, including differences in current law between state employees and teachers. Specifically consider the practice of "retiring-in-place." | |
| Committee: | House Pensions and Investments | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Committee on Pensions and Investments, Texas House of Representatives, interim report, 1996 : a report to the House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Career and technical education | Employees Retirement System of Texas | Public retirement systems | Teacher health insurance | Teacher retirement | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | University faculty | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.74 p387 | |
| Session: | 74th R.S. (1995) | |
| Online version: | View report [32 pages File size: 1,323 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the Optional Retirement Program for certain personnel in higher education. | |
| 2. | Assess the advantages and disadvantages of allowing vocational education teachers to receive limited service credit in the Teacher Retirement System for vocational work experience. | |
| 3. | Monitor the implementation and assess the effectiveness of the health insurance program for active members of the Teacher Retirement System as mandated by SB 9, 74th R.S.. | |
| Committee: | House Public Education | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 68th Legislature : report / of the Committee on Public Education, Texas House of Representatives, 67th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Education Service Centers | Educational tests | Low-income students | Migrant labor | Public schools | State agency budgets | State agency performance measures | Teacher retirement | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | Teachers | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.67 ed83p | |
| Session: | 67th R.S. (1981) | |
| Online version: | View report [102 pages File size: 2,903 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Examine the mutual responsibility of provisions of enforcement of employment contracts in public schools. | |
| 2. | Investigate and determine the need for current federal regulations relating to the testing of migrant students in Texas. Specifically address the question of whether federal dollars are being used to promote the principal goal and objective of teaching rather than testing. | |
| 3. | Oversight functions shall be conducted for all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned to this committee 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: State Board of Education Central Education Agency School for the Blind School for the Deaf Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education | |
| 4. | Study the effect of unified reporting formats and governance structure in regards to Regional Education Service Centers. | |
| 5. | Study the use of state funds for retirement contributions for the salary of public employees who are paid from other than with state funds. | |
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