Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 46, Pages 10323-10658, November 12, 2004 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 46, Pages 10323-10658, November 12, 2004

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: November 12, 2004
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 47, Pages 10659-10848, November 19, 2004 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 47, Pages 10659-10848, November 19, 2004

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: November 19, 2004
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 48, Pages 10849-11196, November 26, 2004 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 48, Pages 10849-11196, November 26, 2004

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: November 26, 2004
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 45, Pages 10175-10322, November 5, 2004 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 29, Number 45, Pages 10175-10322, November 5, 2004

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: November 5, 2004
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0267 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0267

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, under section 54.012(5) of the Local Government Code, a municipality may enact an ordinance prescribing civil penalties for matters that do not relate to the substantive provisions of section 54.012 (RQ-0220-GA)
Date: November 1, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0268 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0268

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 municpal management districts have eminent domain powers (RQ-0228-GA)
Date: November 4, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0269 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0269

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 home-rule city charter provisions governing the frequency of elections apply to elections implementing a tax freeze under article VIII, ∫ 1-b(h) of the Texas Constitution (RQ-0242-GA)
Date: November 4, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0270 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0270

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 the state owns Republic Square in the City of Austin, and if so, whether only the legislature may act to convey a state interest in the property (RQ-0225-GA)
Date: November 10, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0271 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0271

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 health care providers administering vaccinations in hospitals under the federal Medicare program are immune from liability for injuries caused by the vaccine (RQ-0227-GA)
Date: November 17, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0272 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0272

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 the Office of Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner may charge an administrative fee to participating departments in its retirement system (RQ-0230-GA)
Date: November 22, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0273 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0273

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 the district attorney of the 173rd Judicial; District may simultaneously hold a part-time teaching position at Trinity Valley Community College and receive compensation for doing so (RQ-0234-GA)
Date: November 23, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0274 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0274

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 engineering documents prepared and sealed by a licensed engineer who is employed by an unregistered firm (RQ-0235-GA)
Date: November 23, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0275 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0275

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 1702.323(e) of the Occupations Code makes a paralegal or other person working under an attorney’s direct supervision subject to regulation by the Texas Private Security Board (RQ-0232-GA)
Date: November 24, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Second Quarter, 2004 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Second Quarter, 2004

Quarterly publication of the Texas Comptroller's Office regarding sales and use tax in the state of Texas, including an analysis by county, analysis by industry, and related notes.
Date: November 30, 2004
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Management of Correctional Managed Health Care Contracts (open access)

An Audit Report on Management of Correctional Managed Health Care Contracts

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to deficiencies in the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee's (Committee) management of inmate health care and potential conflicts of interest between the Committee and university providers, which could indicate that a separate committee is no longer critical to the management of contracts for inmate health care.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Health Plan Cost Containment Measures and Contract Management at the Employees Retirement System and the Teacher Retirement System (open access)

An Audit Report on Health Plan Cost Containment Measures and Contract Management at the Employees Retirement System and the Teacher Retirement System

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the measures that the Employees Retirement System (ERS) and the Teacher Retirement System (TRS) have implemented to reduce the amount the State pays for its health care plans. The report determines whether the cost-containment measures taken for the self-insured ERS and TRS health care plans are achieving intended results, whether ERS and TRS health care contracts are properly administered to ensure that the State receives health care services at the lowest cost, and identifies additional cost-containment measures (including new plan designs) used by other state health insurance plans that could be applicable to the ERS and TRS plans.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Special Investigations Unit Report Regarding the Texas Department of Transportation (open access)

A Special Investigations Unit Report Regarding the Texas Department of Transportation

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an investigation by the State Auditor's Special Investigations Unit into allegations reported by the Texas Department of Transportation, which led to the indictment of Orlando Teran, chief executive officer of Sunland Engineering Inc., on one count of securing execution of a document by deception.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on the Protection of Confidential Information and Critical Systems at the University of Houston (open access)

An Audit Report on the Protection of Confidential Information and Critical Systems at the University of Houston

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the University of Houston has adequate controls to protect confidential data and critical systems from loss or unauthorized access and use.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Review of The Medicaid Claims Risk Stabilization Reserve Fund the National Heritage Insurance Company Held Pursuant to Its Contract with the Health and Human Services Commission (open access)

A Review of The Medicaid Claims Risk Stabilization Reserve Fund the National Heritage Insurance Company Held Pursuant to Its Contract with the Health and Human Services Commission

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to verifying that the National Heritage Insurance Company (NHIC) has refunded to the State $8.96 million, all of the funds that remained in NHIC's Medicaid Claims Risk Stabilization Reserve Fund.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Measuring Effectiveness of State and Federal Funding for At-Risk Students (open access)

An Audit Report on Measuring Effectiveness of State and Federal Funding for At-Risk Students

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to evaluating the performance of programs receiving state and federal funds that target students who are at risk of dropping out of school, and developing a set of performance measures that are standard across all entities receiving state funds through these programs that target at-risk students such that the programs may be evaluated in comparison to one another.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Summary Report on Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for Fiscal Year 2004 (open access)

A Summary Report on Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for Fiscal Year 2004

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to providing the Legislature and the public with information on the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) who perform services for state government.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Lottery Commission Comprehensive Business Plan: Fiscal Years 2005-2007 (open access)

Texas Lottery Commission Comprehensive Business Plan: Fiscal Years 2005-2007

Business plan developed by the Texas Lottery Commission including organizational information about the Commission, market analysis regarding lotteries, and a financial overview, as well as the projected business plan with objects, strategies, and action plans.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State of Office Risk Management Annual Financial Report: 2004 (open access)

Texas State of Office Risk Management Annual Financial Report: 2004

Annual financial report for the Texas State Office of Risk Management during fiscal year 2004 including balance sheets for revenues, expenditures, and various funds, with associated notes.
Date: November 19, 2004
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Conservation Best Management Practices Guide (open access)

Water Conservation Best Management Practices Guide

A guide on the practices, techniques, programs, and technologies that will protect water resources, reduce the consumption of water, reduce the loss or waste of water, improve the efficiency in the use of water, and increase the recycling and reuse of water so that a water supply is made available for future or alternative uses.
Date: November 2004
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History