Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 6, Pages 623-772, February 11, 2005 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 6, Pages 623-772, February 11, 2005

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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, 2005
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 7, Pages 773-944, February 18, 2005 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 7, Pages 773-944, February 18, 2005

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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, 2005
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 8, Pages 945-1202, February 25, 2005 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 8, Pages 945-1202, February 25, 2005

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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, 2005
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes: Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group, February 2, 2005] (open access)

[Minutes: Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group, February 2, 2005]

BRAC 2005 Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group Meeting Minutes of February 2, 2005. The document is redacted, and the meeting minutes were withheld as classified information.
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes: Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group, February 9, 2005] (open access)

[Minutes: Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group, February 9, 2005]

BRAC 2005 Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group Meeting Minutes of February 9, 2005. The document is redacted.
Date: February 9, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 12 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 12

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring George Mitchell on the 30th anniversary of the founding of The Woodlands.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 15 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 15

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring the life of U.S. Army Corporal William M. Amundson, Jr., of The Woodlands.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 23 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 23

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring Thomas Clark Brown of Midland on his receipt of the 2004 Permian Basin Petroleum Association Top Hand Award.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 32 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 32

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring the Huff Diary and Wagon Train Project in January 2005.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 33 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 33

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate inviting the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas to address a joint session of the legislature on Wednesday, February 23, 2005.
Date: February 1, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 38 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 38

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate recognizing January 2005 as National Stalking Awareness Month.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 39 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 39

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring Leonard Reese for his exceptional service to the Texas Legislative Council on the occasion of his retirement as assistant executive director and general counsel with that agency.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 43 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 43

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate commemorating the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Texas Silver-Haired Legislature.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 45 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 45

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate designating February 7, 2005, as Tim Flynn Day and Advanced Practice Nurses Day at the Capitol.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 4

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives granting permission to the Texas DeMolay Association to use the chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives during February 19 and 20, 2005, and February 18 and 19, 2006.
Date: February 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0301 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0301

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 Health and Safety Code section 691.023(b) prohibits a commissioners court from adopting an order authorizing cremation as a means of disposing of the remains of a deceased pauper (RQ-0263-GA)
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0302 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0302

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 Texas or New Jersey law applies to the payment of late fees on a contract between a Texas county and an out-of-state vendor (RQ-0266-GA)
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0303 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0303

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 elected county official may close his office on a day declared by the Governor of Texas to be an “official day of mourning” (RQ-0267-GA)
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0305 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0305

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 city may use a Tax Code chapter 311 tax increment fund to reimburse a private developer for certain costs if the expenditures have not been competitively bid.
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0306 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0306

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 sections 85.003 and 86.011 of the Local Government Code provide that a deputy constable's appointment is revoked on the deputy's indictment for a felony.
Date: February 22, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0304 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0304

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 municipality may grant a tax abatement under the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act for business personal property newly added to a site where previously existing personal property was subject to a ten-year tax abatement agreement (RQ-0261-GA)
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Performance Budgeting: Efforts to Restructure Budgets to Better Align Resources with Performance (open access)

Performance Budgeting: Efforts to Restructure Budgets to Better Align Resources with Performance

Other written product issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Efforts to better align and integrate budget and performance information raises many issues, including the question of budget structure--should appropriations accounts or congressional budget justifications or both be restructured to tighten the link between resources and performance? If so, how and to what extent? The administration elevated attention to this issue by including budget restructuring as part of the President's Management Agenda in 2001. To provide an overview of the various budget restructuring efforts underway in the federal government, GAO: (1) summarized steps taken by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and nine selected agencies to better align their budgets with performance and to better capture the cost of performance in the budget; (2) discussed the potential implications of these efforts for congressional oversight and executive branch managerial flexibility and accountability; (3) described the experiences and implementation challenges associated with these efforts; and (4) identified lessons learned that can provide insights useful in considering current and future budget restructuring efforts."
Date: February 1, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
21st Century Challenges: Reexamining the Base of the Federal Government (open access)

21st Century Challenges: Reexamining the Base of the Federal Government

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This report stems from the recognition that the Congress faces a daunting challenge: the need to bring government and its programs in line with 21st century realities. This challenge has many related pieces: addressing the nation's large and growing long-term fiscal gap; deciding on the appropriate role and size of the federal government--and how to finance that government--and bringing the panoply of federal activities into line with today's world. The reexamination questions discussed in this report are drawn primarily from the work GAO has done for the Congress over the years. Many of these questions do not represent immediate crises, however many pose important longer-term threats to the country's fiscal and economic, and national security as well as the quality of life for our children and grandchildren."
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Broadcast Television Transition: Estimated Cost of Supporting Set-Top Boxes to Help Advance the DTV Transition (open access)

Digital Broadcast Television Transition: Estimated Cost of Supporting Set-Top Boxes to Help Advance the DTV Transition

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The digital television (DTV) transition offers the promise of enhanced television services. At the end of the transition, radiofrequency spectrum used for analog broadcast television will be used for other wireless services and for critical public safety services. To spur the digital transition, some industry participants and experts have suggested that the government may choose to provide a subsidy for settop boxes, which can receive digital broadcast television signals and convert them into analog signals so that they can be displayed on existing television sets. This testimony provides information on (1) the current distribution of American households by television viewing methods and whether there are demographic differences among these groups; (2) the equipment required for households to receive digital broadcast signals; and (3) the estimated cost to the federal government, under various scenarios, of providing a subsidy for set-top boxes that would enable households to view digital broadcast signals. We developed estimates of the cost of a subsidy for set-top boxes using data on household television characteristics, expected set-top box costs, and varied assumptions about how certain key regulatory issues will be decided."
Date: February 17, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library