Fresh, Brackish, and Saline Groundwater Resources in the Carrizo-Wilcox, Queen City and Sparta Aquifers in Groundwater Management Area 13 -- Location, Quantification, Producibility, and Impacts (open access)

Fresh, Brackish, and Saline Groundwater Resources in the Carrizo-Wilcox, Queen City and Sparta Aquifers in Groundwater Management Area 13 -- Location, Quantification, Producibility, and Impacts

Report over a study conducted to identify potential production areas that can provide brackish water over a 30 to 50-year time period using the Carrizo-Wilcox and Queen-City and Sparta Groundwater Availability Models, along with the latest data, scientific approaches and best practices.
Date: April 2019
Creator: University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: March 2019, Part 3 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: March 2019, Part 3

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: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: March 2019, Part 5 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: March 2019, Part 5

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: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: March 2019, Part 1 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: March 2019, Part 1

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: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Early Warning System Final Report - San Macros Watershed in Caldwell County, Texas: Final Report (open access)

Early Warning System Final Report - San Macros Watershed in Caldwell County, Texas: Final Report

Report on the installation of an early warning system in Caldwell County, consisting of eight rainfall gauges and two outdoor early warning sirens.
Date: April 26, 2019
Creator: Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Structural Cracking in Concrete: Final Report (open access)

Evaluation of Structural Cracking in Concrete: Final Report

Project developed to crack-based strength assessment procedures that employ visual concrete crack data as input and provide quantitative output related to bridge member health.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Zaborac, Jarrod; Athanasiou, Apostolos; Salamone, Salvatore; Bayrak, Oguzhan & Hrynyk, Trevor
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Recreation Grant Programs Revised April 2019 (open access)

Recreation Grant Programs Revised April 2019

Information on the process of running programs funded through the recreation grant program.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Round Up, April 2019 (open access)

Round Up, April 2019

Monthly magazine for Texas Lottery retailers that contains news, retailer spotlights, and a list of lottery winners.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
National Weather Service Hydrologic Model Calibration: Calibration of Flood Forecasting Models for Sub-basins of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou in Texas (open access)

National Weather Service Hydrologic Model Calibration: Calibration of Flood Forecasting Models for Sub-basins of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou in Texas

Report detailing the findings of a study designed to help understand and prevent major flooding incidents in Southeast Texas. The study seeks to enhance the accuracy of its flood forecasting models to help warn the public in the event of a flood and focuses specifically on the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou basins.
Date: April 30, 2019
Creator: RTI International
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Main Street Matters, April 2019 (open access)

Main Street Matters, April 2019

Newsletter issued by the Texas Main Street Program discussing news, events, and other information related to the program as well as featuring designated participating communities and providing technical advice regarding conservation and restoration.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kinship Quarterly, April 2019 (open access)

Kinship Quarterly, April 2019

Quarterly newsletter related to the "Kinship Care by Child Protective Services (CPS)" program run by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services containing departmental information and announcements, deadlines, and other information of importance to people involved in the program.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Department of Family and Protective Services.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Business Today, Third Quarter 2019 (open access)

Texas Business Today, Third Quarter 2019

Quarterly newsletter for Texas employers describing upcoming activities, new laws affecting businesses, articles on various business-related topics, and other relevant topics.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas Workforce Commission. Office of the Commissioner Representing Employers.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road Map for Texas Communities Address Child Sex Trafficking (open access)

Road Map for Texas Communities Address Child Sex Trafficking

Document intended "to provide communities with information, research, emerging practices, models, lessons learned, and resources to end [Child Sex Trafficking (CST)]" (p. 4.) by outlining definitions and explanations, with an overview of specific activities that would contribute to preventing and identifying CST, and remedies for victims.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Object Type: Pamphlet
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History