Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In fiscal year (FY) 2012, we found that four federal departments--the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense, and Department of Education--administered 91 programs that supported postsecondary training or education specifically for direct care health professionals. The departments reported obligating about $14.2 billion for these programs in FY 2012 with the majority (78 percent) of funding going to programs that supported graduate medical education--postgraduate internship and residency training for physicians and certain other health professionals. Specifically, two programs administered by HHS's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services--Medicare payments to teaching hospitals for Direct Graduate Medical Education and Medicare payments to teaching hospitals for Indirect Medical Education-- accounted for about 66 percent of total reported health care workforce training funding in FY 2012."

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The department's response to the accounting-for goal established in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 brought into sharp relief longstanding disputes that have not been addressed by top-level leaders, and have been exacerbated by the accounting community's fragmented organizational structure. Leadership from the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Pacific Command have been unable to resolve disputes between community members in areas such as roles and responsibilities and developing a community-wide plan to meet the statutory accounting-for goal. Further, the accounting community is fragmented in that the community members belong to diverse parent organizations under several different chains of command. With accounting community organizations reporting under different lines of authority, no single entity has overarching responsibility for community-wide personnel and other resources."

Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has taken actions to address the recommendations from GAO's December 2011 report on CBP officer training programs aimed at strengthening officer training; three of the four recommendations are closed, and CBP has actions underway to address the remaining open recommendation, as follows:"

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In April 2013, GAO reported that, since 2007, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Infrastructure Security Compliance Division (ISCD) assigned about 3,500 high-risk chemical facilities to risk-based tiers under its Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program, but it has not fully assessed its approach for doing so. The approach ISCD used to assess risk and make decisions to place facilities in final tiers does not consider all of the elements of consequence, threat, and vulnerability associated with a terrorist attack involving certain chemicals. For example, the risk assessment approach is based primarily on consequences arising from human casualties, but does not consider economic consequences, as called for by the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) and the CFATS regulation, nor does it consider vulnerability, consistent with the NIPP. ISCD had taken some actions to examine how its risk assessment approach could be enhanced, including commissioning a panel of experts to assess the current approach and recommend improvements. In April 2013, GAO reported that ISCD needed to incorporate the results of these efforts to help ensure that the revised assessment approach includes all elements of risk. After ISCD has incorporated …

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Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a commissioners court may establish a rule that prohibits an elected county official from bringing a pet to the official's office (RQ-1114-GA).

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Application of Government Code section 573.062, the nepotism continuousemployment exception, to a school district board member's spouse (RQ-1117-GA).

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Family Code section 58.0071 authorizes the custodian of physical records and files in a juvenile case to destroy hard copies in particular instances (RQ-1119-GA).

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether advertising by a bail bond licensee in a magazine that is distributed to pretrial detainees held in the county jail, when the licensee has an exclusive agreement that no advertisements from other licensees will appear in the magazine, could ever constitute unlawful "solicitation" in violation of section 1704.304(c) of the Texas Occupation Code (RQ-1118-GA).

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Health & Safety Code section 161.123 is preempted by the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act or is in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution (RQ-1120-GA).

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority to create overlapping emergency services districts that provide duplicative services and levy additional ad valorem taxes (RQ-1122-GA).

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The appropriate court for a surety to file a release of surety for the surrender of a bond principal (RQ-1121-GA).

Document providing background on the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) including its history and provisions. The second part of the document outlines procedures for the review used by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to ensure institutions' compliance with RESPA and related policies.

Spanish-language copy of an informational pamphlet concerning the Victim Impact Statement (VIS), wherein the victim of a crime provides an account of the emotional, physical, psychological, and financial impact of the crime.

This information will help you understand relevant environmental rules and decide on a reasonable course of action to follow when responding to damage from a hurricane.

A bilingual information sheet on cleaning up grease in the kitchen and the benefits of doing it correctly.

An information sheet about the Texas Ten Step program for evaluating health facilities for their efforts to help mothers and babies and the breastfeeding app for healthcare providers.

This information will help you understand relevant environmental rules and describe a reasonable course of action to follow when responding to damage from a hurricane.