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Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 1, Pages 1-58, January 7, 2005 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 1, Pages 1-58, January 7, 2005

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: January 7, 2005
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 3, Pages 163-338, January 21, 2005 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 3, Pages 163-338, January 21, 2005

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: January 21, 2005
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 4, Pages 339-442, January 28, 2005 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 4, Pages 339-442, January 28, 2005

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 Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents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: January 28, 2005
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 2, Pages 59-162, January 14, 2005 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 2, Pages 59-162, January 14, 2005

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: January 14, 2005
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 25 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 25

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate granting permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Thursday, January 13, 2005, and ending on Monday, January 24, 2005.
Date: January 25, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 26 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 26

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate inviting the governor to address a joint session of the legislature on Wednesday, January 26, 2005.
Date: January 25, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0289 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0289

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 an applicant for a commercial pesticide applicator license is required to furnish a social security number for purposes of child support enforcement (RQ-0247-GA)
Date: January 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0290 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0290

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 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is authorized to raise the environmental cleanup level at a specific site, and if so, what procedures must it follow (RQ-0245-GA)
Date: January 5, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0291 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0291

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, given that Senate Bill 319, Act of May 31, 2003, 78th Leg. R.S., ch. 822, 2003 Tex. Gen. Laws 2607, defines the word "individual" for certain purposes to include "an unborn child," a physician must report a pregnant patient's use of illegal controlled substances such as child abuse or as the delivery of controlled substances to a child (RQ-0250-GA)
Date: January 5, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0292 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0292

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 1305.003(14) of the Texas Occupations Code exempts from state licensing requirements all persons performing electrical work for a private industrial business, even if a person is not an employee of the private industrial business (RQ-0233-GA)
Date: January 10, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0293 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0293

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; Effect of amended article VII, section 5(b) of the Texas Constitution on the State Board of Education's management of the permenent school fund (RQ-0249-GA)
Date: January 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0294 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0294

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; Authority of the Railroad Commission to use monies from the Oil Field Cleanup Fund to plug oil and gas wells and perform other activities (RQ-0253-GA)
Date: January 19, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0295 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0295

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: Operation of the ex officio road commissioner system and allocation of road and bridge funds in Denton County (RQ-0254-GA)
Date: January 19, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0296 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0296

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 Texas Commission of Fire Protection may provide reimbursement for room and board as part of a Fire Department Emergency Program tuition scholarship for students who attend a training school (RQ-0255-GA)
Date: January 19, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0297 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0297

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 Local Government Code section 214.212(c)(1), which permits a municipality to adopt local amendments to the International Residential Code, limits the municipality to adopting only amendments that are equivalent to or more stringent than the the standards of the International Residential Code (RQ-0256-GA)
Date: January 19, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0298 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0298

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 Texas inmate violates the Texas forfeiture statute by selling his artwork on an Internet website (RQ-0252-GA)
Date: January 25, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0299 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0299

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 bail bond surety who is convicted of violating section 1704-304(c) of the Occupations Code has committed a crime of moral turpitude for purposes of section 1704.302(c) thereof (RQ-0259-GA)
Date: January 25, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0300 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0300

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 payment for accumulated vacation time, paid as salary under an employment contract, is creditable compensation for purposes of determining Teacher Retirement System benefits (RQ-0251-GA)
Date: January 27, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rules and Precedents of the Texas House (open access)

Rules and Precedents of the Texas House

This volume is a procedural manual outlining the rules and precedents for the Texas House of Representatives. According to the table of contents, the rules include the duties and rights of the speaker, employee duties, standing committees, organization, powers, and duties of committees, floor procedure, order of business and calendars, motions, bills, joint resolutions, house resolutions and concurrent resolutions, amendments, printing, interactions with the governor and senate, and general provisions. Index starts on page A-1.
Date: January 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Review of Selected Fiscal Year 2004 Operations of the Board of Architectural Examiners: A Self-Directed Semi-Independent Agency (open access)

A Review of Selected Fiscal Year 2004 Operations of the Board of Architectural Examiners: A Self-Directed Semi-Independent Agency

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to providing limited assurance that there are no material modifications that should be made to the Board of Architectural Examiners' (Board) financial statements to conform with generally accepted accounting principles; verifying whether the Board has taken corrective action to adequately address issues regarding the accuracy of its performance measures identified in our prior audit; and verifying the Board's compliance with selected sections of the Self-Directed Semi-Independent Agency Project Act.
Date: January 2005
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Financial Review of the Texas Engineering Extension Service's Administration of Homeland Security Grant Funds (open access)

A Financial Review of the Texas Engineering Extension Service's Administration of Homeland Security Grant Funds

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether homeland security funds are being used as intended, and whether state agencies that pass homeland security funds to local governments or contract with other entities have adequate internal processes to ensure that funds are used for their intended purposes.
Date: January 2005
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Report on the Audit of the Teacher Retirement System's Fiscal Year 2004 Financial Statements (open access)

A Report on the Audit of the Teacher Retirement System's Fiscal Year 2004 Financial Statements

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an opinion on the Teacher Retirement System's fiscal year 2004 financial statements, as well as a report on internal controls over financial reporting, compliance, and other matters.
Date: January 2005
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Local Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authorities' Progress in Complying with the Intent of Rider 68 (open access)

An Audit Report on Local Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authorities' Progress in Complying with the Intent of Rider 68

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to local mental health and mental retardation authorities' (local authorities) progress toward maximizing funds available to provide services as intended by Rider 68 of the General Appropriations Act.
Date: January 2005
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Selected Fiscal Year 2004 Operations of the Board of Professional Engineers: A Self-Directed Semi-Independent Agency (open access)

An Audit Report on Selected Fiscal Year 2004 Operations of the Board of Professional Engineers: A Self-Directed Semi-Independent Agency

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to verifying: the accuracy of certain key financial statement balances on the Board of Professional Engineers' (Board) fiscal year 2004 annual financial report and the effectiveness of key financial controls that produce that data; whether the Board has taken corrective action to adequately address the issues regarding the accuracy of its performance measures identified in a prior audit; and the Board's compliance with selected sections of the Self-Directed Semi-Independent Agency Project Act.
Date: January 2005
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History