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.
June 20 Top
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs
Charge: State Water Plan
- 2017 State Water Plan: Water for Texas, Texas Water Development Board, adopted by the Board May 19, 2016
- "Private Sector Plays a Big Role In State Water Planning," Texas Tribune, March 13, 2015
- Learning from Drought: Next Generation Water Planning for Texas, Texas Center for Policy Studies, May 2014
- 2016 Approved Regional Water Plans, Texas Water Development Board
- Water Resources Planning (state water planning, regional water planning and data, population and water demand projections), Texas Water Development Board
June 21 Top
House Committee on Higher Education
Charge 6: Educational opportunities for non-traditional students, adult learners
- Bolstering Non-Traditional Student Success: A Comprehensive Student Aid System Using Financial Aid, Public Benefits, and Refundable Tax Credits, Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success at the Center for Law and Social Policy, December 2015
- Keeping College Within Reach: How Texas Can Move More Low-Income and Adult Students Through College, Center For Public Policy Priorities, April 2015
- Interim Report to the 84th Legislature, House Committee on Higher Education, January 2015
- "How Astonishingly Low College Completion Rates Are Hurting the Economy," SkilledUp For Companies, November 11, 2014
- The Changing Role of Community Colleges in Workforce Development, National Conference of State Legislatures, October 21, 2014
- "Colleges Adjust to New Reality That More Students Juggle Work, Family," PBS NewsHour, August 25, 2014
- "The New Class: Non-Traditional Students Are Changing the Market for Higher Education," The Economist Intelligence Unit Perspectives, March 25, 2014
- The Economic Payoff For Closing College-Readiness and Completion Gaps, Jobs For the Future, March 2013
- Complete College Texas: Is Texas Utilizing GAME CHANGER Strategies to Boost College Completion? Not Fully, Complete College America, Spring 2013
- Bringing Adults Back to College: Designing and Implementing a Statewide Concierge Model, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, November 2010
June 23 Top
Overview of Sunset process and schedule; approval of operating budget and rules; discussion and approval of changes to across-the-board recommendations
- Sunset in Texas: 2015-2017, Sunset Advisory Commission
- Tentative Review Schedule: 2015-2016, Sunset Advisory Commission
Staff presentation and public testimony (public input form for agencies under review)
