Bill Text: TX HR480 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Recognizing February 20 and 21, 2019, as Garland Chamber of Commerce Days at the State Capitol.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-22 - Reported enrolled [HR480 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR480-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Recognizing February 20 and 21, 2019, as Garland Chamber of Commerce Days at the State Capitol.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-22 - Reported enrolled [HR480 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR480-Introduced.html
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By: Button | H.R. No. 480 |
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WHEREAS, Members of the Garland Chamber of Commerce, together | ||
with their partners at the City of Garland and Garland Independent | ||
School District, are visiting the State Capitol on February 20 and | ||
21, 2019, and this occasion provides a welcome opportunity to pay | ||
tribute to these outstanding organizations and the city they serve; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, For more than 124 years, the chamber of commerce has | ||
worked to ensure the economic vitality of Garland; the city needed | ||
to broaden its economic base beyond agriculture in the mid-20th | ||
century, and the creation of municipally owned utility company | ||
Garland Power & Light provided the chamber with incentives | ||
necessary to recruit such companies as General Dynamics | ||
Corporation, Hatco Corporation, and Kraft Foods Group, Inc., which | ||
are among the nearly 400 manufacturing enterprises located in | ||
Garland today; and | ||
WHEREAS, The nationally recognized, five-star accredited | ||
Garland chamber is the creator of a variety of programs to support | ||
small businesses, manufacturing companies, retail firms, and the | ||
local education system, acting on the principle that success in | ||
each of these areas depends on success in all of them; Garland was | ||
the first chamber of commerce to host an office of the Small | ||
Business Development Center to provide free small business | ||
counseling, and it founded and maintains the Dallas County | ||
Manufacturers' Association, the Women's Business E-nitiative, and | ||
Leadership Garland; and | ||
WHEREAS, Garland has become the fifth-largest city in the | ||
Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and one of the fastest growing regions | ||
in the nation, home to nearly 240,000 residents and an exceptional | ||
school district, with eight Garland ISD campuses having been named | ||
National Blue Ribbon Schools a total of 13 times; the chamber, city, | ||
and school district, working together toward community | ||
sustainability, are also formal partners in the Garland Economic | ||
Development Partnership, which has been responsible for the | ||
creation and retention of more than 18,000 jobs and a $1.5 billion | ||
tax base in the city; and | ||
WHEREAS, Operating under the acronym PRIDE, for Passion, | ||
Respect, Integrity, Discipline, and Excellence, the Garland | ||
Chamber of Commerce lives up to its tagline, "The Connecting | ||
Source," and it is indeed deserving of recognition for the vital | ||
role it has played in this Lone Star success story; now, therefore, | ||
be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby recognize February 20 and 21, 2019, as Garland | ||
Chamber of Commerce Days at the State Capitol and extend to the | ||
visiting delegation sincere best wishes for a meaningful and | ||
memorable visit to Austin. |