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Interim Hearings - Week of June 13, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of June 13

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.

 

June 13

House Committee on Pensions

Topic: Houston pension funds

Charge 4: Structural reforms to state public pension plans, feasibility of one-time funding increases

June 16

Charge 7: Shared economy growth

Charge 9: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies, including updates regarding transfer of duties and services from health and human services agencies to the Texas Workforce Commission, and impact of incentive reform legislation

Senate Committee on Health & Human Services

Charge: Collaborative partnerships between state-owned mental health hospitals and university health science centers

Charge: Diversion of individuals with serious mental illness from criminal justice settings, recidivism prevention

Charge: Tele-monitoring and telemedicine services for adults and children with complex medical needs, correctional facilities, rural areas

 

Interim Hearings - Week of June 6, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of June 6

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.

June 8 Top

House Committee on Business & Industry

Charge: Shared economy growth

Charge: Property owners associations

June 9 Top

House Committee on Business & Industry

Charge: Business cybersecurity

Charge: Shareholders of Texas corporate forms

House and Senate Select Committees on State Real Property Data Collection, Reporting, & Assessment (Joint Hearing)  

Topic: Potential ways to ensure the state is able to identify, track, and maintain information on the location, condition, and replacement value of all real property owned by the state

Invited testimony: State Office of Risk Management, Legislative Budget Board

June 10 Top

House Committee on County Affairs  

Charge: County cybersecurity policies

Charge: Texas Commission on Jail Standards, resources and structure in oversight, regulation, and enforcement of county jails

Charge: Internet publication of mug shots and criminal history information

Charge: Services provided by sheriffs and constables and whether fee schedules allow cost recovery

Charge: Effect of Proposition 5 (SJR 17, 84th R.S.) on quality of private roadways in counties with population less than 7,500

Charge: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies, including Child Protective Services and 1115 Transformation Waiver

 

Interim Hearings - Week of May 30, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of May 30

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.

June 1 Top

House Committee on Insurance

Charge 2: Transparency and adequacy of health care networks, consumer protection relating to out-of-network services

Organizational meeting

 

House Committee on Natural Resources

Charge 1: Regional and state water planning processes

Charge 6: Joint groundwater planning, including HB 200, 84th Legislature, R.S.; groundwater ownership, access, and management

Charge 9: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies, including review of surface water permitting in Texas

June 2 Top

House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs

Topic 1: Maintaining military value of defense installations and communities

Charge 1: Encroachment on military bases

Charge 2: Real Estate property disclosures of proximity to military installations

Charge 4: Minimize negative consequences of a potential forthcoming BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) round

Charge 5: Impact of sequestration and federal defense spending on Texas military

Topic 2: Education and employment barriers for veterans

Charge 6: Education/employment barriers for veterans; college credit for service-related training in the armed forces

Topic 3: Oversight of legislation passed by committee

Charge 7: Legislative oversight and monitoring of agencies

 

House Select Committee on Mental Health

Topic: Mental/behavioral health care services in Texas, including health insurance plans and law enforcement/criminal justice

 

Interim Hearings - Week of May 23, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of May 23

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 23 Top

House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock

Charge 1: Policy challenges to the state's agriculture and livestock industry

 

 

Charge 4: Windblown trash

Invited Testimony

 

Charge 5: Appraisal of agricultural land

 

House Committee on Environmental Regulation

Charge 1: Household hazardous waste disposal

Charge 4: Scrap tire management and disposal

Charge 5: Legislative oversight and monitoring

 

House Committee on Urban Affairs

Charge 3: Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs low-income tax credit, compliance with U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs et al. v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., et al. on fair housing in Texas

Charge 4: Housing programs and policies in Texas, compliance with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rules

Charge 5: Low-income housing availability

Charge 7: Legislative oversight and monitoring, including Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

 

Charge: Surface water and groundwater

May 24 Top

Joint charge: Emerging technologies used by law enforcement and issues related to appropriate dissemination of the data

May 25 Top

Joint charge: Criminal records

Charge: Public information

Charge: Commercial motor vehicles

House Committee on Transportation

Topic: Utility relocation issues on state right-of-way construction and maintenance projects

Topic: Toll revenues and total debt service

Topic: TxDOT Rail Division

Topic: TxDOT Rural Transit Division

Topic: Texas ports 

·        Interim Hearings – Week of May 2, 2016, Senate Select Committee on Texas Ports, Legislative Reference Library, May 4, 2016

 

Topic: DMV processing and handling fee

Topic: Financial forecast relating to transportation funding (testimony from Comptroller Hegar)

 

Topic: Finance options used in other states to fund transportation infrastructure

Topic: Design-build contracts

 

Interim Hearings - Week of May 16, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of May 16

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 16 Top

House Committee on County Affairs

Topic: Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality Improvement Program 1115 Waiver

Topic: Counties involvement in Child Protective Services (CPS) cases

House Committees on County Affairs and Urban Affairs (Joint Hearing) 

Joint charge: Risk and mitigation of wildfires, floods, and other natural hazards in the wildland-urban interface; natural disasters

House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence

Charge: Asset forfeiture

Senate Committee on Higher Education

Charge: Current funding methods for both general academic institutions and community colleges, performance-based funding for community colleges

Charge: Funding for GAIs (General Academic Institutions) and HRIs (Health Related Institutions), tuition-revenue generating special items and formula and research funding for new medical schools

May 17 Top

House Committees on Corrections and Criminal Jurisprudence (Joint Hearing) 

Charge: Probation & parole - fees and revocations

House Committees on Human Services and Urban Affairs

Charge: Boarding homes

Senate Committee on Criminal Justice

Charge 3: Reentry programs provided by TDCJ and the Windham School, including inmates in administrative segregation; Certified Peer Support Services; Darrington Seminary Program   

Charge 4: Pretrial diversion and treatment programs   

Charge 5: Dissemination of bulk criminal records   

Charge 6: Costs for family members to maintain contact with incarcerated family members    

 

Senate Committee on Finance

Charge: Strengthening restriction on appropriations established in Article VIII, Section 22 of the state constitution (spending cap)

Senate Committee on Health & Human Services  

Topic: Zika virus

May 18 Top

House Committee on Appropriations

Charge 1 (partial): Dedicated accounts, budget transparency

Charge 3: Texas constitutional spending limits, comparison to other states

Joint Legislative Committee on Health & Human Services Transition, Oversight  

Invited testimony

 

May 19 Top

Topic: Cost reporting process for long term programs

House Committee on Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence  

Charge 1: Trafficking

Charge 4: Jury service

Charge 6: Lemon law

House Committee on Public Health

Charge: Improving birth outcomes

Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations

Charge 1: Extraterritorial jurisdiction expansion and municipal annexation process

 

Interim Hearings - Week of May 9, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of May 9

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 10 Top

House Committee on Higher Education

Charge 3: College affordability and accessibility with a focus on middle-class students; tuition, financial aid, student debt

Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform & Relief

Charge: Property tax process

Charge: Tax burden

May 11  Top

Charge 2: Contracting practices at major state agencies

House Committee on Public Education

Charge: Teacher-student relationships 

Charge: Broadband services  for schools, libraries, and institutions of higher education

 

House Committee on Public Education

Charge: Legislative oversight and monitoring (invited testimony only)

 

Cover image by pixabay user skeeze

 

Interim Hearings - Week of May 2, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of May 2

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 2

Charge 17: State parks system funding, recent legislation including the General Appropriations Act, HB 158, and SB 1366, 84th R.S.

House Committee on Environmental Regulation  

Charge 2: Surface water management compliance

 

Charge 3: Local environmental regulation initiatives; resolve ambiguous regulations regarding priority of state or local authority

 

May 3

House Committees on Economic & Small Business Development and Public Education (Joint Hearing)   

Joint charge: Partnerships between higher education institutions, public school districts, and workforce that promote postsecondary readiness 

 

Rules and laws limiting employers from providing internships or apprenticeships 

Workforce training, incentivizing business to invest in training 

 

May 4

Senate Committee on Business & Commerce

Topic: Penalty calculations under the current prompt payment of health care claim laws and regulations

 

Topic: Implementation of legislation, specifically legislation intended to further protect consumers from the balance billing process

Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, Texas Department of Insurance, January 2009

 

Senate Select Committee on Texas Ports

Topic: Committee rules and organizational business

Topic: Economic impact of inland waterways, coastal ports, and inland ports on the state economy

 

Topic: Future impact of Panama Canal expansion on Texas ports

 

Charge: Interstate Compact: cost-benefit analysis of a potential interstate compact on border security, and the constitutional and legal questions

 

Topic: TDCJ invited testimony answering questions from previous hearing on PEP

 

May 5

Charge 15: Higher education funding formulas

 

Joint Interim Committee to Study Border Security

Topic: Implementation of HB 11, 84th Legislature, R.S., and additional border security efforts

 

Interim Hearings - Week of April 25, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of April 25

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 25 Top

House Committee on Business & Industry    

Charge: Texas businesses' utilization of the Federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit

 

April 26 Top

Joint Charge: Manufacturing and trade

House Committee on Natural Resources

Charge 4: Seawater desalination

Charge 5: Funds available to Texas in relation to 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Charge 9: Legislative oversight and monitoring

 

Senate Committee on Higher Education    

Charge: Tuition and student debt, specifically: Texas comparison to peer states, variance between institutions, accountability measures, and increases in tuition since 2003

 

April 27 Top

Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform & Relief

Charge: Property tax process

Charge: Tax burden

House Select Committee on Mental Health 

Mental/behavioral health care services in Texas, including early identification, crisis intervention, access to care, continuity of care, coordination of services related to an integrated system of care, delivery of care in rural, urban, and underserved areas; workforce challenges

 

April 28 Top

Charge: Small business expansion and growth

House Committees on Economic & Small Business Development and Energy Resources (Joint Hearing) 

Joint Charge: Impacts of declining price of oil and continuously depressed price of natural gas on the Texas economy and the fiscal implications for the Texas budget 

Charge 3: Law enforcement training and professional needs

 

House Committee on State Affairs

Charge: Human fetal tissue for medical and scientific purposes

Charge: State contracting procedures (a revised notice dated 4/18/2016 removed this charge from the agenda)

Charge: Disaster preparedness

Charge: Continued operation of the state government and economy

House Select Committee on Mental Health  

Mental/behavioral health care services in Texas (see April 27)

 

Interim Hearings - Week of April 18, 2016

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 19 Top

House Committee on Appropriations

Charge 1 (partial): Potential fiscal policy challenges or economic disruptions in the 2016-17 biennium, including impact of oil and natural gas price declines on the Texas economy

Charge 5: Accumulation of funds in the Texas Economic Stabilization Fund, particularly in light of HB 903, 84th Legislature, R.S.; accuracy of prior ESF revenue predictions, feasibility of long-term projections

Senate Committee on Education CANCELLED

Charge: Digital learning, expansion of broadband access in school districts and student homes

April 20 Top

Charge: Implementation of HB 9, 84th Legislature, R.S., and updated projections towards actuarial soundness of the Employees Retirement System; cost of living adjustments or "13th Checks" to retired state employees

House Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues CANCELLED

Organizational meeting

 

Senate Committee on Health & Human Services

Charge: Higher acuity children with trauma and mental illness in the state foster care system

Charge: Disrupted foster care adoptions

Charge: Current Child Protective Services process to track recurrence of child abuse and neglect

April 21 Top

Senate Committee on Health & Human Services

Topic: Update from the Inspector General of the Health and Human Services Commission on efforts to reform the Office of the Inspector General, and on the IG Integrity Initiative

Charge: Refugees relocating to Texas, Refugee Resettlement Program

 

 

Interim Hearings - Week of April 11, 2016

Interim Hearings - Week of April 11

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 11 Top

Joint Interim Committee to Study a Coastal Barrier System

Topic: Desirability and feasibility of constructing a coastal barrier system

April 12 Top

Charge 1: Cybersecurity of financial institutions

Charge 4: Community bank consolidation

Charge 5: Investment climate and resources available to businesses

April 13 Top

House Committee on Pensions

Charge: Public pension funds

Charge: Legislative oversight and monitoring

 

Senate Committee on State Affairs

Charge: Changes made to the Employment Retirement System regarding member contributions and proposed reforms to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas

Charge: Electronic voting program for certain military members serving overseas

Joint Committee on TRS Health Benefit Plans

Topic: Health benefit plans administered by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; TRS-ActiveCare

April 14 Top

Charge:  Improving military value at military installations

 

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