Bill Text: TX HR913 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Honoring Dr. Francis H. Wright Jr. of San Antonio for his service as chair of the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-05-24 - Reported enrolled [HR913 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HR913-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 913 | ||
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Francis H. Wright Jr. of San Antonio concluded | ||
| his noteworthy tenure as chair of the Chronic Kidney Disease Task | ||
| Force in December 2024; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Appointed to the task force by the governor in 2019, | ||
| Dr. Wright was named chair two years later; the team of experts | ||
| coordinates the implementation of the state's plan for the | ||
| prevention, early screening, diagnosis, and management of chronic | ||
| kidney disease, and it educates health care professionals as well; | ||
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| WHEREAS, Now retired, Dr. Wright worked tirelessly in behalf | ||
| of chronic kidney disease patients during more than four decades as | ||
| both a surgeon and advocate; he performed over 3,000 transplants, | ||
| and as medical director of Transplant Care Consultants, he | ||
| addressed such issues pertaining to care as quality, outcomes, and | ||
| access; prior to that role, he served as founding director of organ | ||
| transplantation as well as director of the Solid Organ Transplant | ||
| Program and of the Transplant Surgery Fellowship Program at the | ||
| Texas Transplant Institute on the campus of Methodist Specialty and | ||
| Transplant Hospital in San Antonio; in addition, he established and | ||
| directed the transplant program at Centennial Medical Center in | ||
| Nashville, Tennessee; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Dedicated to improving health care, Dr. Wright | ||
| helped to develop national transplant policy as a member of several | ||
| committees of the United Network for Organ Sharing, and he served as | ||
| president of both the South-Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation | ||
| and the American Foundation for Donation and Transplantation; he | ||
| further gave of his time and knowledge to boards and committees of | ||
| the State of Texas Kidney Foundation and the U.S. Renal Network 14; | ||
| his professional affiliations have included the American Society of | ||
| Transplant Surgeons and the International Transplantation Society, | ||
| among others; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Dr. Wright's research regarding organ transplant | ||
| topics appeared in numerous publications; a fellow of the American | ||
| College of Surgeons, he received his medical degree from The | ||
| University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and | ||
| completed an organ transplant fellowship at the University of Iowa | ||
| Hospitals in 1988 as a member of its surgery faculty; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Through his leadership and vision, Francis Wright | ||
| greatly advanced the important mission of the CKD Task Force, and | ||
| his contributions are indeed deserving of special recognition; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 89th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby honor Dr. Francis H. Wright Jr. for his service | ||
| as chair of the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force and extend to him | ||
| sincere best wishes for the future; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for Dr. Wright as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
| House of Representatives. | ||
| Guillen | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 913 was adopted by the House on May | ||
| 23, 2025, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
