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3 Document(s) [ Subject: Veterans%20cemeteries ]
| Committee: | Senate Veteran Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Affordable housing | General Land Office, Texas | Homelessness | Law enforcement | Mental health services | Mentally ill persons | Post-traumatic stress disorder | Privatization | Veterans | Veterans cemeteries | Veterans health care | Workforce Commission, Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.87 V641 | |
| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [26 pages File size: 523 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | State Veteran Cemeteries: Evaluate the current oversight of the Texas State Veteran Cemeteries to ensure that these sacred and essential grounds are being maintained, repaired, and treated with respect. Ensure that the needs of our veterans are being met by reviewing the number, location, and funding of the cemeteries. Examine and make recommendations for the financing mechanism for the Texas State Veterans Cemeteries to ensure sustainability. | |
| 2. | Veteran Benefits: Explore and report on options to remove barriers for companies offering veteran benefits and consider policies that could leverage additional public-private-partnerships. Identify opportunities to connect veterans to existing business resources and available state services. Recommend ways to increase matching federal funding for veteran benefits. Review current law for consistency in eligibility for state veteran benefits and recommend any necessary changes. | |
| 3. | Veteran Mental Health: Review the currently accepted forms of treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and consider the creation of a program which would require completion of a multi-modality treatment plan including traditional talk therapy, limbic system therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT). | |
| 4. | Veteran Mental Health: Identify the training and resources available to urban and rural first responders when assisting veterans experiencing a mental health crisis. Make recommendations for how to best support first responders in these crisis situations. | |
| Committee: | Senate Veteran Affairs and Military Installations | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | The Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs and Military Installations report and recommendations to the 80th Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Dental care | Fort Bliss | Job training programs | Military personnel | Subprime lending | Veterans | Veterans cemeteries | Veterans Commission, Texas | Veterans health care | Veterans homes | Voting by mail | Voting rights | Workforce Commission, Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.79 V641 | |
| Session: | 79th R.S. (2005) | |
| Online version: | View report [44 pages File size: 2,250 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Examine issues and problems with overseas military voting and explore the possibility of establishing a single point of contact for Texas military voters. Consider requirements of the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act and review systems established in other states. | |
| 2. | Compile an inventory of state veterans' benefits, including health care facilities and nursing homes across the state, the state veteran cemetery system, job training programs, educational benefits, and re-employment rights issues, and the Texas Veterans Land Board Loan Programs, and make recommendations for improving efficiency and effectiveness. | |
| 3. | Monitor the implementation legislation transferring the veteran employment programs under the Texas Workforce Commission to the Texas Veterans Commission. Monitor the implementation of legislation establishing a database in the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that tracks veterans' usage of the Hazlewood higher education tuition exemption. | |
| 4. | Examine other issues facing the 80th Legislature, such as oral health of guardsmen and reservists, Ellington Field and Fort Bliss, predatory lending, TRICARE provider shortages, business and employment issues for veterans, and the need for a VA hospital in the Rio Grande Valley. | |
| Committee: | Senate State Affairs | |
| Title: | Burial of Deceased Soldiers of the United States Army at the State Cemetery | |
| Library Catalog Title: | [Report]. | |
| Subjects: | Texas State Cemetery | Veterans cemeteries | | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 11th Leg., R.S. 454 (1866) | |
| Session: | 11th R.S. (1866) | |
| Online version: | View report [3 pages File size: 126 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Inquire into setting apart a portion of the State Cemetery for the use of the military as a burial ground. * | |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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