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.
Senate Committee on Education
Charge: Mandate relief/innovation: Education Code, cost-drivers, unnecessary mandates, reduction/elimination of inefficiencies, policies or opportunities targeted to improving student outcomes, and better utilization of taxpayer resources
- Report on School District Mandates: Cost Drivers in Public Education, Texas Association of School Administrators, Texas Association of School Boards, Updated January 2017
- Report to the 85th Legislature (Charge 3 – Efficiency/performance review of all public schools in Texas), Senate Committee on Education, November 2016
- Report to the 82nd Legislature (Charge 4 – Cost drivers in public education), Senate Committee on Education, December 2010
Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform (Conroe)
Charge: Effective tax rate and rollback tax rate calculations
- Committee PowerPoint Presentation, Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform, September 20, 2018
- Property Tax Limitation Regimes: A Primer, Tax Foundation, April 2018
- Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature (Property tax process), Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform & Relief, November 2016
- Truth-in-Taxation: The Guide to How Property Tax Rates Are Set, Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, August 2016
- Truth-in-Taxation: Tax Rate Adoption, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Texas Tax Code §§ 26.04-26.05, Submission of Roll to Governing Body; Effective and Rollback Tax Rates
Charge: Appraisal review boards (ARBs)
- Interim Report to the 81st Texas Legislature (Charge 1 – Property tax appraisal system), Senate Finance Subcommittee on Property Appraisal and Revenue Caps, January 2009
- Appraisal Review Boards, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Appraisal Review Board Training, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Texas Tax Code §§ 6.41-6.43, Appraisal Review Board
- Texas Tax Code § 5.041, Training of Appraisal Review Board Members
Charge: Replacing property tax with sales tax or other consumption tax revenue
- School Property Tax Reform: An Analysis of Options, Texas Public Policy Foundation, November 2018
- Raising the Sales Tax Rate Is Not the Way to Lower School Property Taxes, Center for Public Policy Priorities, April 2018
- Property Taxes: The Bad, The Good, and The Ugly (Replacing property taxes with sales tax), Real Estate Center, Texas A&M University, November 2013
Joint Select Committee to Study the Balance of the Economic Stabilization Fund
Topic: Determine and adopt a sufficient balance to maintain in the Economic Stabilization Fund
- "When Have States Saved Enough for a Rainy Day?," Stateline, Pew Charitable Trusts, October 4, 2018
- "The Texas Legacy Fund" (Economic Stabilization Fund), Fiscal Notes, Texas Comptroller of Pubic Accounts, October 2018
- Fiscal 50: State Trends and Analysis (Reserves and balances), Pew Charitable Trusts, September 10, 2018
- The Rainy Day Fund: A Resource Designed for Texas to Use, Center for Public Policy Priorities, Revised April 2018
- Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF) Overview (Infographic), Legislative Budget Board, March 2018
- Leaky Umbrella: The Need to Reform Texas' Rainy Day Fund, Texas Public Policy Foundation, October 2016
- Budget Processes in the States (Table 14: Budget Stabilization or "Rainy Day" Fund - 50-state requirements), National Association of State Budget Officers, Spring 2015
