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.
House Committee on Business & Industry
Charge: Existing lien laws, specifically: enforcement of contract liens affecting real property; imposition of mechanics' liens on automobiles; and ad valorem tax lien lending after implementation of SB 247, 83rd Legislature, R.S.
- Recent Revisions to the Texas Mechanics' Lien Statutes, Dallas Bar Association, September 9, 2013
- "New Texas laws get strict about lien waivers," Lien & Credit Journal, May 23, 2013
Charge: Wage theft
- "Workers file first complaint under city wage theft law," Houston Chronicle, April 15, 2014, and related Houston Wage Theft Ordinance
- Preventing Wage Theft in Texas, Center for Public Policy Priorities, August 27, 2013
- Winning Wage Justice: a Summary of Criminal Prosecutions of Wage Theft in the United States, National Employment Law Project, July 2013
- Build a Better Texas: Construction Working Conditions in the Lone Star State, Workers Defense Project, January 2013
House Committee on Business & Industry CANCELLED
The Committee will only meet if all testimony was not completed in Business & Industry's May 27th hearing. If all testimony was heard, this hearing for May 28th will be cancelled.
House Committee on Ways & Means
Charge: Review state event trust fund accounts, including Major Events Trust Fund, Special Events Trust Fund, Events Trust Fund, and Motor Sports Racing Trust Fund
- "Millions from Texas trust funds help reel in Final Four and lesser gigs," Dallas Morning News, March 30, 2014
- Event Trust Funds Overview, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
House Committees on Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V and Corrections (Joint Hearing)
Charge: Correctional Managed Health Care system and forecasts for short and long-term criminal justice populations and health care cost trends
- Monthly Tracking of Adult Correctional Population Indicators, Legislative Budget Board, Fiscal Year 2014 Cumulative through April 2014
- Final Report with Legislative Action: Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Managed Health Care Committee, Windham School District, Board of Pardons and Paroles (Issue 4), Sunset Advisory Commission, July 2013
- Correctional Managed Health Care for State Incarcerated Adult Offenders in Texas: Legislative Policy Report, Legislative Budget Board, February 2013
- Fiscal Year 2012 Statistical Report, Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- Interim Report to the 80th Legislature, Charge 8, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, December 2006
- Interim Report 2006: A Report to the House of Representatives, 80th Legislature, Charge 3, House Committee on Corrections, November 2006
House Committee on Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V
Charge: Information technology (IT) infrastructure, data center consolidation, and the Department of Information Resources' Cooperative Contracts Program
- 2014-2018 State Strategic Plan for Information Resource Management, Texas Department of Information Resources, November 1, 2013
- Data Center Services Program Overview and Cooperative Contracts Program Overview, Texas Department of Information Resources
House Committee on Corrections
Charge: Correctional facilities and processes review, with emphasis on efficiencies, effectiveness, and recidivism
- Monthly Tracking of Adult Correctional Population Indicators, Legislative Budget Board, Fiscal Year 2014 Cumulative through April 2014
- 83rd Legislative Session Review, Legislative Budget Board, Criminal Justice Forum, September 6, 2013
- Final Report with Legislative Action: Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Managed Health Care Committee, Windham School District, Board of Pardons and Paroles, Sunset Advisory Commission, July 2013
