Interim Hearings - Week of October 23
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 24
Senate Committee on Finance
Charge: Hurricane Harvey relief and recovery funds
- Certification Revenue Estimate 2018-19, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, October 2017
- "How Much Has Been Raised for Harvey Relief – and How's It Being Spent?," Texas Tribune, October 6, 2017
- Letter to Chairs and Vice Chairs of U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee and U.S. House Appropriations Committee Requesting Additional Funding to Deal with Hurricane Harvey Aftermath, Governor Greg Abbott, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, et al., October 5, 2017
- Hurricane Harvey's Fiscal Impact on State Agencies, Testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations, Legislative Budget Board, October 2017
- "We Don't Know How Much We Spend on Disasters, and That Needs to Change," The Hill, November 22, 2016
- Federal Disaster Assistance: Federal Departments and Agencies Obligated at Least $277.6 Billion during Fiscal Years 2005 through 2014, United States Government Accountability Office, September 22, 2016
- Lessons from Texas: 10 Years of Disaster Recovery Examined (White Paper), Texas Appleseed, September 15, 2015
- Hurricane Sandy: An Investment Strategy Could Help the Federal Government Enhance National Resilience for Future Disasters (Addresses extent to which states were able to maximize federal funding to enhance resilience), United States Government Accountability Office, July 2015
- Not Out of Control: Analysis of the Federal Disaster Spending Trend (Thesis), Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA), March 2016
Charge: Long-term impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Texas economy and the gulf coast region
- "Hurricane Harvey Unlikely to Throw Texas Off Course," Texas Economic Update, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, September 29, 2017
- Hurricane Irma to Cost the US Economy an Estimated $76 Billion in Output, Bringing to Total Losses from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma to More than $227 billion in Real Gross Domestic Product (News Release), The Perryman Group, September 13, 2017
- "How a Disaster's Economic Impacts are Calculated," The Atlantic, August 29, 2017
- The Economic Importance of Texas' Coastal Counties: An Analysis of the Dependence of Texas and Its Regions on Business Operations in the Tier 1 Windstorm Insurance Coverage Area, The Perryman Group, January 2015
- An Economy at Risk: Our Vulnerable Coast and Its Importance to the Texas Economy, The Perryman Group, December 2006
October 25
Senate Committee on State Affairs
Charge: Emergency management (agency interactions in natural disasters, emergency situation operations, disaster recovery centers)
- Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature (Charge 1, Hazard mitigation and natural disaster response; duties of state and local emergency response agencies including the Texas Division of Emergency Management, Texas A&M Forest Service, Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, State Fire Marshal, Emergency Services Districts, and water services), House Committee on County Affairs (joint charge with House Committee on Urban Affairs), January 2017
- Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature (Charge 1, Texas Division of Emergency Management and disaster preparedness planning), House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety, December 2016
- Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature (Charge 1, State preparedness and response to disasters, coordination between GLO, State Emergency Operations Center, and others), House Committee on Land and Resource Management, December 2016
- Interim Report to the 85th Legislature (Charge 3, Disaster preparedness planning and coordination), Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, November 2016
- Interim Report to the 84th Legislature (Charge 2, Disaster recovery operations), Senate Committee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs, and Homeland Security, December 2014
- Interim Report to the 82nd Legislature (Charges 3 and 12, Hurricane and disaster preparation, response, and recovery; State Operations Center), Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security, February 2011
- State Emergency Management Director Handbook, National Emergency Management Association, 2011
- Texas Division of Emergency Management, Texas Department of Public Safety
Charge: Single, comprehensive Web-based source on State Emergency Operations during disaster
- "New Technologies Aiding States' Disaster Response," Capitol Ideas, Council of State Governments, May/June 2016
- Innovative Uses of Social Media in Emergency Management, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, September 2013
- Cal OES, Cal EOS Live, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services
- Emergency.Louisiana.Gov, Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
- FloridaDisaster.org, Library (Annual reports, strategic plans, operational procedures), Florida Division of Emergency Management
- Hurricane Harvey Twitter Dataset (Tweets related to Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent flooding along the Texas gulf region), University of North Texas Digital Library
- Public Information and Education, Texas Division of Emergency Management, Texas Department of Public Safety
- Texas Emergency Preparedness Portal
- Topic Collection: Emergency Public Information and Warning/Risk Communications, Office of the Assistant for Preparedness & Response, TRACIE Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Information Gateway, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Joint Oversight Committee on Government Facilities
Topic: Deferred maintenance projects, facility space needs, and update on Texas Capitol Complex Master Plan
- "Texas State Government and Long-Term Obligations: Deferred Maintenance for State-Owned Facilities," Fiscal Notes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Special Edition - March 2017
- Facility Related Capital Needs and Deferred Maintenance, Legislative Budget Board, February 13, 2017
- Biannual Legislative Report (Deferred maintenance), Joint Oversight Committee On Government Facilities, October 2016
- Deferred Maintenance Funding Overview, Legislative Budget Board, July 19, 2016
- 2016 Texas Capitol Complex Master Plan, Texas Facilities Commission, March 23, 2016
- Texas Facilities Commission (TFC) Facilities and Design Construction (FDC) FY2016 and FY2017 General and Deferred Maintenance Procurement Forecast, Texas Facilities Commission
- State of Texas Capitol Complex Master Plan - Phase One, Texas Facilities Commission
