Focus Report, Volume 87, Number 5, January 10, 2022 (open access)

Focus Report, Volume 87, Number 5, January 10, 2022

Report on the bills that Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed in the 2021 regular legislative session. (p.1)
Date: January 10, 2022
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register: 2019 Annual Index, Index of Rules, Pages 121-160, and Index of Non-Rulemaking Notices, Pages 161-196, January 10, 2020 (open access)

Texas Register: 2019 Annual Index, Index of Rules, Pages 121-160, and Index of Non-Rulemaking Notices, Pages 161-196, January 10, 2020

This annual index includes both index of rules and Index of Non-Rulemaking Notices published January to December 2019. A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 10, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 2, Pages 235-438, January 10, 2020 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 2, Pages 235-438, January 10, 2020

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 10, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attorney General's Memorandum on Federal Marijuana Enforcement: Possible Impacts (open access)

Attorney General's Memorandum on Federal Marijuana Enforcement: Possible Impacts

This report discusses Attorney General Jeff Sessions' memorandum on federal marijuana enforcement policy sent to all U.S. Attorneys that immediately rescinds guidance documents specific to marijuana enforcement. It provides background on the memorandum, the relevant regulations, and implications of withdrawing previous guidance.
Date: January 10, 2018
Creator: Garvey, Todd & Yeh, Brian T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) and Selected Policy Issues (open access)

Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) and Selected Policy Issues

This report summarizes S. 2155 and highlights major policy proposals of the bill, as reported by committee.
Date: January 10, 2018
Creator: Perkins, David W.; Getter, Darryl E.; Labonte, Marc & Weiss, N. Eric
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Facing the FAST Act: Abortion and Free Speech (Part 1) (open access)

Facing the FAST Act: Abortion and Free Speech (Part 1)

First part of a report regarding the Supreme Court case: "National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra;" it involves a California state law that requires certain pregnancy centers to distribute particular information to clients which they contend violates their free speech rights. This report provides an overview of the challenged law, followed by an analysis of how the Supreme Court might categorize the speech at issue.
Date: January 10, 2018
Creator: Killion, Victoria L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Facing the FAST Act: Abortion and Free Speech (Part 2) (open access)

Facing the FAST Act: Abortion and Free Speech (Part 2)

Second part of a report regarding the Supreme Court case: "National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra;" it involves a California state law that requires certain pregnancy centers to distribute particular information to clients which they contend violates their free speech rights. This report discusses the potential implications of any Supreme Court decision in "NIFLA" for First Amendment jurisprudence and legislatures seeking to regulate in this area.
Date: January 10, 2018
Creator: Killion, Victoria L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to the Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress (open access)

Introduction to the Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress

This report introduces the main steps through which a bill (or other item of business) may travel in the legislative process--from introduction to committee and floor consideration to possible presidential consideration. This report outlines each of the common stages through which a bill may move, with references to sources of additional information regarding complications and variations that occur in practice.
Date: January 10, 2018
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Release: Comptroller Distributes Sales Tax Revenue, January 10, 2018] (open access)

[News Release: Comptroller Distributes Sales Tax Revenue, January 10, 2018]

News release documenting Texas monthly sales tax revenue for January 2018 with a general summary and table of local sales tax allocations.
Date: January 10, 2018
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transatlantic Relations in 2018 (open access)

Transatlantic Relations in 2018

This report discusses the current state of transatlantic relations between the U.S. and Europe and especially the European Union (EU). It also outlines various European concerns over the direction of the Trump Administration and future issues for Congress to consider.
Date: January 10, 2018
Creator: Morelli, Vincent L. & Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Venezuela's Economic Crisis: Issues for Congress (open access)

Venezuela's Economic Crisis: Issues for Congress

This report discusses the economic crisis in Venezuela including its origins of the crisis and current attempts at debt restructuring by the Venezuelan government. The report also outlines U.S. interests in the Venezuelan economy and trade, the outlook for U.S. holders of Venezuelan oil company bonds, ownership of CITGO (the biggest shareholder is the Venezuelan state-oil company), and the prospects of U.S. support of economic recovery in the future.
Date: January 10, 2018
Creator: Nelson, Rebecca M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biennial Budgeting: Issues, Options, and Congressional Actions (open access)

Biennial Budgeting: Issues, Options, and Congressional Actions

This report discusses biennial budgeting, which includes several variations. It may involve multiyear authorizations, two-year budget resolutions, two-year appropriations, or some combination of the three.
Date: January 10, 2017
Creator: Saturno, James V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Power Plan: Legal Background and Pending Litigation in West Virginia v. EPA (open access)

Clean Power Plan: Legal Background and Pending Litigation in West Virginia v. EPA

This report provides legal background on the Clean Power Plan rule (CPP) to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), its Clean Air Act (CAA) framework under Section 111, and climate-related lawsuits that have preceded the present litigation over the CPP. It then gives an overview of the participants in the current litigation, including two groups of Members of Congress, who have offered briefs in support of the petitioners and the respondents, respectively.
Date: January 10, 2017
Creator: Tsang, Linda & Wyatt, Alexandra M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Proposed Reauthorization in the 115th Congress (open access)

Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Proposed Reauthorization in the 115th Congress

This report describes the re-authorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), created in 1974.
Date: January 10, 2017
Creator: Miller, Rena S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV): Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV): Background and Issues for Congress

This report discusses the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), which is an Army-led, multi-service initiative to develop a family of light tactical vehicles as a successor to the High Mobility, Multi-Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs). It includes background information; a description of the JLTV program, program history, and program activities; information about the JLTV contract, Lockheed Martin's protest to the program, budgetary issues, and potential issues for Congress.
Date: January 10, 2017
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sanctuary Jurisdictions and Criminal Aliens: In Brief (open access)

Sanctuary Jurisdictions and Criminal Aliens: In Brief

This report examines the interplay between the federal government (i.e., Immigration and Customs Enforcement/ICE) and state and local jurisdictions in enforcing immigration law, with a specific focus on noncitizens who have been convicted of a crime. It explores major programs and federal resources available to state and local law enforcement agencies that cooperate with ICE to enforce immigration law.
Date: January 10, 2017
Creator: Kandel, William A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
STEO Current/Previous Forecast Comparisons (open access)

STEO Current/Previous Forecast Comparisons

Tables of projected energy outputs in the U.S.
Date: January 10, 2017
Creator: United States. Department of Energy.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bangladesh Apparel Factory Collapse: Background in Brief (open access)

Bangladesh Apparel Factory Collapse: Background in Brief

This report provides an overview of the recent tragedy in Bangladesh and the Bangladesh economic environment and culture. It also notes the responses to the tragedy, to date, from Congress, the Administration, the ILO, the Bangladesh government, and the private sector.
Date: January 10, 2014
Creator: Bolle, Mary Jane
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chile: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations (open access)

Chile: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations

This report details about the Chile nation's Political and Economic situation, and the U.S - Chile relations.
Date: January 10, 2014
Creator: Meyer, Peter J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Expanded Capabilities Of The Cementitious Barriers Partnership Software Toolbox Version 2.0 - 14331 (open access)

The Expanded Capabilities Of The Cementitious Barriers Partnership Software Toolbox Version 2.0 - 14331

The Cementitious Barriers Partnership (CBP) Project is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (US DOE) Office of Tank Waste Management. The CBP program has developed a set of integrated tools (based on state-of-the-art models and leaching test methods) that help improve understanding and predictions of the long-term structural, hydraulic and chemical performance of cementitious barriers used in nuclear applications. The CBP Software Toolbox – “Version 1.0” was released early in FY2013 and was used to support DOE-EM performance assessments in evaluating various degradation mechanisms that included sulfate attack, carbonation and constituent leaching. The sulfate attack analysis predicted the extent and damage that sulfate ingress will have on concrete vaults over extended time (i.e., > 1000 years) and the carbonation analysis provided concrete degradation predictions from rebar corrosion. The new release “Version 2.0” includes upgraded carbonation software and a new software module to evaluate degradation due to chloride attack. Also included in the newer version are a dual regime module allowing evaluation of contaminant release in two regimes – both fractured and un-fractured. The integrated software package has also been upgraded with new plotting capabilities and many other features that increase the “user-friendliness” of the package. …
Date: January 10, 2014
Creator: Burns, Heather; Flach, Greg; Smith, Frank; Langton, Christine; Brown, Kevin; Kosson, David et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Fraud and "Economically Motivated Adulteration" of Food and Food Ingredients (open access)

Food Fraud and "Economically Motivated Adulteration" of Food and Food Ingredients

This report discusses food fraud, or the act of defrauding buyers of food and food ingredients for economic gain. It includes background information, an overview of available data and information repositories related to food fraud, federal activities involving food fraud, and Congressional actions involving food fraud.
Date: January 10, 2014
Creator: Johnson, Renée
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized System of Preferences: Agricultural Imports (open access)

Generalized System of Preferences: Agricultural Imports

This report discusses the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), which provides duty-free tariff treatment for certain products from designated developing countries. Opinion within the U.S. agriculture industry is mixed, reflecting both support for and opposition to the current program. The 111th Congress did not extend the GSP in 2010, and it was set to expire December 31, 2010, which will likely become a legislative issue in the 112th Congress.
Date: January 10, 2014
Creator: Johnson, Renée
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HPC4Energy Wrapup Report - LDRD 12-ERD-074 (open access)

HPC4Energy Wrapup Report - LDRD 12-ERD-074

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Date: January 10, 2014
Creator: Dube, E
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-Density and High Porosity Hydrogen Storage Materials Built from Ultra-Light Elements. Final Scientific/Technical Report (open access)

Low-Density and High Porosity Hydrogen Storage Materials Built from Ultra-Light Elements. Final Scientific/Technical Report

A number of significant advances have been achieved, opening up new opportunities for the synthetic development of novel porous materials and their energy-related applications including gas storage and separation and catalysis. These include lithium-based metal-organic frameworks, magnesium-based metal-organic frameworks, and high gas uptake in porous frameworks with high density of open donor sites.
Date: January 10, 2014
Creator: Feng, Pingyun
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library