84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Joint Resolution 22 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Joint Resolution 22

Joint resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 975, Chapter 47 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 975, Chapter 47

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to charitable raffles conducted by certain professional sports team charitable foundations; creating a criminal offense.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 925, Chapter 55 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 925, Chapter 55

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to providing training academies for public school teachers who provide reading instruction to students in kindergarten through grade three.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1443, Chapter 51 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1443, Chapter 51

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the Texas Identification Number system.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3031, Chapter 53 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3031, Chapter 53

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the decertification of a certified capital company.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Siting of Wireless Communications Facilities: An Overview of Federal, State, and Local Law (open access)

The Siting of Wireless Communications Facilities: An Overview of Federal, State, and Local Law

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Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: Contemporary Ratification Issues (open access)

The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: Contemporary Ratification Issues

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Date: May 21, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Business: Access to Capital and Job Creation (open access)

Small Business: Access to Capital and Job Creation

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Date: May 21, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prescription Drug Abuse (open access)

Prescription Drug Abuse

This report examines prescription drug abuse in the United States. An estimated 6.8 million individuals currently abuse prescription drugs in the United States. Unlike policy on street drugs, federal policy on prescription drug abuse is complicated by the need to maintain access to prescription controlled substances (PCS) for legitimate medical use. The federal government has several roles in reducing prescription drug abuse.
Date: May 21, 2014
Creator: Bagalman, Erin; Sacco, Lisa N.; Thaul, Susan & Yeh, Brian T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate (open access)

Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate

This report discusses the current debate over "net neutrality." While there is no single accepted definition of "net neutrality," most agree that any such definition should include the general principles that owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the Internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network, and they should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network.
Date: May 21, 2014
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Agricultural Trade: Trends, Composition, Direction, and Policy (open access)

U.S. Agricultural Trade: Trends, Composition, Direction, and Policy

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Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Disaster Assistance (open access)

Agricultural Disaster Assistance

This report has two sections. The first provides an overview of the current USDA disaster assistance programs: federal crop insurance, NAP payments, emergency disaster loans, the new Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program (SURE), and four other smaller disaster programs authorized in the 2008 farm bill. The second section reviews the recent history of emergency supplemental farm disaster assistance.
Date: May 21, 2010
Creator: Shields, Dennis A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Earmark Disclosure Rules in the Senate: Member and Committee Requirements (open access)

Earmark Disclosure Rules in the Senate: Member and Committee Requirements

This report is categorized into five categories: (I) Introduction, (II) Senate Earmark Disclosure Rule, (III) Legislation Subject to the Rule, (IV) Requirement for Senators Submitting Earmark Requests and (V) Requirements for Committees.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Lynch, Megan S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fish and Wildlife Service: Compensation to Local Governments (open access)

Fish and Wildlife Service: Compensation to Local Governments

This report describes the key features of NRWF: the lands under FWS jurisdiction, the eligibility of most of those lands for NRWF payments, the source of revenue for the fund, the payment formula for calculating an individual county's payments, the PILT payments available for certain FWS lands, some exceptions to normal authorized payment calculations, changing authorization levels, and falling annual appropriations. It concludes with a review of options for changes in the program.
Date: May 21, 2014
Creator: Corn, M. Lynne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: A Primer (open access)

Air Quality Issues and Animal Agriculture: A Primer

This report reviews the types of air emissions from livestock and poultry operations and their human health and environmental impacts. It then discusses provisions of several federal laws concerned with environmental impacts, beginning with the Clean Water Act, because protecting water resources has been the primary regulatory focus regarding livestock and animal operations.
Date: May 21, 2010
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-EU Cooperation Against Terrorism (open access)

U.S.-EU Cooperation Against Terrorism

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Date: May 21, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Office of Senate Legal Counsel (open access)

Office of Senate Legal Counsel

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Date: May 21, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress

This report discusses the issues related to changes in the Arctic sea. It's background and issues for Congress.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
CP Violation in Belle/BaBar Part-2 (open access)

CP Violation in Belle/BaBar Part-2

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Date: May 21, 2013
Creator: Yusa, Yosuke & Tech., /Virginia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Search for Pair Production of First Or Second Generation Leptoquarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC (open access)
Higher Productivity Crops for Biofuels (open access)

Higher Productivity Crops for Biofuels

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the 10 projects that are a part of the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) program including project goals, innovation needs, and potential impacts.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetically Enhanced Sorghum and Sugarcane (open access)

Genetically Enhanced Sorghum and Sugarcane

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the project to convert sugarcane and sorghum into bio-oil crop systems as part of the "Engineering Hydrocarbon Biosynthesis and Storage together with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae" project.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermal Energy Storage (open access)

Thermal Energy Storage

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the 15 projects that are a part of the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) program including project goals, innovation needs, and potential impacts.
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
User-Specified and Automatic Data Layout Selection for Portable Performance (open access)

User-Specified and Automatic Data Layout Selection for Portable Performance

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Date: May 21, 2013
Creator: Sharma, K; Karlin, I; Keasler, J; McGraw, J & Sarkar, V
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library