Bill Text: TX SR246 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing Apolonia Alvarez-Lozano for her participation in the Arc of Texas' Getting to the Heart of the Matter program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-02-14 - Reported enrolled [SR246 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SR246-Enrolled.html
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WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas is pleased to | ||
recognize Apolonia Alvarez-Lozano for her participation in the | ||
Arc of Texas' "Getting to the Heart of the Matter" program, which | ||
facilitates better understanding between lawmakers and | ||
constituents with intellectual and developmental disabilities; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Apolonia Alvarez-Lozano has worked for three | ||
years as a support services assistant at Volar Center for | ||
Independent Living, one of 37 centers in Texas; and | ||
WHEREAS, At Volar, she assists in finding accessible and | ||
affordable apartments in the community for persons with | ||
disabilities; she also assists persons in applying for Social | ||
Security benefits, Medicaid, Medicare, and attendant services, | ||
and she collaborates with the Texas Department of Assistive and | ||
Rehabilitative Services to help individuals interested in | ||
developing job and vocational skills; and | ||
WHEREAS, Additionally, she works with El Paso area schools | ||
to advise and mediate on behalf of children who need services | ||
that will allow them to learn and to live independently in the | ||
future; and | ||
WHEREAS, Apolonia Alvarez-Lozano serves on the board of | ||
the Area Network for Disabilities and Aging and has assisted the | ||
El Paso Police Department's Gang Diversion Unit in its work with | ||
children at risk of becoming gang members; she is involved with | ||
CHiRP, a program designed to provide summer jobs for youths with | ||
disabilities, and she also participates in the Local Advocacy | ||
Collaboration in El Paso, a group which assists, organizes, and | ||
trains advocates who work on behalf of persons with disabilities; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Apolonia Alvarez-Lozano participated in the | ||
"Getting to the Heart of the Matter" program, which paired El | ||
Paso policymakers with constituents with intellectual and | ||
developmental disabilities; and | ||
WHEREAS, As part of the program, she helped guide El Paso | ||
County Judge Veronica Escobar around El Paso via motorized | ||
runabout to experience the barriers that a person in a wheelchair | ||
faces on a daily basis; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 82nd | ||
Legislature, hereby commend Apolonia Alvarez-Lozano; and, be it | ||
further | ||
RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for | ||
her as an expression of esteem from the Texas Senate. | ||
Rodriguez | ||
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President of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that the | ||
above Resolution was adopted by | ||
the Senate on February 14, 2011. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
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Member, Texas Senate |