Bill Text: TX HR912 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating Larry Feeler on being named the 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Odessa Chamber of Commerce.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-04-01 - Reported enrolled [HR912 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HR912-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 912 |
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WHEREAS, Larry Feeler, founder and CEO of WorkSTEPS, has been | ||
named the 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Odessa Chamber of | ||
Commerce; and | ||
WHEREAS, WorkSTEPS is a functional employee testing company | ||
with the goal of reducing work-related injuries, and their | ||
associated costs, for employers; using proprietary tests to | ||
determine the overall fitness of employment candidates to perform | ||
essential job functions, WorkSTEPS helps employers better match | ||
workers' strengths to their jobs in order to create a safer | ||
workplace; Mr. Feeler devised the tests as a solution to the rising | ||
workers' compensation claims that his father's pipeline | ||
construction company was facing; in the first year of testing his | ||
father's new employees, injuries and costs were reduced by more | ||
than 60 percent, and the company saved three quarters of a million | ||
dollars; Mr. Feeler formally incorporated WorkSTEPS in 1994; and | ||
WHEREAS, Since then, it has become one of the largest | ||
functional employee testing companies in the United States, | ||
administering tests through a network of more than 700 | ||
rehabilitation service providers; the company has expanded over the | ||
years to include post-injury testing programs, as well as other | ||
services to help corporations contain and control costs related to | ||
employment and work-related environments; WorkSTEPS is further | ||
distinguished by its fund-raising efforts in behalf of such | ||
nonprofit organizations as the March of Dimes, the National Amputee | ||
Golf Association, Mission of Hope Haiti, and Wounded Warriors; and | ||
WHEREAS, Mr. Feeler holds a degree from The University of | ||
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and, in addition to his success in | ||
the area of workplace health, he is a licensed physical therapist | ||
who owns one of the largest private practice physical therapy | ||
clinics in the country; and | ||
WHEREAS, Dynamic and creative entrepreneurs play a vital role | ||
in the future of Texas, and this award justly recognizes Larry | ||
Feeler's outstanding contributions to his community and beyond; | ||
now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas | ||
Legislature hereby congratulate Larry Feeler on being named the | ||
2011 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Odessa Chamber of Commerce and | ||
extend to him sincere best wishes for continued success and | ||
happiness; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for Mr. Feeler as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
House of Representatives. | ||
Lewis | ||
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Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 912 was adopted by the House on March | ||
30, 2011, by a non-record vote. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||