States

Texan Helping Texans: The Governor's Report to Open Texas (open access)

Texan Helping Texans: The Governor's Report to Open Texas

This report provides guidelines for all Texans, a long-term care COVID-19 mitigation plan, testing Texas, Texas actions to increase testing, statewide contact tracing program, steps to open Texas businesses
Date: April 27, 2020
Creator: Texas. Governor's Strike Force to Open Texas.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
DSRIP Update, April 2020 (open access)

DSRIP Update, April 2020

Periodic newsletter providing updates and progress on the transition plan for the Texas DSRIP (Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment), to support partner engagement.
Date: April 23, 2020
Creator: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Briefing, April 2021 (open access)

The Briefing, April 2021

Newsletter of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement dsecribing news, events, and activities of the Commission, as well as updates about changes to laws or other information of interest to readers.
Date: April 2021
Creator: Texas Commission on Law Enforcement
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
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
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 Commission on Fire Protection Customer Service Survey: 2020 (open access)

Texas Commission on Fire Protection Customer Service Survey: 2020

Report documenting methods, general analysis and other results for the 2020 survey on customer service regarding the Texas Commission on Fire Protection.
Date: April 6, 2020
Creator: Texas Commission on Fire Protection
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 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
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 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
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 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
Decrease state agencies’ customer call wait times (open access)

Decrease state agencies’ customer call wait times

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to reducing overall waiting times when customers call Texas state agencies.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of state response to chronic wasting disease (open access)

Overview of state response to chronic wasting disease

Staff report outlining contextual information and discussion related to the management of a chronic wasting disease that was discovered in a Texas deer-breeding facility and the efficacy of the response.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of state ferry system operations (open access)

Overview of state ferry system operations

Staff report outlining contextual information related to "ferry system operations including funding sources, traffic and congestion, vessel maintenance and replacement, and opportunities for diesel emission reductions" (p. 1).
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overview of Texas exports during calendar year 2017 (open access)

Overview of Texas exports during calendar year 2017

Staff report outlining contextual information and discussion related to exports from Texas compared to other U.S. states, particularly exports to foreign countries.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fiscal impact of hurricane Harvey on state agencies (open access)

Fiscal impact of hurricane Harvey on state agencies

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to "Hurricane Harvey's fiscal impact on state agencies" (p. 1)
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funding options for the Texas coastal resiliency master plan (open access)

Funding options for the Texas coastal resiliency master plan

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to plans for coastal protection and programs to increase resiliency.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement strategies to increase capacity and manage workload at state crime laboratories and improve state laboratory accreditation (open access)

Implement strategies to increase capacity and manage workload at state crime laboratories and improve state laboratory accreditation

Staff report outlining contextual information, various issues, and recommendations related to the inability 13 crime laboratories administered by the Department of Public Safety to keep up with demand by the many law enforcement agencies that rely on them.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History