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9 Document(s) [ Subject: Municipal government ]
| Committee: | House Urban Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Affordable housing | Community Affairs, Texas Department of | Fees | Municipal government | Municipal management districts | Wastewater management | Water and sewer utilities | Water supplies | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.87 Ur1 | |
| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [44 pages File size: 2,302 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 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. | |
| 2. | Evaluate the availability of workforce housing to support the dynamic economic growth of the state. Study the use of public-private partnerships and other tools to incentivize the development of housing that meets Texas’ expanding workforce demands. Develop and include measures to ensure accountability and transparency associated with these tools. | |
| 3. | Review the Municipal Management District Legislative Template with respect to representation and accountability. Make recommendations for improving the template. | |
| 4. | Study the effects of local governance, planning, and administration on the current state of municipal water and wastewater infrastructure. Examine the measures municipally owned utilities have taken and the costs required to maintain and improve that infrastructure. Make recommendations for cost-effective solutions to ensure reliable infrastructure and uninterrupted municipal utility services, especially during a severe weather event. | |
| 5. | Study municipal fees with respect to the function of the fee and the relationship of the fee to the cost of providing an associated municipal service. Make recommendations to address municipal fees that are disproportionate or unrelated to the cost of providing the associated service. | |
| Committee: | Senate Intergovernmental Relations | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Affordable housing | Ballots | Bond elections | Emergency management | Extraterritorial jurisdiction | Housing and Community Affairs, Texas Department of | Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of | Initiative and referendum | Local government debt | Municipal annexation | Municipal government | Municipalities | Public improvement districts | Public notices | Racial discrimination | Supreme Court arguments and decisions, U.S. | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.84 L786 | |
| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View report [31 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Annexation: Identify areas of concern in regards to statutory extraterritorial jurisdiction expansion and the processes used by municipalities for annexation, specifically reviewing whether existing statute strikes the appropriate balance between safeguarding private property rights and encouraging orderly growth and economic development. Make recommendations for legislative action, if necessary. | |
| 2. | Local Ordinance Integrity: Examine the processes used by home rule municipalities to adopt ordinances, rules, and regulations, including those initiated by petition and voter referendum. Determine if additional statutory safeguards are necessary to ensure that ballot language accurately describes proposed initiatives. Identify ways to improve transparency and make recommendations, if needed, to ensure that local propositions and the means by which they are put forth to voters, conform with existing state law. | |
| 3. | Disaster Preparedness Planning and Coordination: Review natural disaster preparedness planning and coordination in the wake of a growing range of threats. Evaluate whether existing processes maximize regional cooperation to rebuild housing and infrastructure, and allow for the timely dissemination of funds to units of local governments for reconstruction following a federal declaration. Develop recommendations, if necessary, to improve the efficiency of disaster recovery efforts, incorporating best practices identified from other states, as well as lessons-learned from past reconstruction efforts in Texas. | |
| 4. | Municipal Management Districts: Study the means by which the Texas Legislature reviews the creation of municipal management districts (MMDs) by special law to determine if different processes should be used to evaluate new MMDs created within populated or developed areas from those created over undeveloped areas. Identify ways to better assess how the services and improvements of a proposed Page 5 of 5 MMD within populated or developed areas will supplement and enhance those provided by other local governments, as well as if the territory of the proposed MMD encompasses or overlaps area that is already within other assessment or taxing entities. Make recommendations, if necessary, to improve the notice provided to individuals and businesses within populated or developed areas proposed for inclusion in an MMD. | |
| 5. | Supreme Court ICP Ruling: Review existing statute and rules that govern the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs in light of the recent Supreme Court decision in Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. vs. TDHCA, et al. and recommend if any modifications are necessary to conform to the decision. | |
| 6. | Debt Transparency in the Voting Booth: Examine ways to improve government accountability in elections regarding the issuance of public debt. Include a review of the information that is currently provided to individuals in the voting booth and provide statutory recommendations, if necessary, to improve transparency. | |
| Committee: | Senate Intergovernmental Relations | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 82nd Texas Legislature / Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. | |
| Subjects: | Comptroller of Public Accounts campaigns and elections | County government | Emergency services districts | Extraterritorial jurisdiction | Homeowners' associations | Hospitals | Housing and Community Affairs, Texas Department of | Land use regulations | Local government consolidation | Municipal annexation | Municipal government | Municipal utility districts | Open government | Physician shortages | Physicians | Property rights | Public improvement districts | Real property | Zoning | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.81 L786 | |
| Session: | 81st R.S. (2009) | |
| Online version: | View report [437 pages File size: 17,266 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study current law governing homeowners associations with respect to ensuring that homeowners are given adequate protections against unfair foreclosures and are given proper channels for redress in case of foreclosure. | |
| 2. | Monitor the proliferation of municipal utility districts (MUDs) outside the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of municipalities and whether increased oversight of these districts by other political subdivisions is needed. Review the process for the creation of municipal utility districts (MUDs) through the template developed during the 81 st Legislative Session, including any changes needed to increase the efficiency and oversight over the creation of proposed districts. Review the process for creating special districts, including whether the creation of a template, similar to the one created for municipal utility districts (MUDs), is feasible and would enable the legislature to more effectively evaluate other proposed special districts during future Sessions. | |
| 3. | Review the process and costs for local governments to make government information available online. Consider ways to encourage local governments to provide more transparency, including the Comptroller's experience with transparency and her offer to assist local governments, and consider penalties for entities that fail to comply with the online requirement. | |
| 4. | Assess ways to facilitate property ownership registration to better enable individuals to participate in federal programs and make recommendations to improve processing times to provide improved access to funds. | |
| 5. | Study the reasons for and the impacts of hospitals directly hiring physicians. Examine practices in other states. Make recommendations, if needed, to permit hospitals to directly hire physicians. | |
| 6. | Review state and local policies related to development and growth in rural and unincorporated regions of the state with regard to annexation and zoning authority. Focus on impacts to private property rights. Determine the appropriateness of existing extraterritorial jurisdiction authority. Make recommendations regarding possible changes to this authority. | |
| 7. | Review the types of support state government can provide to assist local government consolidations with county governments. Evaluate budget implications for city and county government consolidations. Research the appropriateness and cost savings of eliminating duplicity between city and county governments in different regions of the state. | |
| 8. | Review the statutory authority granted to municipal management districts (MMDs) and to emergency service districts (ESDs), the authority of municipalities and counties to create public improvement districts (PIDs). Determine whether the authority granted for each entity is adequate to accomplish the goals of local governments. Assess whether the consolidation of ESDs under one statute would improve uniformity and provision of fire and emergency services through these districts. | |
| 9. | Monitor the implementation oflegislation addressed by the Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, 81st Legislature, Regular and Called Sessions, and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation.
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| Committee: | House County Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on County Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2008 : a report to the House of Representatives, 81st Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Border security | County government | County jails | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Extraterritorial jurisdiction | Fireworks | Municipal government | Municipal jails | Undocumented immigrants | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.80 C832 | |
| Session: | 80th R.S. (2007) | |
| Online version: | View report [41 pages File size: 3,936 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the issues surrounding the sale, use, and regulation of fireworks in urbanized, unincorporated parts of the county. | |
| 2. | Examine county procurement statutes to identify areas for increasing efficiency without sacrificing internal controls. | |
| 3. | Study policies and procedures related to illegal immigration and border security of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, county probation departments, and local and county jail facilities, and make recommendations to improve coordination with international, federal, state, and local authorities. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Corrections.) | |
| 4. | Examine recent attempts by municipalities to exert regulatory authority beyond city limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction. Evaluate the current relationship between and possible conflicts related to regulatory authority expressly given to state agencies by the legislature and regulatory authority delegated to home-rule municipalities. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Land and Resource Management.) | |
| 5. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | House Urban Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Committee on Urban Affairs, Texas House of Representatives, 69th Legislature : to the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 70th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Affordable housing | Firefighters | Housing Agency, Texas | Municipal government | Municipalities | Police officers | Statutory revision | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.69 ur1 | |
| Session: | 69th R.S. (1985) | |
| Online version: | View report [27 pages File size: 802 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | To study firemen's and policemen's civil service in cities. | |
| 2. | To review the legislation and mission of the Texas Housing Agency and determine if appropriate housing projects are being approved to meet the needs of low-income Texans. | |
| 3. | To study methods to encourage greater efficiency in the management of general-law cities. | |
| Committee: | Joint Urban Issues, Special | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | An urban strategy for Texas : report and recommendations to the 70th legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Economic development | Municipal annexation | Municipal government | Municipalities | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.69 ur1hr | |
| Session: | 69th R.S. (1985) | |
| Online version: | View report [57 pages File size: 1,699 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Examine problems facing local governments in Texas. Study the implications of the changes in federal policies directed toward urban problems. Assess whether local governments have the appropriate degree to statutory flexibility to deal with local problems either through their own actions or in conjunction with other jurisdictions in their area. Limited purpose annexation, transportation, the use of bond issues and taxation as tools of urban finance, and mechanisms for state-local information sharing or cooperation are to be addressed. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Joint Urban Issues, Special | |
| Title: | Proceedings, hearings on governing urban Texas in the next decade / the Texas House and Senate Joint Special Committee on Urban Issues. | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.69 UR1H | |
| Session: | 69th R.S. (1985) | |
| Online version: | View document [217 pages] | |
| Committee: | Joint Urban Issues, Special | |
| Title: | Summary report on the Austin hearings of the Joint Special Committee on Urban Issues : October 24, 1985. | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.69 UR1H | |
| Session: | 69th R.S. (1985) | |
| Online version: | View document [51 pages] | |
| Committee: | House Energy Resources | |
| Title: | Committee Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1801.9 EN27 65 | |
| Session: | 65th R.S. (1977) | |
| Online version: | View document [25 pages] | |
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