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Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0156
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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether wholly owning a motor vehicle manufacturer results in affiliation with that manufacturer for purposes of subsection 2301.476(a)(2) of the Occupations Code (RQ-0170-KP).
Date:
July 31, 2017
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0150
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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether municipal courts are authorized to report juvenile conv1ct10ns for drug paraphernalia offenses to the Texas Department of Public Safety (RQ-0143-KP).
Date:
May 31, 2017
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0011
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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a public school district may expend funds for the management of county school lands to determine if a lessee of a mineral estate is fulfilling its duty to explore and develop the mineral estate (RQ-1225-GA).
Date:
March 31, 2015
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0012
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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of a salary increase for the sheriff that exceeded the amount listed in the initial public notice required by section 152.013 of the Local Government Code (RQ-1226-GA).
Date:
March 31, 2015
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0013
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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Commencement of term of office of a person elected sheriff as a successor to an individual who was appointed to fill a vacancy in that office (RQ-1227-GA).
Date:
March 31, 2015
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fiscal Year 2013 Conference Report
"This report provides a summary of expenses incurred by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for conferences held during fiscal year 2013."
Date:
January 31, 2014
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nanomanufacturing: Emergence and Implications for U.S. Competitiveness, the Environment, and Human Health
Other written product issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The forum's participants described nanomanufacturing as a future megatrend that will potentially match or surpass the digital revolution's effect on society and the economy. They anticipated further scientific breakthroughs that will fuel new engineering developments; continued movement into the manufacturing sector; and more intense international competition."
Date:
January 31, 2014
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Private Health Insurance: The Range of Base Premiums for Individuals Age 19 and 64 in the Individual Market by State in January 2013
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reported the range of base premiums prior to underwriting for individual market health insurance plans as displayed on the HealthCare.gov Plan Finder in January 2013. The base premiums were for individuals aged 19 and 64 in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The base premiums reflected information from data submitted by insurers to the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) within the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). They represented the lowest premium amounts that would have been available to different categories of individuals at that time; however, actual premium amounts paid by consumers could have been higher as they would have been determined after more complete underwriting for health conditions and other factors, and some individuals could have been denied coverage. GAO also reported on base premiums prior to underwriting for an urban and rural zip code in four select states, one from each census region. The states included: Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Texas. This supplements data on base premiums in the individual market in January 2013 for other categories of individuals …
Date:
January 31, 2014
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1040
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 authority of a county appraisal district to place excess funds in a capital improvement fund or to spend excess funds on a one-time, lump-sum payment to its employees (RQ-1143-GA).
Date:
January 31, 2014
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The National Energy Policy Institute (NEPI) at The University of Tulsa (FINAL REPORT)
NEPI, a non-profit organization located at The University of Tulsa (TU), was established to develop and disseminate national energy policy recommendations. Research under this grant covered a wide variety of projects, including research into the future of nuclear power, oil market pricing, and the feasibility of biofuels.
Date:
October 31, 2013
Creator:
Blais, Roger
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personnel Security Clearances: Full Development and Implementation of Metrics Needed to Measure Quality of Process
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Multiple executive branch agencies are responsible for different steps of the multi-phased personnel security clearance process that includes: determination of whether a position requires a clearance, application submission, investigation, and adjudication. Agency officials must first determine whether a federal civilian position requires access to classified information. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are in the process of issuing a joint revision to the regulations guiding this step in response to GAO's 2012 recommendation that the DNI issue policy and guidance for the determination, review, and validation of requirements. After an individual has been selected for a federal civilian position that requires a personnel security clearance and the individual submits an application for a clearance, investigators--often contractors--from OPM conduct background investigations for most executive branch agencies. Adjudicators from requesting agencies use the information from these investigations and consider federal adjudicative guidelines to determine whether an applicant is eligible for a clearance. Further, individuals are subject to reinvestigations at intervals that are dependent on the level of security clearance. For example, top secret and secret clearance holders are to be reinvestigated every 5 …
Date:
October 31, 2013
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Army Logistics: Container Handling Equipment Requirements, Contracts, and Inventory
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Armys requirements for container handling equipment have changed since 1998 from focusing on "break bulk" to focusing on containerized distribution, and the Army has awarded contracts and issued delivery orders to reflect those changing requirements."
Date:
July 31, 2013
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Coast Guard: Observations on Progress Made and Challenges Faced in Developing and Implementing a Common Operational Picture
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Coast Guard, a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has made progress in developing its Common Operational Picture (COP) by increasing the information in the COP and increasing user access to this information. The Coast Guard has made progress by adding internal and external data sources that allow for better understanding of anything associated with the global maritime domain that could affect the United States. The COP has made information from these sources available to more COP users and decision makers throughout the Coast Guard. For example, in 2006, the ability to track the location of Coast Guard assets, including small boats and cutters, was added to the COP. This capability--also known as blue force tracking--allows COP users to locate Coast Guard vessels in real time and establish which vessels are in the best position to respond to mission needs. In addition to adding information to the COP, the Coast Guard has also made the information contained in the COP available on more computers and on more systems, which, in turn, has increased the number of users with access to the COP."
Date:
July 31, 2013
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Information on Defective Drywall
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO found that numerous claims for damage have been addressed through legal settlements partly paid by commercial insurance reimbursements. Three of the four insurers with whom GAO spoke contributed to legal settlements by paying for CGL claims stemming from lawsuits against their policyholders, and one of these insurers also made payments for CGL claims separate from legal settlements. The legal settlements from defective drywall lawsuits involve hundreds of companies in the drywall supply chain (including importers, suppliers, and builders), and most of the lawsuits have been consolidated under multidistrict litigation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. One of the legal settlements involves one of the two primary manufacturers of defective drywall and provides an uncapped amount of funds to address damage to affected homes, as well as $30 million for other expenses. This manufacturer's settlement is part of a group of settlements that guarantees more than $350 million to assist affected home owners, with the potential to increase."
Date:
July 31, 2013
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Transportation Security: TSA Could Strengthen Oversight of Allegations of Employee Misconduct
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In July 2013, GAO reported that TSA investigated and adjudicated approximately 9,600 cases of employee misconduct from fiscal years 2010 through 2012, according to TSA employee misconduct data that we analyzed. Two offense categories accounted for about half of all cases--(1) attendance and leave, which accounted for 32 percent; and (2) screening and security, which accounted for 20 percent. Charges for screening and security-related incidents pertain to violating standard operating procedures, including not conducting security or equipment checks, and allowing patrons or baggage to bypass screening. TSA developed a Table of Offenses and Penalties that delineates common employee charges, along with a suggested range of penalties. Of the cases that we analyzed, 47 percent resulted in letters of reprimand, which describe unacceptable conduct that is the basis for a disciplinary action; 31 percent resulted in suspensions of a definite duration; and 17 percent resulted in the employee's removal from TSA. The remaining cases covered a variety of outcomes, including suspensions of an indefinite duration."
Date:
July 31, 2013
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1007
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 county may regulate, as a subdivision, the partition of a tract of land in the unincorporated portion of the county under Local Government Code chapter 232 or Health and Safety Code chapter 121 (RQ-1103-GA).
Date:
May 31, 2013
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Optimal Detection of Decadal Predictability
This document is a property certificate form for the subject contract.
Date:
August 31, 2012
Creator:
Delsole, Dr. Timothy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Privacy: Federal Law Should Be Updated to Address Changing Technology Landscape
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Technological developments since the Privacy Act became law in 1974 have changed the way information is organized and shared among organizations and individuals. Such advances have rendered some of the provisions of the Privacy Act and the E-Government Act of 2002 inadequate to fully protect all personally identifiable information collected, used, and maintained by the federal government. For example, GAO has reported on challenges in protecting the privacy of personal information relative to agencies use of Web 2.0 and data-mining technologies."
Date:
July 31, 2012
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Project Summary: Multibeam Survey of the Eastern Santa Barbara Channel, California]
Summary describing the work completed at U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center for 'Multibeam Survey of the Eastern Santa Barbara Channel, California.' It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
Date:
July 31, 2012
Creator:
U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Strategic Weapons: Changes in the Nuclear Weapons Targeting Process Since 1991
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The fundamental objectives of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy have remained largely consistent since 1991, even as the threat environment and the size of the nuclear weapons stockpile have changed. The current process for developing nuclear targeting and employment guidance has remained consistent. However, the structure of the nuclear war plan, and the categories and number of targets in the plan, have changed. DOD continues to exercise civilian oversight of the targeting process. The indirect relationship between the targeting process and DODs determination of requirements for nuclear weapons and delivery systems also continues."
Date:
July 31, 2012
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0959
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 local election under section 1502.055, Government Code, is required before a municipality may sell its sewage collection system and treatment plant to a river authority: Possible conflict with chapter 30, Water Code.
Date:
July 31, 2012
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Force Structure: Army and Marine Corps Efforts to Review Nonstandard Equipment for Future Usefulness
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In summary, the Army and the Marine Corps have taken steps to determine the future usefulness of nonstandard equipment but have not finalized all of the decisions on whether to add such equipment to unit authorization documents. As of November 2011, the Army had reviewed 409 equipment systems through its Capabilities Development for Rapid Transition process, determining that about 11 percent of that equipment is useful for the future and about 37 percent is not needed and should be terminated. The Army has not made a final decision on the future need for the remaining 52 percent of the equipment, which it continues to sustain for current operations primarily through the use of overseas contingency operations funds. The Army has also taken some additional actions to review nonstandard equipment through other forums and reviews which have led to recommendations for some items to be retained for the future. Since 2008, the Marine Corps has reviewed 144 different requests for capabilities to fill gaps identified by commanders. Of these, the Marine Corps has determined that about 63 percent will continue to be needed in the future to meet enduring …
Date:
May 31, 2012
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Human Rights: State Department Followed an Extensive Process to Prepare Annual Country Reports
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "State has an extensive process designed to make the country reports on human rights as comprehensive, objective, and uniform as possible. This process includes annually issuing detailed instructions, consulting and assessing information from multiple sources, and collaboratively and iteratively drafting and reviewing the reports. State issues instructions for preparing the country reports each year, outlining a consistent structure and describing, for example, the topics that should be included in each subsection. The instructions also, among other things, indicate that the country reports should build on the previous years reports and specify guidelines for new and updated content. In addition, the instructions state that staff preparing the country reports are to use and assess multiple sources, including host governments, local and international human NGOs, labor unions, and host country media as well as classified information. State officials told us that they also obtain information from business leaders and industry groups, although there is no legal requirement to do so. In general, according to State officials, Foreign Service officersoften on their first or second tour of dutyprepare first drafts of the country reports with the assistance of other embassy personnel, …
Date:
May 31, 2012
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Managing for Results: GAO's Work Related to the Interim Crosscutting Priority Goals under the GPRA Modernization Act
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The act requires that OMB develop federal government priority goals (crosscutting goals) and a federal government performance plan, which is to be updated annually and released concurrently with the Presidents budget. Specifically, it requires OMB, starting with the 2015 budget and in coordination with agencies and in consultation with the Congress, to developevery 4 yearslong-term, outcome-oriented goals for a limited number of crosscutting policy areas and goals for management improvement areas, including: financial management; human capital management; information technology management; procurement and acquisition management; and real property management. The goals are to be updated or revised every 4 years. In addition, OMB is required to develop interim priority goals, starting with the 2013 budget. OMB is also required to provide information on how these federal government priority goals will be achieved in a federal government performance plan."
Date:
May 31, 2012
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library