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.
July 16th Top
House Committee on House Administration
Topics: Personnel matters, committee budgets, and administrative oversight of technology changes for the House of Representatives
House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations
July 22nd Top
Senate Committee on Higher Education
Charge: Improvements in teacher preparation and certification programs
- "NCTQ’s New Report on Teacher Preparation: What Does it Mean for Texas?," Teach the Vote, June 18, 2014 and Teacher Prep Review 2014 Report, National Council on Teacher Quality, June 2014
- "Education Dept. to Move Forward With Plans for Improving Teacher Preparation," Chronicle of Higher Education, April 25, 2014
- Preparing and Licensing Effective Teachers, National Conference of State Legislatures, November 1, 2013
Charges: Impact of technology on education instruction
- "5 Things Researchers Have Discovered About MOOCs" (blog), The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27, 2014
- MOOCS: Expectations and Reality, Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, May 2014
- "The 6 Most Important Technologies To Impact Teaching and Learning in the Next 5 Years," Campus Technology, February 3, 2014
- NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition, New Media Consortium, January 28, 2014
- "What 5 Tech Experts Expect in 2014," The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2014
- Grade Change: Tracking Online Education in the United States, BABSON Survey Research Group, January 2014
July 23rd Top
House Select Committee on Economic Development Incentives
Topic: Overall examination of the use of incentives as an economic development tool
- "Prove it!" State Legislatures, National Conference of State Legislatures, January 2014
- Texas Emerging Technology Fund: FY 2013 Legislative Report, Office of the Governor, Economic Development and Tourism, August 2013
- Interim Report to the 83rd Legislature, Select Committee on Economic Development, February 3, 2013
- Texas Enterprise Fund: 2013 Legislative Report, Office of the Governor, Economic Development and Tourism, 2013
- Evidence Counts: Evaluating State Tax Incentives for Jobs and Growth, Pew Center on the States, April 2012
- Tax-Related State and Local Economic Development Programs, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, March 2012
- Economic Development in Texas: Programs and Incentives, TTARA Research Foundation, September 2011
- Economic Development and Tourism - Incentive Programs, Office of the Governor
House Select Committee on Child Protection
- Committee Meeting Handouts (Hearing packets), House Select Committee on Child Protection, July 1, 2014
Topic: Child welfare system: regulatory policy and contract oversight
- Contract Oversight and Support (COS), Texas Department of Family & Protective Services
- DFPS Contracting Policies, Texas Department of Family & Protective Services
- Contracting with DFPS to Provide Residential Child Care, Texas Department of Family & Protective Services, June 20, 2014
Topic: Foster and kinship families
- Sunset Advisory Commission Staff Report with Hearing Materials (Issues 2, 3, 4, 5), Texas Department of Family & Protective Services, June 2014
- Recommendation to propose rule changes in 40 TAC ch. 749, Minimum standards for child placing agencies, relating to foster home screenings and verifications and the supervision of foster homes, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Council, April 4, 2014
- Foster Care, Texas Department of Family & Protective Services
- Kinship Care, Texas Department of Family & Protective Services
- Foster Care Redesign (Improving Child and Youth Placement Outcomes: A System Redesign), Texas Department of Family & Protective Services
- Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature (Charge 1 – Foster Care Redesign), House Committee on Human Services, January 2013
- Interim Report to the 83rd Legislature (Charge 9C – Foster Care Redesign), Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, December 2012
Topic: Child welfare system: reporting maltreatment
- "Fostering Neglect," Texas Observer, May 29, 2014
- Safeguarding Children in Texas Foster Care, (See Oversight and Monitoring Foster Homes), Texans Care for Children, April 2014
Joint Committee on Human Trafficking
Topics: Ways to further combat human trafficking along the Texas border and region, Services available to victims
- Introduction to Human Trafficking: A Guide for Texas Education Professionals, Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force, Office of the Attorney General, July 2014
- "Texas Officials Consider Next Steps in Fight Against Child Trafficking," Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, June 29, 2014
- Assessing the Threat of Human Trafficking in Texas, Texas Department of Public Safety, April 2014
