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Committee:	Joint Texas Lottery and Texas Lottery Commission
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Bingo | Charities | Gambling | Lottery Commission, Texas | Texas Lottery |
Library Call Number:	L1836.83 L917
Session:	83rd R.S. (2013)
Online version:	View report [27 pages]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study charitable bingo and the distribution of charitable bingo revenue; study the elimination of the state lottery.
Committee:	House Licensing and Administrative Procedures
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Licensing & Administrative Procedures, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2004 : a report to the House of Representatives, 79th Texas Legislature
Subjects:	Architectural Examiners, Texas Board of | Bingo | Electricians | Interior designers | Licensing and Regulation, Texas Department of | Lottery Commission, Texas | Mold remediation | Occupational licenses | Underage drinking |
Library Call Number:	L1836.78 L616
Session:	78th R.S. (2003)
Online version:	View report [36 pages  File size: 268 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Actively monitor the implementation of HB 2519, 78th R.S., to streamline bingo processes at the Lottery Commission, review the commission's processes for leasing of facilities and the commissions's audit authority. Also compare the distributions to charities as a percentage of revenues in Texas with charitable bingo in other states.
2.	Monitor the implementation of SB 283, 78th R.S., sunset legislation for the Board of Architectural Examiners. Pay particular attention to the interior designer's transformation to a "Practice Act."
3.	Monitor the implementation of HB 1487, 78th R.S., creating a state wide license for electricians. Pay particular attention to any unintended consequences, such as any erosion in Texas right-to-work laws.
4.	Monitor the implementation of HB 329, 78th R.S., licensing mold remediators.
5.	Identify licenses and duties that could be handled more efficiently at the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Estimate cost savings and policy implications associated with such moves.
6.	Study ways to reduce the incidence of underage drinking in Texas. Include and analysis of best practices in other states.
7.	Monitor agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction.
Committee:	Senate Charitable Bingo, Interim
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the Senate Interim Committee on Charitable Bingo to the 75th Legislature.
Subjects:	Bingo | Lottery Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 b513
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [25 pages  File size: 1,135 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study whether the Texas Lottery Commission has sufficient legal authority to exercise strict control and close supervision over all facets of charitable bingo and make recommendations to ensure the Commission has the regulatory tools to fulfill that responsibility.
2.	Study the existence of or potential for unfair or anti-competitive practices in the charitable bingo industry and make recommendations for preventing or eliminating such practices.
3.	Determine whether additional resources are needed by the Texas Lottery Commission to ensure that charitable bingo gaming is conducted for the purposes authorized by the voters and by statute.
4.	Oversee the implementation of HB 3021, 74th R.S., and make recommendations for changes in that legislation, if needed.
5.	Propose to the 75th Legislature a recodification of the Bingo Enabling Act, if necessary.
Committee:	House Licensing and Administrative Procedures
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	House Committee on Licensing and Administrative Procedures, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1996 : a report to the House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Alcohol laws and regulations | Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Texas | Bingo | Concealed weapons | Gun laws | Guns | Lottery Commission, Texas | Right to Carry Act |
Library Call Number:	L1836.74 l616
Session:	74th R.S. (1995)
Online version:	View report [45 pages  File size: 2,143 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study provisions added to the Alcoholic Beverage Code during the 74th Legislature that appear to be conflicting in nature.
2.	Determine whether current bingo practices are consistent with the intentions of early enabling legislation and whether current practices serve the public interest.
3.	Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction, including a review of the functions of the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission to assure that administrative functions are performed in the most efficient manner.
Committee:	House General Investigating
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Committee on General Investigating, interim report to the 73rd Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Bingo | Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Texas Department of | Parole | State supported living centers | Telemarketers |
Library Call Number:	L1836.72 In9
Session:	72nd R.S. (1991)
Online version:	View report [115 pages  File size: 5,632 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review the status of bingo operations in Texas, and investigate problems in the effective regulation and control of charitable bingo. *
2.	Study whether unauthorized telephone solicitations are being made in the name of veterans organizations; review the extent of abuses associated with telephone solicitations in Texas and determine whether legislative action is needed. *
3.	Study the role of parole advocates in the parole process. *
4.	Review the decision by the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to close the Fort Worth State School and the Travis State School. *
Committee:	House Liquor Regulation
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, Seventy Third Legislature : report of the Committee on Liquor Regulation, Texas House of Representatives, Seventy Second Legislature.
Subjects:	Alcohol laws and regulations | Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Texas | Alcoholism | Bingo | Municipalities | Substance abuse | Sunset review process | Tax revenue |
Library Call Number:	L1836.72 l669
Session:	72nd R.S. (1991)
Online version:	View report [70 pages  File size: 3,170 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Monitor and oversee legislation enacted during the 72nd Regular and Special Called Sessions that was considered by the Liquor Regulation Committee; Performance Audit Review Recommendations; and any agency-initiated changes.
2.	Carry out budget and oversight responsibilities for all agencies, boards, and commissions listed in Rule 3, Section 22. A. Monitor and oversee documenation of salary increases. B. Verify the number and status of outcomes and outputs as identified in the Appropriations Bill (HB 1, 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session). C. Review agencies' existing performance standards and determine whether new standards are needed.
3.	Study the problem of municipal ordinances regulating alcohol consumption that are in direct conflict with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code.
4.	Study the feasibility of using the mixed beverage gross receipts tax to fund chemical dependency treatment programs in counties and cities that receive mixed beverage tax refunds.
Committee:	House Liquor Regulation
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, Seventy second Legislature : report of the Committee on Liquor Regulation, Texas House of Representatives, Seventy first Legislature.
Subjects:	Alcohol laws and regulations | Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Texas | Bingo | Houston, Texas | Military bases | Supreme Court arguments and decisions, U.S. | Zoning |
Library Call Number:	L1836.71 l669
Session:	71st R.S. (1989)
Online version:	View report [59 pages  File size: 3,598 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To monitor all activities and to have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 22.
2.	To study the feasibility of requiring military installations to purchase liquor from state distributors, in light of the recent US Supreme Court decision to hear arguments in this case.
3.	To study the transition of bingo regulation administration to the Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
4.	To study the problems of cantinas and pubs in areas without zoning laws and what impact they have on neighborhoods.

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

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