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.
April 16th
April 16th
House Committees on Appropriations - Subcommittee on Articles I, IV, & V and Criminal Jurisprudence (Joint Hearing)
Charge: Improving the level of funding of the Crime Victims Compensation Fund
- Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Crime Victims Fund: Briefing Background 2013, National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators, April 6, 2012
- "Crime Victims Services Bracing for Big Cuts," Texas Tribune, February 16, 2012
- Appreciation for Dedication: Crime Victim Services Annual Report 2011, Texas Attorney General, January 2012
- "Programs Face Funding Challenges: Tight Budgets and Uncertainties," Crime Victim Compensation Quarterly, 2012
- State by State Compensation Programs Guide, National Association of Crime Victim Compensation Boards
House Committees on Appropriations - Subcommittee on Articles I, IV, and V and Ways & Means (Joint Hearing)
Charge: Texas' state debt and the role it plays in state fiscal management; strategies to reduce state debt; calculation of the constitutional debt limit
- Debt Affordability Study 2012, Texas Bond Review Board, February 2012
- Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the State of Texas for the Fiscal Year Ending August 31, 2011, Texas Comptroller, February 2012 (see especially pages 257-261)
- Fiscal Size-Up, 2012-13 Biennium, Texas Legislative Budget Board, February 2012
- 2011 State Debt Review, Standard & Poor's, May 25, 2011
House Committee on Government Efficiency & Reform
Charge: Utilization of alternative project delivery methods, such as design-build and construction-manager-at-risk, since HB 1886, 80th Legislature
- Design-Build and Alternative Project Delivery Issues in Texas, Texas Council of Engineering Companies, November 2007
- A Guidebook for the Evaluation of Project Delivery Methods, Transit Cooperative Research Program, April 2009
Charge: Interagency agreements and charges for providing information or personal identification documents
- A Call to Action: Information Exchange Strategies for Effective State Government, National Association of State Chief Information Officers, April 2011
- Protecting Texans' Identities: The Challenges of Securing Privacy in Transparent Government, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, December 2010
- The State of Texas Improves Information Sharing Through Adoption of National Information Exchange Model Standards, UniSys, 2008
April 17th
House Committee on Redistricting
Charge: Impact of size and the number of the State Board of Education districts on board members ability to provide representation to their constituents and perform their duties
- State Board of Education, Texas Education Agency
- Redistricting Map - State Board of Education Districts Enacted by the 82nd Legislature, PLANE120,Texas Legislative Council - District Viewer
- "Redistricting Committee Could Increase Number of Education Districts," Amarillo Globe-News, January 12, 2012
- "Problems Appear as Lawmakers Redraw State Education Board Districts," Austin American-Statesman, April 10, 2011
April 18th
House Committee on Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Charge: Lawsuit lending and effects on the civil justice system
- Betting on Justice Series, Center for Public Integrity and New York Times, November 2010 - June 2011
- Informational Paper to the House of Delegates on Alternative Litigation Financing, American Bar Association Commission on Ethics 20/20, February 2012
- "NYC Bar Weighs in on Litigation Financing," American Bar Association, August 29, 2011
- Third-Party Litigation Funding and Claim Transfer: Trends and Implications for the Civil Justice System, UCLA-RAND Center for Law and Public Policy, 2010, Conference Proceedings from June 2, 2009
Charge: Best practices regarding corporate governance, confidentiality of communications to ombudsmen in order to provide more protections to complaining parties
- "Enter the Watchmen: The Critical Role of an Ombuds Program in Corporate Governance," Risk Management Magazine, September 2004
House Committees on Agriculture & Livestock and Urban Affairs
Charge: Community gardens and urban farming efforts that increase access to healthy foods; feasibility of policies to support these efforts, especially in high-population areas
Charge: Community gardens and urban farming efforts that increase access to healthy foods; feasibility of policies to support these efforts, especially in high-population areas
- "Promoting Urban Agriculture as an Alternative Land Use for Vacant Properties in the City of Detroit: Benefits, Problems and Proposals for a Regulatory Framework for Successful Land Use Integration," Wayne Law Review, Wayne State University, August 2010
- Urban Agriculture: A Sixteen City Survey of Urban Agriculture Practices Across the Country, Turner Environmental Law Clinic, Emory University, Georgia Organics, November 2011
- Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens Policy Toolkit (success factors, challenges, financing, case studies, and resources), PolicyLink
April 19th
House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock (Bastrop)
Charge: Wildfire response performed by the Texas Forest Service and cooperating state agencies; enhancing state laws to improve response effectiveness; wildfire causes and mitigation
- "By the Numbers: Texas Wildfire Disaster Six Months Later" and "Six Months After Historic Wildfires, Texas Recovery Going Strong With FEMA/State Assistance," Federal Emergency Management Agency, February 29, 2012
- Fiscal Notes: Texans on the Fire Line, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, September 2011
- Hazard Mitigation Webinar Presentation, Texas Division of Emergency Management, October 2011
- "Texas Was Warned About Risk of Building in Backcountry," Austin American-Statesman, September 12, 2011
- "Texas Forest Service Battles Fires, Budget Cuts," Texas Tribune, April 8, 2011
