Bill Text: TX HCR36 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Urging Congress to ensure that the survivors and surviving families of the Sutherland Springs mass shooting receive compensation equivalent to the relief provided to those impacted by similar incidents.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-17 - Signed by the Governor [HCR36 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HCR36-Enrolled.html
| H.C.R. No. 36 | ||
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| WHEREAS, The 2017 mass shooting in Sutherland Springs | ||
| continues to exact a heavy toll on survivors, their loved ones, and | ||
| the families of the slain; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In the attack, 26 Texans were killed and 20 more were | ||
| wounded; today, survivors still struggle with impairments and | ||
| endure physical and emotional pain; injuries require ongoing care, | ||
| therapy, and psychological treatment, leaving families burdened by | ||
| medical expenses even as they adapt to lost income and earning | ||
| capacity; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The United States government has thus far failed to | ||
| extend the same level of support it has provided in the wake of | ||
| similar horrific incidents; it agreed to pay $88 million to the | ||
| families of nine people shot dead at Emanuel AME Church in | ||
| Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, and it offered $127.5 million | ||
| to the families of those killed in the 2018 shooting at Marjory | ||
| Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In the years to come, the aftereffects of the | ||
| Sutherland Springs shooting will remain a source of tremendous | ||
| suffering and hardship in the lives of those who survived, their | ||
| families, and the families of those who perished; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Their suffering and hardship deserves equitable | ||
| requital to their peers; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby urge the United States Congress to ensure that the survivors | ||
| and surviving families of the Sutherland Springs mass shooting | ||
| receive compensation equivalent to the relief provided to those | ||
| impacted by similar incidents; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
| members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
| this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
| memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
| Guillen | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.C.R. No. 36 was adopted by the House on April | ||
| 20, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.C.R. No. 36 was adopted by the Senate on May | ||
| 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
