Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission First Quarter Performance Measures (open access)

Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission First Quarter Performance Measures

Report on the performance measures of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for the first quarter in 2016.
Date: December 30, 2015
Creator: Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sediment Sampling, Characterization, and Analysis on the Guadalupe River in the Coastal Plain of Texas (open access)

Sediment Sampling, Characterization, and Analysis on the Guadalupe River in the Coastal Plain of Texas

Report on measured sediment transport data for four USGS gage stations along the Guadalupe River between Seguin, TX and Victoria, TX.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Strom, Kyle; Hosseiny, Hossein & Wang, Keh-Han
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crime Victims’ Rights Act: A Sketch of 18 U.S.C. §3771 (open access)

Crime Victims’ Rights Act: A Sketch of 18 U.S.C. §3771

This report is an abridged form of a longer report, without quotation marks, footnotes, appendixes, and most of the citations to authority found in the longer version, which is available as CRS Report RL33679, Crime Victim's Rights Act: A summary and Legal Analysis of 18 U.S.C. 3771, by Charles Doyle.
Date: December 9, 2015
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senate Committee Party Ratios: 98th-114th Congresses (open access)

Senate Committee Party Ratios: 98th-114th Congresses

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Date: December 7, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Is “Building Partner Capacity?” Issues for Congress (open access)

What Is “Building Partner Capacity?” Issues for Congress

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Date: December 18, 2015
Creator: McInnis, Kathleen J. & Lucas, Nathan J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chronic Homelessness: Background, Research, and Outcomes (open access)

Chronic Homelessness: Background, Research, and Outcomes

This report is categorized into different categories such as what is chronic homelessness?, Evolution of the Permanent Supportive Housing Strategy, Policy Implication etc.
Date: December 8, 2015
Creator: Perl, Libby & Bagalman, Erin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript of Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities Hearing: December 7-8 , 2015 (open access)

Transcript of Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities Hearing: December 7-8 , 2015

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities (CECANF) held December 7-8, 2015 in Herndon, Virginia. This hearing includes deliberation on recommendations to the Commission's final report to be delivered to the President and Congress.
Date: 2015-12-07/2015-12-08
Creator: CQ Transcriptions
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (open access)

Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System

This report offers information on climate change as it relates to food security.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Brown, M. E.; Antle, J. M.; Backlund, P.; Carr, E. R.; Easterling, W. E.; Walsh, M. K. et al.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correctional Populations in the United States, 2014 (open access)

Correctional Populations in the United States, 2014

"This report summarizes data from the several Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) correctional data collections to provide statistics on the total population supervised by adult correctional systems in the United States."
Date: December 2015
Creator: Kaeble, Danielle; Glaze, Lauren; Tsoutis, Anastasios & Minton, Todd
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
TCEQ_Groundwater Conservation Districts (open access)

TCEQ_Groundwater Conservation Districts

A paper that serves as a management and planning tool to support the statewide groundwater programs conducted by Texas state agencies.
Date: December 4, 2015
Creator: United States. Texas Commission on Environmental Policy.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Paid Leave in Four States: Lessons for Montana Policymakers and Advocates (open access)

Paid Leave in Four States: Lessons for Montana Policymakers and Advocates

A report about paid leave in the United States. This report focuses on the four states which have enacted paid family leave programs and includes the various components of their policies in four sections.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Montana Budget & Policy Center
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
EPA's 2011 National-scale Toxics Assessment (open access)

EPA's 2011 National-scale Toxics Assessment

This document describes the data and approaches used to conduct the EPA's National-scale Air Toxics Assessment, an ongoing comprehensive evaluation of air toxics in the United States.
Date: December 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The ECHO, Volume 87, Number 10, December 2015/January 2016 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 87, Number 10, December 2015/January 2016

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
TEXNET Information and Due Date Schedule (open access)

TEXNET Information and Due Date Schedule

A booklet listing the payment deadlines for those who are required to pay taxes using the TEXNET system.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: Fourth Quarter 2015 (open access)

City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: Fourth Quarter 2015

Quarterly report outlining tax revenues and remittances for alcoholic beverages, listed by city, for October-December 2015. It also compares the statistics to the same period for the previous year.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region L (South Central Texas), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region L (South Central Texas), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan

Water plan for Region L (South Central Texas) describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, recommended water management strategies for the suppliers and counties, drought management, funding plans, and information on the creation of the plan.
Date: December 2015
Creator: South Central Texas Regional Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blue Sucker Movement and Habitat Use in the Lower Sabine River, Texas (open access)

Blue Sucker Movement and Habitat Use in the Lower Sabine River, Texas

Report on Blue Sucker fish movements and habitat use in the Lower Sabine River.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Mayes, Kevin B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Developing a Methodology for Projecting Intercity Commuting (open access)

Developing a Methodology for Projecting Intercity Commuting

Research report on intercity commute and the usefulness of passenger rail options between major Texas cities.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Lewic, Carol Abel; Hassell, Vincent & Green, Veronica
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0044 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0044

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 section 142.056 of the Local Government Code limits the frequency of elections regarding the exclusive bargaining agent for municipal police (RQ-0029-KP).
Date: December 4, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0052 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0052

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: Authority of a commissioners court, after adoption of the budget, to adopt a standing budget policy that automatically reduces the salary line item of an employee of an elected official upon the employee's departure from the position (RQ-0033-KP).
Date: December 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0049 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0049

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: Questions regarding a notice prohibiting entry with a handgun onto certain premises under section 30.06 of the Penal Code and section 411.209 of the Government Code (RQ-0051-KP).
Date: December 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0046 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0046

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: Authority of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County to participate in the Uptown Houston Transit Project otherwise known as the Post Oak Boulevard Dedicated Bus Lanes Project (RQ-0028-KP).
Date: December 14, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0054 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0054

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 common-law doctrine of ~ incompatibility prohibits simultaneous service as a county sheriff and a member of the board of trustees of a school district (RQ-0036-KP).
Date: December 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0047 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0047

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: The extent to which firearms may be excluded from buildings that contain courts, offices utilized by the courts, and other county officials (RQ-0040-KP).
Date: December 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History