Below is a spotlight on meetings that have been posted from April 21 – 25. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. For the latest posting details on legislative hearings, please visit the HillCo Partners website and click on the link to "view all hearings posted."
Tuesday, April 22
TCEQ Drinking Water Advisory Work Group
Tuesday, April 22 – 9:00 AM
Room 201S, Bldg E, 12100 Park 35 Circle
Texas Railroad Commission
Tuesday, April 22 – 9:30 AM
1701 North Congress, Room 1-111, Austin
The Railroad Commission will hold a commission meeting.
House Business & Industry Committee
Tuesday, April 22 – 10:00 AM
Capitol Extension E2.014
The committee will hear invited testimony regarding:
The voluntary nature of workers' compensation in Texas and how it meets the needs of employers and employees;
The issue of misclassifying employees as independent contractors on workers, employers, income tax withholding, and the unemployment insurance system. And the review of current statutory deterrents, including those required by HB 2015(83R); and
Conduct legislative oversight of the following agencies: the Office of Injured Employee Counsel, the State Office of Risk Management, the Division of Workers' Compensation of the Texas Department of Insurance and the Workers' compensation research and evaluation group in the Texas Department of Insurance.
House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee; House Corrections Committee
Tuesday, April 22 – 10:00 AM
Reagan Building, 105 W. 15th Street, Room 104, Austin
The committees will meet jointly to consider the following interim charge:
Examine the association between co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use disorders and parole revocation among inmates from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Review current policies and procedures for incarcerating individuals with a dual mental health diagnosis in both state and county correctional facilities and examine potential remedies within the State's criminal justice system to ensure that the public is protected and that individuals with a mental health diagnosis receive a continuum of mental health services.
House Public Education Committee
Tuesday, April 22 – 10:00 AM
Capitol Extension E2.036
The committee will meet to consider the following interim charge:
Review successful strategies and methods that have improved student achievement at chronically underperforming schools. Identify alternatives that could be offered to current students who are attending these schools and determine how to turn these schools around. Identify the benefits and concerns with alternative governance of underperforming schools.
TCEQ Water Quality Advisory Work Group
Tuesday, April 22 – 1:30 PM
Room 201S, Bldg E, 12100 Park 35 Circle
House Corrections Committee
Tuesday, April 22 – 2:00 PM
Capitol Extension E2.010
The Committee will consider the following interim charge:
In the area of Juvenile Justice, analyze and make recommendations on outcome-based financing models that allow the state to partner with private investors and innovative service providers willing to cover the upfront costs and assume performance risk to divert youths into cost-effective programs and interventions, while assuring that taxpayers will not pay for the programs unless the programs demonstrate success in achieving the desired outcomes.
House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
Tuesday, April 22 – 2:00 PM
Capitol Extension E2.012
The Committee will meet to consider mental health services for juveniles in the justice system. The Committee will also examine the assessment process of mental health needs of youth who come into contact with the juvenile justice system.
Wednesday, April 23
House Urban Affairs Committee
Wednesday, April 23 – 10:00 AM
Capitol Extension E2.014
The Committee on Urban Affairs will meet to hold an organizational hearing and to discuss the schedule for the remainder of the interim. The Committee will also hear invited testimony from the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs and the Texas Commission on Fire Protection and other agencies which may be able to assist in studying the interim charges.
Texas Groundwater Protection Committee
Wednesday, April 23 – 1:00 PM
Building F, Room 2210, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Austin
The Texas Groundwater Protection Committee will hold a quarterly meeting.
Thursday, April 24
Transparency in State Agency Operations, Select
Thursday, April 24 – 9:00 AM
Capitol JHR 140
The House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations will meet in a public hearing pursuant to Rule 4, Section 10 (1) of the House Rules to consider ongoing business.
House Economic & Small Business Development Committee
Thursday, April 24 – 10:00 AM
Capitol Extension E2.014
The committee will meet to consider the following interim charges:
Examine and evaluate economic development incentives to determine if the incentives are achieving the desired outcomes for which the incentives were initially established. Review which economic development goals and incentives are most important and report on methods to further improve those goals and incentives while reducing ones not meeting their desired objectives.
Review the Governor's Office of Economic Development and Tourism and determine its effectiveness on economic development in Texas. Determine how the office could be more efficiently coordinated with local and regional economic development entities and other state agencies to help further the economic development goals of the state.
Monitor manufacturing and manufacturing workforce development initiatives passed by the 83rd Legislature.
House Ways & Means Committee; House Technology Committee
Thursday, April 24 – 10:00 AM
Capitol Extension E2.010
The committees will meet jointly to consider the following interim charge:
Review state regulatory and tax policy to ensure that investment in technology infrastructure, goods, and services is unfettered and that Texas is able to capitalize on innovation to fuel additional job growth, business expansion, and investment.
House Technology Committee
Thursday, April 24 – 1:00 PM
Capitol Extension E2.010
The committee will meet to consider the following interim charge:
Study whether abuses in the patent system interfere with the goal of expanded opportunity and innovation for Texas businesses and whether actions by the state can address any such abuses.
Friday, April 25
House Culture, Recreation & Tourism Committee
Friday, April 25 – 1:00 PM
Center for Economic Development, Room 106, Del Mar College, 3209 S. Staples Street, Corpus Christi
The committee will meet to receive testimony on coastal tourism and impacts of the drought on Rio Grande turkey populations and wildlife management practices.