Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 5, Pages 467-684, February 4, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 5, Pages 467-684, February 4, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 4, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 6, Pages 685-884, February 11, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 6, Pages 685-884, February 11, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 11, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 7, Pages 885-1194, February 18, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 7, Pages 885-1194, February 18, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 18, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 8, Pages 1195-1398, February 25, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 8, Pages 1195-1398, February 25, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 25, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0839 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0839

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of a county judge to unilaterally grant access to county financial records to a volunteer financial consultant (RQ-0908-GA)
Date: February 7, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0840 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0840

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether an individual may simultaneously serve as Director of Judicial Support Services for Bexar County and as a visiting statutory county court judge in that county (RQ-0909-GA)
Date: February 7, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0841 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0841

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a part-time municipal court judge may simultaneously serve as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7 (RQ-0911-GA)
Date: February 7, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0842 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0842

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a local civil service commission may impose a fee for an applicant to take a fire department promotional civil service examination (RQ-0912-GA)
Date: February 7, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0843 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0843

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of the Sandy Land Underground Water Conservation District to transfer certain assets to an individual or other entity (RQ-0904-GA)
Date: February 16, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0844 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0844

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Constitutionality of subsection 32.0248(h), Human Resources Code, which prohibits the Health and Human Services Commission from contracting under the Women's Health Program with entities that perform or promote elective abortions or with affiliates if such entities (RQ-0902-GA)
Date: February 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0845 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0845

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Health and Human Services Commission may adopt a definition of the term "affiliate" for purposes of section 32.0248 of the Human Resources Code (RQ-0903-GA)
Date: February 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0846 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0846

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether section 542.2035, Transportation Code, prohibits a municipal peace officer from using a handheld laser speed enforcement device to collect evidence before initiating a traffic stop (RQ-0914-GA)
Date: February 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0847 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0847

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether information contained in a presentence investigation report may be released to the Department of Family and Protective Services for the protection of a child (RQ-0917-GA)
Date: February 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Project Report on the Continued Development and Analysis of the Flexible Pavements Database (open access)

Project Report on the Continued Development and Analysis of the Flexible Pavements Database

Report on the development of the Texas Flexible Pavement database and the first 7 months of a stage two project, after which the project was terminated.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Banerjee, Ambarish; Aguiar-Moya, José Pablo; Sivaram, Prasad; Smit, Andre de F. & Prozzi, Jorge Alberto
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Focus Report, Volume 82, Number 3, February 18, 2011 (open access)

Focus Report, Volume 82, Number 3, February 18, 2011

"This report reviews the rules and procedures used in the committees of the Texas House of Representatives."
Date: February 18, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Comprehensive Annual Financial Report: 2010 (open access)

Texas Comprehensive Annual Financial Report: 2010

Annual financial report of the state of Texas for fiscal year 2010 including introductory materials; a financial section containing an independent auditor's report, management's discussion and analysis, basic financial statements, required supplementary information other than MD&A, other supplementary information (combining financial statements and schedules); and a statistical section detailing financial trends, revenue capacity, debt capacity, demographic and economic information, and operating information.
Date: February 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office. Financial Reporting Section.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Real-timing the 2010 Urban Mobility Report (open access)

Real-timing the 2010 Urban Mobility Report

"The report measures system delay, wasted fuel, and the annual cost of congestion in all U.S. urban areas."
Date: February 2011
Creator: Lomax, Timothy J.; Schrank, David; Turner, Shawn; Geng, Lauren; Li, Yingfeng & Koncz, Nicholas
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A web-based pavement performance and maintenance management and Geographic Information Systems mapping system for easy access to pavement condition information (open access)

A web-based pavement performance and maintenance management and Geographic Information Systems mapping system for easy access to pavement condition information

"This report presents a new approach to the development of such a decision support system with its focus on maintenance management for TxDOT."
Date: February 2011
Creator: Murphy, Michael & Zhang, Zhanmin
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Department of Transportation administration research: tasks completed Fiscal Year 2010 (open access)

Texas Department of Transportation administration research: tasks completed Fiscal Year 2010

"This research project evaluates numerous transportation issues and develops findings and/or recommendations based on results. This project has been structured to address some of the emerging, critical, and unique considerations related to transportation."
Date: February 2011
Creator: Baker, Richard; Ding, Liang; Epps, Jon; Estakhri, Cindy K.; Fry, Gray; Geiselbrecht, Tina et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of a precast bridge deck overhang system (open access)

Development of a precast bridge deck overhang system

This research investigated the overhang and shear capacity of a precast overhang system for potential use during the construction of bridges with precast overhang panels. The research was performed in three phases: the Phase 1 research including work specifically for the Rock Creek Bridge in Parker County, Texas; the Phase 2 research for general precast overhang panels, and; the Phase 3 research investigating the shear capacity. Grout material characteristics were also assessed for possible use in the haunch; constructability issues were also addressed.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Trejo, David; Head, Monique H.; Mander, John; Mander, Thomas J.; Henley, Mathew; Scott, Reece et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Realtime monitoring of bridge scour using remote monitoring technology (open access)

Realtime monitoring of bridge scour using remote monitoring technology

Report on research performed on the application of instruments including accelerometers and tiltmeters to monitor bridge scour. The instrumentation on the two bridges does not show great hope of application of accelerometers to monitor bridge scour because of a lack of sufficient excitation from traffic. Tiltmeters can provide the integral behavior of the bridge, and therefore are very useful devices for scour monitoring. Guidelines and protocols for scour monitoring based on the US59 over Guadalupe River Bridge and the SH80 over San Antonio River Bridge are provided in the study.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Briaud, Jean-Louis; Hurlebaus, Stefan; Chang, Kuang-An; Yao, Congpu; Sharma, Hrishikesh; Yu, Ok-Youn et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluating the Impact of Overweight Load Routing on Buried Utility Facilities [Report 1] (open access)

Evaluating the Impact of Overweight Load Routing on Buried Utility Facilities [Report 1]

From abstract: This report focuses on the year one project objectives, which were (a) provide a review of technical design and engineering requirements for utility accommodation in Texas, (b) provide a preliminary assessment of potential impact of overweight loads on buried utilities, (c) provide a preliminary assessment of Utility Accommodation Rules (UAR) adequacy to deal with overweight loads on buried utilities, (d) provide preliminary recommendations for a business process for Texas Department of Transportation overweight routing coordination, and (e) provide recommendations for the phase 2 utility damage evaluation.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Kraus, Edgar; Fernando, Emmanuel; Li, Yingfeng; Oh, Jeong Ho; Koncz, Nicholas & Quiroga, Cesar
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluating the Impact of Transit-Oriented Development (open access)

Evaluating the Impact of Transit-Oriented Development

Report describing transit-oriented development (TOD) including background inventory, a literature review, results of surveys and focus groups, information on impacts and government roles related to TOD, and recommendations.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Clower, Terry L.; Ruggiere, Paul; Bomba, Michael; Arndt, Jeffrey C.; Li, Jianling; Edrington, Suzie et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fires in Texas: Annual Fire Statistics, 2009 (open access)

Fires in Texas: Annual Fire Statistics, 2009

Report of statistics collected by the Texas Fire Incident Reporting System (TEXFIRS) by the Texas State Marshal's Office and Department of Insurance for calendar year 2009. It includes general analyses and breakdowns by specific types of fires, with some explanatory notes.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Insurance.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History