Interim Hearings - Week of June 16th
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 Appropriations - S/C on Article II
Charge: Administration of new state funding to expand behavioral health services; public mental health system funding methodology
- "New Year Brings Cautious Hope for Mental Health Care," Texas Tribune, January 2, 2014
- Sizing Up the 2014-15 Texas Budget: Mental Health, Center for Public Policy Priorities, October 21, 2013
- Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services at the Department of State Health Services, Legislative Budget Board, April 2013
- A Guide to Understanding Mental Health Systems and Services in Texas 2012, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, November 2012
- Legislative Appropriations Request for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015, Texas Department of State Health Services, submitted August 16, 2012
Joint Committee on Water Desalination
Invited and public testimony regarding water desalination
- "Old Drilling Logs Help Researchers Map Brackish Water," Texas Tribune, April 11, 2014
- Interim Report 2012: a Report to the House of Representatives, 83rd Texas Legislature (Charge 3, Desalination), House Committee on Natural Resources, January 2013
- The Future of Desalination in Texas, Texas Water Development Board, 2012
- Interim Report to the 81st Legislature, Salinity of Surface Waters and Groundwaters in Texas, Senate Committee on Natural Resources, February 2009
- Seawater and Brackish Groundwater Desalination Projects, 2012 State Water Plan, Texas Water Development Board
House Committee on Appropriations - S/C on Article II
Charge: Implementation of provisions of SB 7, 83rd Legislature, R.S., and Article II Special Provisions Section 48 regarding the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- Proposed Rules in Texas Administrative Code, Title 40, Chapter 60, Contracting to Provide Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services, May 19, 2014
- Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services
Charge: Implementation of cost-containment initiatives in health and human services programs directed by Health and Human Services Commission Rider 51 (Medicaid Funding Reduction and Cost Containment)
- Health Cost Containment: State Initiatives & Federal Health Reform, National Conference of State Legislatures, Updated April 2014
- Medicaid in a Historic Time of Transformation: Results from a 50-State Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2013 and 2014, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, October 2013
- State Health Policy Options: Cost Containment: Medicaid, National Governors Association
Senate Committee on Government Organization
Charge: State agencies' mandated reporting practices
- Required Reports Prepared by State Agencies and Institutions of Higher Education (Fiscal Year 2013), includes HB1781 Preparers' Assessments of Other Reports, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, November 2013
- Required Reports Prepared by State Agencies and Institutions of Higher Education (Fiscal Year 2011), Texas State Library and Archives Commission, December 2010
Charge: Implementation of SB 1597, 83rd Legislature, R.S., relating to state agency information security plans
- 82nd Texas Legislature Interim Report (Charge 2, Cybersecurity), Senate Committee on Government Organization, December 2012
- Texas Cybersecurity Framework, Texas Department of Information Resources
- 2014-2018 State Strategic Plan for Information Resources (Top 10 Statewide Technology Priorities), Texas Department of Information Resources
- State Cyber and Information Security Policies, Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center
