Bill Text: TX HR105 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Commemorating the 46th anniversary of Mickey Leland being sworn in as a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-21 - Reported enrolled [HR105 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR105-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Commemorating the 46th anniversary of Mickey Leland being sworn in as a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-21 - Reported enrolled [HR105 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR105-Introduced.html
86R7557 BPG-D | ||
By: Reynolds | H.R. No. 105 |
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WHEREAS, The year 2019 marks the 46th anniversary of the year | ||
the Honorable Mickey Leland was sworn in as a member of the Texas | ||
House of Representatives; and | ||
WHEREAS, Born in Lubbock in 1944, George Thomas "Mickey" | ||
Leland III grew up in Houston's Fifth Ward and earned his bachelor's | ||
degree in pharmacy at Texas Southern University; while working as | ||
an instructor of clinical pharmacy at his alma mater, he developed | ||
an educational outreach campaign offering medical screenings to | ||
low-income residents; and | ||
WHEREAS, Congressman Leland was only 28 when he won election | ||
to the Texas House of Representatives from District 88, then | ||
located in Harris County; he quickly gained renown as a champion of | ||
health care for the poor, and he helped secure passage of | ||
legislation giving those in need access to affordable generic | ||
drugs; a member of numerous committees, he became the first African | ||
American to serve on the Senate-House Conference Committee as a | ||
member of the House Appropriations Committee, and he was vice chair | ||
of the Joint Committee on Prison Reform; and | ||
WHEREAS, In 1978, following three terms in the Texas | ||
Legislature, Congressman Leland was elected to the United States | ||
House of Representatives; he founded the House Select Committee on | ||
Hunger and helped establish the National Commission on AIDS; in | ||
addition, he secured passage of bills providing fresh produce to | ||
low-income families and medical clinics and food to the homeless; | ||
he also served as chair of the Black Caucus, and he won praise from | ||
the State Department for his successful efforts in arranging the | ||
release of four Americans imprisoned in Cuba; tragically, he lost | ||
his life in a plane crash in 1989, while leading a relief mission to | ||
a refugee camp in Ethiopia; his contributions have since continued | ||
to resonate, and over the years, a number of facilities and | ||
initiatives have been renamed in his honor, among them a federal | ||
building in Houston, the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
Quality's Internship Program, and the Mickey Leland College | ||
Preparatory Academy for Young Men; moreover, the Barbara | ||
Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern | ||
University celebrates the contributions of these two | ||
groundbreaking representatives from the 18th Congressional | ||
District; and | ||
WHEREAS, Mickey Leland demonstrated a tremendous commitment | ||
to his fellow Texans and to vulnerable people the world over, and | ||
his legacy remains a source of inspiration to all; now, therefore, | ||
be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby commemorate the 46th anniversary of Mickey | ||
Leland being sworn in as a member of the Texas House of | ||
Representatives. |