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.
April 29, 2024
House Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies
Charge: Examining the current state of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies and its uses by private actors in a modern society.
Determining the impact of the application of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies on various sectors of society.
Identifying policy considerations necessary to ensure the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
- Proclamation, Creation of House Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies, Speaker Dade Phelan, April 2, 2024
- What Is Generative AI?, McKinsey & Company, April 2, 2024
- Texas Lawmakers and Agency Leaders Experiment, Ponder Policies for an AI Future, Texas Tribune, March 26, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence 2024 Legislation, National Conference of State Legislatures, updated March 19, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council Appointed to Study Use of AI in State Government, Texas Department of Information Resources, February 26, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence in the States: Harnessing the Power of AI in the Public Sector, The Council of State Governments, December 5, 2023
- What Might Good AI Policy Look Like? Four Principles for a Light Touch Approach to Artificial Intelligence, Cato Institute, November 9, 2023
- What Is Artificial Intelligence? Legislators Are Still Looking for a Definition, Stateline, October 5, 2023
- Approaches to Regulating Artificial Intelligence: A Primer, National Conference of State Legislatures, updated August 10, 2023
- Growing Public Concern about the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Daily Life, Pew Research Center, August 28, 2023
- Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: Making Automated Systems Work for the American People, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House, October 2022
- Combatting Online Harms Through Innovation, Federal Trade Commission, June 16, 2022
- Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How Machines Are Affecting People and Places, Brookings Institution, January 2019
- Rise of the Machines: Artificial intelligence and Its Growing Impact on U.S. Policy, Subcommittee on Information Technology, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, September 2018
- Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative, Brookings Institution
May 2, 2024
House Select Committee on Protecting Texas LNG Exports (Port Arthur)
Charge:
(1) Analyzing the applicable legal authorities under which the federal action was taken, including the Natural Gas Act of 1938, as amended (15 U.S.C. section 717 to 717z), and the Administrative Procedure Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. section 551-559);
(2) Assessing the potential economic, environmental, and social impacts of such federal action on the state;
(3) Identifying strategies to mitigate all adverse effects on the LNG industry. Texas's energy sector, and the state's economy as a whole; and
(4) Formulating recommendations for legislative, policy, or other remedial actions to address the challenges posed by the federal suspension of LNG export permits.
- Proclamation, Creation of House Select Committee on Protecting Texas LNG Exports, Speaker Dade Phelan, March 25, 2024
- Louisiana v. Biden (No. 2:24-cv-00406), U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana, Court Listener, last updated April 18, 2024
- Summary of LNG Export Applications of the Lower 48 States, Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, U.S. Department of Energy, April 18, 2024
- Oversight of the Biden Administration’s Pause on Liquified Natural Gas Exports (Hearing), U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, April 18, 2024
- After the Pause: Understanding the Economic, Environmental, and Geopolitical Implications of Increased US Liquefied Natural Gas Exports, Resources, April 17, 2024
- Pros and Cons of Pausing Natural Gas Exports, Congressional Digest, April 1, 2024
- Pushing Pause on Liquified Natural Gas Exports: Can the Department of Energy Halt LNG Exports to Save the Planet?, The Federalist Society, March 27, 2024
- Unpacking the Misconceptions Surrounding the DOE's LNG Update, U.S. Department of Energy, February 8, 2024
- The Temporary Pause on Review of Pending Applications to Export Liquefied Natural Gas, U.S. Department of Energy, February 2024
- Implications of US Department of Energy Decision to ‘Pause’ Authorizations of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports May Extend Beyond Delays to Pending Projects, Akin (Law Firm), January 31, 2024
- An Unrefreshing Pause, The Perryman Group, January 31, 2024
- Biden’s ‘Pause’ on LNG Exports Is Impulsive and Destructive, Cato Institute, January 30, 2024
- Speaker Dade Phelan Blasts Biden Administration's Pause of LNG Export Projects; Letter to President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Speaker Dade Phelan, January 29, 2024
- DOE to Update Public Interest Analysis to Enhance National Security, Achieve Clean Energy Goals and Continue Support for Global Allies, U.S. Department of Energy, January 26, 2024
- FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Temporary Pause on Pending Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports and Statement from President Joe Biden on Decision to Pause Pending Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports, The White House, January 26, 2024
- LNG, The Perryman Group, September 13, 2023
- AEO2023 Issues in Focus: Effects of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports on the U.S. Natural Gas Market, U.S. Energy Information Administration, May 2023
- Annual Energy Outlook: AEO2023, U.S. Energy Information Administration, March 2023
- Texas Comptroller Energy Tour: Natural Gas Overview, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, 2023
- Texas' Energy Profile: A Review of the State's Current Traditional and Renewable Energy Capabilities, Fiscal Notes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, September 2022
- Interim Report to the 80th Legislature: Oil, Gas, and Alternative Fuel Issues (Charge 4 in part – Liquefied natural gas terminals in texas and Appendix D – Onshore LNG Supply Terminal Projects Proposed for Texas), Senate Committee on Natural Resources, December 2006
- Interim Report to the 79th Texas Legislature (Charge 1 – LNG infrastructure and imports), House Committee on Energy Resources, November 2004
- Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, U.S. Department of Energy
- Texas State Energy Profile, Texas State Profile and Energy Estimates, U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Regulation, Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, U.S. Department of Energy
