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1	1	H.R. No. 2946
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4	4	R E S O L U T I O N
5	5	WHEREAS, Successfully meeting the needs of the legislature
6	6	over the course of a 140-day regular session is a challenging task
7	7	taken on every two years by the staff of the legislative support
8	8	agencies, including the Texas Legislative Council; and
9	9	WHEREAS, Each odd-numbered year, legislators travel to the
10	10	Capitol from across the Lone Star State to represent their
11	11	constituents, yet they must stay connected with the folks back home
12	12	throughout their tenure in Austin; helping them to maintain that
13	13	tie are the members of the council's information systems division,
14	14	whose skilled technical services crew ensures that offices are
15	15	equipped with needed PCs, printers, and software; before the
16	16	session even began, these personnel installed or relocated
17	17	equipment in 29 district offices and moved 129 Capitol offices; the
18	18	division's Computer Support Center provides training designed to
19	19	serve everyone from the most savvy client to those with little to no
20	20	experience, and the division's technical support staff and CSC
21	21	operators are standing by to help them all, ready to lend their
22	22	expertise over the phone or to dispatch one of the council computer
23	23	consultants to an office just in the nick of time; so far this
24	24	session, the staff has answered approximately 23,000 calls and
25	25	provided training to 93 percent more clients; others among the IS
26	26	staff are at work developing and supporting such custom network and
27	27	web applications as LMS, CMS, MSS, TLIS, and TLO to accomplish ever
28	28	more diverse tasks; and
29	29	WHEREAS, The hardworking attorneys, legal assistants,
30	30	editors, and support staff of the legal division are one by one
31	31	helping to craft the proposed laws of the Lone Star State; to that
32	32	end, legal staff members have produced some 10,600, or 32.5 percent
33	33	more, bills and constitutional amendments and approximately
34	34	12,800, or 21 percent more, amendments, substitutes, conference
35	35	committee reports, and miscellaneous drafts; greatly contributing
36	36	to the process are members of the division's legal editing team, who
37	37	not only work on each draft produced by the agency but also perform
38	38	a dual role by carrying out the engrossing and enrolling duties for
39	39	the house; in that capacity, they have engrossed more than 1,300 and
40	40	enrolled close to 560 house bills and constitutional amendments and
41	41	over 2,500 house concurrent and simple resolutions, with the bulk
42	42	of the end-of-session enrollment work still to come; and
43	43	WHEREAS, The research division of the TLC is composed of
44	44	policy and statistical analysts, writers, webmasters, mapmakers,
45	45	and database specialists; during the session, these multitasking
46	46	staffers have spent their time handling a 25 percent increase in
47	47	research, data, and map requests from the legislature and the
48	48	public while also producing more than 600 senate amendment and
49	49	conference committee side-by-side analyses in the waning days of
50	50	the session, some 4,650 bill analyses for house committees, and
51	51	approximately 4,700 policy, congratulatory, and memorial
52	52	resolutions; they also update election and geographic databases and
53	53	prepare other useful publications and develop websites to help new
54	54	members and staff; and
55	55	WHEREAS, Supporting the legal and research divisions in their
56	56	efforts to meet the needs of the legislature are members of the
57	57	TLC's document production staff; expertly producing approximately
58	58	25,000, or 13.6 percent more, legislative drafts, as well as over
59	59	11,000 house official printings and numerous other documents this
60	60	session are the employees of the data transcription, graphics,
61	61	proofreading, print shop, and final processing sections; also
62	62	central to the mix is the document distribution section, which
63	63	distributes more than 100,000 copies of bills and resolutions to
64	64	the legislative community and the public; and
65	65	WHEREAS, None of these achievements would be possible were it
66	66	not for the policy and planning division, whose personnel played a
67	67	vital role in helping to hire the 130 extra employees needed agency
68	68	wide to handle the workload of the session; and
69	69	WHEREAS, Tying it all together is the staff of the
70	70	administration division, whose invaluable contributions keep all
71	71	of the agency's divisions running smoothly during the session;
72	72	composed of the executive team and the accounting and purchasing
73	73	and staff services and facilities management personnel, the
74	74	administration division seamlessly maintains the overall
75	75	operations of the agency and manages the myriad everyday tasks
76	76	required to ensure TLC staff with the resources they need to get the
77	77	job done; and
78	78	WHEREAS, Council staff strive to bring to their duties
79	79	accuracy, creativity, knowledge, and technical expertise, and they
80	80	serve the legislature, and thereby the citizens of this state, to
81	81	the very best of their abilities; now, therefore, be it
82	82	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas
83	83	Legislature hereby recognize the staff of the Texas Legislative
84	84	Council for their efforts in behalf of the legislative branch of
85	85	government and the Lone Star State; and, be it further
86	86	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
87	87	prepared for the staff of the council as an expression of high
88	88	regard by the Texas House of Representatives.
89	89	Geren
90	90	______________________________
91	91	Speaker of the House
92	92	I certify that H.R. No. 2946 was adopted by the House on June
93	93	1, 2009, by a non-record vote.
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95	95	Chief Clerk of the House