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 27th Top
House Committee on County Affairs
Topics: Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality Improvement Program 1115 Waiver, mental health, diversion tools, issues affecting the local jail, indigent care
- County Indigent Health Care Program, Texas Department of State Health Services, August 14, 2014
- Presentation to the House County Affairs Committee on the Healthcare Transformation Waiver, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, May 15, 2014
- "Texas County Faces Growing Problem of Overcrowding in Local Jail," NBC Latino, February 10, 2013
- Jail Diversion, National Association of Counties
- Medicaid Transformation Waiver, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Charge: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction
October 28th Top
House Select Committee on Transportation Funding, Expenditures & Finance
Topic: Potential recommendations to the Legislature on topics discussed in previous hearings
- Minutes, Witnesses, Handouts/Presentations, House Select Committee on Transportation Funding, Expenditures & Finance
Senate Committee on Criminal Justice
Charge: Operations of the Texas prison system with respect to medical and mental health care
- The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey and State Results: Texas, Treatment Advocacy Center, National Sheriffs Association, April 8, 2014
- Deadly Heat in Texas Prisons, The University of Texas School of Law, Human Rights Clinic, April 2014
- "Crowded Out: Should California’s Crowded Prisons Look to San Francisco’s Shrinking Jails?," Governing, February 2014
- Sunset Review, 2012-13, 82nd Legislature: Correctional Managed Health Care Committee - Summary of Results, Final Report, Report to the 83rd Legislature, Sunset Advisory Commission, July 2013
- Correctional Managed Health Care Committee (CMHCC), Texas Department of Criminal Justice
October 29th Top
Senate Committee on Finance
Topic: Invited testimony from the Office of the Comptroller related to the state's major sources of revenue and tax structure
- Taxes and Revenue: Where the Money Comes From, Texas Transparency, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Overview of Texas Taxes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Revenue by Source for Fiscal Year 2013, and Texas Net Revenue by Source - Fiscal 1978-2012, Texas Transparency, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Sources of Revenue: A History of State Taxes and Fees in Texas 1972 to 2013, Texas Transparency, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, July 2014
- Quarterly Summary of State & Local Tax Revenue, United States Census Bureau, Second Quarter
- Budget Balancing Act: Health and Education Stretch Texas Resources, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Third Quarter 2014
