Bill Text: TX HR2818 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Honoring the staff of the Texas Legislative Council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-06 - Reported enrolled [HR2818 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HR2818-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 2818 |
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WHEREAS, Successfully meeting the needs of the legislature | ||
over the course of a 140-day regular session is a challenging task | ||
taken on every two years by the staff of the legislative support | ||
agencies, including the Texas Legislative Council; and | ||
WHEREAS, Each odd-numbered year, legislators travel to the | ||
Capitol from across the Lone Star State to represent their | ||
constituents; helping them are the members of the council's | ||
information systems division, whose skilled technical services | ||
crew ensures that offices are equipped with needed PCs, printers, | ||
and software; the division's Computer Support Center provides | ||
training designed to serve everyone from the most technically adept | ||
clients to those with little to no experience, and the division's | ||
technical support staff and CSC operators lend their expertise over | ||
the phone or dispatch one of the council computer consultants to an | ||
office to provide assistance; others among the IS staff are at work | ||
developing and supporting such custom network and web applications | ||
as LMS, CMS, MSS, TLIS, TLO, and RedAppl to accomplish ever more | ||
diverse tasks; and | ||
WHEREAS, The hardworking attorneys, legal assistants, | ||
editors, and support staff of the legal division help to craft | ||
proposed bills and constitutional amendments, substitutes, | ||
amendments, conference committee reports, and miscellaneous | ||
drafts; the division's legal editing team also performs a dual role | ||
by carrying out the engrossing and enrolling duties for the house; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, The research division of the TLC is composed of | ||
policy issue researchers, statistical analysts, writers, | ||
webmasters, mapmakers, and database specialists; during the | ||
session, these staffers produced numerous senate and house | ||
amendment and conference committee side-by-side analyses, bill | ||
analyses for house committees, and policy, congratulatory, and | ||
memorial resolutions; they also provided support for redistricting | ||
and maintained Capweb and the Texas Redistricting websites; and | ||
WHEREAS, Supporting the legal and research divisions in their | ||
efforts to meet the needs of the legislature are members of the | ||
TLC's document production staff; expertly producing and | ||
distributing approximately 25,000 drafts, as well as over 9,000 | ||
house official printings and other documents this session are the | ||
employees of the data transcription, graphics, proofreading, print | ||
shop, document processing, and document distribution sections; and | ||
WHEREAS, None of these achievements would be possible were it | ||
not for the human resources department, whose personnel played a | ||
vital role in helping to hire the 140 extra employees needed | ||
agency-wide to handle the workload of the session, and the | ||
administration staff, who keep all divisions running smoothly | ||
during the session; and | ||
WHEREAS, Council staff strive to bring to their duties | ||
accuracy, creativity, knowledge, and technical expertise, and they | ||
serve the legislature, and thereby the citizens of this state, to | ||
the very best of their abilities; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas | ||
Legislature hereby recognize the staff of the Texas Legislative | ||
Council for their efforts in behalf of the legislative branch of | ||
government and the Lone Star State; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for the staff of the council as an expression of high | ||
regard by the Texas House of Representatives. | ||
Geren | ||
______________________________ | ||
Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 2818 was adopted by the House on May | ||
30, 2011, by a non-record vote. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||