Automated Distress Surveys: Analysis of Network-Level Data (open access)

Automated Distress Surveys: Analysis of Network-Level Data

Report discussing the stress on different types of pavements in Houston and Bryan, Texas.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Murphy, Michael R.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Health  and Human Services  Strike Force (open access)

Report of the Health and Human Services Strike Force

The report describes on The Health and Human Services Commission services to millions of Texans, providing public assistance, child and adult protective services, facilities for the state’s most vulnerable citizens, response to public health emergencies and more. The report also describe the 21CT controversy, the office of inspector general, contracting, organization and management, consolidation, vision and leadership.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0007 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0007

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 a county commissioners court must compensate a justice of the peace who retires prior to the end of his term (RQ-1219-GA).
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0011 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0011

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 a public school district may expend funds for the management of county school lands to determine if a lessee of a mineral estate is fulfilling its duty to explore and develop the mineral estate (RQ-1225-GA).
Date: March 31, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0013 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0013

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: Commencement of term of office of a person elected sheriff as a successor to an individual who was appointed to fill a vacancy in that office (RQ-1227-GA).
Date: March 31, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0012 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0012

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: Validity of a salary increase for the sheriff that exceeded the amount listed in the initial public notice required by section 152.013 of the Local Government Code (RQ-1226-GA).
Date: March 31, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0009 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0009

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: Qualification for early voting by mail under section 82.002 of the Election Code (RQ-1221-GA).
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0006 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0006

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: Appointment of an ex officio member to the Galveston Housing Authority (RQ-1218-GA).
Date: March 4, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0010 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0010

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: Programs to which jurors may donate their juror reimbursement under subsection 61.003(a)(4) of the Government Code (RQ-1224-GA).
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0008 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0008

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 Edwards Aquifer Authority may provide funding to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for the implementation of a refugia program (RQ-1220-GA).
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 35 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 35

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, and ending on Monday, March 30, 2015.
Date: March 31, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 47 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 47

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate congratulating San Patricio County Judge Terry Simpson on being named the 2014 Newsmaker of the Year by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
Date: March 27, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Accessing the Mega-Region: Evaluating the Role of Livable Community Patterns in Gulf Coast Mega-Region Planning (open access)

Accessing the Mega-Region: Evaluating the Role of Livable Community Patterns in Gulf Coast Mega-Region Planning

Report on livable community patterns of transportation in Gulf Coast mega-regions.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Fields, Billy
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Your Guide To WIC Foods (open access)

Your Guide To WIC Foods

A guide to foods available to purchase under the WIC Program, buying procedures and tips, and recipes for using the foods.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Texas. Bureau of WIC Nutrition.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Su Guía De Alimentos De WIC (open access)

Su Guía De Alimentos De WIC

A guide to foods available to purchase under the WIC program, buying process and tips, and recipes for using the food.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Texas. Bureau of WIC Nutrition.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Navy Virginia (SSN-774) Class Attack Submarine Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Virginia (SSN-774) Class Attack Submarine Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) program. The Navy's proposed FY2015 budget requests $5,883.6 million in procurement, advance procurement (AP), and Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) funding for the program. Decisions that Congress makes on procurement of Virginia-class boats could substantially affect U.S. Navy capabilities and funding requirements, and the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base.
Date: March 3, 2015
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues (open access)

Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues

This report discusses the Domain Name System (DNS), which is the distributed set of databases residing in computers around the world that contain address numbers mapped to corresponding domain names, making it possible to send and receive messages and to access information from computers anywhere on the Internet.
Date: March 6, 2015
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Help America Vote Act and Election Administration: Overview and Issues (open access)

The Help America Vote Act and Election Administration: Overview and Issues

This report discusses the Help America Vote Act (HAVA; P.L. 107-252) enacted in 2002. It provides background information about HAVA and its provisions, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), funding for the agency and for state programs to improve elections, and a number of enduring election administration issues.
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Coleman, Kevin J. & Fischer, Eric A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Ohio Replacement (SSBN[X]) Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Ohio Replacement (SSBN[X]) Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and potential oversight issues for Congress on the Ohio replacement program (ORP), a program to design and build a new class of 12 ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) to replace the Navy's current force of 14 Ohio-class SSBNs. The Navy wants to procure the first Ohio replacement boat in FY2021, with advance procurement (AP) funding starting in FY2017.
Date: March 3, 2015
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2016 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2016

This report begins with a discussion of the overall level of the President's FY2016 R&D request, followed by analyses of the R&D funding request from a variety of perspectives and for selected multiagency R&D initiatives. The report concludes with discussion and analysis of the R&D budget requests of selected federal departments and agencies that, collectively, account for more than 98% of total federal R&D funding.
Date: March 18, 2015
Creator: Sargent, John F., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Egypt: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Egypt: Background and U.S. Relations

This report provides an overview of the key issues for Congress related to Egypt and information on U.S. foreign aid to Egypt. It briefly provides a political history of modern Egypt, an overview of its political institutions, and a discussion of the prospects for democratization in Egypt, as well as addressing the following current topics: the Arab-Israeli peace process, Iraq, terrorism, democratization and reform, human rights, trade, and military cooperation.
Date: March 3, 2015
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Actions to Repeal, Defund, or Delay the Affordable Care Act (open access)

Legislative Actions to Repeal, Defund, or Delay the Affordable Care Act

This report summarizes legislative actions taken to repeal, defund, delay, or otherwise amend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) since it was signed into law. The report is divided into two sections. The first section focuses on authorizing legislation, and the second section discusses appropriations bills.
Date: March 2, 2015
Creator: Redhead, C. S. & Kinzer, Janet
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Northern Ireland: The Peace Process (open access)

Northern Ireland: The Peace Process

This report provides background information regarding political violence and the peace process in Northern Ireland. It includes further information about the devolved government and recurrent crises (1999-2002, 2003-2007 and 2008-2010), implementation of police reforms, recent events and ongoing challenges, relevant U.S. policy, and recent legislation.
Date: March 11, 2015
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cyprus: Reunification Proving Elusive (open access)

Cyprus: Reunification Proving Elusive

This report provides a brief overview of the history of the negotiations between Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, a review of the negotiations since 2008, and a description of some of the issues involved in the talks.
Date: March 6, 2015
Creator: Morelli, Vincent
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library