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 August 22
August 22 Top
House Committee on Land & Resource Management
Charge: Coastal erosion
- Coastal Erosion Planning & Response Act: A Report to the 84th Texas Legislature, Texas General Land Office, 2015
- Texas Coastal Management Program: Biennial Report 2013-2014, Texas General Land Office, December 2014
- Texas Coastwide Erosion Response Plan: 2013 Update (including erosion rates), Texas General Land Office, December 2014
- Interim Report to the 81st Legislature (Charge 2 - Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act), Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs & Coastal Resources, December 2008
- Interim Report to the 80th Legislature (Charge 2 - Effectiveness and funding of the Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Program, GLO), Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture and Coastal Resources, December 2006
- Interim Report to the 79th Texas Legislature (Charge 2 - Coastal hazard mitigation and coastal erosion funding), House Committee on Land and Resource Management, November 2004
Charge: Natural disaster preparedness and response
- Committee Meeting Handouts - Natural Disasters, House Committee on County Affairs, May 16, 2016
- "New Technologies Aiding States' Disaster Response," Capitol Ideas, Council of State Governments, May/June 2016
- "Judge's Corner: Texas Should Invest More Funding for Natural Disasters," Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape, Austin American-Statesman, December 30, 2015
- Lessons From Texas: 10 Years of Disaster Recovery Examined, Texas Appleseed, September 15, 2015
- State of Texas Hazard Mitigation Plan: 2013 Update, Texas Department of Public Safety, 2013
- State of Texas Emergency Management Plan and Annexes, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Division of Emergency Management, May 2012
- Interim Report, Report to the 82nd Legislature, Senate Subcommittee on Flooding and Evacuations, January 2011
- Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature (Disaster preparedness), House Committee on Emergency Preparedness, December 2010
- Report to the 81st Legislature (Charge 3 - Disaster planning and first response), Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security, December 2008
- "Lessons We Don't Learn: A Study of the Lessons of Disasters, Why We Repeat Them, and How We Can Learn Them," 2 Homeland Security Affairs, Article 4, July 2006
- Interim Report to the 78th Legislature: Natural Disasters, Senate Interim Committee on Natural Resources, August 2002
Sunset Advisory Commission
Commission decisions:
- River Authorities
- Texas State Board of Pharmacy
- Executive Council of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Examiners, Texas Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners, and Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
- State Board of Dental Examiners (SBDE)
- State Bar of Texas and Board of Law Examiners
Public testimony:
August 23 Top
House Committee on Special Purpose Districts
Charge 1: Municipal Management Districts and/or Improvement Districts
- "New Management Districts Pave Way for Growth in Missouri City," Community Impact - Central Austin, August 5, 2015
- "The City with (Almost) No Limits," UrbanLand Magazine, April 20, 2015
- Texas Municipal League Economic Development Handbook, Texas Municipal League, Updated January 2015
- Invisible Governments: Special Purpose Districts in Texas (Municipal Management Districts, Tables), Texas Senate Research Center, October 2014
- Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature (Charge 8 - MMDs; Appendices H-1 to H-2), Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, December 2010
- Texas Local Government Code §§375.001-375.357, Municipal Management Districts In General
- Texas Government Code §313.006, Notice for Laws Establishing Municipal Management Districts
Charge 2: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies, including opportunities to streamline the purpose of multiple districts created within the same area, while maintaining the mission of special purpose districts
- Invisible Governments: Special Purpose Districts in Texas, Texas Senate Research Center, October 2014
- Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature, House Select Committee on Special Purpose Districts, January 2011
House Committee on Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Charge: Occupational licensing
- Unlicensed and Untapped: Removing Barriers to State Occupational Licenses for People with Records, National Employment Law Project, April 2016
- Occupational Licensing: A Framework for Policymakers, U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Economic Policy, Council of Economic Advisers, and Department of Labor, July 2015
- Bootstraps Tangled in Red Tape: How State Occupational Licensing Hinders Low-Income Entrepreneurship, Goldwater Institute, February 23, 2015
- Report to the 83rd Legislature (Charge 2 - Occupational licensing and regulation), Senate Committee on Business and Commerce, January 2013
- License to Work: A National Study of Burdens from Occupational Licensing, Institute for Justice, May 2012
- Occupational Regulation in Texas: Occupational Licenses and Statutory Penalties for Violations Relating to Occupational Licenses, Texas Legislative Council, October 2008; Addendum, June 2010
Charge: Regulatory functions across agencies and departments
- Interim Report to the 82nd Legislature (Charge 1 - Review of committees, councils, and task forces across state government agencies and programs) , Senate Committee on Government Organization, December 2010
- Final Report, Legislative Proposals, and Summary, Joint Committee on Government Operations (Little Hoover Commission), 1975
Charge: Powdered alcohol and impact on underage drinking
- Powdered Alcohol - State Laws, Alcohol Justice, as of July 14, 2016
- "Powdered Alcohol Preemptively Banned in 31 States," Eater.com, April 29, 2016
- Powdered Alcohol 2015 Legislation, National Conference of State Legislatures, November 11, 2015
- "Powdered Prohibition," State Legislatures, National Conference of State Legislatures, June 2015
Charge: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies
Senate Committee on Criminal Justice
Charge 7: Civil asset forfeiture laws
- Asset Forfeiture Policy Manual (Ch. 14 - Seizures by State and Local Law Enforcement), United States Department of Justice, 2016
- Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture (Grades state and federal civil forfeiture laws), 2nd Edition, Institute for Justice, November 2015
- Civil Asset Forfeiture in the States, National Center for Policy Analysis, October 20, 2015
- Civil Asset Forfeiture: Good Intentions Gone Awry and the Need for Reform, Heritage Foundation, April 20, 2015
- Asset Forfeiture in Texas: DPS and County Interactions, Office of Court Administration, December 2014
- “Reverse Robin Hood: The Tale of How Texas Law Enforcement Has Used Civil Asset Forfeiture to Take From Property Owners and Pad the Pockets of Local Government – the Righteous Hunt for Reform is On,” 46 Texas Tech Law Review 1169 (Summer 2014)
- Taking Contraband Without Taking Our Liberties: Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform in Texas, Texas Public Policy Foundation, March 2014
- Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 59, Forfeiture of Contraband
Topic: Bullying in Texas schools, cyberbullying in the digital age
- Texas Anti-Bullying Laws and Policies (Other states), Stopbullying.Gov, United States Department of Health & Human Services, June 28, 2016
- "When the Teacher is the Bully," GreatKids, February 8, 2016
- State Cyberbullying Laws: A Brief Review of State Cyberbullying Laws and Policies, Cyberbullying Research Center, January 2016
- 2015 Cyberbullying Data, Cyberbullying Research Center, May 1, 2015
- 2015's Best & Worst States at Controlling Bullying, WalletHub, February 2015
- "Bullying Is No Longer Just on the Playground: How School Bullying is Evolving and How State Legislation is Trying to Keep Up," 14 Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal 1 (2013)
- "Bullying of Teachers Pervasive in Many Schools," NEAToday, May 16, 2012
- "How Public Schools Can Constitutionally Halt Cyberbullying: A Model Cyberbullying Policy That Considers First Amendment, Due Process, and Fourth Amendment Challenges," 46 Wake Forest Law Review 641 (October 2011)
Senate Committee on Higher Education
Charge: Tuition and fee waivers and exemptions, tuition set-asides, financial aid
- Overview: Tuition Deregulation and Tuition Set Asides, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, April 2016
- Texas Public Higher Education: Overview of Tuition and State Support Since Tuition Deregulation, Legislative Budget Board, April 2016
- Report on Student Financial Aid in Texas Higher Education for Fiscal Year 2014, Appendix M: Exemptions and Waiver Data from IFRS (Integrated Fiscal Reporting System) 2013-2014 (list of exemption programs, statutes, optional/mandatory, number of awards, and dollar amounts), Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, September 2015
- Interim Report to the 84th Texas Legislature (Charge 3 - Student financial assistance, financial aid, tuition assistance and waivers), House Committee on Higher Education, January 2015
- Interim Report (Charge 1 - Financial aid, efficacy of current exemptions and waivers), Senate Committee on Higher Education, December 2012
- Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature (Charge 2 - Financial aid, tuition and fee exemption programs), House Committee on Higher Education, January 2011
- Types of Financial Aid - Lists of Exemptions, Waivers, College for All Texans, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
August 24 Top
House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Article III
Charge 13: Review of current public education programs administered by the Texas Education Agency that are funded outside of the Foundation School Program
- Fiscal Size-Up 2016-2017, Chapter 6, Agencies of Education, Texas Education Agency funding sources, Legislative Budget Board, May 2016
- Summary of Recommendations - House, Texas Education Agency: Non-FSP Program and Administration 2010-11 to 2016-17, House Introduced, Legislative Budget Board, February 13, 2015
House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
Topic 1: Maintaining military value of defense installations and communities
- Interim Hearings - Week of May 30, 2016 (Topic 1), House Committee on Defense & Veterans’ Affairs, Legislative Reference Library, June 2, 2016
House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
Charge 1: GPS monitoring in protective orders, family violence prevention
- Using GPS to Track Batterers: At Least 23 States Using GPS to Keep Track of High-Risk Domestic Violence Offenders, Domestic Shelters.Org, July 15, 2015
- "Contact That Can Kill: Orders of Protection, Caller ID Spoofing and Domestic Violence," 90 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1157 (2015)
- Report to the 84th Legislature: The Texas Family Violence Program - A Statewide Report, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, November 2014
- Report on the Availability of Appropriate Technology to Monitor Domestic Violence Offenders and Their Victims, Office of the Attorney General of New Jersey, 2014
- "Strengthening the Guard: The Use of GPS Surveillance to Enforce Domestic Violence Protection Orders," 2 Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice 129 (2013)
- Navigating the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program: A Guide for State and Territorial Administrators, United States Department of Health & Human Services, November 2012
- GPS Monitoring Technologies and Domestic Violence: An Evaluation Study, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 2012
- Texas Code of Criminal Procedure §17.49, Conditions For Defendant Charged With Offense Involving Family Violence
August 25 Top
Joint Interim Committee to Study Development of a Cruise Industry
Topic: Development and potential economic impact of a cruise industry on the Texas coast between Calhoun and Cameron counties
- Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Year Ended December 31, 2015, Brownsville Navigation District, April 15, 2016
- "Deepening, Widening Channel Project May Start This Year," Port Aransas South Jetty, January 28, 2016
- Texas Ports 2015-2016 Capital Program Executive Summary (Economic impact – Galveston cruise terminal expansion project), Port Authority Advisory Committee, November 11, 2015
- The Contribution of the International Cruise Industry to the U.S. Economy in 2014, Cruise Lines International Association, October 2015
- "Cruise Ship Home Ports - Not Always the Goldmine They Promise," GADLING, April 3, 2011
- Tapping the Invisible Market: The Case of the Cruise Industry (Dissertation), Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A & M University, August 2006
