Bill Text: TX SR464 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing Laura Koerner for her service as mayor pro tem of Fair Oaks Ranch.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-04-28 - Reported enrolled [SR464 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SR464-Enrolled.html
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| WHEREAS, Laura Koerner is concluding her tenure on the | ||
| Fair Oaks Ranch City Council in May 2025, providing a fitting | ||
| opportunity to recognize her outstanding record of | ||
| achievement; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Ms. Koerner has served her fellow citizens with | ||
| distinction as an at-large member of the city council since 2017, | ||
| and she became the mayor pro tem in May 2021; she has further | ||
| contributed to Fair Oaks Ranch as president of the city's | ||
| Municipal Development District board of directors and as a member | ||
| of its communications and branding and emergency operations | ||
| committees; currently a member of Camino Real Republican Women, | ||
| she has served on the board of the Texas Federation of Republican | ||
| Women and as communications director of the Republican Party of | ||
| Bexar County; and | ||
| WHEREAS, A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Ms. Koerner was among | ||
| the first American women to serve on destroyers and aircraft | ||
| carriers; she was stationed as a nuclear surface warfare officer | ||
| onboard the USS Mahan and the USS Enterprise, and she earned two | ||
| Commendation Medals and an Achievement Medal; she has since | ||
| continued to support her fellow service members as chair of the | ||
| Texas Veterans Commission, as a member of the Texas State | ||
| Veterans Cemetery Committee, and as a blue and gold officer for | ||
| the U.S. Naval Academy; a project manager and engineer, she holds | ||
| a bachelor's degree in systems engineering from the U.S. Naval | ||
| Academy and a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the | ||
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as certification | ||
| as a nuclear propulsion plant operator from the Naval Nuclear | ||
| Power School; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Laura Koerner has demonstrated a longstanding | ||
| commitment to making Fair Oaks Ranch a better place for all, and | ||
| she has earned the lasting admiration and appreciation of her | ||
| fellow residents; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 89th | ||
| Legislature, hereby commend Laura Koerner for her exemplary | ||
| service as mayor pro tem of Fair Oaks Ranch and extend to her | ||
| sincere best wishes for the future; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this Resolution be | ||
| prepared for Ms. Koerner as an expression of high regard from the | ||
| Texas Senate. | ||
| Campbell | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on April 28, 2025. | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Member, Texas Senate | ||
