Interim Hearings - Week of October 17
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.
October 17
House Committee on Public Education
Topic: School choice programs
- "Nevada Supreme Court Ruling Expected to Affect School Choice Legislation Nationwide," Las Vegas Review-Journal, September 29, 2016
- "GOP Pitches Private School Choice at Education Panel," Texas Tribune, September 14, 2016
- "Groups Take Issue With Renaming School Vouchers Savings Accounts," Texas Standard, September 13, 2016
- The ABCs of School Choice: The Comprehensive Guide to Every Private School Choice Program in America, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2016
- 2015-2016 School Choice Yearbook (50 school choice programs), American Federation for Children Growth Fund, 2016
- The Case Against School Vouchers: The Texas Miracle Depends on Strong Public Schools, Not Unproven Gimmicks (Policy brief), Raise Your Hand Texas, September 2015
- Report to the 83rd Legislature and Committee Handouts/Written Testimony (Charge 6 - school choice), Senate Committee on Education, January 2013
- School Choice and Charters, National Conference of State Legislatures
October 18
Joint Interim Committee to Study Border Security
Topic: Implementation of HB 11, 84th Legislature, R.S., and additional border security efforts
- Texas Criminal Alien Arrest Data, Texas Department of Public Safety, Through August 31, 2016
- Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations, Congressional Research Service, July 22, 2016
- Operation Secure Texas: Texas Border Security Performance Measures, Texas Department of Public Safety, July 19, 2016
- Update: State Funding for Border Security (Covering 2nd & 3rd Quarters of Fiscal Year 2016; September 1, 2015 - February 29, 2016), Texas Legislative Budget Board, July 2016
- Texas Border Security (Border Security Statistics), Texas Department of Public Safety, January 2016
- Border Metrics: How to Effectively Measure Border Security and Immigration Control, Migration Policy Institute, January 2016
- ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report, Fiscal Year 2015, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, December 22, 2015
- Texas Gang Threat Assessment: A State Intelligence Estimate, Joint Crime Information Center, Texas Department of Public Safety, August 2015
- Securing the Border: Assessing the Impact of Transnational Crime: Hearing Before the S. Comm. on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 114th Congress (2015)
- Assessing the Threat of Human Trafficking in Texas: A State Intelligence Estimate, Texas Department of Public Safety, April 2014
