Interim Hearings – Week of November 30th
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.
December 2nd
Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations
Charge 2: Home rule municipalities' process to adopt ordinances, rules, and regulations, including initiative and referendum
- Alphabet Soup: Types of Cities, Texas Municipal League Legal Department, 2015
- Handbook for Mayors and Councilmembers, Texas Municipal League, 2015
- "Home Rule Charters," Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association, June 15, 2010
- TML City Officials Directory (search by government type: home rule), Texas Municipal League
Charge 3: Natural disaster preparedness planning and coordination
- Lessons From Texas: 10 Years of Disaster Recovery Examined (White Paper), Texas Appleseed, September 17, 2015
- Congressional Primer on Major Disasters and Emergencies, Congressional Research Service, May 19, 2015
- State of Texas Emergency Management Plan and Annexes, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Division of Emergency Management, May 2012
- State of Texas Hazard Mitigation Plan: 2010-2013, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Division of Emergency Management, October 18, 2010, and 2013 Update
- Senate Subcommittee on Flooding and Evacuations, Interim Report, Report to the 82nd Legislature, January 2011
- House Select Committee on Emergency Preparedness, Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature, December 2010
- Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security, Report to the 81st Legislature (Charge 3, Disaster planning and first response), December 2008
- Senate Interim Committee on Natural Resources, Interim Report to the 78th Legislature: Natural Disasters, August 2002
Charge 6: Government accountability in elections regarding issuance of public debt
- Improving Financial Transparency at the Ballot Box, Texas Public Policy Foundation, September 2014
- Your Money and Local Debt, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, September 2012
- Texas Transparency: Debt at a Glance (state, counties, cities, independent school districts, community/junior college districts), Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Texas Transparency: Local Bond Elections, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Local Debt Explorer, Texas Tribune, including data collected by Texas Bond Review Board reflecting debt load as of August 2014
December 3rd
Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs & Military Installations, Subcommittee on Border Security
Charge: Sanctuary cities
- "Immigration Sanctuary Ban Creates Uncertainty in North Carolina," New York Times, November 14, 2015
- "Senate Democrats Block ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Bill," Washington Post, October 20, 2015 and Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act, S. 2146, 114th Cong. (2015-2016)
- "Sanctuary Cities," Trust Acts, and Community Policing Explained, American Immigration Council, October 2015
- "Numerous Texas Cities Offering Immigration Sanctuary," Watchdog.org, July 17, 2015
- The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States, American Immigration Council, July 8, 2015
- Debunking the Myth of "Sanctuary Cities": Community Policing Policies Protect American Communities, Immigration Policy Center, March 2009
- Op. Tex. Att’y Gen. No. GA-0669 (2009), Local government policies that hinder enforcement of federal immigration laws (RQ-0733-GA), Attorney General of Texas, March 19, 2009
- "Sanctuary Cities": Legal Issues, Congressional Research Service, January 15, 2009
- Enforcing Immigration Law: The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement, Congressional Research Service, Updated May 4, 2006
- Tribpedia: Sanctuary Cities, Texas Tribune
