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Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report to  Federal Highway Administration - Texas (open access)

Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report to Federal Highway Administration - Texas

This report has been prepared to fulfil requirements in the Stewardship and Oversight Agreement on Project Assumption and Program Oversight by and between Federal Highway Administration, Texas Division and the State of Texas Department of Transportation in 2019. This report describe local government interchangeable with local public agencies. Local government transportation project phase of project development environmental, design, right of way, utility relocation or construction.
Date: November 30, 2019
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Safety Action Report (open access)

Texas Safety Action Report

Report regarding immediate and future actions to improve safety for Texans related to mass shootings and other attacks, and including explanations of relevant executive orders.
Date: September 12, 2019
Creator: Abbott, Greg, 1957-
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commission on Jail Standards Annual Report: 2018 (open access)

Texas Commission on Jail Standards Annual Report: 2018

Annual report of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards outlining organizational information, data regarding performance and operations, and other information for calendar year 2018.
Date: February 1, 2019
Creator: Texas Commission on Jail Standards
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Wildlife Services Program Annual Report: 2019 (open access)

Texas Wildlife Services Program Annual Report: 2019

Annual report documenting activities of the Texas Wildlife Services Program including overviews of particular initiatives, collected data, and other information about the Program's work during fiscal year 2019.
Date: 2019~
Creator: United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve major consulting contract reporting requirements and processes (open access)

Improve major consulting contract reporting requirements and processes

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the lack of consistency in reporting requirements for state agencies and institutions of higher education.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve reporting for costs related to online higher education (open access)

Improve reporting for costs related to online higher education

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to various options for reducing the financial burden for students in higher education institutions.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve state and public groundwater quality information (open access)

Improve state and public groundwater quality information

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to improve testing and overall quality of groundwater, particularly in private wells.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve state debt collection practices (open access)

Improve state debt collection practices

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to reporting and oversight practices for collecting delinquent debts to make practices more consistent.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clarify oversight of regionalization at the Texas juvenile justice department (open access)

Clarify oversight of regionalization at the Texas juvenile justice department

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to efforts to reform the state’s juvenile justice system by establishing a regionalization model.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve operation of the star kids program (open access)

Improve operation of the star kids program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to improving the management and evaluation of the "STAR Kids" program, intended to coordinate Medicaid care for children with disabilities.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve the state response to human trafficking (open access)

Improve the state response to human trafficking

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to inconsistencies in anti-trafficking legislation and activities undertaken by state agencies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve the use of vendor performance data in state procurement (open access)

Improve the use of vendor performance data in state procurement

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to improving consistency of use and accuracy of the Texas Vendor Performance Tracking System for agency procurement decisions.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Increase access to state assistance for defense communities (open access)

Increase access to state assistance for defense communities

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to combining or improving two economic development programs that are both meant to support military programs and infrastructure in Texas.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Optimize administration of the commercial driver license testing program (open access)

Optimize administration of the commercial driver license testing program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the implementation of changes to commercial driver license skills testing, administrative review requirements, and upgrades to information technology networks.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of opioid crisis in Texas (open access)

Overview of opioid crisis in Texas

Staff report outlining contextual information and various issues related to the opioid crisis in Texas and state programs intended to address it.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Decrease state agencies’ customer call wait times (open access)

Decrease state agencies’ customer call wait times

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to reducing overall waiting times when customers call Texas state agencies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of state response to chronic wasting disease (open access)

Overview of state response to chronic wasting disease

Staff report outlining contextual information and discussion related to the management of a chronic wasting disease that was discovered in a Texas deer-breeding facility and the efficacy of the response.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of state ferry system operations (open access)

Overview of state ferry system operations

Staff report outlining contextual information related to "ferry system operations including funding sources, traffic and congestion, vessel maintenance and replacement, and opportunities for diesel emission reductions" (p. 1).
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of Texas exports during calendar year 2017 (open access)

Overview of Texas exports during calendar year 2017

Staff report outlining contextual information and discussion related to exports from Texas compared to other U.S. states, particularly exports to foreign countries.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fiscal impact of hurricane Harvey on state agencies (open access)

Fiscal impact of hurricane Harvey on state agencies

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to "Hurricane Harvey's fiscal impact on state agencies" (p. 1)
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funding options for the Texas coastal resiliency master plan (open access)

Funding options for the Texas coastal resiliency master plan

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to plans for coastal protection and programs to increase resiliency.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement strategies to increase capacity and manage workload at state crime laboratories and improve state laboratory accreditation (open access)

Implement strategies to increase capacity and manage workload at state crime laboratories and improve state laboratory accreditation

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the inability 13 crime laboratories administered by the Department of Public Safety to keep up with demand by the many law enforcement agencies that rely on them.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve alignment of skills development fund grants with workforce training goals (open access)

Improve alignment of skills development fund grants with workforce training goals

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to various state-funded workforce training programs including their administration and evaluation metrics.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Municipal Solid Waste in Texas: A Year In Review, 2018 (open access)

Municipal Solid Waste in Texas: A Year In Review, 2018

Report that summarizes the data on the types and the amount of waste disposed and processed at Texas' permitted and registered MSW facilities, as well as an estimate of the state's remaining MSW landfill disposal capacity.
Date: September 2019
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Waste Permits Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History