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Committee:	House Business and Industry
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Child care | Coronavirus | Correctional officers | Electronic security | Emergency medical services | Firefighters | Homeowners' associations | Peace officers | Privacy | Retail industry | Theft | Unemployment | Unemployment benefits | Workers' compensation | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.87 B964
Session:	87th R.S. (2021)
Online version:	View report [88 pages  File size: 4,132 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: HB 3746, 87th R.S., relating to certain notifications required following a breach of security or computerized data; SB 22, 87th R.S., relating to certain claims for benefits, compensation, or assistance by certain public safety employees and survivors of certain public safety employees; and SB 1588, 87th R.S., and SB 581, 87th R.S., relating to the powers and duties of certain property owners’ associations.
2.	Study workers’ compensation claims involving public safety employees described by SB 22, 87th R.S. This study should include an analysis of medical costs, return-to-work outcomes, utilization of care, satisfaction with care, and health-related functional outcomes.
3.	Study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment trends, hurdles to workforce reentry, and industry-specific disruptions.
4.	Study the impact of organized retail crime on Texas businesses. Make recommendations for addressing the redistribution of stolen merchandise into the supply chain, including through online marketplaces, to protect Texas businesses and consumers. Make recommendations relating to transparency for online marketplaces and information that should be provided by sellers.
5.	Review operational changes and strategies employed by the Texas Workforce Commission to improve outcomes related to Unemployment Benefit Services, including application and payment processes, customer services, and fraud deterrence.
6.	Evaluate the overall state of data privacy and online consumer protections in Texas and study the related laws and legislative efforts of other states. Make recommendations to ensure consumer data protections and online privacy.
Committee:	House Agriculture and Livestock
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Agriculture | Agriculture, Texas Department of | Brush control | Drug testing | Firefighters | Forest Service, Texas A&M | Horse racing | Horses | Hunger | Racing Commission, Texas | Rural Affairs, Texas Department of | Urban areas | Veterinarians | Water conservation | Wildfires |
Library Call Number:	L1836.82 Ag86
Session:	82nd R.S. (2011)
Online version:	View report [56 pages]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Evaluate the role of community gardens and urban farming efforts that increase access to healthy foods and examine the possible impact that state and local policies have on the success of programs of this type. Determine the feasibility of policies to support these efforts, especially in high-population areas. (Joint with the House Committee on Urban Affairs)
2.	Study the wildfire response performed by the Texas Forest Service and cooperating state agencies. Examine specifically how state laws and regulations could be enhanced to improve response effectiveness across the state. Study both the available causes of wildfires and mitigation and make recommendations as needed.
3.	Study the adequacy of access to veterinarian care in rural areas of the state. Determine the impact that a lack of access may have on the agriculture business in Texas.
4.	Examine the current enforcement system for performance-enhancing drug testing show horses, performance horses, and race horses in Texas. Specifically, review currently prohibited drugs and quantities to determine if any changes should be made to existing law. Compare the state's current regulations to other systems around the country and make specific recommendations on how the state's system could be improved.
5.	Study the viability of cedar eradication as a means to enhance resource conservation.
6.	Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 82nd Legislature. Specifically, monitor the consolidation of the Texas Department of Rural Affairs into the Texas Department of Agriculture's Rural Economic Division, ensuring that rural communities are not negatively affected by the consolidation.
Committee:	Senate State Affairs
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Consumer credit and debt | Eminent domain | Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 | Employees Retirement System of Texas | Federal government | Firefighters | Forest Service, Texas A&M | Health insurance | Health insurance exchanges | Liability | Medicaid | Military personnel | Municipalities | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Peace officers | Primary elections | Property rights | Public retirement systems | Public Safety, Texas Department of | State employee benefits | State employee turnover | States' rights | Statutes of limitation | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | Voting by mail | Voting systems | Wildfires | Workers' compensation | Zoning |
Library Call Number:	L1836.82 St29a
Session:	82nd R.S. (2011)
Online version:	View report [177 pages]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the policies and actions the State can pursue to preserve state authority and protect Texas citizens from federal overreach in the form of conditional federal grants, conditional federal preemption, and excessive legislation and regulation interfering with states' enumerated powers by Congress.
2.	Examine the Texas Workers' Compensation system and make recommendations for changes to meet the needs of Texas employers and employees. Specifically, review the following: the dispute resolution process and benefits available from employers that do not subscribe to workers compensation; the adequacy of income benefits in the workers’ compensation system, specifically on high?wage earners receiving the maximum compensation rate; identify and report on fatalities in the Workers’ Compensation System, including the amount of death and burial benefits paid to beneficiaries and the Subsequent Injury Fund since 2000; the return-­to-­work numbers and results for injured employees in the Workers’ Compensation System that are referred to the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services.
3.	Study the feasibility and fiscal impact to consumers of altering the insurance code to allow for the purchase of health insurance across state lines.
4.	Monitor the potential impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on insurance regulations, Medicaid and CHIP, health care outcomes and overall health of all Texans, and the state budget in Texas. Additionally, monitor the current constitutional challenges to PPACA and other court cases associated with PPACA, and ensure that the state does not expend any resources until judicial direction is clear. (Joint charge with Senate Health & Human Services Committee)
5.	Study and make recommendations on statutory provisions and judicial decisions relating to the statute of limitations on a cause of action relating to consumer debt.
6.	Examine establishing a workforce retention program or deferred retirement option plan (DROP) for Texas Department of Public Safety commissioned peace officers and whether any plan can be built with actuarially sustainable factors while meeting the needs of officers.
7.	Examine the feasibility of implementing Health Reimbursement Accounts and Medicare exchanges for Medicare eligible participants currently covered by and receiving health coverage through the Employees Retirement System, the Teachers Retirement System, the University of Texas, and Texas A&M University. Identify any cost savings to the state and to retirees that would occur under such a plan.
8.	Consider the costs and benefits of the creation of liability protection for private companies and individuals when commissioned by the Texas Forest Service to assist in fighting a fire that is not on the company's or individual's own land. Examine whether state policy should prohibit an employer from terminating an employee who is a volunteer firefighter on the grounds that the employee missed work because the employee was responding to an emergency. Identify any appropriate limitations that should apply to such a policy.
9.	Examine the effectiveness of the Private Real Property Rights Preservation Act (Chapter 2007, Government Code), and whether it should apply to municipalities.
10.	Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on State Affairs, 82nd Legislature, Regular and Called Sessions, and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation. Specifically, monitor the following: implementation of SB 100, relating to the implementation of the MOVE Act, and the impact on local and statewide elections and military voters; implementation of the Interstate Health Care Compact.
Committee:	House Urban Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Urban Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2000 : a report to the House of Representatives, 77th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Affordable housing | Building codes | Firefighters | Housing and Community Affairs, Texas Department of | Manufactured housing | Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation | Volunteer workers |
Library Call Number:	L1836.76 ur1
Session:	76th R.S. (1999)
Online version:	View report [166 pages  File size: 7,699 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the needs of volunteer fire departments, and evaluate their capacity to fulfill their mission of protecting the public.
2.	Review the data used by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs to make decisions affecting affordable housing. Determine the adequacy of the data as it relates to the scope, timeliness, and accuracy of information.
3.	Assess the advantages and disadvantages of manufactured housing as one means to alleviate affordable housing deficits.
4.	Conduct active oversight of the agencies under the committee's jurisdiction.
Committee:	House Urban Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Committee on Urban Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1996 : a report to the House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Firefighters | Municipalities |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 ur1
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [14 pages  File size: 303 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction.
2.	Review hiring, promotion and other personnel policies of urban fire departments. Assess the extent to which the policies promote effectiveness and serve the public interest.
3.	Review legislation used to validate interim actions of municipalities; recommend language to accomplish the legitimate purpose of the cities and otherwise protect the public interest.
Committee:	House Retirement and Aging
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 70th Texas Legislature / Texas House of Representatives, Committee on Retirement & Aging.
Subjects:	Firefighters | Nursing homes | Occupational licenses | Public retirement systems | Quality of care |
Library Call Number:	L1836.69 r314
Session:	69th R.S. (1985)
Online version:	View report [37 pages  File size: 1,133 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To study the education or training requirements of nursing home aides and the need for licensing of same, and to review nursing home complaints, complaint procedures, and state inspection report results to insure swifter action in correcting bad situations.
2.	To study the present financing arrangements for the Law Enforcement and Custodial Officer Supplemental Retirement Fund and determine the need to provide a fully funded system on a long term basis, and to study the legislative history of volunteer fire department retirement programs and assess the condition of the participating and non-participating plans.
Committee:	House Urban Affairs
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the Committee on Urban Affairs, Texas House of Representatives, 69th Legislature : to the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 70th Legislature.
Subjects:	Affordable housing | Firefighters | Housing Agency, Texas | Municipal government | Municipalities | Police officers | Statutory revision |
Library Call Number:	L1836.69 ur1
Session:	69th R.S. (1985)
Online version:	View report [27 pages  File size: 802 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To study firemen's and policemen's civil service in cities.
2.	To review the legislation and mission of the Texas Housing Agency and determine if appropriate housing projects are being approved to meet the needs of low-income Texans.
3.	To study methods to encourage greater efficiency in the management of general-law cities.
Committee:	House Insurance
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report of the Insurance Committee, Texas House of Representatives, 68th Legislature.
Subjects:	Automobile insurance | Consumer protection | Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act | Fire prevention | Firefighters | Health insurance | Insurance industry | Insurance rates | Property insurance | Rural issues | State buildings | State mandates | Texas Catastrophic Property Insurance Association | Tropical storms |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 in7
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [255 pages  File size: 7,620 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To monitor all activities and have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 16.
2.	To monitor the study being conducted by the State Board of insurance pursuant to HCR 213, 68th R.S., relating to the advantages and disadvantages of the various forms of property/casualty rate making and policy form implementation.
3.	To study mandated coverages in the health insurance field and recommend a coherent policy of state mandated coverages. Examine effects of mandated coverages on rates and premiums as well as the impact of utilization and adverse selection when coverages are mandated.
4.	To study advantages and disadvantages of alternative methods of marketing and underwriting uninsured and underinsured motorists coverage currently found in other states and their possible application in Texas, including proposals by which underinsured motorists coverage could be offered without the requirement that benefits be reduced by the amount of the other party's liability coverage.
5.	To study the fire record credit system as it currently affects the costs of every fire and commercial multiperil insurance policy in this state; to determine whether the provision of debits or credits based on fire loss experience has had its desired effect of enhancing fire prevention and protection; and to determine whether these desired goals could be achieved in a more equitable or less administratively burdensome manner.
6.	To conduct a study to determine if current Texas law regulating unfair and deceptive trade practices in the business of insurance achieves its desired goals of enhancing consumer protection and full disclosure of insurance information without unfairly punishing persons involved in the business of insurance for innocent acts, and to conduct a survey of other state laws to ascertain the advantages and disadvantages of other states' attempts to provide fair and effective consumer protection in the business of insurance.
7.	To study advantages and disadvantages of support for volunteer fire departments through a surcharge on insurance premiums in rural areas.
8.	To study advantages and disadvantages of a state self-insurance program to provide funds to replace state property and buildings in case of fire or other disasters.
9.	To study the impact of Hurricane Alicia on the insurance industry in Texas. Consider the issues of solvency, prices, and availability of windstorm insurance in the storm area. Also study the effectiveness of operation of the Texas Catastrophe Property Insurance Association.
Committee:	House Urban Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	To the Speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 69th Legislature ; report of / the Committee on Urban Affairs, Texas House of Representatives, 68th Legislature.
Subjects:	Crime prevention | Criminal justice | Emergency medical services | Extraterritorial jurisdiction | Fines | Firefighters | Flooding | Indigent health care | Municipal annexation | Municipalities | Municipally-owned utilities | Real estate development |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 ur1
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [56 pages  File size: 1,640 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To conduct a study on urban flooding.
2.	To study payments by municipally-owned utilities in lieu of taxes.
3.	To examine minimum staffing requirements for fire protection and emergency medical service in cities.
4.	In cooperation with the Committee on County Affairs and the House-Senate Joint Committee of Indigent Health Care, study the payment of medical care provided to indigents at publicly-funded hospitals.
5.	To investigate whether Texas cities and those residing within the cities' extraterritorial jurisdiction are being adequately and fairly treated by present annexation laws.
6.	To study the possibility of empowering judges optionally to direct small percentages of fines to fund programs such as Crime Stoppers and TIPS, currently funded by voluntary contributions.
Committee:	House Intergovernmental Affairs
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 68th Legislature : report of the / Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, Texas House of Representatives, 67th Legislature.
Subjects:	Border economy | County budgets | County government | Federal government | Firefighters | International trade | Maquiladoras | Police officers | State employees | State Property Tax Board | Tax Assessor Examiners, Board of |
Library Call Number:	L1836.67 in8
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View report [107 pages  File size: 2,913 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Oversight functions shall be conducted for all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned to this committee for appropriative purposes 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: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Tax Assessor Examiners State Property Tax Board
2.	Examine the concepts and practices of the "twin cities" programs along the border with Mexico to determine the benefit and impact of such programs.
3.	Examine the creation and operation of foreign trade zones, their functions, and their effects upon the community. Determine whether their roles should be expanded, and if so, in what manner.
4.	Determine the role the state should seek in the "new" systems of Intergovernmental Relations with concentration on block grants, pass throughs, the decline of federal influence and money, and impacts upon local governments.
5.	Investigate the current status of civil service in Texas and its impact on public employees.
6.	Study the role of county government, its importance, and its financial problems; consider a possible recodification of state laws relating to counties.
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
Title:	Interim Report - Fire prevention, safety and control
Library Catalog Title:	Final staff recommendations, Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs : fire prevention, safety and control in Texas.
Subjects:	Fire prevention | Firefighters | State Fire Marshal's Office |
Library Call Number:	L1836.66 c765rf
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View report [43 pages  File size: 1,520 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study alternatives to Articles 1.09A, 5.43 and 5.44 of the Texas Insurance Code; the study shall include but not be limited to a consideration of the complex problems resulting from the attempt to provide for fire prevention, safety and control in the absence of any adopted minimal standards for guidance and the desirability of a state fire education program.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
Title:	SR 663
Library Call Number:	SR 663
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View document [3 pages  File size: 1,188 kb]
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs
Title:	Press Releases
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1836.66 C765PR
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View document [155 pages]
Committee:	Joint Fire Protection of State Buildings
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	[Report].
Subjects:	Austin, Texas | Fire fighting equipment | Fire prevention | Firefighters | Historical records | Texas State Capitol |
Library Call Number:	S.J. of Tex., 12th Leg., Adj. 212 (1871)
Session:	12th Adjourned (1871)
Online version:	View report [2 pages  File size: 62,689 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Adopt measures for protection of public state buildings, archives, records, etc. against fire. *

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

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