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Press Release: TCCRI Announces New Board Members and Officers

Posted 1 day ago / New to TCCRI, Op-Eds & Press Releases 4

0000 (AUSTIN, TEXAS, August 22, 2019–) At their annual board of directors meeting, the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute’s board unanimously voted to add five new...

Press Release: McCord named TCCRI President

Posted 3 days ago / New to TCCRI, Op-Eds & Press Releases, Uncategorized 6

0000Contact: Michael Geary Phone: (512) 474-6042 ...

TCCRI Statement on House Bill 3

Posted May 23, 2019 / Letters & Legislative Testimony, New to TCCRI, Publications, Uncategorized 2

0000 AUSTIN, TX – The Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute (TCCRI) is pleased to support the final version of House Bill 3, which provides the most substantive reform of...

TCCRI Statement on Proposed Tax Swap

Posted April 11, 2019 / Letters & Legislative Testimony, New to TCCRI, Publications, Uncategorized 6

0000 The Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute applauds Governor Abbott, Lt. Governor Patrick, and Speaker Bonnen after their release of a joint statement supporting a...

White Paper: Examining the Need for a Rate Increase to IDD Community-Based Providers

Posted March 21, 2019 / New to TCCRI, Publications, Research Reports, Uncategorized 5

00With a total FY 2018-2019 biennial appropriation of $61.8 billion all funds (AF), the Medicaid program makes up just over 28% of the entire state budget.[i]And, because the program is an...

White Paper: Assessing the Value of State Vehicle Safety Inspections

Posted February 22, 2019 / New to TCCRI, Publications, Research Reports 4

11Texas law requires vehicles registered in the state to pass an annual safety inspection. That is in addition to federally mandated emissions tests in 17 state counties in order to comply with...

OP-ED: Don’t bring California’s misguided data privacy law to Texas

Posted January 24, 2019 / New to TCCRI, Op-Eds & Press Releases, Uncategorized 5

0000 Published on houstonchronicle.com, January 22, 2019. It is no secret that Texas likes to compete and win against California. Former Gov. Rick Perry used to actively...

White Paper: The Case for Healthcare Price Transparency

Posted November 30, 2018 / New to TCCRI, Publications, Research Reports 3

0000Background: The Curious Permeation of Competitive Shopping In today’s era of Amazon, Costco, and Google, consumers are conditioned to competitively shop for goods and services. The concept is...

OP-ED: Congress Has Unfinished Business To Do Regarding Health Care

Posted October 25, 2018 / New to TCCRI, Op-Eds & Press Releases 2

0000Published on The Waco Tribune-Herald website on 10/25/2019 By Tom Aldred, Executive Director It is curious that many features of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”...

OP-ED: El Chupacabra – Hispanic, Woman, and Republican!

Posted September 18, 2018 / New to TCCRI, Op-Eds & Press Releases, Publications 4

0202By Mia Garza McCord El Chupacabra—an urban legend of a wolf or dog like creature who sucks the blood from livestock. While sightings have been reported, actual proof of such creature has never...

Model Legislation: The Occupational Licensing Consumer Choice Act

Posted September 13, 2018 / New to TCCRI, Op-Eds & Press Releases, Publications 3

30The Occupational Licensing Consumer Choice Act (“the Act”) is model legislation that provides consumers with the right to choose a worker who best serves their...

White Paper: Reforming Texas’s Approach to State Jail Felonies

Posted September 12, 2018 / New to TCCRI, Publications, Research Reports, Uncategorized 5

00The state jail system and state jail felonies were created in 1993 in order to help alleviate overcrowding in prison and county jails, to reduce low-level criminals from contact with violent...