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.
Week of February 1
February 2
House Committee on Natural Resources
Charge: Water markets in Texas
- "Marketing Texas Groundwater," Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, June 4, 2015, published in Tierra Grande, July 2015
- "The West Needs a Water Market to Fight Drought (Commentary)," Wall Street Journal, October 23, 2014
- Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West, The Hamilton Project and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, October 2014
- "The Texas Water Exchange: A Water Marketplace Emerges," Rivard Report, June 26, 2014
- "Water Scarcity a Potential Drain on the Texas Economy," Southwest Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Fourth Quarter 2013
- "Water Scarcity, Marketing, and Privatization," Robert Glennon, Texas Law Review, June 2005
- Interim Report to the 79th Legislature, Senate Select Committee on Water Policy, December 2004
- Interim Report to the 78th Legislature, Texas Joint Committee on Water Resources, November 2002
- A Texan's Guide to Water and Water Rights Marketing (including the future of water marketing in Texas), Texas Water Development Board
- Texas Water Bank and Water Trust, Texas Water Development Board
Charge: Regional and state water planning processes, with emphasis on integration of HB 4, 83rd Legislature, R.S., regional planning groups, groundwater management, drought of record, and related issues
- Interim Report to the 84th Legislature (Charge 2 – Groundwater), House Committee on Natural Resources, January 2015
- Report to the 84th Legislature, Texas Groundwater Protection Committee, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, January 2015
- Water for Texas: 2012 State Water Plan, Texas Water Development Board, January 2012
- Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature (Charge 1 – Drought of record and water planning), House Committee on Natural Resources, January 2013
- Water Resources Planning (state water planning, regional water planning and data, population and water demand projections), Texas Water Development Board
- · 2016 Approved Regional Water Plans, Texas Water Development Board
- Drought in Texas, Texas Water Development Board
Charge: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies, including review of the surface water permitting process in Texas
- Surface Water Rights and Availability (including permits) and Applications for Surface Water Rights and Ownership Changes, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
February 3
House Committee on Energy Resources
Charge 1: Impacts of declining oil prices, energy development strategies
- "Falling Oil Prices Put the Squeeze on State Budgets," CNBC, January 22, 2016
- "Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar Says of Plunging Oil prices: 'At Some Point … There Ain’t No More Jobs to Shed'" (blog), Dallas Morning News, January 21, 2016
- "Falling Oil Prices Leading to Drop in Texas Road Funding," Texas Tribune, January 20, 2016
- 2016 Texas Economic Outlook: Riding the Energy Roller Coaster, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, January 12, 2016
- Monthly State Revenue Watch, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Updated January 2016
- Houston Economy in 2016: No Recovery in Oil Markets Brings Another Slow Year, Institute for Regional Forecasting, December 31, 2015
- The 2016-2017 Certification Revenue Estimate, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, October 13, 2015
Charge 2: Oilfield theft
- "Texas Lawmakers Seek Abbott's Blessing on Oil Theft Crackdown," Texas Tribune, November 29, 2015
- "Oil Theft Soars as Downturn Casts U.S. Roughnecks Out of Work," Bloomberg Business, November 16, 2015
- Vetoes of Legislation: 84th Legislature (HB 3291, 84th Legislature, R.S.), House Research Organization, July 16, 2015
- Veto Proclamation (HB 3291, 84th Legislature, R.S.), Governor Greg Abbott, June 18, 2015
- "Oil Field Theft on the Rise in Texas," Inside Energy, March 9, 2015
- Interim report to the 68th Legislature (Report on Oil Field Theft), House Committee on Energy Resources, 1982
Charge 7: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies
- Oil & Gas, Railroad Commission of Texas
- Oil and Gas Activities, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
- Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations
Charge 3: Natural disaster preparedness planning, as it pertains to Hurricane Dolly disaster recovery efforts
- Interim Hearings - Week of November 30, 2015, Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, Charge 3: Natural disaster preparedness planning and coordination, Legislative Reference Library, November 23, 2015
- GLO Disaster Recovery Program Overview: Hurricanes Ike & Dolly (Disaster recovery grants allocated and expensed), Texas General Land Office, June 30, 2015
- Interim Charge Recommendations to the 82nd Texas Legislature (Charge: Disaster recovery funding, Hurricane Dolly background), Senate Committee on Finance, January 2011
- State of Texas Amended Plan for Disaster Recovery (Hurricanes Ike & Dolly amended plan), Texas Department of Rural Affairs and Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs, September 30, 2009
- State of Texas Plan for Disaster Recovery (Hurricanes Ike & Dolly action plan), Office of Rural Community Affairs, Disaster Recovery Division and Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs, March 4, 2009
- Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Dolly (AL042008), 20-25 July 2008, National Hurricane Center, January 22, 2009
- Hurricane Dolly (Hidalgo County response, situation reports), Hidalgo County, Texas
- Hurricane Planning & Multi-Agency Coordination Center (MACC) (Lower Rio Grande emergency management area, flood zones, evacuation routes), Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council
