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Committee:	House Culture, Recreation, and Tourism
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Animal diseases | Commercial fishing | Commission on the Arts, Texas | County courthouses | Economic development | Economic development incentives | Endangered species | Film Commission, Texas | Film industry | Fisheries | Fishing licenses | Heritage tourism | Historic preservation | Historical Commission, Texas | Outdoor recreation | Oysters | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | State parks | Swine | Texas Heritage Trails Program | Texas Main Street Program | Texas Music Office | Tourism | Video games |
Library Call Number:	L1836.83 R245
Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View report [66 pages]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Develop a long-term plan to incorporate land that has been donated or sold to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department into our state park system.
2.	Evaluate the Texas Film Commission and the Texas Music Office to determine their effectiveness in economic development in Texas. Determine how the offices can better collaborate with local economic development entities and state agencies to further the economic development goals of the state.
3.	Examine the viability of including the commercial oyster industry in the Commercial Fishing License Buyback Program at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
4.	Examine current statutes and rules to determine any necessary enhancements that can assist in the eradication of feral hogs by using practical solutions and effective eradication techniques. (Joint charge with the House Committee on Agriculture and Livestock)
5.	Monitor the implementation of HB 3279, 83rd R.S. regarding the protection of seagrass plants.
6.	Examine the economic impact of cultural, recreational, or tourism grants provided by the state, including any economic development grants related to cultural, recreational, or tourism industries, heritage tourism, courthouse restoration, and historic district revitalization.
7.	Conduct legislative oversight and monitoring of the agencies and programs under the committee’s jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 83rd Legislature. In conducting this oversight, the committee should: a. consider any reforms to state agencies to make them more responsive to Texas taxpayers and citizens; b. identify issues regarding the agency or its governance that may be appropriate to investigate, improve, remedy, or eliminate; c. determine whether an agency is operating in a transparent and efficient manner; and d. identify opportunities to streamline programs and services while maintaining the mission of the agency and its programs.
Committee:	House Culture, Recreation, and Tourism
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Alamo | Aquatic vegetation | Battleship Texas | Chronic Wasting disease | Commission on the Arts, Texas | Daughters of the Republic of Texas | Deer | Droughts | Endangered species | Film Commission, Texas | Fisheries | General Land Office, Texas | Historical Commission, Texas | Invasive species | Library & Archives Commission, Texas State | License plates | Office of Economic Development and Tourism | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Sporting goods sales taxes | State parks | State Preservation Board | Texas State Cemetery | Tourism | Wildfires | Wildlife |
Library Call Number:	L1836.82 R245
Session:	82nd R.S. (2011)
Online version:	View report [103 pages]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Evaluate strategies to control known existing invasive aquatic species, including species commonly referred to as giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta), water hyacinths (family Pontederiaceae), and zebra mussels (family Dreissenidae).
2.	Study and make recommendations for improving deer breeder compliance with existing laws and regulations.
3.	Recommend approaches to improve long-term funding for state park acquisition, development, and maintenance.
4.	Study the effects the drought and wildfires have had on tourism and recreation in Texas. Make recommendations for ways to prevent future losses.
5.	Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 82nd Legislature, including the General Land Office's implementation of HB 3726, 82nd R.S., regarding the administration of the Alamo.
Committee:	House State Cultural and Recreational Resources
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on State Cultural & Recreational Resources, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2004 : a report to the House of Representatives, 79th Texas Legislature
Subjects:	Billboards | Commission on the Arts, Texas | Fisheries | Heritage tourism | Highway beautification | Historical Commission, Texas | Hunting | Library & Archives Commission, Texas State | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Rivers | Shrimping industry | State parks | Tourism |
Library Call Number:	L1836.78 R245
Session:	78th R.S. (2003)
Online version:	View report [54 pages  File size: 2,037 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Actively study the rules, regulations and statutes which govern Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the department's responsibilities.
2.	Review, for the purpose of safety, the discharges of fire arms for hunting and recreational shooting in our state-owned river beds.
3.	Review the missions and goals of the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Texas Historical Commission, and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and consider possible consolidation.
4.	Research heritage, cultural, recreational and historical tourism programs this state is involve din and explore new ways to promote and improve tourism in the state.
5.	Research the regulation and control of scenic by-ways and billboards.
6.	Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction.
Committee:	Senate Natural Resources, Interim
Title:	Interim report - TX Parks and Wildlife
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 76th Legislature : general licensing authority for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Subjects:	Fisheries | Fishing | Fishing licenses | Hunting licenses | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Shrimping industry |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 n219g
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [38 pages  File size: 2,430 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study the granting of general licensing authority to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department for protecting the state's wildlife resources.
Committee:	House Environmental Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Committee on Environmental Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1992 : a report to the House of Representatives, 73rd Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Air Control Board, Texas | Air pollution | Air quality | Clean Air Act | Commercial fishing | Emissions | Environmental protection | Fisheries | Fishing | Fishing licenses | Hazardous waste | Hunting | Hunting licenses | Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Texas | Natural resources conservation | Nonattainment areas | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Shrimping industry | Solid waste disposal |
Library Call Number:	L1836.72 en89
Session:	72nd R.S. (1991)
Online version:	View report [116 pages  File size: 5,463 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Monitor and review the Air Control Board's implementation of the newly adopted federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and any related state air quality programs.
2.	Study the feasibility of a limited entry system for the shrimp fisheries of Texas.
3.	Study the Parks and Wildlife Department's authority and duties relating to the oversight and regulation of professional hunting and fishing guides and guide services.
4.	Study the use of taxes, product fees and or service fees to support environmental regulatory programs, natural resource conservation, property acquisitions, and capitol improvements.
5.	Study medical waste disposal (in coordination with the Committee on Public Health).
Supporting documents
Committee:	House Environmental Affairs
Title:	Texas Department of Natural Resources: information packet, April 1991, including bill summary, SB 35
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1801.9 EN89 72
Session:	72nd R.S. (1991)
Online version:	View document [48 pages]
Committee:	House Environmental Affairs
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the Committee on Environmental Affairs : to the speaker and the members of the Texas House of Representatives, 71st Legislature.
Subjects:	Artificial reefs | Fisheries | Fishing | Hazardous waste | Natural resources conservation | Offshore structures | Outdoor recreation | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Radioactive waste | Solid waste disposal | State parks | Tourism | Wetlands |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 en89
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [120 pages  File size: 3,608 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To study the interstate compacts for the handling of low-level radioactive waste.
2.	To study the acquisition of wetlands and other conservation areas.
3.	To study the feasibility of converting drilling rigs to fish reefs.
4.	To study methods to increase tourism through the coordination of public and private parks and recreational facilities throughout the state.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Joint Texas Shrimp and Oyster Industry, Interim
Title:	HCR 203, 69th Leg.
Library Call Number:	HCR 203
Session:	69th R.S. (1985)
Online version:	View document [2 pages  File size: 149 kb]
Committee:	House State, Federal, and International Relations
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	To the members of the 69th Legislature : interim report of the Committee on State, Federal & International Relations, Texas House of Representatives.
Subjects:	Border economy | Border issues | Fisheries | Immigration | Mexico | Shrimping industry | Undocumented immigrants | Water rights | Water supplies |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 st30
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [87 pages  File size: 2,289 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 30.
2.	To investigate the possibilities of initiating agreements or permits for Texas shrimpers to harvest in Mexico's Exclusive Economic Zone; explore basis for expansion into other commercial fisheries agreements.
3.	To study the effect of the continuing Mexican Peso devaluations on the economies of the Texas border areas; devise a contingency plan, in cooperation with other border states, to stimulate border area economy in the event of future economic problems in Mexico.
4.	In cooperation with the House-Senate Joint Committee on Water Resources, study the possibility of developing state water resources through the importation of water from bordering states, and explore riparian rights between those states and Texas.
5.	To study the effects of the proposed Simpson-Mazzoli Act on the Texas border area and its economy.
Committee:	Senate Natural Resources
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Senate Committee on Natural Resources interim report to the 68th Legislature.
Subjects:	Energy conservation | Energy policy | Fish | Fisheries | Municipal annexation | Municipalities | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Radioactive waste | Solid waste disposal | Trout |
Library Call Number:	L1836.67 n219s
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View report [112 pages  File size: 3,671 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Conduct a study to make a determination that the newly implemented nuclear and industrial waste disposal law is positive, designed to mandate the safest locations for disposal and transportation, and is adequately enforced.
2.	Study legislative alternatives for encouragement of renewable energy resources including incentives on the local level for policy formulation.
3.	Study the conflict of interest between coastal home-rule cities and offshore oil interests regarding the issue of annexation.
4.	Study problems relating to reports of declining numbers of redfish and speckled sea trout in Texas coastal waters and determine the reasons for the wide variance between statistics relating to Texas redfish and speckled sea trout released by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and those released by federal and independent studies.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Natural Resources
Title:	SR 450
Library Call Number:	SR 450
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View document [3 pages  File size: 433 kb]
Committee:	Senate Natural Resources
Title:	SR 719
Library Call Number:	SR 719
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View document [4 pages  File size: 1,047 kb]
Committee:	Senate Natural Resources
Title:	Interim update - redfish, hazardous waste, coastal annexation, marine traffic safety, energy, and marine accretion, August 10, September 10, and November 16, 1981
Library Catalog Title:	Minutes
Library Call Number:	L1803.9 N219 67
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View document [19 pages]
Committee:	House Environmental Affairs
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	A compilation of interim reports to the sixty-sixth legilative session, Texas House of Representatives.
Subjects:	Air Control Board, Texas | Aquaculture | Clean Air Act | Commercial fishing | Fisheries | Fishing | General Land Office, Texas | Outdoor recreation | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Recycling | Solid waste disposal | State parks |
Library Call Number:	L1836.65 h816 2
Session:	65th R.S. (1977)
Online version:	View report [78 pages  File size: 3,886 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	A study of developing federal policies regarding park development, and explore a multigovernmental approach to park development and operation.
2.	A study of the saltwater fishing industry in order to enhance the environment for the production, harvesting, and marketing of aquatic products and to safeguard the Texas fishing and tourist industries.
3.	Oversight responsibility of agency expenditures and related transactions. This function shall encompass a review and monitoring of all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned to this committee for appropriative purposes during the 65th Regular Session of the Legislature, to wit: Air Control Board General Land Office and Veterans' Land Board Parks and Wildlife Department Board of Managers of Texas State Railroad
4.	A study of the public and private involvements in resource recovery operations.
Committee:	House Environmental Affairs Subcommittee on Wildlife Preservation
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the Interim Committee on Wildlife, Committee on Environmental Affairs, 63rd Legislature.
Subjects:	Fisheries | Shrimping industry | Wildlife |
Library Call Number:	L1836.63 w646
Session:	63rd R.S. (1973)
Online version:	View report [31 pages  File size: 869 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Make a broad study, during the legislative interim, of the wildlife management program of the state in order to determine the areas in which improvement is needed, methods of improving the process, methods of financing wildlife management used in other states, and areas where cooperation is needed between states to insure proper game management.
Committee:	House Game and Fish
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	A condensation of the reports of surveys
Subjects:	Birds | Environmental protection | Fisheries | Hunting | Oysters | Possum Kingdom Lake | Shrimping industry | Solid waste disposal | Surface water pollution | Wastewater management |
Library Call Number:	L1836.55 G145
Session:	55th R.S. (1957)
Online version:	View report [27 pages  File size: 1,655 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study and make inquiries into matters pertaining to fish and wildlife research, management, development, and protection.
Committee:	House Salt Water Fisheries and Marine Taxation, Legislative Investigating
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the Legislative Investigating Committee on Salt Water Fisheries and Marine Taxation created by the Third Called session of the Forty-third Legislature
Subjects:	Fisheries | Fishing | Oysters | Shrimping industry |
Library Call Number:	L1836.43 SA37/H.J. of Tex. (Supp.), 44th Leg., R.S. (1935)
Session:	43rd R.S. (1933)
Online version:	View report [134 pages  File size: 7,577 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Investigation of salt water fishing conditions, matters relating to the opening and closing of bays, concerns with dissatisfaction among residents of Texas coastal areas with taxation of marine products, use of nets and seines, as well as administration by Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission of laws pertaining to salt water operations. *
Committee:	Joint Coastal Waters of Texas
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of Committee to Visit Coastal Waters.
Subjects:	Fish | Fisheries | Oysters |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 33rd Leg., R.S. 657 (1913)
Session:	33rd R.S. (1913)
Online version:	View report [8 pages  File size: 450 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Visit the Texas coastal waters to gather information pertaining to the fish and oyster industry.
Committee:	House State Fish Commission
Title:	State Fish Commission
Library Catalog Title:	[Report].
Subjects:	Fish Commission, State | Fish hatcheries | Fisheries | Fishing |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 19th Leg., R.S. 161 (1885)
Session:	19th R.S. (1885)
Online version:	View report [2 pages  File size: 86 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Investigate the status of the Fish Commission and the probable cost of its continuance, and to report all matters pertaining thereto, so the Legislature may act advisedly on the subject.
Committee:	House State Fish Commission, Select
Title:	State Fish Commission
Library Catalog Title:	[Report].
Subjects:	Fish | Fisheries |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 18th Leg., R.S. 447 (1883)
Session:	18th R.S. (1883)
Online version:	View report [3 pages  File size: 218 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Investigate the status of the commission now constituted, and its relation to the State, the probable amount necessary to the successful prosecution of the same, and to report on all matter pertaining to the Fish Commission.

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

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