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5 Document(s) [ Subject: Flood plains ]
| Committee: | Senate Business and Commerce | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Electric utilities | Electric utility deregulation | Electric utility rates and charges | Emergency management | Flood insurance | Flood plains | Health insurance | Health insurance exchanges | Home equity lines of credit | Home equity loans | Hurricane Harvey | Mortgages | Natural disasters | Occupational licenses | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Privacy | Social media | Texas Constitution | Wills and estates | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.85 B963 | |
| Session: | 85th R.S. (2017) | |
| Online version: | View report [133 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study infrastructure security and energy restoration post weather events. Identify ways state government entities can help utilities more effectively stage pre-hurricane mobilization crews for managing resources before an event. | |
| 2. | Examine state mortgage requirements regarding the notification of homebuyers on their need for flood insurance in flood plains and flood pool areas and make recommendations on how to better inform consumers. | |
| 3. | Examine local government regulations, including occupational licenses, as related to Hurricane Harvey and determine if any are a detriment to rebuilding efforts. | |
| 4. | Examine and make recommendations on the need for changes to the Texas Constitution for home equity lenders to offer various forms of relief to Texas homeowners affected by natural disasters including, among others, the authority to enter into deferment agreements. This examination should include a study of home equity rules regarding negotiation, modification and refinancing and whether constitutionally established time periods can be waived in times of disasters. | |
| 5. | Free Market Electricity: Examine the competitive nature of the Texas retail electric system and what government competitive intrusions in the free energy markets may have in distorting those markets. Review the impact of competitive versus noncompetitive retail electricity markets across the state in terms of price and reliability. Consider the projected impact of establishing competitive electric retail markets statewide. | |
| 6. | Health Insurance Market Stability: Study the factors affecting health insurance markets in Texas, particularly the individual market, including federal and state law. Make recommendations that would result in increased stability in the markets and enhance value and affordability for individual consumers and businesses. Examine what steps the state needs to take to allow out-of-state health insurance sales. In developing its recommendations, the committee should consider the flexibility afforded to states by 1332 "state innovation" waivers, which allow states to modify or eliminate tax penalties associated with individual and employer coverage mandates; modify requirements for benefits and subsidies; and find alternative ways to provide benefit plan choices, determine eligibility for subsidies, and enroll consumers. | |
| 7. | Licensing and Fees: Review licensing requirements and fees imposed on entities within the committee's jurisdiction. Make recommendations for state licenses and fees that should be reduced, repealed or transitioned to private-sector enforcement. | |
| 8. | Social Media Access: Study access issues regarding digital assets of decedents. Study social media privacy laws and whether job applicants and students' privacy is jeopardized under current law. | |
| 9. | Examine the 2018 electric reliability forecasts announced by ERCOT and review how expected diminished reserve markets will impact the rates of residential and business consumers. Monitor current mechanisms available to ERCOT to ensure grid reliability, identify trends in the wholesale electric market, and make recommendations to maintain grid reliability moving forward. | |
| 10. | Monitoring Charge: Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce during the 85th R.S., including: • The implementation of legislation to deregulate occupational licensing; • The settlement of out-of-network health benefit claims involving balance billing and patient's explanation of benefits statements; and • Make recommendations regarding any additional legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/ or complete implementation. | |
| Committee: | Senate Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee on Flooding and Evacuations | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | The Senate Subcommittee on Flooding and Evacuations interim report : report to the 82nd Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | 911 emergency telephone service | Emergency disaster shelters | Emergency management | Evacuations | Flood plains | Flooding | Natural disasters | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.81 L786f | |
| Session: | 81st R.S. (2009) | |
| Online version: | View report [69 pages File size: 3,803 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the benefit of legislation that would require coastal regions, when making routine improvements to drainage systems and other infrastructure, to take into account probability of future flooding and any upgrades necessary to prevent future flooding. | |
| 2. | Study and make recommendations on methods of emergency notification during a natural disaster. Look into alternative systems and new technologies for rerouting 911 type calls to become more efficient and effective. Study and make recommendations to streamline the process of informing citizens impacted by an emergency or disaster prior to the event about re-entry and aid. | |
| 3. | Study and make recommendations relating to cost effective options to either retrofit or require new building structures to be built as shelters for use during future evacuations. | |
| 4. | Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Subcommittee on Flooding & Evacuations, 81 st Legislature, Regular and Called Sessions, and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation. | |
| Committee: | Senate Natural Resources | |
| Title: | Interim Report - Dam Safety | |
| Subjects: | Dams and levees | Flood plains | Flooding | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.80 N219d | |
| Session: | 80th R.S. (2007) | |
| Online version: | View report [134 pages] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Study the safety of major dams, levees, and other flood control structures across Texas, and determine the appropriate responsible agency [Texas Commissioner on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) or the Governor's Office of Homeland Security] and the level of authority and funding needed to inventory, assess, repair or replace those with impairments. Develop liability and control standards for flood control structures and make recommendations to properly and safely manage these assets in the future. | |
| Committee: | Senate Intergovernmental Relations | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 80th Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Affordable housing | Colonias | Counties | Flood plains | Grants | Homeowners' associations | Homeownership | Land use regulations | Municipal utility districts | Red light running | Special taxing districts | Special utility districts | Traffic cameras | Wine and wine industry | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.79 L786 | |
| Session: | 79th R.S. (2005) | |
| Online version: | View report [257 pages File size: 23,433 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study and make recommendations regarding the regulatory authority of counties in relation to development in unincorporated areas, including public safety and public health regulations, and the authority of counties to prevent new colonias development without sufficient water, wastewater, and other infrastructure. | |
| 2. | Study and make recommendations relating to the use of funds collected from red light camera citations. | |
| 3. | Study and make recommendations regarding the relationship between cities and special utility districts, including the formation of special utility districts in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of cities, and the ability of those districts to meet the future service needs of residents; the number of special utility districts currently existing and their effect on the overall property tax burden; as well as the significant growth/creation of special utility districts and their effect on the provision of services to residents. | |
| 4. | Study and make recommendations relating to counties' ability to apply for and receive state and federal grants. Focus on assessing the impact and use of grant funds, on streamlining the process, and upon the impact and options available for counties without incorporated cities and towns. | |
| 5. | Examine and make recommendations relating to the appropriateness and advisability of adopting the "Texas Uniform Planned Community Act," as published by the State Bar of Texas Subcommittee on Property Owners Associations, as the enabling statute to establish a comprehensive and uniform framework for the creation and operation of residential planned communities | |
| 6. | Study the implementation and impact of legislation passed by the 79th Legislature to increase the economic impact of the Texas Wine Industry on the state's economy and make recommendations, as appropriate. | |
| 7. | Study the status of floodplain mapping in Texas communities and the scope of local governments' floodplain development management authority and make recommendations, as necessary, to enable communities to provide accurate floodplain data and management plans that will facilitate more favorable insurance rates and better protect the lives and property of Texas residents in the event of a natural disaster. | |
| 8. | Study the home ownership rate for low-income Texans. Make recommendations for increasing home ownership. Analyze options for enhancing Low Income Housing Tax Credits and include costs and benefits to the state. | |
| Committee: | Joint Regional Flood Task Force | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 67th Legislature / Regional Flood Task Force. | |
| Subjects: | Flood plains | Flooding | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.66 f659 | |
| Session: | 66th R.S. (1979) | |
| Online version: | View report [11 pages File size: 452 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Study the persistent flooding and drainage problems in a five-county region of southeastern Texas and report to the Legislature its findings and recommendations. | |
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