H.R. No. 2818
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Successfully meeting the needs of the legislature
over the course of a 140-day regular session is a challenging task
taken on every two years by the staff of the legislative support
agencies, including the Texas Legislative Council; and
WHEREAS, Each odd-numbered year, legislators travel to the
Capitol from across the Lone Star State to represent their
constituents; helping them are the members of the council's
information systems division, whose skilled technical services
crew ensures that offices are equipped with needed PCs, printers,
and software; the division's Computer Support Center provides
training designed to serve everyone from the most technically adept
clients to those with little to no experience, and the division's
technical support staff and CSC operators lend their expertise over
the phone or dispatch one of the council computer consultants to an
office to provide assistance; others among the IS staff are at work
developing and supporting such custom network and web applications
as LMS, CMS, MSS, TLIS, TLO, and RedAppl to accomplish ever more
diverse tasks; and
WHEREAS, The hardworking attorneys, legal assistants,
editors, and support staff of the legal division help to craft
proposed bills and constitutional amendments, substitutes,
amendments, conference committee reports, and miscellaneous
drafts; the division's legal editing team also performs a dual role
by carrying out the engrossing and enrolling duties for the house;
and
WHEREAS, The research division of the TLC is composed of
policy issue researchers, statistical analysts, writers,
webmasters, mapmakers, and database specialists; during the
session, these staffers produced numerous senate and house
amendment and conference committee side-by-side analyses, bill
analyses for house committees, and policy, congratulatory, and
memorial resolutions; they also provided support for redistricting
and maintained Capweb and the Texas Redistricting websites; and
WHEREAS, Supporting the legal and research divisions in their
efforts to meet the needs of the legislature are members of the
TLC's document production staff; expertly producing and
distributing approximately 25,000 drafts, as well as over 9,000
house official printings and other documents this session are the
employees of the data transcription, graphics, proofreading, print
shop, document processing, and document distribution sections; and
WHEREAS, None of these achievements would be possible were it
not for the human resources department, whose personnel played a
vital role in helping to hire the 140 extra employees needed
agency-wide to handle the workload of the session, and the
administration staff, who keep all divisions running smoothly
during the session; and
WHEREAS, Council staff strive to bring to their duties
accuracy, creativity, knowledge, and technical expertise, and they
serve the legislature, and thereby the citizens of this state, to
the very best of their abilities; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas
Legislature hereby recognize the staff of the Texas Legislative
Council for their efforts in behalf of the legislative branch of
government and the Lone Star State; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for the staff of the council as an expression of high
regard by the Texas House of Representatives.
Geren
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 2818 was adopted by the House on May
30, 2011, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House