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.
September 20, 2022
House Committee on Higher Education and House Committee on Public Education (Joint)
Charge 1: Evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the state’s teacher workforce, and current practices to improve the recruitment, preparation, and retention of high-quality educators. Explore the impact of the educator preparation program regulatory environment. Make recommendations to improve educator recruitment, retention, and preparation throughout the state.
- The 2022 Texas Teacher Poll: Persistent Problems and a Path Forward, Charles Butt Foundation, September 2022
- The Teacher Pay Penalty Has Hit a New High, Economic Policy Institute, August 16, 2022
- What Happened to the K-12 Education Labor Market During COVID? The Acute Need for Better Data Systems, Annenberg Institute at Brown University, August 2022
- It's Not Just COVID-19: Why Texas Faces a Teacher Shortage, Texas Tribune, July 25, 2022
- Teacher Shortage? What We Know and What We Don't Yet Know, Texas 2036, May 17, 2022
- Texas Teacher Workforce Report, 2021, Prepared for Raise Your Hand Texas, University of Houston, November 2020
- Texas Educators: Certification and Preparation and Continuing Education, Texas Education Agency
- Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) in Texas and Educator Reports and Data, Texas Education Agency
- Teacher Vacancy Task Force Overview, Texas Education Agency
September 21, 2022
House Committee on Culture, Recreation & Tourism
Charge 1: Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 87th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
- HB 1728, relating to partnerships between the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and nonprofit entities to promote hunting and fishing by certain veterans; and
- HB 3081, which relates to the issuance of digital tags for the taking of certain animals.
Charge 2: Review the overall state of Texas' travel, tourism and hospitality industry. Make recommendations for statutory and regulatory changes to ensure industry resiliency and vitality. Consider the following:
- Access to federal recovery programs and efforts that enable the draw-down of federal funding;
- Improvement of workforce reliability; and
- Use of the supplemental money appropriated to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism through SB 8 (87S3).
- Texas Travel Research Dashboard, Travel Texas, Office of the Governor, Economic Development & Tourism, last updated September 2022
- Federal Funding Overview: COVID-19 Funding and Other Major Legislation (Presented to Senate Finance Committee), Legislative Budget Board, July 2022
- "Travel, Interrupted: The Pandemic Hit the Tourism Industry Hard, But the Future Looks Bright, from West Texas to the Coast," Texas Highways, Texas Department of Transportation, November 2021
- "Nature Tourism in Texas: Recreation, Revenues and Science in the Great Outdoors," Fiscal Notes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, May 2021
- "Weathering the Pandemic: Texas Industries and COVID-19" (Leisure and hospitality), Fiscal Notes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, January 2021
- The Economic Impact of Travel on Texas: 1994-2019, Dean Runyan Associates, Prepared for Travel Texas, Office of the Governor, Economic Development & Tourism, June 2020
- Travel Research, Travel Texas, Office of the Governor, Economic Development & Tourism
Charge 3: Review state efforts to preserve and develop Texas state parks and open spaces to ensure affordable public access to outdoor recreational and educational opportunities.
- Natural Agenda: A Strategic Plan for Texas Parks and Wildlife, Fiscal Years 2023-2027, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, June 1, 2022
- Staff Report with Final Results: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Sunset Advisory Commission, June 2021
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Self-Evaluation Report, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, August 2019
- Land and Water Resources Conservation and Recreation Plan, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, January 2015
- Education, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
September 23, 2022
House Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues
Charge 3: Examine obstacles to the reporting of domestic violence and how these obstacles contribute to the difficulty in obtaining and enforcing a protective order. Examine new technologies that could facilitate domestic violence reporting without putting victims at risk of further violence and harm.
- 16th Annual Domestic Violence Counts Report, National Network to End Domestic Violence, March 2022
- Domestic Violence in Texas, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 2021
- Texas Family Violence Program Statewide Report, As Required by Human Resources Code, Section 51.006, Texas Health and Human Services, November 2020
- Honoring Texas Victims: Family Violence Fatalities in 2020, Texas Council on Family Violence, 2020
- Creating a Safer Texas: Access to Safety, Justice, & Opportunity, Texas Council on Family Violence, 2019
- Technology Safety & Privacy: A Toolkit for Survivors, National Network to End Domestic Violence
