City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: First Quarter 2019 (open access)

City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: First Quarter 2019

Quarterly report outlining tax revenues and remittances for alcoholic beverages, listed by city, for January-March 2019. It also compares the statistics to the same period for the previous year.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clarify cost-recovery requirements and agency fees to improve transparency and efficiency (open access)

Clarify cost-recovery requirements and agency fees to improve transparency and efficiency

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to transparency for certain programs or services financed by user fees rather than with general tax revenue.
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
Connections, Volume 5, Number 1, April 2019 (open access)

Connections, Volume 5, Number 1, April 2019

Newsletter of the Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to 9-1-1 services and other emergency communication within Texas.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Commission on State Emergency Communications.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
CR News, Volume 24, Number 2, April-June 2019 (open access)

CR News, Volume 24, Number 2, April-June 2019

Quarterly newsletter of the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Records Division discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to crime records and other safety issue within Texas.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Crime Records Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
CRCG Newsletter, Number 4.2, April 2019 (open access)

CRCG Newsletter, Number 4.2, April 2019

Quarterly newsletter of the Community Resource Coordination Groups of Texas discussing news and events, work of the CRCGs, and other information related to the coordination of medical and social services for juveniles who need specialized care.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Community Resource Coordination Groups (CRCG) of Texas
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cyber Security News, Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2019 (open access)

Cyber Security News, Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2019

Newsletter of the Texas Department of Public Safety containing departmental news and announcements, deadlines, and other information of importance to cybersecurity in Texas.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Cyber Security Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Decrease state agencies’ customer call wait times (open access)

Decrease state agencies’ customer call wait times

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to reducing overall waiting times when customers call Texas state agencies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
DFPS Vision, Volume 2, Number 2,  April 2019 (open access)

DFPS Vision, Volume 2, Number 2, April 2019

Newsletter of the Department of Family and Protective Services containing departmental news and announcements, deadlines, and other information of importance to Family and Protective Services.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Department of Family and Protective Services.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dispatch, April 2019 (open access)

The Dispatch, April 2019

Monthly magazine of the Texas Military Department discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to Texas defenses and military updates.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas Military Department
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
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
FCC Record, Volume 34, No. 3, Pages 1898 to 2715, March 25 - April 26, 2019 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 34, No. 3, Pages 1898 to 2715, March 25 - April 26, 2019

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: April 2019
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fiscal impact of hurricane Harvey on state agencies (open access)

Fiscal impact of hurricane Harvey on state agencies

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to "Hurricane Harvey's fiscal impact on state agencies" (p. 1)
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fiscal Notes: April 2019 (open access)

Fiscal Notes: April 2019

Newsletter issued by the Texas Office of the Comptroller discussing news, events, statistics, and other relevant information related to business and the economy.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Funding options for the Texas coastal resiliency master plan (open access)

Funding options for the Texas coastal resiliency master plan

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to plans for coastal protection and programs to increase resiliency.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funding trends and challenges in community mental health services (open access)

Funding trends and challenges in community mental health services

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the expiration of federal funding for mental health services and various ways to meet needs of Texas residents.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement strategies to increase capacity and manage workload at state crime laboratories and improve state laboratory accreditation (open access)

Implement strategies to increase capacity and manage workload at state crime laboratories and improve state laboratory accreditation

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the inability 13 crime laboratories administered by the Department of Public Safety to keep up with demand by the many law enforcement agencies that rely on them.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve access to accountability and technical information for the virtual school network online schools program (open access)

Improve access to accountability and technical information for the virtual school network online schools program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the inaccessibility of information about enrollment and other data for virtual/online schools in Texas compared to in-person schools.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve alignment of skills development fund grants with workforce training goals (open access)

Improve alignment of skills development fund grants with workforce training goals

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to various state-funded workforce training programs including their administration and evaluation metrics.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
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 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 oversight of mental health targeted case management and rehabilitative services in the Texas Medicaid program (open access)

Improve oversight of mental health targeted case management and rehabilitative services in the Texas Medicaid program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to targeted Medicaid services including oversight and regular feedback.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve oversight of the Texas county judge salary supplement (open access)

Improve oversight of the Texas county judge salary supplement

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to auditing or providing more oversight for salary supplements provided to county judges for specific kinds of work.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History