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An Audit Report on Statewide Travel Practices

Description: Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the 75th Legislature's emphasis on limiting employee travel expenditures and using travel funds appropriately, resulting in a travel cap which reduced total statewide travel spending from appropriated funds.
Date: March 1999
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 25, September 1998

Description: Periodical discussing the arguments for and against factoring standardized test scores into education. It includes sample questions from Texas Assessment of Academic Skills [TAAS] tests, the pros and cons of expanding the use of the test, and a discussion of possible bias against minority students in the TAAS.
Date: September 29, 1998
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 23, June 1998

Description: Periodical discussing the legislation related to end-of-life care and decisions. It includes the historic precedents for such legislation, the complex ethical and moral issues surrounding end-of-life care, and possible legal consequences of proposed and existing legislation.
Date: June 17, 1998
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Focus Report: Volume 75, Number 12, April 1997

Description: This is a report over the Safe Schools Act as part of the 1995 rewrite of the Education Code. The report looks at the two main objects of the Legislature attempts to give administrators authority to remove disruptive students and create a safety net so expelled students are not cast into the streets.
Date: April 4, 1997
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 6, February 1997

Description: Report on revisions to mandatory supervision release law that requires some convicted criminals to be released from prison automatically without the approval of the Board of Pardons and Paroles and before their sentences are complete.
Date: February 17, 1997
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Executive Committee, Texas Office for Prevention of Developmental Disabilities: Report to the 75th Legislature

Description: Report from the Texas Office for Prevention of Developmental Disabilities Executive Committee describing the group's goals, activities, accomplishments, and other information, for review by the 75th Texas Legislature.
Date: January 1997
Creator: Texas Office for Prevention of Developmental Disabilities. Executive Committee.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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