TEXAS ADVOCACY PLAYBOOK

A free eBook and PowerPoint to explain how the Texas Legislature does its work and ways to gain awareness for an issue or situation. The Playbook explains how non-profit groups can participate, legislative terminology, 11 advocacy involvement levels with simple instructions, and a parliamentary procedure summary.
Download Texas Advocacy Playbook and/or PowerPoint.

ANNUAL MEETING WORKBOOK

The Annual Meeting Workbook provides officer and chair reports for the year. It gives the LWV HA positions and any new proposed studies for adoption and includes the LWV HA and the LWV HA Ed Fund Budgets.
Download the 2010 Annual Meeting Workbook Pdf (436KB)

ANNUAL REPORT

The LWV HA 2008–2009 Annual Report lists the League’s achievements and accomplishments and acknowledges contributors.
Download the Annual Report 2008–2009 Pdf (116KB)

VOTERS KEY

The 2009 Voters Key is an indispensable publication for contacting your representatives. It provides voting information in English and Spanish and explains how to write to your elected officials. It includes contact information for officials of the U.S. Government, State of Texas, Harris County, City of Houston, Judges and Constables.
Download the 2010 Voters Key Pdf (500KB)

ELECTED OFFICIALS GUIDE, FT. BEND COUNTY

A Guide to Your Elected Officials of Ft. Bend County 2009–2010
Download the Voters Guide Pdf (336KB)

TEXAS VOTER

The Texas VOTER is the LWV Texas quarterly Newsletter.

FACTS AND ISSUES

Facts and Issues are white papers produced by a committee formed to study a proposed topic or issue and are discussed at unit meetings. A paper written on a position already adopted by the LWV HA is an Update on Issues.

Update on
Transit Oriented Development (TOD)

This update discusses Transit Oriented Development (TOD), a coordination of planning for transportation systems and land use, specifically around transit stations, and how TOD might help Houston absorb expected population growth.
Download the PDF Update on Transit Oriented Development (96KB)

Update on
Climate Change 2010

This update paper reviews the impacts of global warming and concludes that global warming is real and that the correlation between global temperature and carbon dioxide concentration is very high, possibly taking hundreds of years to recover.
Download the PDF Update on Climate Change 2010 (1.4MB)

Facts and Issues: Public Defender Study for Harris County (October 2009)

The study reviews and evaluates: federal and state law regarding indigent defense, principles and criteria for defense delivery systems, approaches to indigent defense, and perspectives on whether the creation of a PDO would benefit Harris County.
Download the PDO Facts Issues Oct. 2009 Pdf (164KB)

Update on Issues: Ethics in Local Government

LWV HA studied Ethics in Local Government in 2007. This update paper is an overview of the proposals adopted by the Ethics Reform Task Force established by Judge Ed Emmett in March 2008 and approved by the Harris County Commissioners in June 2009.
Download the Ethics Update from September 2009 Pdf (48KB).

THE HOUSTON VOTER

The Houston VOTER is the LWV HA Newsletter produced monthly online and mailed to members every other month. Download the current issue.

Voter Archive

Download back issues of the Voter in pdf format.

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