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 10th
Topic: Quarterly updates from selected state agencies and entities
Charge: Workforce training programs in Texas, whether such programs target economic growth areas and future workforce needs of the health care, skilled trades, construction, manufacturing, aerospace, and information technology industries and help retain workers in those trades and fields
- State Training Inventory, a compilation of Texas education and workforce training providers, programs, contact information, labor market information, enrollment, and graduation data, and Eligible Training Provider System, Texas Workforce Commission
- Strengthening Workplace Education Program Policies to Enable Low-Wage Workers' Advancement (Fall 2011) and 2011 State Policy Accomplishments: Workforce Education and Skills Development (November 2011), The Working Poor Families Project
- Workforce Investment Act: Innovative Collaborations Between Workforce Boards and Employers Helped Meet Local Needs (GAO-12-97), U.S. Government Accountability Office, January 19, 2012
- Aerospace: "Community Colleges Put Federal Money to Work on Aerospace Training," The Herald (Everett, Washington), March 25, 2012; A Skilled and Educated Workforce 2011, Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board; Aerospace States Association Studies & Surveys
- Construction, manufacturing, and skilled trades: Driving Innovation from the Middle: Middle-Skill Jobs in the American South's Economy, August 2011, and Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs: State by State Snapshots, including Texas, National Skills Coalition (formerly Workforce Alliance)
- Health care: The Affordable Care Act's Public Health Workforce Provisions: Opportunities and Challenges, American Public Health Association, June 2011; Profiting from Health Care: The Role of For-Profit Schools in Training the Health Care Workforce, Center for American Progress, January 2011
- Information technology: "Stressed Out: Survey Finds Colleges Struggling to Meet Demand in High-Tech, High-Wage Fields," Community College Week, January 9, 2012
Charge: Licensing and regulation of occupations to ensure protection of public welfare, trust, health, and safety, and eliminate unnecessary, overly restrictive, or anti-competitive regulation, study guidelines and other states' approaches
- Bureaucratic Barbed Wire: How Occupational Licensing Fences Out Texas Entrepreneurs, Wesley Hottot, Institute for Justice - Texas Chapter, October 2009
- "A License to Shampoo: Jobs Needing State Approval Rise," Stephanie Simon, Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2011
- Occupational Licensing: Protecting the Public Interest or Protectionism?, Morris M. Kleiner, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, July 2011
- Occupational Regulation in Texas: Occupational Licenses and Statutory Penalties for Violations Relating to Occupational Licenses, October 2008, and Addendum, June 2010, Texas Legislative Council, Research Division
April 11th
Charge: Health registries maintained by the state, including the similarities and differences in reporting, consent, security, and portability of data.
Charge: Operations and functions of the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners
Charge: Money laundering; enhancing efforts to enforce money laundering laws
- 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of State, March 7, 2012
- "Money-Laundering Case Speaks to Border Fears," Texas Tribune, November 12, 2011
- Guide to U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Requirements, 4th Edition, Protiviti Inc., October 2010
Charge: Long-term stability of the Crime Victims Compensation Fund; its purpose and funding; its impact on victim organization
Charge: Transfer systems between public junior colleges and universities, including transfer of credit; the impact of accrediting associations on course credit transfer
- Transfer and Mobility: A National View of Pre-Degree Student Movement in Postsecondary Institutions, National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2012
- Implementing Statewide Transfer & Articulation Reform: An Analysis of Transfer Associate Degrees in Four States, Center for the Study of Community Colleges, April 2011
- Bridging the Gaps to Success: Promising Practices for Promoting Transfer Among Low-income and First Generation Students: an In-depth Study of Six Exemplary Community Colleges in Texas, Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2009
- "Who Decides on Transfer Credit?," Inside Higher Ed, April 21, 2011
- The Community College Transfer Student Report, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, October 2011
Charge 1: Effects of recent and anticipated Environmental Protection Agency rules on (1) electric reliability in Texas, (2) affordability of electricity in Texas, and (3) competitiveness of energy intensive sectors of the Texas economy, recommendations to reduce regulatory burden and maintain a business?friendly climate; specifically, study the following:
Charge 5: Impact of federal environmental regulations on electric generation capacity, amount of electric generation capacity likely to voluntarily be retired, incentives to promote retirement, including the effect on electricity rates
Forecasting coal and natural gas fuel prices for the next 15 years
- Annual Energy Outlook 2012 (Early Release), U.S. Energy Information Administration, January 26, 2012
- Annual Energy Outlook 2011 with Projections to 2035, U.S. Energy Information Administration,April 2011
- The Long-Term Outlook for Natural Gas, U.S. Energy Information Administration, February 2, 2011
- Coal and Natural Gas overview, data, analysis and projections, U.S. Energy Information Administration
April 12th
Charge: Statutory oversight granted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) regarding the financial feasibility of bonds issued by special purpose districts, whether changes in oversight structure are needed
Charge: Reducing local government procurement costs, assessment of the costs and benefits of electronic notices for bid notices
Charge: Implementation of legislation in the 82nd Legislature, Regular and Called Sessions, specifically, monitor the codification of
Senate Bill 1234, municipal management districts and the use of the "standardized language"
Charge: Role of Texas state military forces in enhancing the safety of Texans, recommendations for improving the coordination, accountability, and effectiveness of all components of our state military forces
Charge: Progress of Texas Department of Public Safety's Driver License Division efforts to enhance drivers license processing
Charge: Impact of border violence and illegal trafficking on the Texas economy
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