Bill Text: OR HCR24 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Welcoming professional soccer team Portland Timbers.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-21 - Filed with Secretary of State. [HCR24 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HCR24-Enrolled.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                 House Concurrent Resolution 24

Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON RULES

  Whereas Oregon is now home to two professional athletic
franchises, with the Portland Timbers' home debut in Major League
Soccer on April 14, 2011; and
  Whereas the Portland Timbers represent the 18th soccer club in
North America to join Major League Soccer since the league was
founded in 1993; and
  Whereas the Portland Timbers started as a semiprofessional
soccer team in Portland, Oregon, in 1975 as part of the North
American Soccer league; and
  Whereas nearly 20 years after their last season in the North
American Soccer League, the Portland Timbers reclaimed Oregon as
their home and played nine seasons in the United Soccer Leagues;
and
  Whereas 2011 is the year when the Portland Timbers graduate
from second-tier soccer to among the elite in North America, as
the newest club to make up Major League Soccer; and
  Whereas April 2011 marks the beginning of a new era of
topflight soccer in the Rose City; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:

  That we, the members of the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly,
recognize, honor and celebrate April 14, 2011, as Portland
Timbers Day, welcoming Oregon's newest professional athletic
franchise and supporting their success and excellence both on and
off the soccer field.
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                                 Adopted by House April 13, 2011

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                                 Ramona Kenady Line, Chief Clerk
                                            of House

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                                  Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House

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                                 Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House

                                 Adopted by Senate June 13, 2011

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                                  Peter Courtney, President of
                                             Senate

Enrolled House Concurrent Resolution 24 (HCR 24-INTRO)     Page 1