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Interim Hearings - Week of September 19, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of September 19

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.

September 20 Top

(Fort Stockton, TX)

Charge 6: Joint groundwater planning, including HB 200, 84th Legislature, R.S., and ongoing legal developments concerning ownership access to groundwater and impact on property rights and groundwater management

House Committee on County Affairs

Topic: Racial disparities during traffic stops within Texas Department of Public Safety, the constitutionality of equal protection claims and concerns that arise from DPS racial disparities, de-escalation tactics, and diversion before booking

 

September 21 Top

 

House Committees on County Affairs and Criminal Jurisprudence  (Joint Hearing) 

Charge: Pretrial service and bonding practices, bail and pre-trial confinement decisions

House Committee on Elections

Charge 2: Voter registration rolls

Charge 4: Mail-ballot fraud

Charge 5: Compliance with campaign finance reporting laws by local officials and candidates

House Committee on Land & Resource Management

Charge: Regulatory authority of municipalities in their extraterritorial jurisdiction, current annexation policies

Charge: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies

 

(Del Rio, TX)

Charge 6: Joint groundwater planning, including HB 200, 84th Legislature, R.S., and ongoing legal developments concerning ownership access to groundwater and impact on property rights and groundwater management

See September 20, above

 

September 22 Top

House Committee on Appropriations

Charge 8: Ongoing implementation of SB 20, 84th Legislature, R.S., and Article IX, Sec. 7.12 of the General Appropriations Act, HB 1, 84th R.S., study of trends in state contracting as developed by the Legislative Budget Board

House Committee on Elections

Charge 1: Petition process for addressing local ordinances

Charge 3: Transparency of local bond elections

Charge 6: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies, specifically: methods by which local election officials are informed about changes to election law

 

House Select Committee on Mental Health

Topics: Mental health/behavioral care services in Texas, including, but not limited to, Texas' State Hospitals and mental health bed allocation, and availability of mental health services on the campuses of Texas institutions of higher education