Public Invited to Comment as TWIA Committee Meets to Develop Report to Texas Legislature

Published on: July 8, 2022

Essential Meeting Information:

  • TWIA’s Legislative & External Affairs Committee will meet on Wednesday, July 20, at 9:00 a.m. CT to continue work on legislative recommendations for TWIA’s Biennial Report.
  • Access the meeting agenda.
  • Members of the public can provide written comment via email before the meeting or provide in-person or virtual comment at the meeting.

The TWIA Board’s Legislative & External Affairs Committee will meet on July 20 at 9:00 a.m. CT. The Committee will continue its work to assist the TWIA Board of Directors in planning the Association’s Biennial Report to the Texas Legislature. The agenda for the meeting is available.

The Committee, which previously met on June 24, is developing recommendations to present to TWIA’s Board of Directors regarding the content of the Biennial Report. The Biennial Report must be submitted to the Texas Legislature in the year before a legislative session. The most recent TWIA Biennial Report was published in 2020.

All meetings of the TWIA Board of Directors and its committees are open to the public. The public may attend and make public comment in person at TWIA’s office in Austin or virtually via Zoom. Members of the Committee and staff may participate in the meeting in person or virtually. The meeting will also be livestreamed on YouTube.

Providing Public Comment to the Committee

Members of the public can submit written comments via email at PublicComment@TWIA.org. Interested parties are encouraged to submit comments by noon on Monday, July 18, to enable the Committee to receive and review them before the July 20 meeting. TWIA staff will provide the Committee with all written comments regardless of when the Association receives them.

Written comments submitted to TWIA are subject to the Texas Public Information Act. TWIA will post public comments received, with personally identifiable information redacted, at the bottom of this page.

Members of the public can provide verbal comments to the Committee during the designated public comment portion of the meeting. If you want to make public comment during the meeting, you can attend the meeting at TWIA’s office in Austin or register and log into the meeting via Zoom on a computer, tablet, smartphone, or telephone.

  • Click here to register to attend the meeting via Zoom.
    • After registering for the meeting, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the meeting from your preferred device.
  • The meeting will also be livestreamed on YouTube.

Anyone attending the meeting at TWIA’s office in Austin is encouraged to follow the latest CDC guidance on mask wearing and comply with social distancing protocols. A limited number of TWIA staff will be on-site to facilitate the public comment process.

Members of the media with questions about the Committee meeting, please email MediaRelations@TWIA.org.

The meeting materials and archived recording for the Committee meeting will be added to our Archived Meetings page after the meeting.

Written Public Comment Received

As of July 8, 2022, TWIA has received no written public comments related to this meeting. Public comments are posted here within two business days of being received by TWIA.