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5 Document(s) [ Subject: Sexually oriented businesses ]
| Committee: | Senate State Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Abortion | Biometric identification | Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act | Employees Retirement System of Texas | Human trafficking | Investment of public funds | Licensing and Regulation, Texas Department of | Privacy | Public retirement systems | Sexually oriented businesses | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.87 St29a | |
| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [36 pages File size: 779 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Protecting the Unborn: Monitor the impact of SB 8, 87th R.S., The Texas Heartbeat Act, and the expanded funding for alternatives to abortion programs passed by the 87th Legislature. Study alternatives to abortion programs' effectiveness in meeting the needs of pregnant and post-partum women and recommend how the Legislature should strengthen the program. Recommend ways to provide additional alternatives to abortion and comprehensive informed consent resources to mothers who are expecting. | |
| 2. | Human Trafficking: Examine opportunities and make recommendations to reduce the profitability of and demand for human trafficking in Texas. Determine ways to increase public awareness of the proliferation of human trafficking, as well as resources for victims and survivors. Monitor the implementation of HB 1540, 87th R.S., and examine changes in arrest rates, judicial dispositions, and sentencing amongst offenders due to provisions of the legislation. Examine opportunities for attorneys to combat human trafficking in their local communities, including use of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, to generate revenue for local law enforcement officials combatting human trafficking. Make any other recommendations to further prevent human trafficking. | |
| 3. | Privacy and Transparency: Review the current state laws that protect and secure individuals' biometric identifiers. Explore ways to protect against the use of biometric identifiers for unintended purposes without an individual's consent and make recommendations to the Senate. Study websites that closely resemble government websites or fraudulently represent companies that they are not, including websites that use names of state agencies or licenses. Make recommendations to ensure that Texans' are not mislead, taken advantage, or defrauded, especially when they try to seek assistance from a state website. | |
| 4. | Investment Practices: Study the investment practices of financial services firms and how those practices affect the state’s public pensions. Make recommendations to ensure the state’s public pension funds are not being invested to further political or social causes. | |
| Committee: | Senate Motion Picture Theater Industry | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Motion Pictures : report of the Senate Interim Committee to the 62nd Legislature of the State of Texas. | |
| Subjects: | Film industry | Sexually oriented businesses | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 m857 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View report [0 pages] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Study the motion picture theater industry in Texas with respect to the display of prurient or obscene moving pictures, looking toward the feasibility of prohibiting the showing of these pictures in the State of Texas; and, in addition thereto study the taxing of said movies as a revenue measure. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Senate Motion Picture Theater Industry | |
| Title: | Transcript, April 24, 1970, Tyler | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 M857M 4-24-70 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View document [79 pages File size: 36,701 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate Motion Picture Theater Industry | |
| Title: | Transcript, October 22, 1970, Houston | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 M857M 10/22/70 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View document [61 pages File size: 35,223 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate Motion Picture Theater Industry | |
| Title: | Transcript, October 27, 1970, Amarillo | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 M857M 10/27/70 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View document [65 pages File size: 31,583 kb] | |
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