COMMITTEE: Finance
TIME & DATE: 10:00 AM, Monday, March 07, 2011
PLACE: E1.036 (Finance Room)
CHAIR: Senator Steve Ogden
Any unfinished business will be moved to a later date, to be determined.
Any supporting written materials for the hearing must be provided to
the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) 2 full business days before your
scheduled hearing day. Please submit 50 copies to the SFC, and 10
copies to the LBB. Agencies should consult the postings regularly and
maintain contact with their budget analyst at the Committee.
Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks
to 3 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please submit 25
copies, with your name on each copy, to the Committee during the
hearing.
The afternoon hearing will reconvene 30 minutes after adjournment of the Senate.
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To consider the following:
SB 1 Ogden | et al.
General Appropriations Bill.
Article I - General Government
· Secretary of State
· Historical Commission
· Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner
· ---->>> Veterans Commission <<<----
· Library and Archive Commission
· Commission on State Emergency Communications
· Department of Information Resources
· Commission on the Arts
· Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
To: Texas Coalition of Veterans Organizations (TCVO)
From: Legislative Liaison
Subject: Senate Finance Hearing
Date:3 March 2011
Your presence is needed on Monday 7 March 11 at 10:00 am at the State
Capitol Extension Senate Finance Committee room E1.036.
The Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) is facing a 20% reduction in its
budget for the next two years. This will result in the forced
reduction of full time employees, in particular a projected 22 Service
Officers. These same Service Officers are the same dedicated
individuals who work with all generations of Texas Veterans to obtain
the benefits that they have earned from the Veterans Administration.
The loss of these Service Reps will result in Texas Veterans facing
significant delays in receiving their VA benefits.
The Senate Finance Committee will have a Public Hearing on 7 March 11
and will address the 20% reduction in funding to the Texas Veterans
Commission as recommended by the House Finance Committee. TCVO is
working to prevent this proposed budget reduction, and will be
corresponding with and calling all the members of the House Finance
Committee in the next few days to educate them on the major negative
impact this will have on our disabled and disadvantaged brother and
sister veterans.
TVC needs the visible support of the Texas Veteran community at the
Senate Finance Committee hearing. Please plan on attending this
critical meeting. Now more than ever TCVO must present a united front
and exhibit our support for the full unreduced funding of TVC.
If you are not able to attend, please have one or more members of your
veteran service organization represent you at this hearing. For those
willing to make this personal commitment to TVC and to the veterans of
Texas served by TVC, wear your organizations "colors" to distinguish
us as Texas Veterans and to guarantee that we are at this meeting as
visible support for TVC.
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