Today's Committee Meetings on the LRL website is a calendar of interim committee hearings with links to agendas. The following may be helpful resources for upcoming hearings.
Thursday, March 15th
Thursday, March 15th
House Committee on Economic and Small Business Development
Charge 3: State efforts to encourage new business growth and retain existing businesses in order to strengthen our economy; consolidated approach to statewide economic development
- Economic Development in Texas: Programs and Incentives, Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, September 2011
- An Analysis of Texas Economic Development Incentives 2010, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, December 2010, last updated April 19, 2011
- Slashing Subsidies, Bolstering Budgets: How States Can Save Money by Targeting Ineffective Economic Development Programs, Good Jobs First, March 2011
- Public-Private Power Grab: The Risks in Privatizing State Economic Development Agencies, Good Jobs First, January 2011
House Committee on the Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence
Charge 1: Effects on domestic violence victims in the judicial process if courts are permitted to issue agreed protective orders without a finding of violence
- Civil Protection Orders: A Guide for Improving Practice, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 2010 (see especially pp. 83-104 of the PDF)
- Texas Family Violence Benchbook, Texas Office of Court Administration, September 2011 (see especially pp. 46-47 and 336-342 of the PDF)
Charge 2: Discrepancies in guardianship and child custody statutes; solving problems surrounding "arbitrary and capricious" findings by trial court judges
- Child Protective Services Handbook, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, last updated March 1, 2012
- "Judge's Adoption Express Had One Final Run," Houston Chronicle, January 4, 2011
- Reasonable Efforts to Preserve or Reunify Families and Achieve Permanency for Children: Summary of State Laws, Child Welfare Information Gateway, July 2009
- "Yours, Mine, Ours? Why the Texas Legislature Should Simplify Caretaker Consent Capabilities for Minor Children and the Implications of the Addition of Chapter 34 to the Texas Family Code," Texas Tech Law Review, 2010
