Bill Text: TX SR39 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Recognizing Senator Jane Nelson for her service as a Texas senator.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-10-05 - Reported enrolled [SR39 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SR39-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Recognizing Senator Jane Nelson for her service as a Texas senator.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-10-05 - Reported enrolled [SR39 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SR39-Introduced.html
2021S0566-3 09/27/21 | ||
By: Huffman, Whitmire | S.R. No. 39 |
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WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas takes great pride | ||
in paying tribute to Senator Jane Nelson for her 28 years of | ||
pioneering leadership and exceptional service on behalf of Texas | ||
citizens; and | ||
WHEREAS, A widely respected and much beloved public | ||
leader, Jane Nelson enjoyed careers as an educator and a | ||
businesswoman before her election to the legislature to | ||
represent Senate District 12; she has served the constituents of | ||
the district's counties with integrity and dedication for 10 | ||
consecutive terms, and she is bringing to a close her | ||
distinguished tenure as the longest-serving Republican senator; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Jane Nelson first began serving the citizens of | ||
Texas in 1988, when she was elected to serve as a member of the | ||
Texas State Board of Education; in 1992, she became the 10th | ||
woman and the third Republican woman to be elected to the Texas | ||
Senate; six years later, Senator Nelson became the first | ||
Republican woman to chair a Senate standing committee when she | ||
was appointed chair of the Committee on Health Services, and in | ||
2014, she became the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on | ||
Finance; she is ending her trailblazing career of legislative | ||
leadership after having written four state budgets; and | ||
WHEREAS, Senator Nelson's extensive list of legislative | ||
accomplishments includes establishing the Cancer Prevention and | ||
Research Institute of Texas, reforming medical liability, | ||
overhauling the foster care system, expanding access to mental | ||
health services, championing 30 pieces of legislation to combat | ||
sexual assault and domestic violence, and authoring and | ||
supporting numerous bills to the benefit of Texas teachers and | ||
students; she is held in high esteem by her colleagues for her | ||
professional expertise and bipartisan approach to policymaking, | ||
and she is well known for consistently honoring the | ||
accomplishments and celebratory milestones of her fellow | ||
legislators; and | ||
WHEREAS, Senator Nelson served as president pro tempore | ||
during the 78th Interim, and she was Governor for a Day in 2004; | ||
she has been honored by such institutions as the American Medical | ||
Association, the American Cancer Society, the Texas Association | ||
of Business, and the Texas Council on Family Violence; and | ||
WHEREAS, She has skillfully managed the duties of a | ||
senator and has taken care of the needs of her constituents while | ||
continuing to be a source of strength to her large and loving | ||
family; she is a devoted wife to J. Michael Nelson, and she is a | ||
loving mother to their five children and a doting grandmother to | ||
their 12 grandchildren; and | ||
WHEREAS, Jane Nelson has been a trusted voice for her North | ||
Texas community and a tireless advocate for women, children, | ||
veterans, and the elderly in Texas; she has shaped policy that | ||
has ensured government efficiency while improving the lives of | ||
all Texans, and her proud legacy of service will continue to | ||
benefit citizens long into the future; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 87th | ||
Legislature, 3rd Called Session, hereby honor Senator Jane | ||
Nelson for her many contributions to the State of Texas and for | ||
her outstanding service as a Texas senator; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for | ||
her as an expression of high esteem from the Texas Senate. |