An Audit Report on Groundwater Conservation Districts (open access)

An Audit Report on Groundwater Conservation Districts

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to reviewing selected groundwater conservation districts to determine whether they were operational and in compliance with applicable statutes.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Follow-up Audit Report on the Department of Transportation's Financial Forecasting and Fund Allocation (open access)

A Follow-up Audit Report on the Department of Transportation's Financial Forecasting and Fund Allocation

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining the extent to which the Department of Transportation (Department) has implemented recommendations in "An Audit Report on the Department of Transportation's Financial Forecasting and Fund Allocation," and determining whether the Department's new cash forecast system for the State Highway Fund (Fund 006) accurately incorporates all relevant revenue, expenditures, and other cash activity to produce a reasonable estimate of cash balances and the results of various cash management scenarios.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on the State Securities Board (open access)

An Audit Report on the State Securities Board

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the State Securities Board has controls to provide assurance that securities filings comply with applicable laws and regulations, and whether it conducts inspections and investigates complaints in a consistent, risk-based manner.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Review of State Agencies' Implementation of Sunset Advisory Commission Management Actions (open access)

A Review of State Agencies' Implementation of Sunset Advisory Commission Management Actions

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining the implementation status of non-statutory recommendations (management actions) included in the Sunset Advisory Commission's report to the 81st Legislature.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Report on On-site Audits of Residential Child Care Providers (open access)

A Report on On-site Audits of Residential Child Care Providers

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to verifying that residential child care providers are spending federal and state funds for required services that promote the well-being of foster care children placed in their care.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Biennial Report on the State's Position Classification Plan (open access)

A Biennial Report on the State's Position Classification Plan

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining the competitiveness of the Position Classification Plan (Plan) with similar positions in the private and public sector, and whether changes to the Plan are needed.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Special Investigations Unit Report on Higher Education Coordinating Board College Access Loan Applications (open access)

A Special Investigations Unit Report on Higher Education Coordinating Board College Access Loan Applications

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an investigation by the State Auditor's Special Investigations Unit into allegations of forged Hinson-Hazelwood loan applications and promissory notes, which led to the Public Integrity Unit of the Travis County District Attorney's Office obtaining indictments for Iris Rene Royal.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Make Sure Your Baby Can Hear the Sounds of Texas (open access)

Make Sure Your Baby Can Hear the Sounds of Texas

Pamphlet providing information about newborn hearing screening and developmental markers for older babies. One side is written in English and the reverse side is written in Spanish.
Date: August 31, 2010
Creator: Texas Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
State of Technology of Water Reuse: Final Report (open access)

State of Technology of Water Reuse: Final Report

This report reviews the state of technology associated with implementation of water reuse projects. (p. 2).
Date: August 2010
Creator: Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on the East Texas Council of Governments' Procurement of Services for Selected Programs (open access)

An Audit Report on the East Texas Council of Governments' Procurement of Services for Selected Programs

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the East Texas Council of Governments procures and provides services funded through the State in compliance with applicable statutory and contractual requirements.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Updated Rules for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department] (open access)

[Updated Rules for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]

Document containing the updated guidelines for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Regulations, which includes new rules regarding fishing and hunting.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas transit leadership initiative (open access)

Texas transit leadership initiative

Report on the Texas Transit Leadership Initiative which researched national leadership development programs and developed a longterm leadership development program for use by the transit industry in Texas.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Cherrington, Linda Kay; Arndt, Jeffrey C.; Edrington, Suzie & Taylor, Ryan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Landside freight access to airports : findings and case studies (open access)

Landside freight access to airports : findings and case studies

Report identifying the issues, and infrastructure needs concerning access to airports in Texas for both travel and freight shipping purposes and proposing solutions to the identified problems.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Frawley, William E.; Borowiec, Jefferey D.; Protopapa, Annie A.; Morgan, Curtis Alan & Warner, Jeffery E.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Performance analysis of the "zoning" strategies for Americans with Disabilities Act paratransit services (open access)

Performance analysis of the "zoning" strategies for Americans with Disabilities Act paratransit services

"The objective of this research is to provide a more in-depth evaluation and comparison between centralized and decentralized zoning strategies for the city of Houston, Texas, by developing a simulation model to evaluate the effect of zoning strategies on the productivity and service quality for the ADA paratransit service."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Shen, Chung-Wei & Quadrifoglio, Luca
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Network methods for project selection based on optimizing environmental impact (open access)

Network methods for project selection based on optimizing environmental impact

"Traditionally, transportation road networks have been designed for minimal congestion. Unfortunately, such approaches do not guarantee minimal vehicle emissions. Given the negative impacts of vehicle pollutants as well as tighter national air quality standards, it is critical for regions to be able to identify capacity modifications to road networks such that vehicle emission are minimal. This ability combined with land use changes and opportunities for non-auto travel are paramount in helping regions improve air quality."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Duthie, Jennifer Clare; Waller, S. Travis & Ferguson, Erin M.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A comprehensive examination of heavy vehicle emissions factors (open access)

A comprehensive examination of heavy vehicle emissions factors

"This report summarized the findings from reviewing the literature on several topics that are related to heavy vehicle emissions including engine and fuel types, vehicle technologies that can be used to reduce or mitigate vehicle emission, the factors that affect vehicle emission, vehicle emissions modeling, and current and future policy requiring accurate accounting of heavy vehicle emission."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Thompson, Melissa Renee; Unnikrishnan, Avinash; Conway, Alison J. & Walton, C. Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Road Pricing Methodology for Infrastructure Cost Recovery (open access)

A Road Pricing Methodology for Infrastructure Cost Recovery

"The purpose of this research is to provide a theoretical framework for future commercial vehicle user-charging using real-time vehicle weight and configuration information collected using weigh-in-motion systems" (p. i).
Date: August 2010
Creator: Walton, C. Michael & Conway, Alison J.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Predicting the Incremental Effects on Transit Ridership Due to Bus-on-Shoulder Operations (open access)

Predicting the Incremental Effects on Transit Ridership Due to Bus-on-Shoulder Operations

Report exploring how the residents of Austin, Texas would respond to a Bus-on-Shoulder operation on local freeways, which allows buses to use the freeway shoulder as a passing lane.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Machemehl, Randy B. & Pappas, Elani
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0789 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0789

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: Whether a county’s disclosure on its website of driver’s license photographs received from the Department of Public Safety would violate the Motor Vehicle Records Disclosure Act of the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (RQ-0799-GA)
Date: August 23, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0790 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0790

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: Combining real property and improvements on one parcel identification number or taxpayer account for appraisal district record purposes (RQ-0827-GA)
Date: August 23, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0791 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0791

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: Use ad management of a county jail commissary fund under Local Government Code section 351.0415 (RQ-0841-GA)
Date: August 23, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0792 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0792

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: Status of particular tracts of land annexed into one groundwater conservation district and subsequently included in special legislation creating a different district (RQ-0817-GA)
Date: August 26, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0793 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0793

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: Whether a school district may access and use a county’s right-of-way to install fiber optic cable (RQ-0818-GA)
Date: August 26, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0794 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0794

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: Whether section 11.1513 of the Education Code prohibits a school superintendent tow home final selection of personnel is delegated from employing persons related to trustees of his district (RQ-0842-GA)
Date: August 26, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History