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.
For recent posts on Interim Hearings, see Interim Hearing Resources on the LRL homepage. The "Recent Entries" list on the left provides quick access to interim hearings posts from previous weeks.
House Committee on Natural Resources (Waco)
Charge 4: Water markets in Texas
- Dynamic Incentives and Market Design: Implications for Water Markets, Global Water Forum, May 2, 2018
- Water Markets as a Response to Climate Change, Property and Environment Research Center, R Street Institute, February 2018
- The Case for a Texas Water Market, Texas Public Policy Foundation, April 2017
- Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature (Charge 2 – Status of water markets), House Committee on Natural Resources, December 2016
- Water Share: Using Water Markets and Impact Investment to Drive Sustainability, The Nature Conservancy, 2016
- Why Water Markets are Not Quick Fixes for Droughts in the Western United States, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, November 2014
- Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West, The Hamilton Project, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, October 2014
- "Water Scarcity a Potential Drain on the Texas Economy," Southwest Economy (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), Fourth Quarter 2013
- Environmental Water Markets: Restoring Streams Through Trade, Property and Environment Research Center, 2010
Charge 5: Information and awareness campaign regarding water issues in Texas
- Interagency Agreement Between Texas State University and The Texas Water Development Board, Texas Water Development Board, December 4, 2017
- Statewide Water Conservation Quantification Project, Texas Water Development Board, August 2017
- Water IQ, Water Conservation Implementation Task Force, Texas Water Development Board, 2016
- A Report on Progress of Water Conservation in Texas: Report to 84th Legislature, Water Conservation Advisory Council, December 2014
Charge 7: Water Availability Models for river basins in this state
- Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Select Water Issues (Water Availability Modeling), Testimony before the House Natural Resource Committee Hearing, Office of Water, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, March 1, 2017
- Water Availability Models, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Charge 10: Monitor agencies and programs under the Committee's jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 85th Legislature
House Committee on County Affairs (Houston)
Charge 1: Emergency response activities, impact of natural disasters on county finances
- Interim Hearings – Week of June 4, 2018, House Committee on County Affairs, June 6, Legislative Reference Library, May 31, 2018
- Interim Hearings – Week of February 5, 2018, House Committee on County Affairs, February 6, Legislative Reference Library, January 29, 2018
Charge 2: County ordinance-making and enforcement authority to deal with flood risk in unincorporated rural and suburban areas
- Interim Hearings – Week of February 5, 2018, House Committee on County Affairs, February 6, Legislative Reference Library, January 29, 2018
Charge 3: Defendants' and inmates' behavioral health needs, mental health services upon release from the criminal justice system
- Interim Hearings – Week of September 24, 2018, House Committee on County Affairs, September 25, Legislative Reference Library, September 19, 2018
Charge 5: Monitor agencies and programs under the Committee's jurisdiction and implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 85th Legislature: indigent defense
- Interim Hearings – Week of September 24, 2018, House Committee on County Affairs, September 25, Legislative Reference Library, September 19, 2018
