Today's Committee Meetings on the LRL website is a calendar of interim committee hearings with links to agendas. Below are resources related to upcoming Interim Hearings.
October 30th
Senate Committees on Criminal Justice and Education (Joint Hearing)
Charge: School discipline practices, Alternative Education Programs (DAEP), and Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs (JJAEP)
- Expelling Zero-Tolerance: Reforming Texas School Discipline for Good, Texas Public Policy Foundation, August 2012
- "Recognizing and Combating the "School-To-Prison" Pipeline In Texas," Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson, Future Trends in State Courts, Summer 2012
- Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Programs: Performance Assessment Report School Year 2010-2011, Texas Juvenile Justice Department, May 2012
- Interim Hearings – Week of April 30, 2012, Legislative Reference Library, April 30, 2012
Senate Committee on Criminal Justice (upon adjournment of Joint Hearing with Education)
Charge: Prescription drug abuse trends
- "'Prescription Tourists' Thwart States' Crackdown on Illegal Sale of Painkillers," MSNBC, July 8, 2012
- A New Generation of Prescription Monitoring Programs: Adopting Best Practices, Alliance of States with Prescription Monitoring Programs, June 6, 2012
- Florida’s Prescription Drug Diversion and Abuse Roadmap, 2012–2015, Florida Attorney General, April 2, 2012
- Prescription Drug Abuse Panel Discussion [video], Texas Association of Business, February 22, 2012
- Results From the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, September 2011
- Epidemic: Responding to America's Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis, Executive Office of the President, April 2011
- Prescription Drug Overdoses: An American Epidemic [Youtube video] and related presentation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, February 17, 2011
Charge: Implementation of SB 321, 82nd R.S., Relating to an employee's transportation and storage of certain firearms or ammunition while on certain property owned or controlled by the employee's employer
- Mitchell v. University of Kentucky, Supreme Court of Kentucky, April 26, 2012
- "Texas Oil Regulators Scrap Concealed Firearms Ban," Texas Tribune, November 8, 2011
Senate Committee on Education (upon adjournment of Joint Hearing with Criminal Justice)
Charge: Monitor implementation of legislation, specifically, the following:
- SB 6, 82nd 1st C.S., relating to the establishment of the instructional materials allotment
- The Challenges of Change: Implementing Senate Bill 6: A Study, Association of American Publishers, April 2012
- SB 8, 82nd 1st C.S., relating to the flexibility of the board of trustees of a school district in the management and operation of public schools
- "Few Texas School Districts Seek Emergency Power to Lay Off Teachers, Despite Big Budget Cuts," Dallas Morning News, August 13, 2012
- Reducing Personnel Costs: 2012 Winter Governance & Legal Seminar, February 16-18, 2012, Texas Association of School Boards
- HB 1942, 82nd R.S., relating to bullying in public schools
- "Central Texas School Districts Boost Anti-Bullying Efforts," Austin American-Statesman, September 18, 2012
- "Dallas-Area School Districts Spell Out Anti-Bullying Policies as Texas Law Takes Hold," Dallas Morning News, September 3, 2012
- "District Gets Tough With Bullies," Houston Chronicle, June 26, 2012
- School Bullying: Extent of Legal Protections for Vulnerable Groups Needs to Be More Fully Assessed, U.S. Government Accountability Office, May 2012
- "Bullying in Schools: An Overview" (school bullying policy guidance), Juvenile Justice Bulletin, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, December 2011
- State's accountability system and other reforms enacted by HB 3, 81st R.S., and SB 1031, 80th R.S.
- Closing the Expectations Gap 2012: 50-State Progress Report on the Alignment of K-12 Policies and Practice with the Demands of College and Careers (includes accountability, data, and public reporting systems), Achieve, September 2012
- End-of-Course Exams, Education Commission of the States, March 2012
- Getting Better at Teacher Preparation and State Accountability, Center for American Progress, January 2012
November 1st
Joint Committee on Oversight of Windstorm Insurance
Topic: Windstorm insurance in this state
- "TWIA Study Recommends Lowering Agent Commissions," Insurance Journal, October 2, 2012; and related study, Texas Windstorm Insurance Association: Restructuring Options Report, Texas Department of Insurance/Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC, September 7, 2012
- "Joint Committee Considers Financial Solutions for TWIA," Texas Tribune, September 12, 2012 (summary of Joint Committee on Seacoast Territory Insurance hearing, September 12)
- "Windstorm Forum Raises Questions," Corpus Christi Caller-Times, September 6, 2012 (summary of Coastal Windstorm Task Force meeting, September 5)
