H.R. No. 3400
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, The staff of the Texas Legislative Council has
worked diligently to meet the needs of the legislature over the
course of this 140-day regular session; and
WHEREAS, Each odd-numbered year, when legislators travel to
the Capitol from across the Lone Star State to represent their
constituents, waiting to support them are the members of the
council's information systems division, whose technical services
crew ensures that offices are equipped with needed PCs, iPads,
printers, and software; the division provides training designed to
serve everyone from the most technically adept clients to those
with little to no experience, and its support staff lends its
expertise by phone or e-mail or in person to provide assistance;
other members of the IS staff develop and support custom network and
web applications to accomplish a diverse range of tasks; and
WHEREAS, Guided by innovative director Mark Humphrey, the
information systems division this session was staffed with vigilant
acumen by Osama Abdulhussain, Russell Anderson, Cody Armacher,
Harlan Bachmayer, Jeff Bane, Todd Beaubien, Justin Beger, Martha
Bodden, Jana Bone, Joe Borowski, David Branch, Armando Breceda Jr.,
Sally Brooks, Amabel Burgos, Joey Burgos, Antonio Bustos, Chris
Butruff, Jeb Callan, Paul Carter, Godwin Chang, Nicole Chargualaf,
Judy Chen, Hugo Cisneros, John Clark, Catherine Colhoun, Donnie
Collins, Kelvin Collins, Jim Conover, Stephen Cox, Amy Crandell,
Scott Culp, Michael Curtis, Sam Davenport, Joseph Davis, Linda
Davis, Russ Dean, Paul DeVooght, Joe Diana, Kris Doerr, Mona
Donaldson, Mark Drummond, Debbie Elliott, Philip Felux, Michael
Flores, Kevin Foley, Coby Fontenette, Marsha Foss-Krumrey, Keith
Foster, Stephanie Freng, Daniel Gaddis, Carlos Galvan, Mangal
Gangatirkar, Rebecca Garcia, Nathan Gauldin, Sasha German, Melissa
Godin, Ambrose Gonzales, Daniel Goodwin, Colin Gormley, Tom Graf,
Thomas Graser, Andrew Gray, Charnetha Grayson, Joel Griebel, Luis
Gutierrez, John Hagan, Charles Hare, Robert Harris, Kyle Harvey,
Christopher Helsel, Charles Henry, Carlos Hernandez, Crayton
Hickey, Roxann Hoffman, Janell Hopkins, Larry Hosek, Richard Huang,
Patrick Huey, Cecilia Hwang, Craig Johnson, Gregory Jones, Prabha
Kamath, Mark Kerr, Alex Kimball, Rick King, Renee Kingsland, Jay
Koog, Eric Lavagni, Christopher Leibas, David Lemons, Keith
Loggins, Scott Loiselle, Patrick MacGran, Philip Mannie, Daniel
Marquette, Derek Martinez, Michael Martinez, Pat McPhaul, Oscar
Mendez, Chad Miculek, Logan Mingus, Amaresh Mirwani, Thomas Moe,
Damian Moore, Robert Mullin, Daniel Nance, Brent Nations, Carol
Nemir, Kimberly Nichols, Isaac Paredes, Lee Parker, Jeremy Pehl,
Thomas Peirce, Jesse Perez, Linda Pittsford, Jason Plemons, Jeremy
Pope, Randall Post, Dwayne Powell, Howard Powell, Douglas Pyka,
Aaron Rainbolt, John Raney, Jason Saldana, Nicholas Saldana, Karin
Sanchez, Thomas Sennett, Mark Shaffer, Paul Shelton, Jennifer
Sherrill, Ryan Slaymaker, Andy Smith, Keith Smith, Amber Snyder,
Christopher Snyder, Thomas Southall, Doug Spaw, Gary Stockton,
Patricia Swiderski, Michael Talajkowski, Kevin Taylor, Garrett
Thomas, Greg Tingle, Darlene Tolen, Andrew Tovar, Sara Trinkle,
Will Tullos, Danny Turner, Steve Voukidis, Nancy Watkins, Craig
Whisenhunt, Joshua Wier, and Matthew Zappitello; and
WHEREAS, The 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, and provide legal
advice and analysis when called upon; the division's legal editing
team also performs a dual role by carrying out the engrossing and
enrolling duties for the house; and
WHEREAS, Led by its sagacious director Deborah Fulton, the
astute professionals of the legal division this session included
Angela Alexander, Susan Alexander, Rita Arneil, Kelley Atkinson,
Kristi Ayala, Stacy Bergendahl, Mike Black, Gabe Brake, Maria
Breitschopf, Shalyn Bridges, Natalie Brown, Trey Burke, Danae Bush,
Michael Caesar, Jennifer Carter, Jennifer Christen, Chris Clapham,
Jessica Connaughton, Nelissa Conners, Jessie Coulter, Colleen
Covington, Laura de la Garza, Matthew Diedrich, Kathy Dunham, Cathy
Eady, Amy Eastup, Kaylei Elworth, Krissie Farmer, Brett Ferguson,
Alyssa Flores, Cynthia Gonzalez, Krystal Hagan, Carolyn Hall, Dave
Bob Hanna, Bill Hanrahan, Shawn Harrison, Lauren Hislop, Eric
Hougland, Jennifer Jackson, Chris Johnson, Gary Kansteiner, Thomas
Kelly, Josh Krauter, Meera Krishnan, Mark Kuster, Jared Livingston,
Stephen Loomis, Kelly Lowe, Mike Marshall, Raeanne Martinez, Grant
McLoughlin, John Mistrot, Pam Moore, Adam Moses, Patty Otto, Anne
Peters, Taheera Randolph, Marsha Ratliff, Serena Reiser, Joe
Ritchick, Kristine Rodriguez, Sandra Salazar, Erin Smith, Jennifer
Stewart, Heather Strain, Drew Tedford, Jeff Thorne, Clare Townes,
Michele Trepagnier, Meaghan Walsh, Tisha Welch, Melanie
Westerberg, Mark Wimmer, and Allison Zaby; 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 produce 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 maintain Capweb and other useful websites;
and
WHEREAS, The research division is led by intrepid director
Patty McLeod and includes the dynamic staff of Ryan Allen, Sandra
Allen, Rick Antoine, Jason Bane, Mike Barnett, Ricardo Betancourt,
Lann Bolding, Kate Bulla, Randall Bush, Julie Calhoun, Carrie
Crisp, Ashley Crutchfield, Emma Currin, Nathan Darus, Nick De La
Garza, Jana Deardorff, Clare Dyer, Charles Eckstein, Tammy Edgerly,
Cindy Ellison, Carey Eskridge, Brooke Espinosa, Brett Finley, Peter
Gaskin, Parry Gettelman, Kurt Gore, Marla Grimes, Will Grimes,
Daniel Gutierrez, Jeff Hill, Kelley Hosek, Jim Hynes, Carl Keprta,
Brianne Klitgaard, Douglas Knauth, Pamela Lam-Yip, Rachel Lance,
Chandler Lewis, Juan Lewis-Zavala, Lynna Longaro, Chris Mattsson,
Jared May, Andrea Mayo, Charles McCarty, Barrett McPhaul, Dee
Mickelson, Logan Moore, Amy Mosley, Colleen Mullen, Robert
Nietupski, Caroline O'Meara, Ana Ortega-Villegas, Christopher
Overath, Kelly Parker, Aimee Perez, Abby Pfeiffer, Mark Priebe,
Katherine Raymond, Dushyanth Reddivari, Alejandra Rocha, Max
Romero, Kellie Smith, Mary Standifer, Rebekah Starnes, John Stubbe,
Eddie Torres, Patrick Tyler, Brent Urbach, Fernando Villagomez,
Lisa Weatherford, Camille Wheeler, Karen White, Robert White, and
Emily Yager; and
WHEREAS, Contributing to the council's efforts to serve the
legislature are the members of the TLC document production staff;
encompassing the data transcription, graphics, proofreading, print
shop, and document processing sections, this division produces and
distributes thousands of drafts, house official printings, and
other documents over the course of the session; and
WHEREAS, Guided by its resourceful director Janet Sullivan,
the indefatigable members of the document production division staff
include Dominic Aiello, Glenda Albertson, Annie Almanza, Bill
Anderson, Austin Anton, Ray Arrington, Ambar Atta, Marco Barajas,
Shane Beck, Brant Bingamon, Julie Bracken, Sarah Bradley, Jonathan
Brand, Ean Brown-Meacham, Jon Butler, Ricardo Caffarate, Marcus
Cardenas, John Cerkan, Charles Cheatham, Sarah Cheikho, Lei-Leen
Choo, Sung Chun, Jessica Cinque, Andrea Citrin-Gardner, Gerald
Clark, Kathy Clarkson, Jamie Cleary-Wedell, Matthew Cuellar,
Claire Davis, Kirsten Dean, Dana DeLassus, Lindsay DeWitt, James
Edwards, Judith Edwards, Bryan Estes, David Estlund, JoAnn Estrada,
Phyllis Evetts, Jennifer Fidler, Rebecca Freer, Angel Fuhre,
Raymond Gilford, Cisco Gilliland, Joe Glover, Gilbert Gonzales,
Veronica Gordon, Luis Guevara, Stan Hales, James M. Harbuck,
Carolina Hardigree, Kevin Hargis, Rory Harman, Jim Hein, Darlene
Herrera, Samantha Hill, Samantha Hoffman, Guy Holland, Eric
Holmgren, Kristopher Infante, Valli Irvine, Craig P. Johnson,
Gaynor Keprta, Clavdia Khairallah, Edward Kiaune, Edwin King, Ed
Kulczyk, Louisa Lee, William H. Legg, Annecy Liddell, Darrin
Little, Adriana Mahoney, Lucian Maloy, Carolyn May, Philip May,
Joseph Mayfield, Katy McElroy, Dakota McFarlin, Desaree McKinney,
Emily McPhaul, Diane Mendoza, Daniel Mingus, Shelby Monroe, Madison
Moody, Dennis Morgan, Eryn Moris, Landon O'Brien, John O'Neill,
Joel Ossar, Amy Padilla, Adrienne Pedrotti, Thomas L. Pendleton,
Javier Perez, Cindy Prosser, Megan Pulido, Claude Ramey, Andrea
Rangel, John Ratliff, Lorena Reyna, Brittany Robertson, Adam
Robinette, Lisa Robles, Belen Rodriguez, Holly Rodriguez, Steve
Rosok, Ruby Ruiz, Michael Rushing, Andrew Russell, Samuel
Salazar-Isaza, Miguel San Miguel, Robert Sandoz, Candy
SantaAna-Moncada, Patrick Schlicht, Jeffrey Seely, Rebecca Semik,
Joshua Sims, Joshua Sklar, Kristen Smith, Kaylee Stackhouse, Larry
Strub, Sabryna Sulak, Barry Tarlton, Haben Tesfamariam, Travis
Timmons, Janet Tjonakwie, Luke Torn, Kieu Tran, Perry Urbina,
Margaret Vilim, Lee Roy Walker, Philip Weaver, Diana Welch, Rachel
Welch, Marcus West, Hannah Williams, John Williams, Clint Wilson,
and Peter Woloszyn; and
WHEREAS, The council's diverse responsibilities are
coordinated and supported by the staff of the executive team and
administrative department, who keep all divisions running smoothly
during the session while also assisting with legislative drafting
and analysis; the council is ably overseen by its tireless
executive director Jeff Archer, with the indispensable aid of
general counsel Jon Heining and director of operations Kimberly
Shields; the steadfast administrative staff for the 84th session
included Anna Abraham, Jonathan Bronson, Maria Cami, Jermaine
Clark, Marilyn Dorsey, Curt Glover, Valencia Hadnot, Dana Haulotte,
Jan La Tour, Judy Laughlin, Bob Lott, Aaron Mahoney, Sabina Mills,
Claudia Newman, Craig O'Brien, Victoria Perales, Elena Powell,
Anessa Reese, Mathew Richardson, Jannice Smith, Lisa Tovar, Dennis
Williams, and Mary Wilson; and
WHEREAS, Council staff bring to their duties precision,
creativity, knowledge, and technical expertise, serving the
legislature and the citizens of this state with stamina and
resilience to the very best of their abilities; now, therefore, be
it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas
Legislature hereby recognize the staff of the Texas Legislative
Council for their work 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.
Márquez
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 3400 was adopted by the House on May
30, 2015, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House