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4 Document(s) [ Subject: Alamo ]
Committee: | Senate Finance | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Subjects: | Alamo | Alternatives to incarceration | Appropriations bill riders | Business taxes | Criminal justice | Delinquent taxes | Disaster relief | Driver Responsibility Program | Economy | Emergency medical services | Federal aid | Federal funds | Fees | General Land Office, Texas | Hurricane Harvey | Interest rates | Juvenile justice system | Legislative Budget Board, Texas | Natural disasters | Personal property taxes | Probation | Rainy Day Fund | State budget certification | State budgets | Tax refunds | Texas Emissions Reduction Plan | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.85 F49 | |
Session: | 85th R.S. (2017) | |
Online version: | View report [64 pages] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Monitor all funds currently being used to address Hurricane Harvey relief and recovery. Identify ways to maximize the use of federal funds and ensure the efficient use of state funds. | |
2. | Evaluate the long-term impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Texas economy and the gulf coast region. | |
3. | Alamo Historical Site Renovation: Monitor the expenditures of state funds appropriated to the General Land Office for the preservation, maintenance, and operation of the Alamo historical site. Ensure the funds are spent to emphasize the architectural design and the historical impact the battle had on the development of Texas as a nation and as a state. | |
4. | Economic Stabilization Fund: Examine options to increase investment earnings of the Economic Stabilization Fund in a manner that mini mizes overall risk to the fund balance. Investment options should ensure the liquidity of a sufficient portion of the balance so that the legislature has the resources necessary to address the needs of the state, including natural disasters. Evaluate how the Economic Stabilization Fund constitutional limit is calculated; consider alternative methods to calculate the limit, and alternative uses for funds above the limit. | |
5. | Texas Emission Reduction Plan: Review the Texas Emission Reduction Plan (TERP) and its economic benefits to the state. Examine whether the state's investment in TERP, including transfers from the Department of Transportation, are being effectively utilized to comply with federal air quality standards, reduce pollution, and protect the public health of Texans. | |
6. | Request to Exceed Review: Review all riders requiring interim action by the Legislative Budget Board to reduce the number of times interim budget modification is necessary. | |
7. | Fee Structure Review: Review state General Revenue - Dedicated fees and make recommendations to reduce fees and lessen reliance on General Revenue - Dedicated fee balances to certify the budget. | |
8. | Adult and Juvenile Corrections Funding: Examine the funding patterns used to fund the juvenile justice system and adult probation departments. Develop recommendations to ensure the Texas Juvenile Justice Department budget does not dis-incentivize the use of cost-effective best practices such as diverting youth from the juvenile justice system, providing services to youth in their community, and keeping youth closer to home. In addition, review funding to adult probation departments and ensure it provides for an equitable distribution to all Texas Probation Departments. | |
9. | Trauma Funding: Review revenue sources currently funding the state's trauma system and the impact of declining revenues and balances in General Revenue - Dedicated accounts. Evaluate the impact of statutory changes affecting trauma system funding, including efforts to eliminate the Driver Responsibility Program. Examine ways to ensure sustainability of the trauma system in Texas. | |
10. | Property Tax on Business Personal Property: Evaluate the property tax as it applies to business personal property and the current $5oo exemption. Quantify the economic effect of taxing business personal property and determine whether the tax places Texas at a competitive disadvantage relative to other states. Evaluate the burden on taxpayers and local governments of administering the property tax on business personal property and determine whether the current $soo exemption should be increased. | |
11. | Interest Rate Disparity: Evaluate the rate of interest charged on delinquent property taxes and delinquent state taxes, compared to the rate of interest paid on property tax refunds and state tax refunds. • Evaluate the effect of interest rate disparity on the assessment decisions of governments and the payment decisions of taxpayers. • Quantify the amount by which state and local governments profit from interest rate disparity. • Identify best practices among other states regarding interest rates charged and paid. • Recommend a plan and timeline to reduce interest rate disparity. | |
12. | Monitoring: Monitor the implementation of the following funding initiatives: • CPS Critical Needs - Monitor the impact of salary increases and additional caseworkers allocated to Child Protective Services last interim. • Health Care Costs Across State Agencies - Monitor coordination efforts among state agencies to improve health care and reduce costs pursuant to Article IX, Section 10.06 and Section 10.07. • Behavioral Health - Monitor the state's progress in coordinating behavioral health services and expenditures across state government, pursuant to Article IX section 10.04, including the impact of new local grant funding provided by the 85th Legislatu re. • Sporting Goods Sales Tax - Identify state and local park needs and determine whether the Sporting Goods Sales Tax is meeting those needs. | |
Committee: | House Culture, Recreation, and Tourism | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Subjects: | Alamo | Aquatic vegetation | Battleship Texas | Chronic Wasting disease | Commission on the Arts, Texas | Daughters of the Republic of Texas | Deer | Droughts | Endangered species | Film Commission, Texas | Fisheries | General Land Office, Texas | Historical Commission, Texas | Invasive species | Library & Archives Commission, Texas State | License plates | Office of Economic Development and Tourism | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Sporting goods sales taxes | State parks | State Preservation Board | Texas State Cemetery | Tourism | Wildfires | Wildlife | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.82 R245 | |
Session: | 82nd R.S. (2011) | |
Online version: | View report [103 pages] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Evaluate strategies to control known existing invasive aquatic species, including species commonly referred to as giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta), water hyacinths (family Pontederiaceae), and zebra mussels (family Dreissenidae). | |
2. | Study and make recommendations for improving deer breeder compliance with existing laws and regulations. | |
3. | Recommend approaches to improve long-term funding for state park acquisition, development, and maintenance. | |
4. | Study the effects the drought and wildfires have had on tourism and recreation in Texas. Make recommendations for ways to prevent future losses. | |
5. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 82nd Legislature, including the General Land Office's implementation of HB 3726, 82nd R.S., regarding the administration of the Alamo. | |
Committee: | Purchase of Property Adjoining the Alamo | |
Title: | Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Committee on Purchase of Property Adjoining the Alamo. | |
Subjects: | Alamo | State parks | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.39 AL11/S.J. of Tex., 40th Leg., 790 (1927) | |
Session: | 40th R.S. (1927) | |
Online version: | View report [5 pages File size: 179 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Investigate the advisability of the state acquiring all remaining property, now privately owned, in the block bounded by Alamo Plaza, Nacogdoches, East Houston, and Crockett streets in the city of San Antonio, surrounding the historic Alamo, the approximate cost thereof, and the means to be used. | |
Committee: | Joint San Antonio | |
Title: | Visit to the Alamo, Goliad, Ben Milam's Grave | |
Library Catalog Title: | [Report]. | |
Subjects: | Alamo | | |
Library Call Number: | LRL | |
Session: | 18th R.S. (1883) | |
Online version: | View report [12 pages File size: 1,100 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Visit and examine the "Alamo" building, where the heroes of Texas fell, and confer with the owner therof, and learn upon what terms the same can be purchased. Also, to visit Goliad, and the graves of Fannin's men and see what is necessary there to preserve such cemetary in a manner that it will not be a disgrace to Texas, but an honor. Visit the grave of Ben Milam, in the city of San Antonio, and report its condition, with such recommendations as they may deem necessary to protect it from being trodden under foot. |
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