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The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is a state agency of the U.S. state of Texas, responsible for managing lands and mineral rights properties that are owned by the state. The GLO also manages and contributes to the state's Permanent School Fund. The agency is headquartered in the Stephen F. Austin State Office Building in Downtown Austin. [1]
Major General Anthony Woods, Commander, Texas State Guard. The Texas State Guard has its roots in Stephen F. Austin's colonial militia. On February 18, 1823, Emperor of Mexico, Agustín de Iturbide, authorized Austin who was the leader of the first non-Spanish efforts of Texas settlement "to organize the colonists into a body of the national militia, to preserve tranquility."
This is a list of state prisons in Texas. The list includes only those facilities under the supervision of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and includes some facilities operated under contract by private entities to TDCJ.
The Texas Highway Patrol is a division of the Texas Department of Public Safety and is the largest state-level law enforcement agency in the U.S. state of Texas.The patrol's primary duties are enforcement of state traffic laws and commercial vehicle regulation, but it is a fully empowered police agency with authority to enforce criminal law anywhere in the state.
The Texas Administrative Code contains the compiled and indexed regulations of Texas state agencies and is published yearly by the Secretary of State. [5] The Texas Register contains proposed rules, notices, executive orders, and other information of general use to the public and is published weekly by the Secretary of State. [6]
The system receives no funding from the State of Texas. Each plan is funded independently by the county or district and its employees. TCDRS net assets were $45 billion as of Dec. 31, 2021, and paid out $1.9 billion in benefits in 2021.
The state of Texas confirmed its first case on February 13, 2020, and many of the state's largest cities recorded their first cases throughout March. As of late May 2021, there were 50,198 COVID-19 related deaths reported in that state. The death rate in Texas was 175 for every 100,000 people, while national COVID-19 death rate was 179 per 100,000.
CAPPS I was first implemented in the late 1990s, in response to the perceived threat of U.S. domestic and international terrorism.The U.S. government started to implement counter-terrorism measures after several bomb attacks occurred, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1996 Olympics bombing, and the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa.