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Texas Education Code Revision (open access)

Texas Education Code Revision

Part of the state's continuing statutory revision program, contemplating revision of the the state's Education Code without substantive change.
Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Texas Legislative Council
System: The Portal to Texas History
Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Hiring Practices, Fiscal Years 2013-2014 (open access)

Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Hiring Practices, Fiscal Years 2013-2014

Report on new hires and workforce composition for state agencies and institutions of higher education, prepared by the TWC's Civil Rights Division.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas Workforce Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Summary of Evaluations of Best Management Practices in Certain Water Conservation Plans (open access)

Summary of Evaluations of Best Management Practices in Certain Water Conservation Plans

Summary of the evaluations of 14 utilities' required water conservation plans for compliance with the Texas Water Development Board's best management practices when considering applications for financial assistance.
Date: January 1, 2015
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Issues Facing the 84th Texas Legislature (open access)

Issues Facing the 84th Texas Legislature

Reference guide to issues facing the 84th Texas Legislature.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate. Research Center.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Executive Summary of Legislative Budget Board Reports (open access)

Executive Summary of Legislative Budget Board Reports

This is a report by the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) covers a broad range of analyses for options to increase transportation funding, reducing reliance on General Revenue-Dedicated funds, strengthening fiscal accountability in public education, improving coordination and oversight of border security, modify certain property appraisal appeals, and measures to improve drought planning on both the state and local level.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Workforce Commission Report on Texas Growth Occupations (open access)

Texas Workforce Commission Report on Texas Growth Occupations

TWC's first annual report on Texas high-wage and high-growth occupations.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas Workforce Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rules of Practice and Procedure (open access)

The Rules of Practice and Procedure

Rules and procedures for hearing and resolving taxpayer disagreements with official actions of the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Hegar, Glenn
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breastfeeding: It's Enough to Make You Wonder (open access)

Breastfeeding: It's Enough to Make You Wonder

This document is to encourage more mothers to breastfeed.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
System: The Portal to Texas History
International Fuel Tax Agreement (open access)

International Fuel Tax Agreement

This document is to inform citizens new to International Fuel Tax Agreements tax requirements with help topics.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Food Packages for Moms and Babies (open access)

Food Packages for Moms and Babies

This document provides information for mothers of new babies in need of food services.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Need and Options for Subnational Scale Land-Use and Land-Cover Scenarios for the United States (open access)

Need and Options for Subnational Scale Land-Use and Land-Cover Scenarios for the United States

"This report summarizes discussions during a workshop of users and producers of land use and land cover (LULC) scenarios convened by the Scenarios and Interpretive Science Coordinating Group of U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) on June 25-27, 2014."
Date: January 2015
Creator: Brown, Daniel; Delgado, Alison; Moss, Richard & Sedano, Fernando
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Impacts of OCS Activities on Public Infrastructure, Services, and Population in Coastal Communities Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (open access)

Assessing Impacts of OCS Activities on Public Infrastructure, Services, and Population in Coastal Communities Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

A report examining the Impacts of OCS activities on public infrastructure, services, and population in coastal communities in the aftermaths of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Fannin, J. Matthew; Schafer, Mark & Keithly, Waiter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baseline Bioacoustic Characterization for Offshore Renewable Energy Development in the North Carolina and Georgia Wind Planning Areas (open access)

Baseline Bioacoustic Characterization for Offshore Renewable Energy Development in the North Carolina and Georgia Wind Planning Areas

This is a study on technologies developments for harnessing energy from the ocean environment. Technological improvements in offshore renewable energy like wind and hydrokinetic captured energy. Passive acoustics allow researchers to analyze how the construction and use of such technologies affect marine species.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Rice, Aaron N.; Morano, Janelle L.; Hodge, Kristin B.; Muirhead, Charles A.; Frankel, Adam S.; Feinblatt, Michael et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Project Summary: Assessing Impacts of OCS Activities on Public Infrastructure, Services, and Population in Coastal Communities Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita] (open access)

[Project Summary: Assessing Impacts of OCS Activities on Public Infrastructure, Services, and Population in Coastal Communities Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita]

Summary describing the work completed at Louisiana State University Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness for Assessing Impacts of OCS Activities on Public Infrastructure, Services, and Population in Coastal Communities Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.
Date: January 2015
Creator: Louisiana State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Floyd Cantwell, January 30 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Floyd Cantwell, January 30 2015

Transcript of an interview with Floyd Cantwell, a cedar chopper.
Date: January 30, 2015
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Jack Hunt Parks, January 14, 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Jack Hunt Parks, January 14, 2015

Transcript of interview with Jack Hunt Parks, the owner of the Hunt Store, from Houston, Texas. Parks speaks about his experiences as owner of the Hunt Store, his experiences as a member of the Hunt Preservation Society, and about his grandfathers (one of which was a Texas Special Ranger, the other of which was a cowboy on the Matador Ranch north of Abilene).
Date: January 14, 2015
Creator: Webb, Jeanie Archer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with J. H. Lewis and S. A. P. Lewis, January 26, 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with J. H. Lewis and S. A. P. Lewis, January 26, 2015

Transcript of interview with Sylvia Ann Payne Lewis and Joe Herman Lewis, alumni of Doyle High School, from Kerrville, Texas. They speak about growing up in the black community of Kerrville during segregation.
Date: January 26, 2015
Creator: Webb, Jeanie Archer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Byrdimeb Findlay, January 21, 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Byrdimeb Findlay, January 21, 2015

Transcript of interview with Byrdimeb "Bemmie" Findlay, whose parents ran Kamp Kickapoo, from Dallas, Texas. Bimmie speaks of the time she spent in various summer camps during her childhood.
Date: January 21, 2015
Creator: Collins, Kelli K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Joel Jonce Craig, January 7, 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Joel Jonce Craig, January 7, 2015

Transcript of interview with Joel Jonce Craig, an alumnus of Tivy High School, from Ingram, Texas. Craig recalls his time playing in a western band at local dances during his teenage years, as well as his time in a pop band called the Bluenotes that he played with after serving time in the United States Army.
Date: January 7, 2015
Creator: Webb, Jeanie Archer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with G. W. Haney and R. P. Haney, January 26, 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with G. W. Haney and R. P. Haney, January 26, 2015

Transcript of interview with George Wyatt (Dub) Haney and Raye Joan Pickett Haney, a married couple from Kerrville, Texas. They give a brief history of their lives and their time in Kerrville.
Date: January 26, 2015
Creator: Collins, Kelli K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0001 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0001

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 an independent school district may use the certified estimate of property tax values to adopt a tax rate after adopting its budget (RQ-1211-GA).
Date: January 20, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities Hearing: January 12-13, 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities Hearing: January 12-13, 2015

Transcript of a deliberation meeting held by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities (CECANF) held January 12-13, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. This meeting was convened for Commission members to discuss the issues of defining and counting child abuse and neglect fatalities and to explore recommendations for addressing them.
Date: 2015-01-12/2015-01-13
Creator: CQ Transcriptions
System: The UNT Digital Library
Share your explorations in DART's Student Art Contest (open access)

Share your explorations in DART's Student Art Contest

News release about DART's annual student art contest.
Date: January 20, 2015
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART taking lead in new partnership to combat human trafficking (open access)

DART taking lead in new partnership to combat human trafficking

News release about DART's awareness campaign and employee training program to help combat human trafficking.
Date: January 14, 2015
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History