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• Technical Memorandum, Tax Relief Amendment Implementation Limit on Growth of Certain State Appropriations, Legislative Budget Board
• Memo to Board on 2014-15 Spending Limit Update, November 18, 2014
• Budget Execution Proposal (Border Security), Governor Rick Perry, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, and Speaker Joe Straus, November 17, 2014

• Private Health Insurance Market Reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congressional Research Service, July 24, 2014
• The Uninsured Population in Texas: Understanding Coverage Needs and the Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act, Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2014
• How Will the Uninsured in Texas Fare Under the Affordable Care Act? Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2014
• The Affordable Care Act and Health Insurance Markets: Simulating the Effects of Regulation, RAND Corporation, August 29, 2013

• "Price Transparency Efforts Target Physicians," Texas Medicine, July 2014
• Transparency and Disclosure of Health Costs and Provider Payments: State Actions, National Conference of State Legislatures, Updated June 2014
• Health Price Transparency: Improvements for Texas Consumers, Texas Department of Insurance, April 15, 2014
• Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws, Catalyst for Payment Reform and Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, March 25, 2014
• Price Transparency in Health Care: Report from the HFMA Price Transparency Task Force, Healthcare Financial Management Association, 2014

• Uninsured drivers
  • Compulsory Auto/Uninsured Motorists, Insurance Information Institute, November 2014 and Uninsured Motorists (statistics), Insurance Information Institute
  • "Dallas County’s Uninsured Driver Rate Speeds Up," Dallas Morning News, August 16, 2014
  • "IRC: Uninsured Motorists a Perplexing, Pervasive Concern," Insurance Journal, August 12, 2014
  • Uninsured Drivers: A Societal Dilemma in Need of a Solution, Consumer Federation of America, March 2013 and Penalties for Driving without Auto Insurance by State as of January 2014, Consumer Federation of America
• "Named driver" auto insurance policies
  • "New Texas Law Aims at ‘Junk’ Auto Insurance Policies Covering Only Certain Drivers," Dallas Morning News, September 2013
  • Rule Proposal: 28 TAC §5.208 Named Driver Policy Disclosures (SB 1567), Texas Association of Benefit Administration

• "Insurance War: State-created Firm Now Wants Full Freedom," Insurancenews.net, November 1, 2014
• "Texas Mutual Quietly Helps Drive State's Workers' Comp System," Austin American Statesman, August 4, 2011
• E-Texas, chapter 2: Competitive government: Privatize the Texas Workers' Compensation Insurance Fund, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, December 1, 2000
• Our Long-Term Vision: A Stronger, More Competitive WC System, Texas Mutual Insurance Co.

• An Overview of Selected Cost Drivers in the State Budget: Presented to the Senate Finance Committee, Legislative Budget Board, September 24, 2014

• "Texas Will Leave Border Enforcement to State Police and Game Wardens," Governing, November 20, 2014
• "Texas Border Surge Partially Extended through August 2015," The Houston Chronicle, November 18, 2014
• "Texas Leaders Extend State-Led Border Surge" (press release), Office of the Governor, November 18, 2014
• "Border Surge Could Continue Through August," Texas Tribune, November 18, 2014
• Budget Execution Proposal, Office of the Governor, November 17, 2014
• Fact Sheet: Educational Services for Immigrant Children and Those Recently Arrived to the United States, U.S. Department of Education

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• The Chartered Course: Can Private School Choice Proponents Learn from the Charter School Sector?, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, July 2014
• The Education Choice and Competition Index Background and Results 2013, Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings Institution, January 2014
• School Choice Today: Voucher Laws Across the States, Center for Education Reform, 2014
• Private School Choice: Options for Texas Children, National Center for Policy Analysis, February 2013

• "Charters Push Back Against Measure on School Closures," Texas Tribune, August 7, 2014
• "Chartering a New Course in Education," Fiscal Notes, July 17, 2014

• Texas Public School Construction Costs and School Construction Lookup Tool, Texas Transparency, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, July 2014
• Condition of America's Public School Facilities: 2012-13 First Look, National Center for Education Statistics, March 2014
• ECS State Policy Database, Finance--Facilities and School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities, Education Commission of the States

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• County Indigent Health Care Program, Texas Department of State Health Services, August 14, 2014
• Presentation to the House County Affairs Committee on the Healthcare Transformation Waiver, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, May 15, 2014
• "Texas County Faces Growing Problem of Overcrowding in Local Jail," NBC Latino, February 10, 2013
• Jail Diversion, National Association of Counties
• Medicaid Transformation Waiver, Texas Health and Human Services Commission

• Minutes, Witnesses, Handouts/Presentations, House Select Committee on Transportation Funding, Expenditures & Finance

• The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey and State Results: Texas, Treatment Advocacy Center, National Sheriffs Association, April 8, 2014
• Deadly Heat in Texas Prisons, The University of Texas School of Law, Human Rights Clinic, April 2014
• "Crowded Out: Should California’s Crowded Prisons Look to San Francisco’s Shrinking Jails?," Governing, February 2014
• Sunset Review, 2012-13, 82nd Legislature: Correctional Managed Health Care Committee - Summary of Results, Final Report, Report to the 83rd Legislature, Sunset Advisory Commission, July 2013
• Correctional Managed Health Care Committee (CMHCC), Texas Department of Criminal Justice

• Taxes and Revenue: Where the Money Comes From, Texas Transparency, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
• Overview of Texas Taxes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
• Revenue by Source for Fiscal Year 2013, and Texas Net Revenue by Source - Fiscal 1978-2012,  Texas Transparency, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
• Sources of Revenue: A History of State Taxes and Fees in Texas 1972 to 2013, Texas Transparency, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, July 2014
• Quarterly Summary of State & Local Tax Revenue, United States Census Bureau, Second Quarter
• Budget Balancing Act: Health and Education Stretch Texas Resources, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Third Quarter 2014

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