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Committee:	Senate State Affairs
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Affordable housing | Age (Law) | Agriculture | Alcohol laws and regulations | Audits | Beverages | Bingo | BlackRock | Boycotts | Child welfare | Children's mental health | Citizenship | Compassionate Use Act, Texas | Countywide Polling Place Program | Distilleries | e-commerce | Election administration | Election security | Electioneering | Elections | Emergency shelters | Environmental, Social, and Governance | Farm Bill | Farm produce | Financial investments | Foreign real estate transactions | Freedom of speech | Gambling | Government transparency | Hemp | High tech industry | Homelessness | Immigrants | Impeachment | Investment of public funds | Ku Klux Klan | Landlords and tenants | Lottery Commission, Texas | Lottery.com | Marijuana | Minors | Natural gas industry | Oil industry | Open government | Open Meetings Act, Texas | Open records requests and decisions | Paxton, Ken | Political violence | Pornography | Primary elections | Product safety | Public demonstrations | Public Information Act, Texas | Public retirement systems | Real estate transactions | Runoff elections | School districts | Secretary of State, Texas | Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act | Social media | State comparisons | Substance abuse | Texas Constitution | Texas Distilled Spirits Association | Texas history | Texas Lottery | Transitional housing | U.S. Constitution | Voter registration |
Library Call Number:	L1836.88 ST29A
Session:	88th R.S. (2023)
Online version:	View report [93 pages  File size: 2,963 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	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.
2.	Social Media & Protecting Children: Study the impact of social media use on children. Review current mechanisms in place to protect minors online. Monitor the implementation of HB 18, 88th R.S., relating to the protection of minors from harmful, deceptive, or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital services and electronic devices, including the use and transfer of electronic devices to students by a public school. Make policy recommendations to further protect Texas children online.
3.	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.
4.	Responsible Investing: Study the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on our state’s public pensions, with a focus on proxy voting services. Make recommendations to ensure our state’s pension systems vote and invest in accordance with their fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Additionally, monitor the implementation of SB 13, 87th R.S., relating to state contracts with and investments in certain companies that boycott energy companies. Specifically, examine how a company is removed from the list of companies that boycott energy companies when the company ceases to boycott energy companies. Report on how frequently the list maintained by the comptroller is updated and make recommendations to ensure an ongoing accurate list.
5.	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.
6.	Impeachment Reform: Evaluate the constitutional and statutory impeachment procedures in our state. Make recommendations to ensure a fair and transparent process.
7.	Runoff Elections: Study the prerequisites, timing, and efficiency of runoff elections. Make recommendations to increase the efficiency and lower the costs of runoff elections. Examine the 50% vote threshold to avoid a runoff, particularly when four or more candidates are running for the same office. Report whether the vote percentage threshold should be lowered in some instances.
8.	Lottery: Study "lottery courier services," which allow their clients to purchase lottery tickets over the internet. Report on the number of couriers and the magnitude of sales from such services in Texas. Determine whether courier services are operating legally in Texas and whether a change in law is needed to respond to technological advancements to protect children in our state and to maintain original legislative intent. Recommend legislation to clarify Texas’s laws regarding online lottery sales.
9.	Unmasking Protestors: Study the use of face coverings and hoods designed to conceal the identity of those bent on committing crimes at protests. Recommend legislation to stop the chaos and destruction by those who attempt to commit crimes while concealing their identity during public gatherings.
10.	Stop Noncitizen Voting: Evaluate the current safeguards in place to prevent noncitizens from voting in elections. Recommend legislation to facilitate the removal of noncitizen voters from the voter rolls as well as legislation to prevent noncitizens from registering to vote in Texas.
11.	Beverages with THC: Evaluate Texas laws and regulations concerning THC beverage manufacturing and delivery. Report on the current regulations and safeguards Texas may or may not have in place for drinks with any amount of THC. Recommend legislation to protect Texas consumers.
12.	Public Trust in Government: Examine the current state of accountability, ethics, and transparency in local government. Recommend ways to bolster public trust in local government by strengthening the Public Information Act and Open Meetings Act.
13.	Addressing Homelessness: Study programs that address the homelessness crisis in Texas. Specifically, review programs like Haven for Hope and determine whether such programs could be a model throughout our state. Propose legislation to address the root causes of homelessness by expanding successful programs for cities of all sizes.
14.	Election Audit Reports: Evaluate the Secretary of State’s election audit reports. Make recommendations to secure our elections and ensure counties follow the law.
15.	Monitoring: Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on State Affairs passed by the 88th Legislature. Specifically, evaluate the impact of SB 2284, 88th R.S. relating to the sale of distilled spirits to ultimate consumers by the holder of a distiller's and rectifier's permit. Report whether the increased sale of distilled spirits has had a positive impact on economic development and public safety in this industry.
Committee:	House Child Abuse and Pornography, Select
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 71st Legislature, Texas House of Representatives.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Child Protective Services | Child sexual abuse | Pornography | Runaway children |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 c437
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [64 pages  File size: 2,811 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Continue the examination of issues relating to the prevention, detection, investigation, treatment, management and prosecution of child abuse and pornography, and the prevention and management of the runaway problem among Texas youth. *
Supporting documents
Committee:	House Child Abuse and Pornography, Select
Title:	Interim report - Analysis of magazines
Library Catalog Title:	Content analysis of five leading pornographic magazines.
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 c437a
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Committee:	House Child Abuse and Pornography, Select, Interim
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 70th Legislature, Texas House of Representatives.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Child abuse | Human Services, Texas Department of | Pornography | Runaway children |
Library Call Number:	L1836.69 c436
Session:	69th R.S. (1985)
Online version:	View report [62 pages  File size: 2,281 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	To continue the examination of issues relating to the prevention, detection, investigation, treatment, management and prosecution of child abuse and child pornography, and the prevention and management of the "runaway" problems among Texas youth.
Committee:	House Child Abuse and Pornography, House Joint
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 69th Legislature, Texas House of Representatives / House Joint Study Committee on Child Abuse and Pornography.
Subjects:	Child abuse | Child sexual abuse | Pornography | Runaway children |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 c436
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [122 pages  File size: 4,538 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To continue the study efforts of previous interim committees which have produced significant new laws aimed at protecting the children of this state.
2.	To make a thorough examination and recommendations for the legislature to deal with the growing problem of runaway children in Texas.
Committee:	House Child Abuse/Neglect and Child Pornography, Select
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 68th Legislature, Texas House of Representatives / House Select Committee on Child Abuse/Neglect and Child Pornography.
Subjects:	Child abuse | Pornography |
Library Call Number:	L1836.67 c436
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View report [62 pages  File size: 2,224 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Continue to study child abuse in Texas. Conduct in-depth studies, encourage and take testimony from professionals and lay persons in the field, and pursue all possible research avenues in an effort to develop additional legislation for the 68th legislature.
2.	Meet as necessary during the interim, with state and local governmental entities providing assistance, information and cooperation to the Committee as it works towards the common goal of eradication of child abuse, neglect and pornography from our society.
Committee:	House Child Abuse/Neglect and Child Pornography, Select
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 67th Legislature, Texas House of Representatives. Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Select Committee on Child Abuse/Neglect and Child Pornography.
Subjects:	Child abuse | Pornography |
Library Call Number:	L1836.66 c436
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View report [47 pages  File size: 1,771 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Review the statutory changes of 1979 against a background of increasing reports of child abuse and child neglect. Consider the appropriate implementation of these statutes and the need for further changes. *
2.	Study the effectiveness of child protective services, the appropriateness of interventions by the Department of Human Resources, and the adequacy of prosecution by state and local governments. *
Committee:	House Child Pornography: Its Related Causes and Control, Select
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report, Sixty Sixth Legislative session / the Select Committee on Child Pornography, Its Related Causes and Control.
Subjects:	Child abuse | Child sexual abuse | Incest | Pornography | Prostitution |
Library Call Number:	L1836.65 p826r
Session:	65th R.S. (1977)
Online version:	View report [207 pages  File size: 6,327 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Conduct in-depth studies, to take and receive testimony, and to pursue all possible research avenues in an effort to develop legislation and other recommendations for the 66th Legislature designed to inhibit and completely halt the production, distribution and exploitation of pornography involving children.

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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