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6 Document(s) [ Subject: Military spending ]
Committee: | Senate Veteran Affairs and Military Installations | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Subjects: | 211 telephone system | Base realignment and closure | Federal budgets | Mental health services | Military and veterans benefits | Military bases | Military spending | Occupational licenses | Student aid | Veterans | Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of | Veterans Commission, Texas | Veterans employment | Veterans health care | Veterans with disabilities | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.83 V641 | |
Session: | 83rd R.S. (2013) | |
Online version: | View report [38 pages] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Investigate the impact of federal actions (including the federal government shutdown, sequestration, military force reductions, and potential base closure or realignment) on active-duty service members, the Texas Military Department, veterans, their families, defense-related contractors, small businesses, local governments, and state agencies. | |
2. | Monitor and examine efforts to provide employment and workforce opportunities for veterans, service members, and their families. Make recommendations on how best to continue collaborating with and supporting our honored veterans as they re-enter the civilian workforce, including improving employment opportunities for veterans at all state agencies. | |
3. | Provide an update on the State Strike Force teams’ progress and recommendations on any additional steps necessary to ensure that veterans promptly receive all federal disability benefits to which they are entitled. | |
4. | Study and make recommendations to improve access to services provided by non-profit organizations to veterans, their families, and survivors, including examining the effectiveness, standards, and consistency of the 2-1-1 information and referral system for military and veteran families statewide. | |
5. | Monitor the implementation of the veterans occupational licensure bills passed during the 83rd Legislative Session to expedite the licensure process for those who are serving, have served, or are married to someone serving our nation in uniform. Study and make recommendations to strengthen and improve state efforts to ease the transition of military veterans and their spouses into the Texas civilian workforce. | |
6. | Monitor implementation of the veteran's mental health legislation passed during the 83rd Legislative Session, including funding to support the Military Veteran Peer Network at Department of State Health Services. Assess whether state mental health initiatives targeted to veterans and their families appropriately address Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Study and make recommendations to enhance the delivery of mental health services to veterans at the local level through the network of Veteran County Service Officers. | |
7. | In addition to the formal Interim Charges, the VAMI Committee reviewed allegations that the VA has denied health and mental health care and manipulated waiting lists to access care. The Committee also considered whether or not the state has a role in assisting veterans in Texas with VA health care as it did with the Strike Force Teams for VA disability claims. | |
Supporting documents | ||
Committee: | Joint Tilt-rotor Technology, Task Force on | |
Title: | Proclamation | |
Library Catalog Title: | Proclamation | |
Library Call Number: | L1800.1 p926 | |
Session: | 71st R.S. (1989) | |
Online version: | View document [1 pages File size: 79 kb] | |
Committee: | Senate Indian Affairs and Frontier Protection | |
Title: | Frontier Battalion | |
Library Catalog Title: | [Report]. | |
Subjects: | Border security | Military spending | Militias | Native Americans | | |
Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 16th Leg., R.S. 390 (1879) | |
Session: | 16th R.S. (1879) | |
Online version: | View report [9 pages File size: 481 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Consider the advisability of abolishing and discontinuing the frontier battalion, and report a bill, if necessary, substituting the same by creating a smaller force, whose duty shall be fully defined; said committee to examine fully into the management, expenditures, etc. of said frontier battalion for the last two years, and said committee shall report their action at as early a day as practicable. | |
Committee: | House Comptroller and Treasurer's Offices, Select | |
Title: | Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | [Report]. | |
Subjects: | Available School Fund | Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas | Federal funds | Investment of public funds | Military spending | Permanent School Fund | State employees | Treasury Department, Texas State | | |
Library Call Number: | H.J. of Tex., 12th Leg., R.S., 1546 (1871) | |
Session: | 12th 1st C.S. (1870) | |
Online version: | View report [15 pages] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Examine the office of the Comptroller and the Treasurer. | |
Committee: | House Militia | |
Title: | Condition of State arms | |
Library Catalog Title: | [Report]. | |
Subjects: | Military spending | | |
Library Call Number: | H.J. of Tex., 11th Leg., R.S. 222 (1866) | |
Session: | 11th R.S. (1866) | |
Online version: | View report [2 pages] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Examine into the condition of the State arms | |
Committee: | Senate Militia | |
Title: | Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report | |
Subjects: | Military spending | Militias | | |
Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 8th Leg., 1st C.S. 80 (1861) | |
Session: | 8th R.S. (1859) | |
Online version: | View report [9 pages] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Report on the militia law of the state and what amount of money will be required for purchase of arms and munitions of war necessary to put the state in a position of complete defense. * |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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