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 Higher Education (Kingsville)
Charge: Dual credit course offerings
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Summary of State Funding for Dual Credit Programs (Presented to the Senate Education & Higher Education Committees), Legislative Budget Board, September 2018
- Interim Hearings – Week of September 10, 2018, Senate Committees on Education and Higher Education (Joint Hearing), September 12, Legislative Reference Library, September 5, 2018
- Dual Credit: Where College Meets High School, The University of Texas System & Texas Association of Community Colleges, June 2018
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Perceptions Among Texas Legislators: Results from a Survey of the 85th Texas Legislature Concerning Texas Community Colleges and TACC (Dual credit), Trellis Research, Texas Association of Community Colleges, May 2018
- Overview: Dual Credit, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, May 2018
- Dual Credit Education in Texas and Dual Credit Data, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Charge: Financial losses to 2- and 4-year institutions, including facilities, from Hurricane Harvey
- Hurricane Harvey’s Fiscal Impact on State Agencies (Presented to the Senate Finance Committee), Legislative Budget Board, September 2018
- Hurricane Harvey: Fiscal Analyses and Resources, Legislative Budget Board
- Information for Institutions of Higher Education (Hurricane Harvey), Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Charge: Title IX and sexual misconduct policies at institutions of higher education
- "Following Backlash, Texas A&M Overhauls Its Sexual Misconduct Policies," Texas Tribune, August 20, 2018
- Texas A&M University: Review of Texas A&M University's Title IX-Related Policies, Husch Blackwell, August 2018
- Title IX/Student Assistance Services Processes & Procedures, Internal Review Committee, Texas A&M University, August 2018
- Responding to Sexual Misconduct: A Guide for the University Community, The University of Texas at Austin, June 2018
- Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature (Charge 4 – Sexual assault on college campuses), House Committee on Higher Education, January 2017
Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform
Charge: Voter engagement in local government decisions around budgets and property tax rates through digital media and social media
- Transparency: A Means to Improving Citizen Trust in Government, Government Finance Officers Association, April 2018
- How to Gain Citizen Buy-In, Counties Futures Lab, National Association of Counties, September 2017
- "Elements of a Social Media Strategy: How New Technologies Can Help You Do Old Things Better," Government Finance Review, Government Finance Officers Association, October 2014
Charge: Property tax data and collection methods
- Property Tax Administration in Texas, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, March 2018
- Property Tax Survey Data and Reports (Appraisal Review Board Survey Data, Operations Survey Data, Property Tax Biennial Report), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Property Value Study and Self Reports, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Charge: Effective tax rate and rollback tax rate calculations; appraisal review boards (ARBs)
- Property Tax Limitation Regimes: A Primer, Tax Foundation, April 2018
- Interim Report to the 85th Texas Legislature (Ways to improve property tax process, reduce tax burden), 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
- 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 Board Training, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Truth-in-Taxation: Tax Rate Adoption, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Texas Tax Code § 5.041, Training of Appraisal Review Board Members
- Texas Tax Code §§ 6.41-6.43, Appraisal Review Board
- Texas Tax Code §§ 26.04-26.05, Submission of Roll to Governing Body; Effective and Rollback Tax Rates
