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| The Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee will meet on Thursday, |
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| May 13, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at Dallas City Hall, City Council Chambers, 6th |
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| floor, located at 1500 Marilla, Dallas, TX 75201. The Committee will |
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| hear invited and public testimony on the following interim charges: |
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| Review the process and costs for local governments to make government |
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| information available online. Consider ways to encourage local governments |
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| to provide more transparency, including the Comptroller's experience with |
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| transparency and her offer to assist local governments, and consider |
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| penalties for entities that fail to comply with the online requirement. |
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| Study the reasons for and the impacts of hospitals directly hiring |
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| physicians. Examine practices in other states. Make recommendations, if |
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| needed, to permit hospitals to directly hire physicians. |
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| Review state and local policies related to development and growth in rural |
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| and unincorporated regions of the state with regard to annexation and |
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| zoning authority. Focus on impacts to private property rights. Determine |
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| the appropriateness of existing extraterritorial jurisdiction authority. |
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| Make recommendations regarding possible changes to this authority. |
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| Review the types of support state government can provide to assist local |
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| government consolidations with county governments. Evaluate budget |
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| implications for city and county government consolidations. Research the |
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| appropriateness and cost savings of eliminating duplicity between city and |
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| county governments in different regions of the state. |
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| Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate |
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| Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, 81st Legislature, Regular and |
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| Called Sessions, and make recommendations for any legislation needed to |
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| improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation. |
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| -Monitor the use of the expanded funds provided by the 81st Legislature to |
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| the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. |
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| Public Testimony will be limited to 3 minutes per person. |
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