Guide to a Local Filing Authority's Duties Under the Campaign Finance Law (open access)

Guide to a Local Filing Authority's Duties Under the Campaign Finance Law

"This guide is intended to explain the responsibilities campaign finance filing authorities in cities, school districts, and other political subdivisions other than counties."
Date: September 28, 2011
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Highlights of the 80th Texas Legislature: A Summary of Significant Legislation (open access)

Highlights of the 80th Texas Legislature: A Summary of Significant Legislation

Report providing summaries of significant legislative actions conducted by the 80th Texas Legislature, broken down by topical categories.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate. Research Center.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geologic Characterization of and Data Collection in the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District and Surrounding Counties (open access)

Geologic Characterization of and Data Collection in the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District and Surrounding Counties

This report describes the methodology of data collection and analysis, and examples of maps that can be created with the database information.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Meyer, John E.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Desal Project: Final Report To the Texas Water Development Board (open access)

Texas Desal Project: Final Report To the Texas Water Development Board

Final report of the Texas Desal Project, "a science-based forum where environmental and permitting issues associated with the construction and operation of a full-scale seawater desalination facility may be identified and solutions integrated into the design process" (p. 1).
Date: September 2011
Creator: NRS Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake (open access)

Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake

This report began discusses action began "in May of 2010 when Freese and Nichols (FNI) was retained by the City of Terrell, Texas in cooperation with Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to assess, alternative uses of New Terrell City Lake (CITY Lake) and perform a dam condition assessment. The City of Terrell no longer uses the water supply from New Terrell City Lake and would like to find alternative uses for this supply." (p. ES-1).
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report to the Governor: Public Water System Capacity Development Program (open access)

Report to the Governor: Public Water System Capacity Development Program

This report accounts for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality 's (TCEQ) implementation and enforcement authority for the drinking water program.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Water Supply Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Clean School Bus Program (open access)

Texas Clean School Bus Program

This pamphlet is an informative guide to the Texas Clean School Bus Program.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $559 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $559 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of monthly sales tax revenues to local governments.
Date: September 12, 2012
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Water Development Board Report September 2011 UTBEST3D Hydrodynamic Model Verification of Corpus Christi Bay (open access)

Texas Water Development Board Report September 2011 UTBEST3D Hydrodynamic Model Verification of Corpus Christi Bay

Report discussing a recent application of the UTBEST3D (University of Texas Bay and Estuary 3D) simulator which uses the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method defined on unstructured prismatic meshes. The project aimed to produce a calibrated model of Corpus Christi Bay and compared the simulated results to real-world data to test the accuracy of the simulator.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Dawson, Clinton N.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature: House Committee on State Affairs (open access)

Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature: House Committee on State Affairs

Report from the Texas House Committee on State Affairs describing the group's goals, activities, accomplishments, and other information, for review by the 82nd Texas Legislature.
Date: September 27, 2010
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. State Affairs Committee.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lobbying in Texas (open access)

Lobbying in Texas

Document from the Texas Ethics Commission providing a guide to the laws regulating lobbying in Texas.
Date: September 20, 2011
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sea Center Texas: Self-Guided Tour (open access)

Sea Center Texas: Self-Guided Tour

This document provides information on the Sea Center Texas marine aquarium, fish hatchery and education center.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Sea Center Texas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Ethics Commission, Title 15, Election Code: Regulating Political Funds and Campaigns (open access)

Texas Ethics Commission, Title 15, Election Code: Regulating Political Funds and Campaigns

This document provides information on the Election Code for Regulating Political Funds and Campaigns.
Date: September 20, 2011
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Wastewater Treatment evaluation (open access)

Regional Wastewater Treatment evaluation

This document reports a study conducted by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) on the condition and treatment capabilities of Kint's Creek Wastewater Treatment Plan (WWTP), located in the City of Terrell. The study helped to identify areas of need at the treatment facility and the ability of the facility to meet future requirements that are Anticipated in the December 2012 Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) permit. (p. ES-1.)
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: August 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: August 2011

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $483 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $483 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $483 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: September 8, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Multistate Survey on the Regulation of Equine Performance-Enhancing Drugs (open access)

Multistate Survey on the Regulation of Equine Performance-Enhancing Drugs

This report "contains information on state regulations relating to performance-enhancing drug testing of racehorses, performance horses, and show horses in California, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, and Texas" (Introduction).
Date: September 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chapter 305, Government Code: Registration of Lobbyists (open access)

Chapter 305, Government Code: Registration of Lobbyists

This document provides information on the Government code of Registration of Lobbyists.
Date: September 20, 2011
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forage Quality and Quantity in Texas : Managing Nutrition in Range Beef Cattle (open access)

Forage Quality and Quantity in Texas : Managing Nutrition in Range Beef Cattle

This document "discusses the forage quality trends in various regions of Texas, tools to analyze the nutritional environment of cattle and differentiate between forage quality and availability problems, and nutritional management strategies" (p. 1).
Date: September 2002
Creator: Lyons, Robert K.; Machen, Rick & Stuth, Jerry W.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filing and Paying Your Texas Taxes Electronically (open access)

Filing and Paying Your Texas Taxes Electronically

This document provides information on filing and paying Texas taxes electronically.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sworn Complaint Before the Texas Ethics Commission (open access)

Sworn Complaint Before the Texas Ethics Commission

This document is required for eligibility to file a sworn complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission.
Date: September 18, 2012
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Providing for Backyard Wildlife, A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Feeders, Houses and Plants (open access)

Providing for Backyard Wildlife, A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Feeders, Houses and Plants

Brochure containing information "to assist people wanting to create habitat and features that will attract wildlife to their backyards" (About the Author). The table of contents lists sections for: platform bird feeder, platform butterfly feeder, simple squirrel and dove feeder, suet feeder, solitary bees, pollinator box, general use nesting box, nesting platform, butterfly attracting plants, and hummingbird plants for Texas.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Brown, Walter
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: August 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: August 2012

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Campaign Finance Guide for Candidates and Officeholders Who File with the Texas Ethics Commission (open access)

Campaign Finance Guide for Candidates and Officeholders Who File with the Texas Ethics Commission

This guide provides information on candidates and officeholders who file with the Texas Ethics Commission.
Date: September 28, 2011
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History