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.
May 29, 2024
Senate Committee on State Affairs
Charge: Maintaining Election Security: Identify threats to Texas’s election integrity, including those from “Big Tech” and foreign entities. Recommend ways to neutralize such threats. Additionally, evaluate the countywide polling place program in Texas. Make recommendations to address countywide polling issues, such as increased wait times, longer travel distances, supply shortages, and reporting irregularities. Evaluate current laws that prohibit political subdivisions and public school districts from using government resources for illegal electioneering. Make recommendations to strengthen these laws and put a stop to illegal electioneering.
- Securing the 2024 Election: Recommendations for Federal, State, and Local Officials, Brennan Center for Justice, April 27, 2023
- Texas Election Protection: A Post-Election Report, Common Cause Texas, February 2023
- Report to the 88th Legislature Under Section 43.007(j), Texas Election Code Relating to the Countywide Polling Place Program, Texas Secretary of State
Charge: Protecting Texas Land and Assets: Evaluate strategic land and asset acquisitions in Texas by foreign entities that threaten the safety and security of the United States. Further, evaluate large-scale purchases of single-family homes by domestic entities and its impact on housing affordability for Texas families. Make recommendations to ensure Texans are secure from foreign threats and homes are affordable in our state.
- Housing Affordability: Overview and Model Legislation, Texas Public Policy Foundation, March 2024
- Foreign Investments in U.S. Agricultural Land: Enhancing Efforts to Collect, Track, and Share Key Information Could Better Identify National Security Risks, U.S. Government Accountability Office, January 18, 2024
- From the House to the Ground: Insights into the Challenges of Implementing State Housing Policies, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, September 2023
- Affordable Housing Challenges and Opportunities in Texas (Prepared for the 88th Texas Legislature), The University of Texas at Austin, February 2023
- Which Texans Can’t Afford Housing?, Texas Housers, February 2023
- Interim Report to the 88th Texas Legislature (Charge II – Workforce Housing), House Committee on Urban Affairs, November 2022
Charge: Banning Delta 8 and 9: Examine the sale of intoxicating hemp products in Texas. Make recommendations to further regulate the sale of these products, and suggest legislation to stop retailers who market these products to children.
- Is Marijuana Legal in Texas? What You Need to Know About the State's Pot Laws, Texas Tribune, updated April 30, 2024
- Sales of Delta-8 and Other Hemp Products Have Soared. So Have Calls to Poison Control Centers, The Examination, April 18, 2024
- Member Blog: Where Is Delta-8 THC Legal and Where Is It Banned? CBD Oracle's Map Has the Answers, National Cannabis Industry Association, November 9, 2023
- Consumable Hemp Program (FAQs), Texas Health and Human Services
