The various committees within the Texas Senate and House of Representatives are charged with interim duties that they must address between the biennial regular legislative sessions. The 85th Texas Legislature assigned the following interim charges to multiple committees concerning the environment in the state of Texas. This year, many of these interim charges concern the response to natural disasters, such as…
The Texas House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources met at 10:00 AM, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 in order to hear invited and public testimony on multiple interim charges. These charges include an examination of Texas water markets, the implications of a broad-based information campaign regarding water issues in Texas, analysis of the Water Availability Models for river basins in…
From August 13 through the end of September 2018, the Texas Legislative Budget Board is meeting at the State Capitol in Austin in order to assess the legislative appropriations requests put forward by multiple state departments. These budget meetings will be instrumental to the preparation of the state’s General Appropriations Bill draft for the upcoming legislative session scheduled to begin…