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Appointment Made September 7
Governor's Advisory Panel on Offshore
Oil and Chemical Spill Responses
To be chair for a term to continue at the pleasure of this
governor:
Janice R. Coggeshall
Mayor
Galveston City Hall
P.O. Box 779
Galveston, Texas 77553
Issued in Austin, Texas, on September 7 , 1'984.
TRD-849290
Mark White
Governor of Texas
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Designating Advocacy, Inc., to Administer the CIient Assistance Program Created by Feder~lPublic Law 98-221,
and Desigmting the Director of the Texas Rehabilitation Commission to Chair an Advisory Committee to the
Client Assistance Program.
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WHEREAS, Public Law 98-221, the Rehabilitation Amendments of 1984, requires each state which received
a federal allotment for vocational rehabilitative services to have in lace bv October 1. 1984. a client assistance
program; and .
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WHEREAS,it is desirable that such client assistance programs be administered by an organization with experience
in successfully running this type of program and be closely associated with, but separate from, state agencies
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charged with providing vocational rehabilitation services;
NOW THEREFORE, by the authority v-ested in me as governor, after consultation with representatives of the disabled community and review of the accomplishments of Advocacy, Inc., a nonprofit corporation associated with
the State Bar of Texas, in administering an ombudsman program for the disabled community, I hereby designate
Advocacy, Inc., as the Texas client assistance program to be established in compliance with Public Law 98-221.
I further designate the commissioner of the Texas Rehabilitation Commission to chair a project advisory committee which I will appoint to oversee and make recommendations for aqinistration df the client assistan& program. This committee will be composed of
consumers and service providers.
I further direct Advocacy Inc., to submit an evaluation of the client assistance program with review and comment by the Project Advisory Committee and to file a report regarding the program and its deficiencies and/or
accomplishments on or before September 1, 1985, and annually each year thereafter.
Issued in Austin, Texas, on August 2, 1984.
TRD-849269
Governor of Texas
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TexReg 4902
September 18, 1984
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