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.
Topic: Organizational meeting in accordance with Section 15.438 of the Texas Water Code
- Water Resources Research Guide, Legislative Reference Library, February 2014
- Texas Water Report: Going Deeper for the Solution, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, January 2014
- State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT), Texas Water Development Board
Charge: Implementation of SB 393 and SB 1114, 83rd Legislature, R.S., and determine school districts that have implemented graduated sanctions in SB 393
- Kids Doing Time for What’s Not a Crime: the Over-Incarceration of Status Offenders, Texas Public Policy Foundation, March 2014
- Discipline Data Products, Texas Education Agency, last updated January 27, 2014
- Guiding Principles: a Resource Guide for Improving School Climate and Discipline, U.S. Department of Education, January 2014
- Chart: Disciplinary Action Resulting in Classroom Removal, Travis County School Districts, Ready by 21, 2014
- Citations for Class C Misdemeanors at School, Texas Association of School Boards, August 19, 2013
Charge: Implementation of statewide electronic filing as mandated by the Texas Supreme Court, and determine those jurisdictions that have imposed the local transaction fee, as created by HB 2302, 83rd Legislature, R.S.
- "Texas Supreme Court Tweaks E-Filing Standards to Tell Filers Why They've Been Rejected," Strasburger & Price, LLP, April 22, 2014
- "E-headache," Fort Worth Weekly, January 15, 2014
- "Paperless courts: are you ready for the e-filing mandate?", Texas Bar Journal, January 2014
- Deadlines by County: Mandatory e-Filing and List of Active Courts, eFileTexas.gov, December 3, 2013
- Amended Order Requiring Electronic Filing in Certain Courts, Texas Supreme Court, June 24, 2013
Topic: Allegations requiring the forfeiture of future rights to nondisclosure as a condition of plea agreements in certain counties
Charge: Crisis resources for individuals with co-occurring mental illness and intellectual/developmental disabilities
- Including Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Co-Occurring Mental Illness: Challenges that Must Be Addressed in Health Care Reform (position paper), National Association of Developmental Disabilities, 2013
- Safety Net Services for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Including Individuals with Dual Diagnoses IDD/MI): The Harris County Model, MHMRA of Harris County, November 2011
- "Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Developmental Disabilities," Social Work Today, September/October 2010
Charge: STAR+PLUS managed care expansion/transition
- STAR+PLUS Expansion, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
- STAR+PLUS (Overview, Handbook, External Quality Review Organization Reports), Texas Health and Human Services Commission
