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8 Document(s) [ Subject: Protective orders ]
| Committee: | House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Border issues | Child support | Coronavirus | Court congestion | Family violence | Federal funds | Juvenile detention facilities | Juvenile Justice Department, Texas | Juvenile justice system | Operation Lone Star (Border security) | Probation | Protective orders | Unaccompanied minors | Undocumented immigrants | | |
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| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [42 pages File size: 2,822 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Monitor the impact of children, including unaccompanied minors, crossing the Texas-Mexico border on the juvenile justice system, including gang violence. Identify any particularized services that children, including unaccompanied minors, will need and assess the costs of providing these services. | |
| 2. | Examine current caseloads and capacity issues for courts handling matters related to the Texas-Mexico border. Evaluate the preparedness of the court system to handle increases in caseloads that may result from the border crisis response and make recommendations to ensure the continued fair and efficient administration of justice in the state in addressing any increased caseloads. (Joint charge with Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence) | |
| 3. | 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. | |
| 4. | 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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| 5. | Complete study of assigned charges related to the Texas-Mexico border issued in June 2021. | |
| 6. | Examine obstacles to the reporting of domestic violence and how these obstacles contribute to the difficulty in obtaining and enforcing a protective order. Examine new technologies that could facilitate domestic violence reporting without putting victims at risk of further violence and harm. | |
| 7. | Explore ways to modernize the juvenile justice system for youth on probation and incarcerated youth. Review statewide resource allocation, including available staffing, and identify potential geographic limitations. Investigate the best practices of smaller specialized facilities for youth committed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department while leveraging the Department's current facilities and staff. Analyze the current gaps in county-level services and funding and make recommendations to address those gaps. | |
| 8. | Examine workforce issues at state and local juvenile correctional facilities and consider the state's incentives to recruit quality staff. Consider the geographic areas where specialty providers are concentrated and the viability of opening specialized facilities for the state's youth with the highest therapeutic need to relieve the state's current rural facilities struggling with staffing. Consider consistent investments the state can make in local probation to encourage their facilities to divert youth from the juvenile justice system. | |
| 9. | Study how child support is calculated and administered in Texas and how the Texas method compares to other states' plans for calculating child support, including identifying modern trends across the country for calculating child support. Consider how alternative methods for calculating child support affect each parents' share of responsibility for child support, health care, childcare, and other matters in other jurisdictions compared to Texas. | |
| Committee: | Senate Violence in Schools & School Security, Select | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Gun control | Guns | Mentally ill persons | Protective orders | School buildings | School safety | School violence | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.84 | |
| Session: | 85th R.S. (2017) | |
| Online version: | View report [32 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Improve the infrastructure and design of Texas schools to reduce security threats, and discuss various proposals to harden school facilities, including limiting access points, improving screening and detecting of weapons, retrofitting school facilities with improved locks, emergency alarm systems, and monitoring cameras . | |
| 2. | Study school security options and resources, including, but not limited to, the school marshal program, school police officerss, armed school personnel, the Texas School Safety Center, and other training programs to determine what improvements can be made to provide school districts and charter schools with more robust security options. | |
| 3. | Examine the root cause of mass murder in schools including, but not limited to, risk factors such as mental health, substance use disorders, anger management, social isolation, the impact of high intensity media coverage - the so-called "glorification" of school shooters - to determine the effect on copycat shootings, and the desensitization to violence resulting from video games, music, film, and social media. Recommend strategies to early identify and intercept high-risk students, as well as strategies to promote healthy school culture, including character education and community support initiatives. | |
| 4. | Examine whether current protective order laws are sufficient or whether the merits of Extreme Risk Protective Orders, or "Red Flag" laws, should be considered for seeking a temporary removal of firearms from a person who poses an immediate danger to themselves or others, only after legal due process is provided with a burden of proof sufficient to protect Second Amendment rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. | |
| Committee: | House Criminal Jurisprudence | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Asset forfeiture | Bail | County jails | Family violence | Fees | Indigent criminal defense | Innocence projects | Parole | Probation | Protective orders | Technical parole violations | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.84 C868 | |
| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View report [55 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Examine the feasibility of utilizing GPS monitoring in protective orders as a tool to help reduce family violence; study programs and identify best practices focused on the intervention and prevention of family violence and consider statutory changes needed to further deter the offense of family violence and domestic abuse. | |
| 2. | Review pretrial service and bonding practices throughout the state. Examine factors considered in bail and pre-trial confinement decisions, including the use of risk assessments; assess the effectiveness and efficiency of different systems in terms of cost to local governments and taxpayers, community safety, pretrial absconding rates and rights of the accused. (Joint charge with the House Committee on County Affairs) | |
| 3. | Examine the use of asset forfeiture in this state, including data reporting on forfeiture actions and procedures from seizure through forfeiture in both contested and uncontested cases. Make recommendations for improving these systems that balance law enforcement needs, private property rights, and government transparency. | |
| 4. | Study the constitutional requirements and local practices for the appointment of counsel to indigent defendants and the operation of innocence projects at the state’s six public law schools. Compare different indigent defense plans and the innocence projects across the state and identify best practices for system management, including appointment methods and timing, cost effectiveness, timeliness of case disposition, compensation of counsel, quality of representation, and protection of procedural rights. Consider the effectiveness of each of the programs currently funded and the funding strategy as a whole. | |
| 5. | Examine fees and revocations for those on probation and parole; examine effectiveness of fees imposed as a condition of probation and parole; study technical revocations in adult probation to identify drivers of revocations, disparities across the state, and strategies for reducing technical revocations while ensuring program effectiveness and public safety. (Joint charge with the House Committee on Corrections) | |
| 6. | Conduct legislative oversight and monitoring of the agencies and programs under the committee’s jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 84th 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 Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Asbestos lawsuits | Bankruptcy | Child custody | Court Administration, Texas Office of | Court costs and fees | Court records | Family violence | Guardianship | Lawsuit lending | Legislative intent | Ombudsmen | Protective orders | Rules and regulations | Statutory revision | Wills and estates | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.82 J898 | |
| Session: | 82nd R.S. (2011) | |
| Online version: | View report [34 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the potential effects on victims of family and domestic violence in the judicial process if courts are allowed to issue agreed protective orders without a finding of violence. | |
| 2. | Study and make recommendations regarding the discrepancies in guardianship and child custody statutes. Review potential solutions to the problems surrounding "arbitrary and capricious" findings by trial court judges. | |
| 3. | Study the rules of statutory construction and establish a method of determining legislative intent. | |
| 4. | Study the degree of transparency in asbestos bankruptcy trusts and how it affects litigation of asbestos exposure claims in Texas courts. | |
| 5. | Study the public policy implications of lawsuit lending and its effects on the civil justice system. | |
| 6. | Study whether the asbestos and silica multidistrict litigation courts should be allowed to dismiss, without prejudice, claims on the courts' inactive dockets for want of prosecution under certain circumstances. | |
| 7. | Study best practices regarding corporate governance. Make recommendations on the confidentiality of communications to ombudsmen in order to provide more protections to complaining parties. | |
| 8. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 82nd Legislature. | |
| Committee: | Joint Protective Orders and State Employee Pension Plans | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report to the 71st Legislature / the House-Senate Joint Interim Committee on Protective Orders and State Employee Pension Plans. | |
| Subjects: | Private retirement systems | Protective orders | Public retirement systems | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.70 p946 | |
| Session: | 70th R.S. (1987) | |
| Online version: | View report [57 pages File size: 1,788 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study problems associated with protective orders, review existing visitation and domicile laws, comparing Texas statutes with those of other states. | |
| 2. | Study Texas law and procedure relating to the preparation of a uniform law providing for the direct payment of pension benefits to certain qualified nonemployee spouses patterned after the Retirement Equity Act of 1984. Resolve the conflicts in state and federal law regarding availability of health insurance on divorce or death of the employee spouse. | |
| 3. | Study the development of a state Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QUADRO) program comparable to the federal plan. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Joint Protective Orders and State Employee Pension Plans | |
| Title: | HCR 17, 70th leg., 2nd C.S. | |
| Library Call Number: | HCR 17 | |
| Session: | 70th R.S. (1987) | |
| Online version: | View document [2 pages File size: 162 kb] | |
| Committee: | Senate Human Resources | |
| Title: | Interim Report - Alternate care and family violence issues | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Response to Senate resolution 692 : review of alternative care, coordination of services, and family violence issues : 1980 report and recommendations / Senate Committee on Human Resources. | |
| Subjects: | Family violence | Guardianship | Long-term care | Persons with disabilities | Protective orders | Senior citizens | Services for persons with disabilities | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.66 l854 | |
| Session: | 66th R.S. (1979) | |
| Online version: | View report [25 pages File size: 1,061 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the following areas in furtherance of recommendations made by the Joint Committee on Long-Term Care Alternatives; (1) coordination of all services and programs for the aging through the appropriate agency or commission; (2) development of the means to protect the rights of the elderly in the area of self-determination; (3) monitoring the development of a single pre-admission assesment instrument and procedure for all applicants for community or institutional care administered by the Texas Department of Human Resources who are eligible for Medicaid and MAO; (4)further investigation of the transfer of assets by patients upon entry into long-term care facilities; (5) investigation of the difficulties encountered by the elderly and handicapped in obtaining adequate insurance coverage; and (6) monitoring the implementation of the various alternate care programs mandated by the 66th Legislature in an effort to ensure that the needs of all recipients are met. | |
| 2. | Conduct a study which includes monitoring the the contract system mandated by HB 1075, 65th R.S., between the Texas Department of Human Resources and certain family violence shelters in Texas, and also includes assessment of the services and needs of the shelters. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Senate Human Resources | |
| Title: | SR 692 | |
| Library Call Number: | SR 692 | |
| Session: | 66th R.S. (1979) | |
| Online version: | View document [3 pages File size: 1,718 kb] | |
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