Because of the possibility that portions of these records
(specifically,
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reviewing photographic materials in
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On February 27, 1951, Texas Governor Allan Shivers appointed a Statewide Committee on Problems of Alcoholism, which he charged with making a study and submitting recommendations to deal with alcoholism as a disease.
As an outgrowth of this Statewide Committee, the Texas Committee on Alcoholism, Incorporated, was chartered on October 4, 1951 as a non-profit scientific, charitable and educational corporation; governed by a board of 26 directors, it was designed to help implement the plan requested by the Governor. Its first President, Joe C. Carrington, became the first chairman of the Texas Commission on Alcoholism in 1953, and several other members of the corporation became Commissioners.
In 1953, the 53rd Texas Legislature passed House Bill 559, which
created the Texas Commission on Alcoholism (Texas Revised Civil Statutes,
Article 5561c). The Commission was composed of six members, appointed by the
Governor to serve six-year terms; one member was required to be a physician,
and at least three members must
Despite the clear goals outlined for the Commission, the legislature had appropriated no funds for its operation, and the office closed after 18 months. Funds for alcoholic treatment were appropriated in 1955, but only for the Board of Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools, which was to expend those funds with the advice of the Texas Commission on Alcoholism. In 1957 the first legislative appropriation for the Commission itself was passed; the first Annual Report of the Commission soon followed.
In 1971 the Governor designated the Texas Commission on Alcoholism as the state agency which would comply with the federal Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-616, supplemented in 1974 by Public Law 93-282). This resulted in the first State Plan for Prevention, Treatment and Control of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (1971). To implement the State Plan--subsequently revised several times--the Texas Commission on Alcoholism designated one agency in each of 24 state planning regions as Regional Alcoholism Authorities. Six regional offices coordinate this network of services. Also in response to Public Law 91-616, a 34- to 50-member State Alcoholism Advisory Council was created to serve as voluntary advisors to the Texas Commission on Alcoholism.
In 1985, the agency was renamed the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, with its scope of concerns appropriately broadened (Senate Bill 601, 69th Legislature, Regular Session). The number of Commissioners was raised to nine, and in addition to their previous duties they assumed the duties of the drug abuse programs of the Texas Department of Community Affairs. In 1991, a compulsive gambling program was added.
In 1995, the commission was placed under a State Conservatorship
Board, which was required to report its recommendations to both houses of the
Texas Legislature no later than November 1, 1996. (The Texas Government Code,
Sections 2104.021-0.25, provides for conservatorship of state agencies when
there is a need to
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the agency contained four divisions: Administration, Education and Training, Rehabilitation/Industrial Program, and Field Services. By 1987 the agency employed a staff of more than 65 persons, organized into five divisions: Administration, Program Services, Program Compliance, Fiscal/Administrative Services, and Grants Management and Computer Systems. As of 2003, the agency was staffed by 198 employees, organized into the following units: Executive Branch, Demand Reduction Group, Legal, Communications/Public Information, Finance and Administration Branch, Programs Branch, and Licensing and Enforcement Branch (with Fiscal Compliance Division, Program Compliance Division, Licensing and Certification Division, and Investigations Division).
House Bill 2292 (78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003) merged twelve state health and human services agencies into five, officially abolishing the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and creating the new Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). This legislation transfers into this new department all of the powers and duties of the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, the Texas Department of Health, and the Texas Health Care Information Council, plus mental health community services and state hospital programs operated by the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. The new Department of State Health Services will begin consolidated (i.e., integrated) operations in spring/summer 2004.
These records include minutes and agenda of Commission meetings and advisory body meetings; files on a number of Commissioners, including photos; annual reports; other reports written to and from, and sponsored by the Commission; correspondence; programs, flyers, and certificates relating to annual institutes and conferences; newsletters and other publications; membership lists; organizational charts; speeches, news releases, newspaper clippings, a map; etc. They comprise records of the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and its predecessors (the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and the Statewide Committee on Problems of Alcoholism). Records date 1951-2003.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
These records are organized into eight series.
(Identify the item and cite the series), Records, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Tony Black, October 1989, June 1997
Lisa M. Hendricks, December 1997
Tony Black, October 2002, March 2003, March 2004
Accession numbers: 1989/072, 1989/111, 1997/044, 1997/102, 1997/103, 1997/104, 1997/105, 1997/106, 1997/107, 1998/254, 1999/058, 2000/052, 2001/049, 2002/024, 2003/090, 2003/136, 2004/023
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse on December 13, 1988; March 13, 1989; November 19, 1996; April 9, 1997; August 10, 1998; December 3, 1998; October 29, 1999; October 31, 2000; September 19, 2001; December 23, 2002; and September 29, 2003; and by the Texas Legislative Reference Library on March 24, 2003.
These records are copies of the minutes and agenda of meetings of the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and its predecessors, dating 1951 and 1953-2003. The one meeting of the Statewide Committee on Problems of Alcoholism (March 1951) contains both minutes and agenda, as do the meetings of the Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse from March 1991 through April 1997; all others are minutes only. The degree of detail contained in the minutes varies over the more than 50 years that the commission has been in operation, although most are fairly summary. They contain some attachments (e.g., resolutions, budgets, correspondence, texts of rules, advisory council bylaws, proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, etc.). Some agenda items were reports (e.g., chairman's report, executive director's report, reports on "Sobriety as an Option" Program, on Houston Recovery Campus Project, on Services for Problem and Compulsive Gambling, on Third Quarter Key Performance Measures, etc.). Other agenda items were updates (e.g., of Legislative Appropriation Requests, on the Criminal Justice Initiative, etc.). Still others detailed actions taken by the commission (e.g., on proposed rules/final adoption of rules, on committee appointments, on future funding issues, etc.). The minutes document the work of the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and its successor, the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
These records are arranged chronologically. There is some overlap between 1963 and 1985, since both sets of bound minutes may contain slight differences.
(Identify the item), Board meeting minutes and agenda, Records, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession numbers: 1989/072, 1997/102, 1998/254, 1999/058, 2000/052, 2001/049, 2002/024, 2003/090, 2003/136, 2004/023
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse on December 13, 1988; April 9, 1997; August 10, 1998; December 3, 1998; October 29, 1999; October 31, 2000; September 19, 2001; December 23, 2002; and September 29, 2003; and by the Texas Legislative Reference Library on March 24, 2003.
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Tony Black, October 1989, June 1997, October 2002, March 2003, March 2004
These records are copies of the minutes and agenda of meetings of advisory bodies to the Texas Commission on Alcoholism/Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, 1979-1996. These advisory bodies include the Audit Review Board (1979-1986); the Statewide Advisory Council (1985-1995); the Conservatorship Board (1995-1996); the Workgroup on Minority Concerns (1991), renamed the Multicultural Affairs Advisory Council (1991-1996); and the LCDC [Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor] Advisory Committee (1992-1995). Meetings of the Statewide Advisory Council and the Multicultural Affairs Advisory Council contain agenda as well as minutes; all others contain only minutes. The records do not include attachments or supporting documents.
The Statewide Advisory Council was created sometime after 1970, and was a 34- to 50-member body serving as voluntary advisors to the Texas Commission on Alcoholism.
In 1995, the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse was placed
under a State Conservatorship Board, which was required to report its
recommendations to both houses of the Texas Legislature no later than November
1, 1996. (The Texas Government Code, Sections 2104.021-0.25, provides for
conservatorship of state agencies when there is a need to
These records are arranged by board/council/committee, and therein chronologically.
(Identify the item), Advisory bodies minutes and agenda, Records, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession numbers: 1997/103, 1997/104, 1997/105, 1997/106, 1997/107
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse on April 9, 1997.
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Tony Black, June 1997
[no agenda]
[3 meetings]
[2 meetings]
[4 meetings]
[3 meetings]
Types of records include resumes and biographical sketches, letters of recommendation and support, letters of appointment, oaths of office, governors' appointment questionnaires, legislative resolutions, Commission resolutions, letters of resignation, newspaper clippings, speeches, reports, correspondence, and photos. This series consists of files for each of fifteen former members of the Texas Commission on Alcoholism, dating 1965-1987. The file contents vary.
These records are arranged alphabetically by the Commissioners' surnames.
(Identify the item), Commissioner files, Records, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession number: 1989/072
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse on December 13, 1988.
Because of the possibility that portions of these records fall under Public Information Act exceptions including, but not limited to, home addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, and personal family information of government employees and officials (V.T.C.A., Government Code, Section 552.117), an archivist must review these records before they can be accessed for research. The records may be requested for research under the provisions of the Public Information Act (V.T.C.A., Government Code, Chapter 552). The researcher may request an interview with an archivist or submit a request by mail, fax, or email including enough description and detail about the information requested to enable the archivist to accurately identify and locate the information requested. If our review reveals information that may be excepted by the Public Information Act, we are obligated to seek an open records decision from the Attorney General on whether the records can be released. The Public Information Act allows the Archives ten working days after receiving a request to make this determination. The Attorney General has 45 working days to render a decision. Alternately, the Archives can inform you of the nature of the potentially excepted information and if you agree, that information can be redacted or removed and you can access the remainder of the records.
Researchers are required to wear gloves provided by the Archives when reviewing photographic materials.
Tony Black, October 1989
This series consists of correspondence and reports, both bound and unbound, relating to the Texas Commission on Alcoholism. Overall date span is 1951-1976, 1978-1981, 1983-1985, 1987-1988. There are five groups of these documents: a Corporation Record for the Texas Committee on Alcoholism, Inc., 1951-1958, in a loose-leaf binder; included are copies of the charter, by-laws, membership register, meeting minutes, CPA audit, analyses of expenditures, statements of receipts, federal income tax returns, and correspondence; an unbroken series of annual reports of the Texas Commission on Alcoholism, 1958-1976; assorted loose reports, correspondence, speeches, news releases, 1951-1975; reports prepared by the Texas Commission on Alcoholism, 1968-1980; and reports prepared for or sponsored by the Texas Commission on Alcoholism, 1980-1988.
These records are arranged into five kinds of reports (the corporate record, annual reports, reports and correspondence, reports prepared by the commission, and reports sponsored by the commission), and chronologically within each kind.
(Identify the item), Reports and correspondence, Records, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession numbers: 1989/072, 1989/111
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse on December 13, 1988; and March 13, 1989.
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Tony Black, October 1989
This series consists of programs, flyers, certificates,
participant lists, and evaluation reports for the Annual Institutes on Alcohol
[and Drug] Studies, 1958-1985, and the youth prevention conferences, 1980-1985
(
These records are arranged into two kinds of records (the annual institutes and the youth prevention conferences), and chronologically within each kind.
(Identify the item), Institute and conference records, Records, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession number: 1989/072
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse on December 13, 1988.
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Tony Black, October 1989
This series consists of newsletters and journals produced by the
Texas Commission on Alcoholism:
These records are arranged chronologically.
(Identify the item), Publications, Records, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession number: 1989/072, 1997/044
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse on December 13, 1988; and November 19, 1996.
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Tony Black, October 1989
Lisa M. Hendricks, December 1997
(no. 10 missing)
(nos. 11 and 18 missing)
(nos. 22, 29, 31, and 35 missing)
This series contains organizational charts for the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, 1980-1987.
These records are arranged chronologically.
(Identify the item), Organizational charts, Records, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession number: 1989/072
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse on December 13, 1988.
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Tony Black, October 1989
This miscellaneous series contains the notarized charter for the Texas Committee on Alcoholism, Inc., 1951; loyalty oaths for members of the Texas Commission on Alcoholism, 1957; news clippings, 1964; and a map of facilities available for alcoholism programming in Texas, 1969.
These records are arranged chronologically.
(Identify the item), Other records, Records, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession number: 1989/072
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse on December 13, 1988.
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Tony Black, October 1989
[i.e. loyalty oaths]