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.
April 5 Top
House Committee on Government Transparency & Operation
Charge: State cybersecurity policies and safety of personal information held by state agencies
- Interim Hearings - Week of March 28, 2016, Senate Committee on Business & Commerce, Charge: State cybersecurity and protection of financial and personal information, Legislative Reference Library, March 21, 2016
- State of the States on Cybersecurity: California, Maryland , Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Pell Center, November 2015
- 83rd Texas Legislature: Interim Report, (Charge 3 - Cybersecurity), Senate Committee on Government Organization, December 2014
- Building a More Secure and Prosperous Texas, Texas Cybersecurity, Education, and Economic Development Council, December 1, 2012
- Interim Report to the 83rd Legislature (Charge 2 - Cybersecurity), Senate Committee on Open Government, December 2012
- Information Security and Technology Legislation (84th Legislature) , Texas Department of Information Resources
Charge: Purchasing practices by state agencies
- Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature, House Select Committee on Government Efficiency and Accountability, January 2011
- State Purchasing, Statutes and Procedures, and Publications (Purchasing), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Charge: Commercial cloud computing by state agencies and institutions of higher education
- Texas Cloud Services: Guide for State Agencies and institutions of Higher Education, Texas Department of Information Resources, December 2014
- 2014 Biennial Performance Report: On the Use of Information Resources Technology by Texas State Agencies (Priority: Cloud Services), Texas Department of Information Resources, November 15, 2014
- Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature (Charge 4 - Cloud computing), House Committee on Technology, January 2013
- Interim Report to the 83rd Legislature (Cloud computing), House Committee on State Affairs, December 2012
House Committee on Public Health
Charge 2: Chronic disease in Texas; direct and indirect costs associated with obesity, tobacco, and other related chronic health conditions
- State of Tobacco Control 2016: Texas, American Lung Association, February 2016
- Texans and Tobacco, Texas Department of State Health Services, December 2015
- Diabetes: Addressing the Costs: 50-State Budget Survey for FY 2014, National Conference of State Legislatures, November 2015
- The State of Obesity 2015: Better Policies for a Healthier America, Full report, Texas state brief, Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 2015
- Adult Obesity Facts (including obesity prevalence maps with state-specific data), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September 21, 2015
- Childhood Obesity Facts (including prevalence of obesity among low-income children aged 2 through 4 years, by state and income, 2011), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, June 19, 2015
- The Health Status of Texas 2014 and Data Supplement, Texas Department of State Health Services, October 2014
- Checkup Time: Chronic Disease and Wellness in America: Measuring the Economic Burden in a Changing Nation, Milken Institute, January 2014 (follow-up to An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease: Charting a New Course to Save Lives and Increase Productivity and Economic Growth, October 2007)
- Interim Report to the 83rd Legislature (Charge 5 - Obesity and diet-related disease), Senate Committee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs, and Homeland Security, February 2013
- Lots to Lose: How America’s Health and Obesity Crisis Threatens our Economic Future, Bipartisan Policy Center, June 5, 2012
- Interim Report to the 82nd Legislature (Charge 7 - Obesity and chronic disease), Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, December 2010
- Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature (Charge 1 - Obesity), House Committee on Public Health, December 2010
- Long Live Texans: How Much Does Chronic Disease Cost Us?, Texas Department of State Health Services
- Texas Health Data, Texas Department of State Health Services, Center for Health Statistics
- Prevention Status Reports: Texas (including alcohol-related harms, heart disease and stroke, HIV, nutrition, physical activity, and obesity, tobacco use), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
House Committee on Urban Affairs
Charge: Cities' cybersecurity policies
- Interim Hearings - Week of February 22, 2016, House Committee on Urban Affairs, Charge 2 - Cities' cybersecurity policy, Legislative Reference Library, February 23, 2016
April 6 Top
House Committee on Economic & Small Business Development
Charge: Local economic development programs and economic development corporations
- Investing in Texas: Economic Incentives and Programs, Texas Taxpayers and Research Association Research Foundation, February 2015
- Texas Municipal League Economic Development Handbook, Texas Municipal League, Updated January 2015
- Economic Development Corporation Report, Fiscal Years 2012-2013,Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, November 1, 2014
- Catalyst for Growth: The Importance of 25 Years of Projects Facilitated by the Texas Sales Tax for Economic Development, The Perryman Group, October 2014
- Type A and B Economic Development Corporations, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Interim Report to the 80th Legislature (Charge 2 - History of the Development Corporation Act of 1979, Sections 4A and 4B), House Committee on Economic Development, January 2007
Charge: Economic development incentives and regulations
- 14th Annual State Competitiveness Report (Press release with rankings), Beacon Hill Institute, June 2015
- Small Business Policy Index 2014: Ranking the States on Policy Measures and Costs Impacting Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 19th Annual Edition, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, December 2014
- The 2014 State New Economy Index: Benchmarking Economic Transformation in the States, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, June 2014
- 2014 State Tech and Science Index: Enduring Lessons for the Intangible Economy, Milken Institute California Center, 2014
- Top Trends in State Economic Development, National Governors Association, August 2013
- Trends in Tech-Based Economic Development: Local, State and Federal Action in 2013, State Science & Technology Institute, 2013
- Enterprising States: Policies that Produce, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, June 2012
House Committee on Appropriations - S/C on Article II
Charge 10: Texas Medicaid programs providing long-term services and supports to adults or children with medical, physical, or intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)
- Medicaid and Long-Term Services and Supports: A Primer, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, December 2015
- Compare Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Programs, Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services, Updated May 1, 2015
- Long-Term Services and Supports Quality Review Biennial Summary Report 2015, Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services, January 2015
- Raising Expectations: A State Scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Adults, People with Physical Disabilities, and Family Caregivers, AARP, Commonwealth Fund, SCAN Foundation, Second Edition, June 2014
Charge 12: Historical growth of Texas Medicaid program, caseload and cost trends, Medicaid policy initiatives
- Audit of Medicaid and CHIP MCO Special Investigative Units (Presentation to House Human Services Committee), Texas Health and Human Services Commission, March 8, 2016
- Audit of Medicaid and CHIP MCO Special Investigative Units, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Office of Inspector General, February 5, 2016
- Quarterly Report, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Office of Inspector General, December 2015
- Texas Medicaid and CHIP in Perspective (10th Edition), Texas Health and Human Services Commission, February 2015
- Interim Report to the 84th Legislature (Charge 7), Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, December 2014
- Presentation to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services: Initiatives to Reduce Fraud, Waste and Abuse, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, August 14, 2014
- Expansion of Medicaid Managed Care, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
April 7 Top
House Committee on Appropriations - S/C on Article II
Charges 10 and 12, continued
House Committee on Culture, Recreation & Tourism
Charge 4: Tourism, youth education, and economic development through heritage, cultural, recreational, historical, and nature programs and preservation practices; economic impact of state parks and state and state and local historic sites, the Texas Heritage Trails Program, the Alamo Mission Complex, and rural community revitalization in promoting recreation and heritage tourism
- Texas Travel Impacts Data (interactive website on travel economic impact by regions, Senate and House Districts, counties, metro areas, selected cities), Dean Runyan Associates, Prepared for Texas Tourism, Office of the Governor, Texas Economic Development & Tourism, c. 2007-2016
- The Economic Impact of Travel on Texas: 1990-2014p, Dean Runyan Associates, Prepared for Texas Tourism, Office of the Governor, Texas Economic Development & Tourism, June 2015
- Economic Impact of Historic Preservation in Texas: Update 2015, Technical Analysis, Executive Summary (including heritage tourism, Texas Heritage Trails Program, state historic sites), The University of Texas at Austin, Rutgers University, Texas Historical Commission, 2015
- The Economic Contributions of Texas State Parks, Texas A&M University, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, November 2014
- 2012 Texas Outdoor Recreation Plan, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, 2012
- The Rationale for Recreation Services for Youth: An Evidenced Based Approach, National Recreation and Park Association, 2010
