Bill Text: TX SR220 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Commemorating the 46th anniversary of the year Mickey Leland was sworn in as a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-19 - Reported enrolled [SR220 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SR220-Enrolled.html
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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 Senate of the State of Texas, 86th | ||
Legislature, hereby commemorate the 46th anniversary of Mickey | ||
LelandbeingsworninasamemberoftheTexasHouse | ||
of Representatives. | ||
Miles | ||
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President of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that the | ||
above Resolution was adopted by | ||
the Senate on February 19, 2019. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
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Member, Texas Senate |