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The twelve programs to be transferred are:
- Athletic Trainers
- Chemical Dependency Counselors
- Fitters and Dispensers of Hearing Instruments
- Laser Hair Removal
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Massage Therapists
- Midwives
- Orthotists and Prosthetists
- Professional Counselors
- Sanitarians
- Social Workers
- Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists
The Sunset Advisory Commission's May report highlighted our strengths and performance as clear reasons to transfer
the programs to TDLR:
- "TDLR has developed a strong record of administrative efficiency and effective regulation."
- "TDLR... provides a secure and knowledgeable agency structure to efficiently administer regulation..."
These are only a few of the positive comments about TDLR being the appropriate home for these programs. Once both
phases are complete, these programs will add an additional 100,000 licensees to TDLR's more than 650,000 licensees.
With approximately 1,000 people moving to Texas each day, this rapidly increasing population will require additional
housing, water resources, and consumer goods and services. TDLR's increased regulatory and enforcement efforts
must address the areas of air conditioning, electrical, towing and service contracts to ensure that Texans receive the
safety and consumer protection they deserve. Due to greater demand on available water supplies, TDLR's Water Well
Driller, Water Well Pump Installer and Weather Modification programs will continue to work closely with the Legislature,
property owners, water conservation districts, and other state agencies with water related programs. These partner-
ships will become even more critical as prolonged drought worsens. Partnering and working in collaboration with
individuals, industries and other government agencies makes TDLR more effective and demonstrates to the public,
our licensees and state leaders our commitment to serve them.
Description of Future Technological Needs
- The need for internal and external customers to stay current with ever-changing and evolving technologies presents
a challenge to the Information Technology staff. Leadership continues to make the hard decisions necessary to bal-
ance our customers' need for speed, efficiency, and effectiveness against our budgetary limits. Mobile devices and
the impact of a growing demand for mobile computing will further drive our software developers to create applica-
tions that will allow our customers to perform all needed services from their mobile devices.
- The use of Virtual Desktops allows us to move away from the conventional desktop to a computer with nominal
functions. Additional functionality is available when connected to a larger shared system that provides the full range
of networking, storage space and other computing functions.
- Web-based cloud services will continue to benefit the agency by offering a rapidly deployed, flexible environment at
an affordable cost.
- Virtual servers provide the ability to request and deploy new servers for development, testing, or production in a
secure, virtual environment that is much quicker than providing the same in a physical form factor.
- Switching from mailing to emailing notifications such as license renewals and enforcement case status updates
using the GovDelivery service.
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