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 Human Services
Charge 2: Managed Care: access to care and network adequacy contractual requirements, Medicaid participant and provider satisfaction within STAR, STAR Health, STAR Kids and STAR+PLUS managed care programs, future delivery of services under a managed care model to additional populations
- Managed Care Organization Contract Reporting and Oversight (Presented to House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Article II), Legislative Budget Board, March 2018
- Managed Care: Contract Oversight and Monitoring; Update on Internal Audit and Contract Oversight Implementation (Presentation to House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Article II), Texas Health and Human Services Commission, March 28, 2018
- Managed Care: Contract Oversight and Monitoring; SAO Audit Update (Report 17-007) (Presentation to Senate Committee on Health and Human Services), Texas Health and Human Services Commission, March 21, 2018
- Utilization Review in STAR+PLUS Medicaid Managed Care, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, November 2017
- Texas Medicaid Managed Care and Children's Health Insurance Program: Summary of Activities and Trends in Healthcare Quality, Contract Year: 2016, Institute for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida, External Quality Review Organization for Texas Medicaid Managed Care and CHIP, August 2017; Addendum, October 2017
- Texas Medicaid and CHIP in Perspective, 11th Edition, Chapter 11: Fee-for-Service and Managed Care (Overview of Medicaid managed care programs: STAR, STAR+PLUS, STAR Kids, STAR Health, children's Medicaid dental services, dual eligible, nursing facility carve-in), Appendix D: Managed Care History in Texas, Appendix E: Managed Care Quality Assurance Reports, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, February 2017
- Review of HHSC's Contract Management and Oversight Function for Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care and Fee-for-Service Contracts, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, February 2017
- Combined Report on Medicaid Managed Care Provider Network Adequacy, Monitoring, and Violations, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, January 2017
- Expansion of Managed Care (Summary, Executive Commissioner's commitment to improving member and provider experience in Medicaid managed care, HHSC updates), Managed Care Contracts and Manuals, Managed Care Incentives and Disincentives, Managed Care Organization Sanctions, MCO Notices and Alerts, Managed Care Service Areas (Map), Health and Human Services Commission
- Managed Care Report Cards (CHIP, STAR, and STAR+Plus), Texas Health and Human Services Commission
- STAR Kids (Texas Medicaid managed care program), Texas Health and Human Services Commission
- Texas: Health Insurance & Managed Care, Texas: Medicaid & CHIP, Kaiser Family Foundation
House Committee on Land & Resource Management (Houston)
Charge: Texas' eminent domain statutes and balance between infrastructure growth and fair compensation for landowners
- Interim Report to the 85th Legislature (Charge 5 – Eminent domain), Senate Committee on State Affairs, November 2016
- Understanding the Condemnation Process in Texas, Real Estate Center, Texas A&M University, Revised July 2015
- Eminent Domain Authority in Texas, Texas Legislative Council, October 2012
- The State of Texas Landowner's Bill of Rights, Office of the Attorney General of Texas, March 2012
House Committee on County Affairs
Charge 1: Emergency response activities; impact of natural disasters on county finances (Hurricane Harvey)
- Committee Meeting Handouts, House Committee on County Affairs, February 6, 2018
- Interim Hearings – Week of February 5, 2018, House Committee on County Affairs, Legislative Reference Library, January 29, 2018
Charge 2: County ordinance and enforcement authority for flood risk in unincorporated rural and suburban areas
- Interim Hearings – Week of February 5, 2018, House Committee on County Affairs, Legislative Reference Library, January 29, 2018
House Committee on Pensions (Dallas)
Charge: TRS health care (immediate and long-term solvency and plan design of TRS-Care and TRS Active-Care)
- Summary Annual Report: 2017, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, January 2018
- Final TRS-Care Plan Designs and Premiums Adopted by Board, The Pulse and TRS Board of Trustees Meeting (TAB 9 – Review and consider adoption of premiums and plan design for TRS-Care), Teacher Retirement System of Texas, September 2017
- "Texas State Government and Long-Term Obligations: Teacher Retirement System – TRS-Care," Fiscal Notes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, March 2017
- Guide to Public Retirement Systems in Texas, Texas Pension Review Board, February 2017
- Report to the 85th Legislature, Joint Interim Committee to Study TRS Health Benefit Plans, November 2016
Charge: Improving defined benefit programs (strengthening and improving Texas public pension systems)
- The State Pension Funding Gap: 2016, Pew Charitable Trust, April 12, 2018
- State and Local Government Spending on Public Employee Retirement Systems, National Association of State Retirement Administrators, Updated March 2018
- "Texas State Government and Long-Term Obligations: State Employee Pension Funding," Fiscal Notes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, March 2017
- Report on the Asset Allocation and Investment Performance of Texas Public Employee Retirement Systems, Maples Fund Services, Texas Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems (TEXPERS), March 2017
- Guide to Public Retirement Systems in Texas, Texas Pension Review Board, February 2017
- Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature, House Committee on Pensions, December 2016
- Study of the Financial Health of Texas Public Retirement Systems, Texas Pension Review Board, December 2014
- Publications & Reports, Texas Pension Review Board
Charge: Legislative oversight (Monitor agencies and programs under the Committee's jurisdiction and implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 85th Legislature)
