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.
House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Disaster Impact and Recovery (Victoria)
Charge: Use of federal funds in response to Hurricane Harvey, federal funds and investment in infrastructure projects to reduce impact of future natural disasters
- Updated Hurricane Harvey’s Fiscal Impact on State Agencies, (Presented to Senate Finance Committee), Legislative Budget Board, January 30, 2018
- State of Texas Plan for Disaster Recovery: Hurricane Harvey (Final draft plan), Texas General Land Office, Community Development & Revitalization Program, January 18, 2018
- Hearing Materials, House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Disaster Impact and Recovery (Beaumont), January 12, 2018
- Interim Hearings – Week of January 8, 2018, House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Disaster Impact and Recovery (Beaumont), Legislative Reference Library, January 3, 2018
Senate Committee on Finance
Charge: Property tax on business personal property and current $500 exemption
- The Property Tax in Texas, Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, February 2017
- A Tale of Two Tax Systems: The High (Business) Tax Cost of Texas, Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, January 2015
- States Moving Away from Taxes on Tangible Personal Property, State Tangible Personal Property Tax Statutory References for Tax Foundation Background Paper 63 (Appendix), Tax Foundation, October 2012
- The Texas Property Tax System (Taxable Property: Personal Property), Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, July 2011
Charge: Interest rate disparity in delinquent property and state taxes, compared to property and state tax refunds
- Report to the 85th Legislature (Charge 6 – Delinquent tax collection, tax lien transfers, and interest rates), Senate Committee on Business and Commerce, November 2016
- Interim Report to the 84th Legislature (Charge 2 – Existing lien laws, property tax liens and interest rates), House Committee on Business and Industry, January 2015
Charge: Monitor implementation of sporting goods sales tax and state and local park needs
- Sporting Goods Sales Tax Allocation (Issue Brief), Legislative Budget Board, May 2016
- Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature (Charge 3 – State park funding, sporting goods sales tax), House Committee on Culture, Recreation, & Tourism, January 2013
- Interim Report to the 81st Legislature, Joint Legislative Task Force on Use of Sales Tax on Sporting Goods (Created by HB 12, 80th Legislature, R.S.), February 2009
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Funding: Park Funding in Texas — from Cigarettes to Sporting Goods (Legislative history), Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Topic: Hurricane Harvey relief and recovery
- A Storm to Remember: Hurricane Harvey and the Texas Economy, Fiscal Notes (Special Edition), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, February 2018
- Updated Hurricane Harvey's Fiscal Impact on State Agencies (Presented to Senate Finance Committee), Legislative Budget Board, January 2018
- Hurricane Harvey: Fiscal Analyses and Resources (Agency expenditures, projected costs, contracts, and disaster related transfers), Legislative Budget Board
House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock
Charge: Early detection of exotic invasive organisms that could threaten the production of agricultural crops
- Safeguarding America’s Lands and Waters from Invasive Species: A National Framework for Early Detection and Rapid Response, The U.S. Department of the Interior, 2016
- Early Detection/Rapid Response, Texas Invasive Species Institute
- Texasinvasives.org
- Early Detection & Distribution Mapping System (Status of Invasive - Texas), The University of Georgia - Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health
- Manager's Tool Kit – Early Detection and Rapid Response, National Invasive Species Information Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Senate Committee on State Affairs
- Interim Report to the 85th Legislature (Charge 1 – Religious liberty), Senate Committee on State Affairs, November 2016
Charge: Attorney General's jurisdiction on abortion and multi-jurisdictional human trafficking cases
Senate Committee on Transportation
Charge: Funding opportunities for Texas ports
- "Ports Could Benefit From Proposed Loan Program," Houston Chronicle, April 4, 2017
- "Provide State Funding for Seaport Capital Improvements," Legislative Budget Board Staff Reports, Legislative Budget Board, January 2017
- Interim Report to the 85th Legislature, Senate Select Committee on Texas Ports, November 2016
- Texas Ports 2017-2018 Capital Program: Project Summaries, Port Authority Advisory Committee, November 2016
- Texas Port Report June 2014 (Section 4 – Port Finance), Texas Department of Transportation, June 23, 2015
- Survey of State Funding Practices for Coastal Port Infrastructure: Final Report, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, May 2015
- Texas Transportation Code §§ 55.001-55.009, Funding of Port Security, Projects, and Studies
- Texas Transportation Code §§ 56.001-56.003, Funding of Ship Channel Improvements
Charge: Human smuggling
- Interim Report to the 83rd Legislature, Joint Interim Committee to Study Human Trafficking, January 2013
- Texas Penal Code §§ 20.05-20.06, Smuggling of Persons, Continuous Smuggling of Persons
Charge: Highway naming
- Interim Report to the 80th Legislature (Charge 5 – Naming state highways, Appendices to Charge 5), Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security, December 2006
- Texas Transportation Code §§ 225.001-225.006, State Highway Names in General
- 43 Texas Administrative Code § 25.9, Memorial Designated Highways and Historical Routes
Joint Interim Committee on Higher Education Formula Funding
Topic: Improvements to the current formula funding system for institutions of higher education
- The Federal-State Higher Education Partnership: How States Manage Their Roles, Urban Institute, May 2017
- Ten Year Formula Funding History (Fund Distribution, Appropriations by Institution), Legislative Budget Board, October 2016
- Financing Public Higher Education in Texas: Legislative Primer, Legislative Budget Board, August 2016
- Why Performance-Based College Funding Doesn't Work, The Century Foundation, May 25, 2016
- Overview of Funding Formulas for Institutions of Higher Education (Presented to Senate Higher Education Committee), Legislative Budget Board, May 2016
- Performance-Based Funding for Higher Education, National Conference of State Legislatures, July 31, 2015
- Formula Funding (Formula Advisory Committee Meeting Materials), Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Senate Select Committee on Election Security
Charge: Voting security protocols, responsibilities and duties of Electoral College, voting fraud and disenfranchisement occurring inside nursing homes and assisted living facilities, outside interference and manipulation of elections
- Letter to Senator Bryan Hughes, Chair, Senate Select Committee on Election Integrity, regarding issues related to interim charges on election integrity, Attorney General of Texas, February 5, 2018
- Election Security: State Policies, National Conference of State Legislatures, December 11, 2017
- State Laws on Presidential Electors, National Association of Secretaries of State, November 2016
- The Electoral College, National Conference of State Legislatures, August 22, 2016
