Texas Rural Planning Organization Workshop Implementation Project Summary (open access)

Texas Rural Planning Organization Workshop Implementation Project Summary

This report documents rural planning organization (RPO) workshops conducted throughout Texas.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Overman, John H.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: February 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: February 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: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $433 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $433 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $433 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: March 9, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Notice: Expanded Audit Information for Mixed Beverage Taxpayers (open access)

Notice: Expanded Audit Information for Mixed Beverage Taxpayers

Notice providing information about expanded audit information for mixed beverage taxpayers including background on the law, new reporting requirements, and what it means for those affected.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Potential Income for Texas Landowners (open access)

Potential Income for Texas Landowners

This pamphlet provides information about the Short-Term Hunting Land Lease implemented by the Texas Parks & Wildlife.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Notice: Changes to Independently Procured Insurance (open access)

Notice: Changes to Independently Procured Insurance

Flyer containing a notice about the "Non-admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (NRRA) passed as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010. Texas laws that relate to surplus lines and independently procured insurance were revised to comply with the provisions of the NRRA that became effective on July 21, 2011" (p. 1).
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program (CSHCN): Client Application Form (open access)

Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program (CSHCN): Client Application Form

Client application form for the Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Services Program.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thinking Ahead, My Way, My Choice, My Life at the End (open access)

Thinking Ahead, My Way, My Choice, My Life at the End

This workbook "provides a way to advocate for what you want in life support treatment and other end-of-life choices" (p. 1).
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Aging and Disability Services.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brazos River Basin and Bay Expert Science Team Environmental Flow Regime Recommendations Report (open access)

Brazos River Basin and Bay Expert Science Team Environmental Flow Regime Recommendations Report

This report from the Brazos River Basin and Associated Bay and Estuary System Science Team (Brazos BBEST) is part of Texas Legislature Senate Bill 3 that created a process to set environmental flow standards for river basin and bay systems in Texas. This report gives recommendations for an environmental flow regime for the Brazos Basin and associated areas." (p. 1-1).
Date: March 1, 2012
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Estimating Citizenship Voting Age Population Data (CVAP): Addendum to Data for 2011 Redistricting in Texas (open access)

Estimating Citizenship Voting Age Population Data (CVAP): Addendum to Data for 2011 Redistricting in Texas

This document provides information on estimating citizenship voting age population (CVAP) data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tax Exemptions & Tax Incidence (open access)

Tax Exemptions & Tax Incidence

"This report estimates the value of each exemption, exclusion, discount, deduction, special accounting method, credit, refund, and special appraisal available under Texas' sales, franchise, gasoline, and motor vehicle sale taxes, as well as under the property tax levied by Texas school districts." (A Message From The Comptroller)
Date: March 7, 2013
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Keeping Texas First (open access)

Keeping Texas First

This document is a guide for local communities to protect their economies and their rights by staying informed, gathering data, providing comments, and engaging local stakeholders.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guidelines for Developing Emergency Action Plans for Dams in Texas (open access)

Guidelines for Developing Emergency Action Plans for Dams in Texas

These guidelines define the requirements of an acceptable emergency action plan (EAP) and facilitate its preparation, distribution, annual testing, and update.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: February 2013 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: February 2013

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: March 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
STD Partner Notification: What About Your Partners? (open access)

STD Partner Notification: What About Your Partners?

This pamphlet provides information for individuals exposed to a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amendments to the Texas Constitution, Since 1987 (open access)

Amendments to the Texas Constitution, Since 1987

This document attempts to fill a gap in the body of research detailing Texas constitutional history.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Fiscal Year 2012 Clean Water State Revolving Fund (open access)

State Fiscal Year 2012 Clean Water State Revolving Fund

This document provides information about the guidelines and procedures for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Peace Officer's Guide to the Alcoholic Beverage Code (open access)

Texas Peace Officer's Guide to the Alcoholic Beverage Code

Book detailing Texas's Alcoholic Beverage Code, focusing on the aspects most pertinent to peace officers. This version contains revisions to the Alcoholic Beverage Code resulting from the 84th Texas Legislature Session.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of traffic control devices : year 3 (open access)

Evaluation of traffic control devices : year 3

Report summarizing the research activities that were conducted between September 2010 and August 2011. The five primary activities were evaluating nighttime visibility along rural highways with bright signs, continuing the evaluation of lead-free thermoplastic pavement markings, evaluating contrast pavement marking layouts, continuing the evaluation of accelerated pavement marking test decks, and providing district support for hurricane evacuation routing.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Carlson, Paul J.; Pike, Adam M.; Miles, Jeff D.; Ullman, Brooke R. & Borchardt, Darrel W.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implementation of technology for rapid field detection of sulfate and organic content in soils (open access)

Implementation of technology for rapid field detection of sulfate and organic content in soils

This report discusses a protocol using the Veris 3150 for determination of sulfate-rich soils, which has been implemented to two full-scale projects in Dallas and Paris Districts.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Shon, Chang-Seon; Sebesta, Stephen & Scullion, Tom
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Megaregion Freight Planning: A Synopsis (open access)

Megaregion Freight Planning: A Synopsis

"Megaregion interest has grown strongly in the last decade and is now seen be a growing number of planners as offering effective contributions to problems such as modal congestion, development disparity, and air pollution that individual metropolitan areas or cities cannot resolve individually. Megaregion planning presents an alternative way of mitigating metropolitan problems of large-scale transportation systems, green infrastructure, and economic development and has attracted a number of transportation advocates since 2000."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Harrison, Robert; Johnson, Donovan; Loftus-Otway, Lisa; Hutson, Nathan; Seedah, Dan; Zhang, Ming et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Algorithms for Routing Vehicles and Their Application to the Paratransit Vehicle Scheduling Problem (open access)

Algorithms for Routing Vehicles and Their Application to the Paratransit Vehicle Scheduling Problem

"As the demand for paratransit services increases, there is a constant pressure to maintain the quality of service provided to the customers while minimizing the cost of operation: this is especially important as the availability of public funding for paratransit services has been on the decline. Key tasks in accomplishing this objective are efficiently allocating vehicles to service trips and adjusting the schedules of vehicles dynamically in response to calls received by the service providers from the customers on the day of the service."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Park, Myoungkuk; Oberlin, Paul; Rathinam, Sivakumar; Quadrifoglio, Luca & Darbha, Swaroop
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Use of Performance Measurement to Include Air Quality and Energy Into Mileage-Based User Fees (open access)

Use of Performance Measurement to Include Air Quality and Energy Into Mileage-Based User Fees

"This research project is aimed at establishing a framework for levying MBUFs designed to achieve various air quality improvement policy objectives. This research presents the first step toward a pricing framework based on the concept of performance measurement that systematically defines and incorporates potential air quality goals. The process of developing the proposed framework included defining the interactive role of user fees and pricing in roadway transportation operations and identifying air quality performance measures for determining the appropriate vehicle mileage fee price."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Farzaneh, Reza; Novak, Kristen; Baker, Richard T. & Goodin, Ginger
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Getting the Parking Right for Transit-Oriented Development (open access)

Getting the Parking Right for Transit-Oriented Development

"The main objective of this study is to report the state-of-the-knowledge on parking regulations and practice influencing the planning, design, and implementation of TOD. The report first offers a narrative review of the published works on TOD-Parking. Based on the review findings it then presents a matrix of best parking practices for TOD."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Zhang, Ming; Mulholland, Katie; Zhang, Jane & Gomez-Sanchez, Ana J.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History