Evaluation of the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies (TALA) : Case Study Report (open access)

Evaluation of the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies (TALA) : Case Study Report

This case study evaluates the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies (TALA). The report provides a summary of case study findings, describes the how campuses were selected, and presents individual reports for the nine cases studies.
Date: June 2011
Creator: ICF International (Firm)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
How we protect streams, rivers, and lakes (open access)

How we protect streams, rivers, and lakes

This pamphlet provides information about the ways the Texas A&M System control the "quality and standards" of the natural water resources of Texas.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Clayton, Brent
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $468 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $468 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $468 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: June 8, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
HIV/STD Partner Services: The Health Provider's Role (open access)

HIV/STD Partner Services: The Health Provider's Role

Pamphlet providing information on the HIV/STD Partner Services, explaining the healthcare provider's legal obligations and the benefits of DIS partner notification.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: May 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: May 2011

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current and Projected Water Use in the Texas Mining and Oil and Gas Industry (open access)

Current and Projected Water Use in the Texas Mining and Oil and Gas Industry

This report "documents results for the four tasks described in the scope of work Contract #904830939: 1) identify major mining operations and analyze water-use patterns, 2) estimate current water use withdrawal and consumption, 3) develop long term water-demand projections at the county level, and 4)report the findings of the study and prepare an electronic database....The report is divided into several sections. In each of them, we successively address oil and gas, coal, aggregates, and other mineral substances." (p. 9).
Date: June 2011
Creator: Nicot, Jean-Philippe
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Your Guide to the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (open access)

Your Guide to the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program

This booklet provides information about the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Aging and Disability Services.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Youth Commission, Internal Audit Department, Audit Report on Overtime (open access)

Texas Youth Commission, Internal Audit Department, Audit Report on Overtime

This document contains information about the "audit conducted on the overtime management practices and hours worked by Juvenile Corrections Officers in Texas Youth Commission secure facilities from September 2010 through February 2011" (Results Memo). The report includes recommendations to strengthen management controls and improve accountability.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas Youth Commission. Internal Audit Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Youth Commission, Internal Audit Department, Audit Report on Crockett State School (open access)

Texas Youth Commission, Internal Audit Department, Audit Report on Crockett State School

This document contains information on the facilities audit conducted on the Texas Youth Commission's Crockett State School on youth rights and activities, injuries, and multidisciplinary teams." The results include recommendations to strengthen management controls and improve accountability.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas Youth Commission. Internal Audit Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Winning, June/July 2011 (open access)

Winning, June/July 2011

Pamphlet containing information about Texas Lottery winners, scratch-off prizes, new games, and more.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Youth Commission Internal Audit Department: Audit Report on Education (open access)

Texas Youth Commission Internal Audit Department: Audit Report on Education

"This report presents the results of an education audit on the Texas Youth Commission in fiscal year 2011. The audit focuses on school attendance requiremtns and identifying trends in absences.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas Youth Commission. Internal Audit Department.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 22, Pages 3363-3554, June 3, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 22, Pages 3363-3554, June 3, 2011

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: June 3, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 23, Pages 3555-3666, June 10, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 23, Pages 3555-3666, June 10, 2011

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: June 10, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 24, Pages 3667-3744, June 17, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 24, Pages 3667-3744, June 17, 2011

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: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 25, Pages 3745-3996, June 24, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 25, Pages 3745-3996, June 24, 2011

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: June 24, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Optimized deployment of emission reduction technologies for large fleets (open access)

Optimized deployment of emission reduction technologies for large fleets

Report on a study which proposed an optimization framework to determine the most efficient strategies to reduce emissions of vehicles and equipment in a large fleet.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Kianfar, Kiavash; Memisoglu, Gokhan & Farzaneh, Mohamadreza
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compendium of student papers:  2010 undergraduate transportation scholars program (open access)

Compendium of student papers: 2010 undergraduate transportation scholars program

Report presenting the research papers written by students participating in the 2010 Undergraduate Transportation Scholars Program. The papers are titled "Estimation of Carriers/Truckers Value of Time Due to Congestion," "Evaluation of Retroreflectivity Measurement Techniques for Profiled and Rumble Stripe Pavement Markings," "Analysis of Retroreflectivity and Color Degradation in Sign Sheeting," "Evaluating the Effectiveness of LED Enhanced Stop Paddles for School Crossing Guard Use," "Incorporating Freight Value into the Urban Mobility Report," "Calibration of Pavement Performance Prediction Models," and "Evaluating the Effects of Concrete Curing Compounds on Hydration."
Date: June 2011
Creator: Hawkins, H. Gene; Almy, Isaac; Ballard, Lance; Brimley, Bradford; Huff, William; Larson, Gregory et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The potential for improving rail international intermodal services in Texas and the Southwest region of the United States (open access)

The potential for improving rail international intermodal services in Texas and the Southwest region of the United States

"The report covers a period of great significance for railroading in the U.S as it contains a number of milestones now shaping the future performance of the industry. The specific subject is improving inter-modal service so that it can support state and regional highway planning, now facing severe financial cut-backs as revenue sources become fully committed to bond servicing, user taxes, loose purchasing power and fuel consumption begins to fall."
Date: June 2011
Creator: Blaze, James R. & Harrison, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hybrid distribution trucks: costs and benefits (open access)

Hybrid distribution trucks: costs and benefits

Report of a project evaluating the costs of using a hybrid truck for package delivery trucks, beverage delivery trucks, and refuse trucks, determining that the additional cost (with current prices) of the hybrid refuse truck was justified, but not for the other two trucks.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Harrison, Robert & Anderson, Garrett
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Examination Results in Texas, 2009-2010 (open access)

Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Examination Results in Texas, 2009-2010

"This report reviews Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) examination participation and performance in Texas during the 2009-10 school year. Campus-district, and state-level examination results for students in Texas public schools are presented, as well as state-level examination results for students in Texas public and nonpublic schools combined."
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas Education Agency
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0862 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0862

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of a Type A general-law municipality to adopt and enforce an ordinance prohibiting the discharge of certain firearms or other weapons on property located within its original corporate limits (RQ-0937-GA)
Date: June 16, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 625, Chapter 477 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 625, Chapter 477

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to notice of staff leasing services company workers' compensation claim and payment information; providing an administrative violation.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 627, Chapter 237 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 627, Chapter 237

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to a fee collected by a district clerk for certain certified copies.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 628, Chapter 1129 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 628, Chapter 1129

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to contracts by governmental entities and related professional services and to public works performance and payment bonds.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History