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Committee: | House Defense and Veterans' Affairs | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Subjects: | Border security | Endangered species | Federal funds | Land use regulations | Light pollution | Military bases | Military families | Military personnel | National Guard | Noise pollution | Occupational licenses | Suicide | Texas Military Preparedness Commission | Texas State Guard | Trees | Veterans | Veterans Commission, Texas | Voting by mail | Voting systems | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.82 D361 | |
Session: | 82nd R.S. (2011) | |
Online version: | View report [60 pages] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Study the current role of all Texas state military forces. Identify changes that would enhance the accountability and effectiveness of the state guard, air guard, and national guard and all other components of our state military forces. | |
2. | Monitor the implementation and impact of the MOVE Act on the state and on municipalities. Make legislative recommendations, as needed, to ensure a smooth implementation of the law. (Joint with the House Committee on Elections) | |
3. | Study and make recommendations on how the state and local governments can work together to protect our federal military installations from unnecessary encroachment while still allowing appropriate use of land near bases to be used for nonmilitary purposes. | |
4. | Determine any challenges to the training and operations of Texas' 15 military installations in light of recent reductions in federal defense spending. Additionally, review the current structure and mission of the Texas Military Preparedness Commission as a result of HB 2546 (81R). Recommend any legislative actions needed to sustain and improve the state's military preparedness. | |
5. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 82nd Legislature. | |
6. | Examine issues not listed in the committee's interim charges, including suicide prevention and the process for active duty, former active duty and their spouses, and military personnel trasitioning into the workforce and seeking occupational licenses. * | |
Committee: | House Land and Resource Management | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Subjects: | Common carriers | Eminent domain | Extraterritorial jurisdiction | General Land Office, Texas | Houseboats | Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis | Municipal annexation | Municipalities | Pipelines | Property rights | San Antonio, Texas | Texas Open Beaches Act | Trees | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.82 L229 | |
Session: | 82nd R.S. (2011) | |
Online version: | View report [56 pages] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Examine the Cabin Program managed by the General Land Office. Review the history of the program, the current fee structure, and the renewal process and whether the program is achieving the goals for which it was created. Make appropriate legislative recommendations. | |
2. | Monitor and examine the ongoing litigation of Severance v. Patterson and its impact on the Texas Open Beaches Act. | |
3. | Examine the effectiveness of the Texas Private Real Property Rights Preservation Act (Chapter 2007, Government Code). | |
4. | Examine current regulatory authority available to municipalities in their extraterritorial jurisdiction. Make necessary legislative recommendations to ensure a proper balance between development activities and municipal regulations. | |
5. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 82nd Legislature. |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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