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 Appropriations
Charge: Availability of federal funding and Governor's Criminal Justice grants that may directly or indirectly improve school safety; potential costs of proposals identified by the Governor and House Committees related to improving access to mental health services for children, improved school safety, and enhanced firearm safety
- "Governor Abbott Releases School Safety Action Plan Summary" (Press release), Governor Greg Abbott, August 30, 2018
- "Gov. Abbott Gives Out $5.7M in School Safety Grants After Santa Fe Shooting," Dallas Morning News, August 22,2018
- "Governor Abbott Announces $1.8 Million In Santa Fe Grants" (Press release), Governor Greg Abbott, August 22, 2018
- "Texas Senate School Safety Committee Recommends Focusing on Mental Health, Avoids Gun Control," Texas Tribune, August 6, 2018
- Report to the 86th Legislature, Senate Select Committee on Violence in Schools and School Security, August 2018
- Committee Meeting Handouts (Joint - Pub Ed and Pub Health - Children and Mental Health), House Committee on Public Health, June 28, 2018
- Competitive grant opportunity from US Department of Justice: STOP School Violence (To The Administrator Addressed correspondence), Texas Education Agency, June 26, 2018
- Interim Hearings – Week of June 25, 2018, House Committees on Public Education and Public Health (Joint Hearing), June 28, Legislative Reference Library, June 20, 2018
- Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) and Awards for Fiscal Year 2018, U.S. Department of Education
Topic: Special Education Strategic Plan
- Improving Special Education in Texas (Special Education Strategic Plan), Texas Education Agency, April 23, 2018
House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock
Charge: Central filing system for filing financing statements that cover farm products being sold and purchased in this state that are subject to an agricultural lien
- Interim Report to the 85th Legislature (Charge 3 – Agricultural liens), Senate Committee on Agriculture, Water, and Rural Affairs, November 2016
House Committee on Pensions (Houston)
Charge: Legislative oversight – state's oversight of pension systems and implementation of relevant legislation passed during the 85th Legislature
- Benefits for State Employees and Public and Higher Education Employees: Legislative Primer (Significant legislation, 85th Leg.), Texas Legislative Budget Board, July 2018
- 85th Regular Legislative Session – Pension Legislation Passed, Texas Pension Review Board, August 2017
- Summary of Enactments: 85th Legislature (Public retirement systems), Texas Legislative Council, 2017
- Summary of 2017 TRS-Related Legislation, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, 2017
- Legislative Activity Related to ERS, Employment Retirement System of Texas, 2017
Charge: Funding soundness – ways to strengthen and improve Texas public pension systems; including effectiveness of corrective mechanisms, such as the Funding Soundness Restoration Plan and Pension Review Board Funding Guidelines
- Assessing the Risk of Fiscal Distress for Public Pensions: State Stress Test Analysis, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, May 2018
- Government Code Title 8, Subtitle A: Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems (Funding Soundness Restoration Plan, §§ 802.2015-802.2016), Texas Pension Review Board, September 2017
- Guide to Public Retirement Systems in Texas (Funding Soundness Restoration Plan, Appendix A - Legislation adopted by the 82nd–84th Legislatures), Texas Pension Review Board, February 2017
- Pension Funding Guidelines (Effective June 30, 2017), Texas Pension Review Board, Adopted January 26, 2017
- “ERS Requests Changes to Make Trust Actuarially Sound,” The Administrator (Texas State Agency Business Administrators’ Association), February 27, 2015
- Path to Stability: ERS at the Crossroads, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, December 2014
- Study of the Financial Health of Texas Public Retirement Systems, Texas Pension Review Board, December 2014
Charge: State retirement systems – governance structures of the Employees Retirement System, Texas Municipal Retirement System, Texas County and District Retirement System, and Texas Emergency Services Retirement System; including best practices and recommendations to strengthen oversight within the systems
- The Politics of Public Pension Boards, Manhattan Institute, September 2018
- Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Years Ended December 31, 2017 & 2016, Texas County & District Retirement Systems, June 5, 2018
- Audited Annual Financial Report for the Year Ended August 31, 2017, Texas Emergency Services Retirement System, December 20, 2017
- An Update on the Texas Municipal Retirement System (Presentation at Texas Municipal League Annual Conference), Texas Municipal Retirement System, October 5, 2017
- Legislative Handbook: A Reference Guide to ERS (ERS reports and studies), Employee Retirement System of Texas, February 2017
- "The Time to Fix Texas's Public Pensions is Now," City Journal (Manhattan Institute), "Texas Rising" 2016
- Pension Benefit Design Study, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, September 1, 2012
- Public Pension Search Tool (Details on state and local pension plans in Texas), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
