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.
January 22
Topic: Texas Facilities Commission Capitol Complex Master Plan
- State of Texas Capitol Complex Master Plan, Phase One, Texas Facilities Commission
- Resources and Reports - Capitol Complex Project, Texas Facilities Commission
January 23
House Committee on Environmental Regulation, Subcommittee on Air Quality and Municipal Landfills
Charge 3: Permitting, siting, and regulatory processes for solid waste landfills
- "After Harvey, Some South Texans More Wary Than Ever About Plan to Build Landfill Near Floodplain," Texas Tribune, December 19, 2017
- Municipal Solid Waste in Texas: A Year in Review: FY 2016 Data Summary and Analysis, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, October 2017
- Interim Report to the 79th Legislature (Charge 3 – Landfills), Senate Committee on Natural Resources, December 2004
- Municipal Solid Waste Topics, Data on Municipal Solid Waste Facilities in Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
House Committee on Environmental Regulation (upon adjournment of the Subcommittee)
Charge 1: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) response and clean-up efforts related to Hurricane Harvey, debris removal, natural disaster response
Hurricane Response (TCEQ Executive Director's regulatory guidance, suspension of TCEQ rules, TCEQ resources for Texas residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, disaster relief funding, current conditions of drinking water and air quality), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Senate Committee on Business & Commerce (Houston)
Charge 1: Hurricane Harvey related property and casualty insurance claims data analysis (Texas Department of Insurance)
- Mandatory Data Call for Information Regarding Claims Resulting from Hurricane Harvey (Commissioner's Bulletins # B-0035-17 and # B-0034-17), Texas Department of Insurance, September 21, 2017
Charge 2: Health insurance market stability
- Allowing Purchases of Out-Of-State Health Insurance, National Conference of State Legislatures, January 5, 2018
- State Roles Using 1332 Health Waivers, National Conference of State Legislatures, December 30, 2017
- Health Insurance and States: NCSL Overview, National Conference of State Legislatures, Updated: December 29, 2017
- Interim Hearings – Week of November 27 and December 4, 2017, House Committee on Insurance, Legislative Reference Library, November 27, 2017
- Purchasing Insurance Across State Lines (Report to the TMA Council on Socioeconomics), Texas Medical Association, May 2017
- Interim Report to the 85th Legislature (Charge 4 – 1332 State Innovation Waiver), Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, November 2016
Charge 3: Implementation of legislation in the 85th Legislature, R.S., including settlement of out-of-network health benefit claims involving balance billing and patient's explanation of benefits statements
- "Closing the Gap," Texas Medicine, Texas Medical Association, December 2017
- A Texas-Sized Problem: How to Limit Out-of-Control Surprise Medical Billing, Center for Public Policy Priorities, February 2017
- Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States, ISPS Working Paper, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, July 2017
- Report to the 85th Legislature (Charge 7b – Implementation of legislation intended to further protect consumers from the balance billing process), Senate Committee on Business and Commerce, November 2016
- Surprise Medical Bills, Texas Department of Insurance
- Surprise Medical Bills, Texas Medical Association
