Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 19, Pages 2199-2322, May 10, 2019 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 19, Pages 2199-2322, May 10, 2019

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: May 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Iran: U.S. Economic Sanctions and the Authority to Lift Restrictions (open access)

Iran: U.S. Economic Sanctions and the Authority to Lift Restrictions

This report identifies the legislative bases for sanctions imposed on Iran, and the nature of the authority to waive or lift those restrictions. It includes two tables that present legislation and executive orders that are specific to Iran and its objectionable activities in the areas of terrorism, human rights, and weapons proliferation.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Rennack, Dianne E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 81 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 81

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate commending mental health professionals for their contributions to the state on the occasion of National Mental Health Month.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 121 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 121

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate in memory of Salvador Sanchez Diaz of Edinburg.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 124 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 124

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first license plate issued by the State of Texas.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 988, Chapter 5 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 988, Chapter 5

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the participation of a county judge in a meeting of a commissioners court conducted by videoconference call.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1120, Chapter 6 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1120, Chapter 6

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the prohibition of local motor fuel taxes on compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 25 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 25

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate recognizing the Mount Tabor Indian Community for its contributions to this state.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 43 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 43

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate recognizing Ginger Fagan for her contributions to this state.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 44 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 44

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate in memory of Frances Debora McBride Collins.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 45 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 45

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate in memory of Dennis H. Boerner.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Joint Resolution 60 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Joint Resolution 60

Joint resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a lower amount for expenses that can be charged to a borrower and removing certain financing expense limitations for a home equity loan, establishing certain authorized lenders to make a home equity loan, changing certain options for the refinancing of home equity loans, changing the threshold for an advance of a home equity line of credit, and allowing home equity loans on agricultural homesteads.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Energy and Water Development: FY2017 Appropriations for Nuclear Weapons Activities (open access)

Energy and Water Development: FY2017 Appropriations for Nuclear Weapons Activities

This report discusses the annual Energy and Water Development appropriations bill that funds civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Energy (DOE), and several independent agencies.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Woolf, Amy F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FBI Director: Appointment and Tenure (open access)

FBI Director: Appointment and Tenure

This report provides an overview of the development of the process for appointing the FBI Director, briefly discusses the history of nominations to this position, and identifies related congressional hearing records and reports.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Hogue, Henry B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
H-2A and H-2B Temporary Worker Visas: Policy and Related Issues (open access)

H-2A and H-2B Temporary Worker Visas: Policy and Related Issues

This report covers the H-2A agricultural guest worker program and the H-2B nonagricultural guest worker program. It explores the statutory and regulatory provisions that govern each program, focusing in particular on the much-debated labor certification process. It discusses past and present legislative efforts to reform the H-2A and H-2B programs and to create new guest worker visas, and identifies and analyzes key policy considerations to help inform future congressional action.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Irrigation Water Use Estimates with Remote Sensing Technologies: A Feasibility Study for Texas (open access)

Improving Irrigation Water Use Estimates with Remote Sensing Technologies: A Feasibility Study for Texas

Identifies the remote sensing and modelling technologies capable of estimating ET and PPT with the end goal of improving NIWR across Texas.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Caldwell, Todd; Huntington, Justin; Scanlon, Bridget; Joros, Andrew & Howard, Teresa
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Release: Comptroller Distributes Sales Tax Revenue, May 10, 2017] (open access)

[News Release: Comptroller Distributes Sales Tax Revenue, May 10, 2017]

News release documenting Texas monthly sales tax revenue for May 2017 with a general summary and table of local sales tax allocations.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Newsletter of Texas State Representative Ernest Bailes: Volume 1, Issue 8, May 2017 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative Ernest Bailes: Volume 1, Issue 8, May 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 the update on the Pro-Life bill progressing through the House, the passing of a bill to protect forest land, the bill filed to support a presidential library at Sam Huston State University, and the bill proposed on public school accountability.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Bailes, Ernest James, IV
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Removal of FBI Director James Comey: Presidential Authority and the Senate's Role in the Appointment of the FBI Director (open access)

The Removal of FBI Director James Comey: Presidential Authority and the Senate's Role in the Appointment of the FBI Director

This report discusses President Trump's removal of James Comey as FBI Director and the Presidents legal power to do such a removal.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Warfare: DOD's Response to the Islamic State Hacking Activities (open access)

Information Warfare: DOD's Response to the Islamic State Hacking Activities

This report briefly examines the Islamic State's (IS) strategy of accessing U.S. government computer systems for a variety of purposes, and the Department of Defense's (DOD) response.
Date: May 10, 2016
Creator: Theohary, Catherine A.; McInnis, Kathleen J. & Rollins, John W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Officer Personnel Management: Key Concepts and Statutory Provisions (open access)

Military Officer Personnel Management: Key Concepts and Statutory Provisions

This report provides an overview of selected concepts and statutory provisions that shape and define military officer appointments, assignments, grade structure, promotions, and separations. It also provides a set of questions that policymakers may wish to consider when discussing proposed changes to current law.
Date: May 10, 2016
Creator: Kapp, Lawrence
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0085 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0085

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 the tax on crude oil petroleum produced in this State remains in effect in light of the Eighty-fourth Legislature's passage of Senate Bill 757 and House Bill 7 (RQ-0072-KP).
Date: May 10, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0086 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0086

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: The effect of section 113.054 of the Natural Resources Code on a political subdivision's authority to adopt ordinances relating to the liquefied petroleum gas industry (RQ-0073-KP).
Date: May 10, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
U.S.-Nordic Relations (open access)

U.S.-Nordic Relations

This report briefly discusses U.S. relations with the Nordic countries--Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
Date: May 10, 2016
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library