86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1101, Chapter 2 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1101, Chapter 2

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the name of the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 139 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 139

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate in memory of Ed Speakmon of Keller.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 141 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 141

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate commending artist George Skypeck for donating his painting The Spirit of the Alamo Lives On to the State of Texas.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 146 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 146

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate congratulating Denna Marcum McGuire and Allen Grover McGuire Jr. of Midland on their 50th wedding anniversary.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 306, Chapter 1 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 306, Chapter 1

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the release by a peace officer of certain individuals suspected of the offense of public intoxication.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 450, Chapter 3 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 450, Chapter 3

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the deadline for certain economic development corporations to file a certain report with the comptroller.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 726, Chapter 4 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 726, Chapter 4

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to investments by state banks to promote community development.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 743, Chapter 5 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 743, Chapter 5

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the Texas Olive Oil Industry Advisory Board.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 999, Chapter 6 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 999, Chapter 6

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to a state plan for education on and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hurricane Harvey Data Call: Data through September 30, 2018

Compiled slides documenting data submitted by insurance companies for claims related to damage from Hurricane Harvey (August 2017) as of September 2018. It includes descriptive explanations as well as graphical and tabular representations of data.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Texas. Department of Insurance.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The Portal to Texas History
China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on China's naval modernization effort and its implications for U.S. Navy capabilities. For an overview of the strategic and budgetary context in which China's naval modernization effort and its implications for U.S. Navy capabilities may be considered, see Appendix A.
Date: April 25, 2018
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Covert Action and Clandestine Activities of the Intelligence Community: Selected Definitions in Brief (open access)

Covert Action and Clandestine Activities of the Intelligence Community: Selected Definitions in Brief

This report provides definitions of clandestine versus covert intelligence activities and discusses what agencies are authorized to undertake which types of intelligence. It also covers military intelligence terms that are different than ones used by civilian government activities.
Date: April 25, 2018
Creator: DeVine, Michael E. & Peters, Heidi M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Aid: An Introduction to U.S. Programs and Policy (open access)

Foreign Aid: An Introduction to U.S. Programs and Policy

This report provides an overview of the U.S. foreign assistance program by answering frequently asked questions on the subject. It is intended to provide a broad view of foreign assistance over time, and will be updated periodically.
Date: April 25, 2018
Creator: Tarnoff, Curt & Lawson, Marian L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid's Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) (open access)

Medicaid's Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP)

This report describes the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) calculation used to reimburse states for most Medicaid expenditures, and it lists the statutory exceptions to the regular FMAP rate.
Date: April 25, 2018
Creator: Mitchell, Alison
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Russian Compliance with the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Russian Compliance with the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty: Background and Issues for Congress

This report describes the current status of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between Russia and the United States and highlights issues that Congress may address as the United States pursues its compliance concerns with Russia. It begins with a historical overview that describes the role of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in NATO's security construct in the late 1970s and the political and security considerations that affected the negotiation of the INF Treaty. In addition, the report summarizes the provisions of the INF Treaty, highlighting those central to the discussion about Russia's current activities. It then reviews the publicly available information about the potential Russian violation and Russia's possible motivations for pursuing the development of a noncompliant missile. Next, the report summarizes Russia's concerns with U.S. compliance with the treaty. The report concludes with a discussion of options that the United States might pursue to address its concerns with Russia's activities and options that it might pursue if Russia deploys new INF-range missiles.
Date: April 25, 2018
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China's February 2017 Suspension of North Korean Coal Imports (open access)

China's February 2017 Suspension of North Korean Coal Imports

This report discusses China's suspension of coal trade with North Korea for the remainder of 2017 which keeps China in compliance with an UN agreement to limit coal buying from North Korea that was implemented in November 2016 in response to continued nuclear tests by North Korea. Coal's value as an export to North Korea, China's trade with North Korea, quantities of coal and its value that was imported into China in 2016 and 2017, and possible reasons and implications for China's decision are discussed.
Date: April 25, 2017
Creator: Lawrence, Susan V.; Manyin, Mark E. & Hammond, Keigh E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deferred Maintenance of Federal Land Management Agencies: Fiscal Year 2007-Fiscal Year 2016 Estimates and Issues (open access)

Deferred Maintenance of Federal Land Management Agencies: Fiscal Year 2007-Fiscal Year 2016 Estimates and Issues

This report discusses the maintenance backlogs/deferred maintenance at the four federal land management agencies (the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Forest Service). It first provides agency deferred maintenance estimates for FY2016, the most recent fiscal year for which this information is available. It also discusses changes in deferred maintenance over the past decade (FY2007-FY2016) and then identifies some of the factors that likely contributed to these changes.
Date: April 25, 2017
Creator: Vincent, Carol Hardy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Newsletter of Texas State Representative Ernest Bailes: Volume 1, Issue 7, April 2017 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative Ernest Bailes: Volume 1, Issue 7, April 2017

Newsletter of Ernest Bailes for his constituents in district 18 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature. It focuses on tax reform, a proposed bill concerning volunteer firefighters, public education transportation funding, the Blue Alert System, and handgun issues.
Date: April 25, 2017
Creator: Bailes, Ernest James, IV
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Climate Change Paris Agreement Opens for Signature (open access)

Climate Change Paris Agreement Opens for Signature

This report briefly provides background on the new international Paris Agreement to address greenhouse-gas-induced climate change. No international agreement has attracted as many signatures on a single day.
Date: April 25, 2016
Creator: Leggett, Jane A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change Paris Agreement Opens for Signature (open access)

Climate Change Paris Agreement Opens for Signature

This report discusses the new international Paris Agreement, signed by 175 out of 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on April 22, 2016 to address greenhouse-gas-induced climate change.
Date: April 25, 2016
Creator: Leggett, Jane A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Private Flood Insurance in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) (open access)

Private Flood Insurance in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)

This report briefly discusses federal law regarding flood insurance. By law or regulation, federal agencies, federally-regulated lending institutions, and government-sponsored enterprises must require certain property owners to purchase flood insurance as a condition of any mortgage that these entities make, guarantee, or purchase.
Date: April 25, 2016
Creator: Brown, Jared T. & Webel, Baird
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0076 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0076

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 Texas law allows photographic insurance enforcement systems (RQ-0062-KP).
Date: April 25, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0077 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0077

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: Authority of the Texas Department of Transportation to enter into design-build contracts during the 2016-201 7 fiscal biennium (RQ-0063-KP).
Date: April 25, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources, by Topic (open access)

Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources, by Topic

This report provides information about the Authoritative Reports and Resources on Cyber security.It also lists selected cybersecurity websites for CRS agencies, News, and organizations or institutions.
Date: April 25, 2014
Creator: Tehan, Rita
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library