State agency duties range from procurement to education limits
The report notes the Senate committee led by Sen. James S. Bates must use the State Board of Control for purchases. Texas State Technical Institute cannot grant baccalaureate degrees at its James Connally campus in Waco. Water boards must approve loans for local wastewater facilities. A private water nonprofit cannot receive state aid. Oil production allows 86 percent while stocks sit at a 1966 low. March max is 4,074,850 barrels daily. Feed lot permit regulation rewriting is ordered over ecological concerns. Texas Supreme Court to rule March 22 on a parking lot case and a mayoral bid for District 15. decision expected by Feb 28.
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Law Library
James S. Bates
Edinburg
State Board of Control
Texas State Technical Institute
James Connally
Waco
Texas Water Quality Board and Water Development Board
Texas Water Quality Board
Supreme Court
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Spring Valley
High Court
Rusk
E.H. Whitehead
Leon
Houston
Limestone
Cherokee
Texas insurance, highways, and brine discharges headline
Insurance officials in Austin seek rate cuts under Nixon Phase 2 controls and no fault auto coverage guarantees. Lawmakers warn the state may enter the insurance business to support a catastrophe pool for coast areas. Governors seek more time to curb billboard funding with a special session looming. Brine discharge issues draw Railroad Commission scrutiny amid oil field permits and fish-kill compensation talks. Attorney General Crawford Martin outlines election funding and legislative property tax authority questions.
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Austin
Tex
Nixon
State
Texas
American Insurance Association
Federal Price Commission
State Insurance Board
State Board of Insurance
Preston Smith
Secretary of Transportation
John Volpe
Transportation Department
Smith
Ben Barnes
Wildlife Department
James Cross
Senate
Railroad Commission
PWD
Commission
Cross
Atty
Crawford Martin
Dallas
Martin
Legislative Property Tax Committee
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Bill Boa
Texas Railroad Commission
Byron Tunnell
Tunnel
WQB
Hugh Yantis
Yantis
Cattle
Gibson’s
Wanda
Panty
Skorts
San Benito
Harlingen
Brownsville
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