Tracking legislative interim hearings between sessions -- committee testimony, interim charges, witness statements, and the groundwork being laid for the next session.
Sen. Joan Huffman's committee will take invited and public testimony July 28 on how public universities report their finances and on what fraud, waste and abuse cost the state budget.
Four mayors and other city officials came to the Capitol on Monday to tell a Texas House committee they are complying with the state's most aggressive housing law passed last session.
Sen. Joan Huffman's committee will take invited and public testimony July 27 on transportation funding, the fast-growing cost of the data center sales tax exemption, the state's rural volunteer fire department grants and the Crime Victims' Compensation Fund.
Rep. Gary Gates' committee will take invited and public testimony on whether the spread of municipal utility districts helps or hurts housing affordability, and will review the General Land Office, School Land Board and Board for Lease of University Lands.
Rep. Gary Gates' nine-member committee will take invited and public testimony on how four new zoning and lot-size laws are working, and on whether trimming city fees and speeding up permits can make homes cheaper.
Sen. Lois Kolkhorst's eight-member committee will take invited and public testimony on foreign exploitation of Texas surrogacy, and on how the state is carrying out new laws on child-abuse records, youth-camp safety and assisted-living emergencies.
Rep. Philip Cortez's five-member subcommittee travels to San Antonio to take invited and public testimony on the transfer of veteran mental-health programs to the Texas Veterans Commission, gaps in legal help for benefits claims, and the remaking of the former Kelly Air Force Base.
Chair Lois Kolkhorst's eight-member committee will take invited testimony only on the health and criminal-justice costs of THC, the overlap of mental illness, addiction and homelessness, and the state's child mental-health network.
The Texas House Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs will gavel in at 9 a.m. Wednesday to examine how mental illness, homelessness and the criminal-justice system feed one another, and to weigh whether Texas is doing enough to keep young people leaving foster care from ending up on the street.
Texas Senate Business and Commerce committee will hear invited and public testimony on rising property insurance prices, the future of blockchain and crypto kiosks, and the state's broadband-funding office.