Internet Research on Texas State Agencies

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a. Texas Department of Public Safety

Texas DPS is the main hub that provides legal processes and information concerning what one

needs to know when driving in Texas. The site provides a wide range of information on

everything one needs to apply ore renew their driving license, looking into or register a title of

a recently purchase car, or change recorded personal data like the current home address. It is

the ideal place to find more about the essential laws required to know if you really need to be

a safe driver. They provide the Texas driving point system and the steps one should undertake

when the license is suspended.

The DPS offices are scattered all around Texas. One can visit one of their offices and get their

car related tasks and other important license issues sorted out. The DPS office in in Austin

Teaxs is located in four locations, the main office is found at Pflugerville Mega Center (Austin

Area). Its street address is: 216 East Wells Branch Parkway Pflugerville, TX 78660. The

director staff includes Steve McCraw and his deputy directors are Freeman Martin, Skylor

Hearn and Randall Prince. Mailing Address: PO Box 4087 Austin, TX 78773-0001

Most of the services offered by DPS Texas are available online and one don’t need to visit

their offices. The main services include: Enrolling in driver education, ordering a copy of your

driving license, paying a traffic ticket, voter registration, ordering vital documents like birth

certificate, organ donor registration among other services.

Texas DPS deals with numerous cases of crime records, handgun licensing, emergency

management, private security, THP citation search as well as vehicle inspection. I have learnt

that Texas DPS is a central hub in which the government can manage service delivery to the

citizen. For instance, keeping crime records has enabled the Texas state to manage crime and
report as well as alert their citizens on the status of their safety. From the press releases, it is

evident that Texas DPS is at the forefront of warding off sex offenders, solving cold cases and

helping the state troopers disseminated their duties.

b. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

The Texas Wildlife Department is mandated to conserve and manage cultural and natural

resources as well as provide fishing, hunting along with outdoor recreation opportunities for

the use and enjoyment the inhabitants. Their offices in Austin Texas is located in the street

address: DW-TPWD Headquarters 4200 Smith School Road Austin 78744. The department

is headed by Cater Smith who has a passion for wildlife.

The main activities conducted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department include wildlife

conservation, management of parks, providing hunting licenses as well as boat registration

among other things. Currently the TPWD is mainly focused in restoring and managing the

local parks, state parks and historic sites for the generations to come. In light of this fact, it has

approved the Proposition 5 that dictates that 100 percent of the sporting good taxes will be

allocated to TPWD to ensure that they deliver on this mandate.

One main activity that caught my eye is the “Operation Game Thief” which is Texas Wild life

Stopper program that offers rewards to any individual who provides information leading to an

arrest of an individual who has committed wildlife crime.

c. Texas Comptroller’s Office

The Texas Controller’s office is responsible for tracking state expenditures, collecting state

revenue as well as monitoring the financial states of the local government. They provide

correspondence, ledgers and journals, ad valorem tax records, warrants, appropriations, claims,
memoranda reports, organization charts, news clippings, speeches among other things. The

Austin offices are located at street address: Lyndon B. Johnson State Office Building, 111 East

17th Street, Austin, Texas 78774. The head of the department is Glenn Hegar. To contact the

comptroller’s office you need the specific contact of the office you need.

The main functions of the comptroller’s office is to keep accounts of the state funds, furnishing

research as well as statistics for estimating revenue and acting as the tax administrator an

collector for the state. The office is mandated to submit financial reports to the legislature and

the governor with the statements of the prior fiscal year, estimates of anticipated revenue as

well as the outstanding appropriations.

The Agency has been actively tracking the Texas revenues and the economy that supports the

state government. I was impressed in the manner in which they provide the essential highlights

that the legislature and the governor should understand in order to better govern the state. For

instance their new Certification Revenue Estimation. The latest CRE estimates indicated that

a strong economic growth. The fact that they are employing their conservative fiscal policy

has enable them to create hundreds of thousands of new employment opportunities.

One main thing that caught my eye is the dedication of comptroller’s office to guarantee Texas’

legacy. With their better proposals for the Economic Stabilization Fund to ensure that these

funds are invested in a manner that it is not even beating the inflation rate. They have devised

a proper way to ensure that the funds are protected from the inflation rate while getting ore for

essential state purposes.