Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0062 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0062

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: Questions relating to the pos1t10n of Vice Chairman on the Maverick County Hospital District Board of Directors (RQ-0044-KP).
Date: February 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0115 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0115

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: Under what circumstances Texas courts afford deference to agency interpretations of statutes (RQ-0110-KP).
Date: October 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0063 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0063

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 a water supply district may assign to another district certain duties and rights, including approval of the annual budget and contracting for certain services (RQ-0045-KP).
Date: February 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0114 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0114

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 a member of a board of trustees of an independent school district may simultaneously serve as a member of a city planning and zoning commission (RQ-0104-KP).
Date: October 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0080 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0080

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 the Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists has implied authority under Occupations Code chapter 1002 to accept and place limits on the voluntary surrender of a license (RQ-0066-KP).
Date: May 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0081 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0081

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 Tax Code section 33.06 authorizes ad valorem property tax deferral on mixed-use property (RQ-0067-KP).
Date: May 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Final report on Fish Habitat Suitability Criteria Development for the Lower Brazos River (open access)

Final report on Fish Habitat Suitability Criteria Development for the Lower Brazos River

"The primary objectives of this study were to develop [habitat suitability criteria] for guilds of fish in the Brazos River downstream of Waco, Texas" (p. 1).
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cisco College Requests for Legislative Appropriations: 2018 and 2019 (open access)

Cisco College Requests for Legislative Appropriations: 2018 and 2019

Report submitted by Cisco College to the Texas 85th regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund programming and activities. It includes an overview of the institution's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 2018 and 2019, and supporting documentation.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Cisco College
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, Part 4 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, Part 4

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: October 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, Part 2 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, Part 2

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: October 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, Part 6 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, Part 6

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: October 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, Part 1 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, 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: October 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, Part 3 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, 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: October 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, Part 5 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: September 2016, 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: October 3, 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Workers' Compensation: Overview and Issues (open access)

Workers' Compensation: Overview and Issues

This report discusses workers' compensation, which provides cash and medical benefits to workers who are injured or become ill in the course of their employment and provides benefits to the survivors of workers killed on the job. Benefits are provided without regard to fault and are the exclusive remedy for workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Szymendera, Scott D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Columbia Class (Ohio Replacement) Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN[X]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Columbia Class (Ohio Replacement) Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN[X]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and potential oversight issues for Congress on the Columbia class program, previously known as the Ohio replacement program (ORP) or SSBN(X) program, a program to design and build a new class of 12 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) to replace the Navy's current force of 14 Ohio-class SSBNs.
Date: October 3, 2016
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Proposed Reauthorization in the 114th Congress (open access)

Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Proposed Reauthorization in the 114th Congress

This report provides information about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which regulates futures, most options, and swaps markets. It includes background information, a description of the CFTC reauthorization process, and more extensive explanations of selected provisions in H.R. 2289 and S. 2917 that were recently reauthorized or changed.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Miller, Rena S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contingent Election of the President and Vice President by Congress: Perspectives and Contemporary Analysis (open access)

Contingent Election of the President and Vice President by Congress: Perspectives and Contemporary Analysis

This report provides an examination of constitutional requirements and historical precedents associated with contingent elections. It also identifies and evaluates contemporary issues that might emerge in the modern context.
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Neale, Thomas H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Assistance for Victims of Terrorism or Mass Violence: In Brief (open access)

Federal Assistance for Victims of Terrorism or Mass Violence: In Brief

This report focuses solely on assistance available from Department of Justice's (DOJ's) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)--the primary federal assistance available to victims of terrorism or mass violence. Jurisdictions and individuals may be eligible to receive various types of victim assistance both directly from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and indirectly from DOJ through their respective state victim assistance agencies or other programs following incidents of terrorism or mass violence in the United States.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Sacco, Lisa N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2016 Rio Games: Anti-Doping Testing (open access)

2016 Rio Games: Anti-Doping Testing

This report discusses the the anti-doping testing program during the 2016 Summer Olympics. Responsibility for the rests with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The testing period began July 24, 2016, when the Olympic village opened, and continues through August 21, 2016, the date of the closing ceremony.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Halchin, L. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Treasury's Recent Report on Foreign Exchange Rate Policies (open access)

Treasury's Recent Report on Foreign Exchange Rate Policies

This report responds to the new reporting requirements on exchange rates mandated in the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015 (P.L. 114-125), passed by Congress and signed by the President in February 2016.
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Nelson, Rebecca M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pipeline Security: Domestic Threats (open access)

Pipeline Security: Domestic Threats

This report discusses recent acts of sabotage against U.S. oil pipelines by environmental activists have raised concern about the security of the nation's energy pipelines and the federal program to protect them.
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Parfomak, Paul W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Judiciary Appropriations, FY2017 (open access)

Judiciary Appropriations, FY2017

The first section of this report provides an overview of the consideration of FY2017 judiciary appropriations, followed by a section on prior-year actions and funding. The report then provides an overview of judiciary accounts.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Glassman, Matthew E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the House Floor (open access)

The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the House Floor

This report focuses on the floor activities of the House of Representatives during its first formal session in a new Congress, and serves as a guide for those participating in or watching these proceedings.
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Schneider, Judy & Koempel, Michael L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library