Interim Hearings - Week of June 9th
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 County Affairs
Charge: Legislative oversight and monitoring, Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality Improvement Program 1115 Waiver
- Presentation to the House County Affairs Committee on the Healthcare Transformation Waiver, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, May 15, 2014
- Medicaid Transformation Waiver including overview, timeline, and background resources, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs & Military Installations
Charge: Impact of federal actions (including the federal government shutdown, sequestration, military force reductions, and potential base closure or realignment) on active-duty service members, the Texas Military Department, veterans, their families, defense-related contractors, small businesses, local governments, and state agencies
- Estimated Impacts of Sequestration-Level Funding, U.S. Department of Defense, April 2014
- "S.A., Texas Could Gain in Wake of Troop Cuts, BRAC," San Antonio Express-News, March 3, 2014
- Government Shutdown: Operations of the Department of Defense During a Lapse in Appropriations, Congressional Research Service, October 15, 2013
- "Playing Defense: Looming Cuts May Affect Texas Communities," Fiscal Notes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, June 11, 2013
Charge: State Strike Force Team
- Beating the VA Backlog, Texas Veterans Commission
- "Legislators Look to Help Cut Wait Times at VA Clinics," Texas Tribune, May 22, 2014
- Report and Recommendations to the 83rd Texas Legislature, Charge 2, The Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs and Military Installations, January 2013
Topic: Veterans Health Care Access
- "Sen. Casey Announces Bill Addressing VA Backlog," The Philadelphia Tribune, May 29, 2014
- Review of Patient Wait Times, Scheduling Practices, and Alleged Patient Deaths at the Phoenix Health Care System, U.S. Veterans Administration, Office of Inspector General, May 28, 2014
- "VA Inspector General Confirms Texas Probes," San Antonio Express-News, May 28, 2014
- Letter to U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki requesting answers to questions regarding alleged misconduct at VA clinics, U.S. Senator John Cornyn , May 13, 2014
- Letter to Richard J. Griffin, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs, expressing concern over recent allegations that employees at the Texas VA clinics manipulated medical appointment data to conceal long wait times, U.S. Representative Lamar Smith, et al., May 13, 2014
- Claims Backlog Working Group Issues Report, The American Legion, March 6, 2014 and related report The VA Claims Backlog Working Group March 2014 Report
