Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 26, Pages 3997-4200, July 1, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 26, Pages 3997-4200, July 1, 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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: July 1, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 27, Pages 4201-4472, July 8, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 27, Pages 4201-4472, July 8, 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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: July 8, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 28, Pages 4473-4610, July 15, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 28, Pages 4473-4610, July 15, 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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: July 15, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 29, Pages 4611-4748, July 22, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 29, Pages 4611-4748, July 22, 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: July 22, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 30, Pages 4749-4862, July 29, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 30, Pages 4749-4862, July 29, 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: July 29, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0863 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0863

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; Information that must be furnished to a respondent against whom a complaint is filed the Texas Ethics Commission (RQ-0910-GA)
Date: July 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0864 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0864

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; Validity of enforceability of certain types of restrictive covenants (RQ-0918-GA)
Date: July 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0865 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0865

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; Deadline for initiating a salary grievance proceeding by a county or precinct officer (RQ-0922-GA)
Date: July 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0866 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0866

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; Investigative Authority of the Texas Forensic Science Commission (RQ-0943-GA)
Date: July 29, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
International air cargo operations and gateways: their emerging importance to the state of Texas (open access)

International air cargo operations and gateways: their emerging importance to the state of Texas

"This report examines the potential of Texas-based airports, especially Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport and the Houston Airport System, to emerge as international gateways for global trade in general and trans-Pacific trade in particular. The period covered is 2001 to 2006."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Cho, Hee Deok & Boske, Leigh B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impact of performance goals on the needs of highway infrastructure maintenance (open access)

Impact of performance goals on the needs of highway infrastructure maintenance

"This report proposes a methodological framework that is aimed at assisting highway agencies with the problem of objectively analyzing policy decisions in terms of the performance goals for their highway networks that would minimize the total transport costs to the society."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Zhang, Zhanmin & Jaipuria, Sunny
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Another look at the question of density and rail transit (open access)

Another look at the question of density and rail transit

"This research compares density in a few select cities with the accepted transit efficiency performance measure of operating cost per passenger mile to determine whether this statistic is better in more dense cities."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Hall, Kadijah & Lewis, Carol Abel
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
U.S. and Texas international trade and transportation (open access)

U.S. and Texas international trade and transportation

"This report examines various aspects of international trade, transportation, and foreign practices implemented to facilitate and fund transport-related infrastructure. The report is composed of six chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the U.S. international trade outlook. The second chapter describes the roles played by air cargo transport, ports and ocean carriers, railroads, and the motor carrier industry in U.S. international trade. The third and fourth chapters focus on Texas-specific international trade and modal gateways. The fifth chapter reviews various transport funding mechanisms, Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications, and forms of public-private partnerships adopted in various foreign countries. The final chapter describes the expansion of the Panama Canal and its likely Texas impacts."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Anazia, Larry K. & Boske, Leigh B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aquifers of Texas (open access)

Aquifers of Texas

"This report is an update to the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) Report 345, Major and Minor Aquifers of Texas, published in 1995 and coauthored by John B. Ashworth and Janie Hopkins."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Mace, Robert E.; Petrossian, Rima & George, Peter G.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Examining Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices for Addressing Rural Mobility and Economic Development Under SAFETEA-LU's Coordinated Planning and Human Services Framework (open access)

Examining Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices for Addressing Rural Mobility and Economic Development Under SAFETEA-LU's Coordinated Planning and Human Services Framework

This report evaluates the recently developed coordinated transit and human services plan both the processes that have been adopted throughout the state as well as they types of outcomes that have emerged.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Martin, June; Giusti, Ceclia; Dumbaugh, Eric & Cherrington, Linda
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Texas Charter Schools, 2009-2010 (open access)

Evaluation of Texas Charter Schools, 2009-2010

Results of a study to analyze overall data related to Texas charter schools, such as demographics, revenues, and student performance as well as "perceptions and satisfaction individuals had regarding their respective candidates" (p. ii).
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas A & M University. Education Research Center.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2009-2010, District and Campus Supplement (open access)

Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2009-2010, District and Campus Supplement

This supplement to the annual Texas Education Agency report on graduation, completion, and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools provides annual dropout rates by county for the 2009-10 school year and longitudinal graduation, completion, and dropout rates by county for the class of 2010.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Research and Evaluation.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2009-2010, District Supplement (open access)

Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2009-2010, District Supplement

This supplement to the annual Texas Education Agency report on graduation, completion, and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools provides annual dropout rates by county for the 2009-10 school year and longitudinal graduation, completion, and dropout rates by county for the class of 2010.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Research and Evaluation.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2009-2010 (open access)

Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2009-2010

This supplement to the annual Texas Education Agency report on graduation, completion, and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools provides annual dropout rates by county for the 2009-10 school year and longitudinal graduation, completion, and dropout rates by county for the class of 2010.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Research and Evaluation.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2009-2010, County Supplement (open access)

Secondary School Completion and Dropouts in Texas Public Schools: 2009-2010, County Supplement

This supplement to the annual Texas Education Agency report on graduation, completion, and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools provides annual dropout rates by county for the 2009-10 school year and longitudinal graduation, completion, and dropout rates by county for the class of 2010.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas Education Agency. Division of Research and Evaluation.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of Statistical Models to Forecast Crossing Times of Commercial Vehicles (open access)

Development of Statistical Models to Forecast Crossing Times of Commercial Vehicles

In this report statistical models were developed to predict crossing times of trucks over a short range of time. The statistical prediction models use historic data and take into account empirical relationships between border-crossing-related parameters and truck crossing times.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Kang, Dong Hun; Ochoa, Cesar; Rajbhandari, Rajat & Garcia, Francisco
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of guidelines for triple left and dual right-turn lanes :  technical report (open access)

Development of guidelines for triple left and dual right-turn lanes : technical report

Report regarding the development of geometric and signal design guidelines for triple left-turn lanes and dual right-turn lanes and then evaluatues the safety of such sites in Texas.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Cooner, Scott A.; Ranft, Stephen E.; Rathod, Yatin K.; Qi, Yi; Yu, Lei; Wang, Yubian et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Focus Report, Volume 82, Number 6, July 20, 2011 (open access)

Focus Report, Volume 82, Number 6, July 20, 2011

"In this report ten more proposed amendments will be submitted for voter approval at the general election on Tuesday, November 8, 2011."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reel Lines, Issue Number 30, July 2011 (open access)

Reel Lines, Issue Number 30, July 2011

Newsletter discussing fishing in Texas and educational programs offered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department. Angler Education Program.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History