Bill Text: TX HCR80 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Petitioning Congress to provide funding for repairs to the Battleship Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-15 - Signed by the Governor [HCR80 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HCR80-Enrolled.html
H.C.R. No. 80 |
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WHEREAS, The famed Battleship Texas, which sits moored at the | ||
San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site under the care of the | ||
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, is a national treasure that | ||
played a prominent role in American successes in both World War I | ||
and World War II; and | ||
WHEREAS, The "Mighty T" was considered to be one of the most | ||
powerful weapons in the world when it was commissioned on March 12, | ||
1914; the ship saw action off the North African coast near Morocco, | ||
at Normandy on D-Day, and at Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the Pacific | ||
Theater before being decommissioned on April 21, 1948; suffering | ||
only one combat casualty in its many campaigns, the Texas earned the | ||
nickname the "Lucky Ship"; and | ||
WHEREAS, The Battleship Texas was a harbinger of America's | ||
rise as an industrialized nation on the verge of becoming a world | ||
power; in 1916, it became the first U.S. battleship to mount | ||
antiaircraft guns as well as the first to employ directors and | ||
range-keepers to control gunfire; other firsts followed, as the | ||
Texas became the first U.S. battleship to launch an airplane, in | ||
1919, and the first navy ship to be fitted for commercial radar, in | ||
1939; and | ||
WHEREAS, A National Historic Landmark and the flagship of the | ||
Texas Navy, the Battleship Texas is a living memorial to the brave | ||
men who served aboard it over the course of more than three decades; | ||
even in repose, it continues to play an important role in the lives | ||
of Texans and other Americans, and it is crucial that we preserve | ||
this vital link to our nation's past; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 84th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to | ||
provide federal funding for repairs to the Battleship Texas; 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 speaker of the House of | ||
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all 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. | ||
Peña | ||
Guillen | ||
Smith | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.C.R. No. 80 was adopted by the House on April | ||
30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.C.R. No. 80 was adopted by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |