Denton County Thoroughfare Plan (open access)

Denton County Thoroughfare Plan

This Report is being provided by the Freese and Nichols Consultant. This report describe the reference document for land use and transportation growth and guidance document for transportation network development.
Date: April 18, 2014
Creator: Freese and Nichols
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road Map for Texas Communities Address Child Sex Trafficking (open access)

Road Map for Texas Communities Address Child Sex Trafficking

Document intended "to provide communities with information, research, emerging practices, models, lessons learned, and resources to end [Child Sex Trafficking (CST)]" (p. 4.) by outlining definitions and explanations, with an overview of specific activities that would contribute to preventing and identifying CST, and remedies for victims.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Board of Nursing Bulletin, Volume 50, Number 2, April 2019 (open access)

Texas Board of Nursing Bulletin, Volume 50, Number 2, April 2019

Quarterly newsletter of the Texas Board of Nursing discussing news and events, activities of the organization, and other information of interst to nurses.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas Board of Nursing
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Panhandle Centers [Agency Newsletter], Volume 18, Number 1, April 2019 (open access)

Texas Panhandle Centers [Agency Newsletter], Volume 18, Number 1, April 2019

Monthly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Texas Panhandle Centers Behavioral and Development Health and other information about mental health.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas Panhandle Centers Behavioral and Development Health
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clarify cost-recovery requirements and agency fees to improve transparency and efficiency (open access)

Clarify cost-recovery requirements and agency fees to improve transparency and efficiency

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to transparency for certain programs or services financed by user fees rather than with general tax revenue.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve major consulting contract reporting requirements and processes (open access)

Improve major consulting contract reporting requirements and processes

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the lack of consistency in reporting requirements for state agencies and institutions of higher education.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve oversight of mental health targeted case management and rehabilitative services in the Texas Medicaid program (open access)

Improve oversight of mental health targeted case management and rehabilitative services in the Texas Medicaid program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to targeted Medicaid services including oversight and regular feedback.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve oversight of the Texas county judge salary supplement (open access)

Improve oversight of the Texas county judge salary supplement

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to auditing or providing more oversight for salary supplements provided to county judges for specific kinds of work.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve reporting for costs related to online higher education (open access)

Improve reporting for costs related to online higher education

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to various options for reducing the financial burden for students in higher education institutions.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve state and public groundwater quality information (open access)

Improve state and public groundwater quality information

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to improve testing and overall quality of groundwater, particularly in private wells.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve state debt collection practices (open access)

Improve state debt collection practices

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to reporting and oversight practices for collecting delinquent debts to make practices more consistent.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve state management of financial programs for local law enforcement agencies (open access)

Improve state management of financial programs for local law enforcement agencies

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to various local policing and law enforcement programs using state monies from General Revenue Funds and General Revenue–Dedicated Funds, including the management processes used by the administering agencies and methods of evaluation.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve telecommunications management practices to reduce state agency costs (open access)

Improve telecommunications management practices to reduce state agency costs

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to saving money on telecommunications costs for state agencies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clarify oversight of regionalization at the Texas juvenile justice department (open access)

Clarify oversight of regionalization at the Texas juvenile justice department

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to efforts to reform the state’s juvenile justice system by establishing a regionalization model.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve operation of the star kids program (open access)

Improve operation of the star kids program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to improving the management and evaluation of the "STAR Kids" program, intended to coordinate Medicaid care for children with disabilities.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve the state response to human trafficking (open access)

Improve the state response to human trafficking

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to inconsistencies in anti-trafficking legislation and activities undertaken by state agencies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve the Texas newborn screening program (open access)

Improve the Texas newborn screening program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to improving the funding and consistency of the Texas Newborn Screening Program.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve the use of vendor performance data in state procurement (open access)

Improve the use of vendor performance data in state procurement

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to improving consistency of use and accuracy of the Texas Vendor Performance Tracking System for agency procurement decisions.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improve viability of small public water systems (open access)

Improve viability of small public water systems

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to supporting infrastructure for small public water systems that may be struggling due to decreasing water supplies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Increase access to state assistance for defense communities (open access)

Increase access to state assistance for defense communities

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to combining or improving two economic development programs that are both meant to support military programs and infrastructure in Texas.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Optimize administration of the commercial driver license testing program (open access)

Optimize administration of the commercial driver license testing program

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the implementation of changes to commercial driver license skills testing, administrative review requirements, and upgrades to information technology networks.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of blockchain and distributed ledger technology for state government functions (open access)

Overview of blockchain and distributed ledger technology for state government functions

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to potential use of blockchain and distributed ledger technology for state agencies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of opioid crisis in Texas (open access)

Overview of opioid crisis in Texas

Staff report outlining contextual information and various issues related to the opioid crisis in Texas and state programs intended to address it.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of state agency and employee use of certain nonmonetary benefits (open access)

Overview of state agency and employee use of certain nonmonetary benefits

Staff report outlining contextual information and discussion related to the ways that nonmonetary benefits have been provided to employees at various state agencies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History