By: Hancock S.C.R. No. 40
(In the Senate - Filed April 13, 2015; May 4, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
May 7, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
Nays 0; May 7, 2015, sent to printer.)
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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, It is a time-honored custom that the portrait of
each outgoing Governor of the State of Texas be hung in the Texas
Capitol along with those of previous Texas governors; and
WHEREAS, The term of Governor Rick Perry, 47th Governor of
the State of Texas, has drawn to a close; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, the House of
Representatives concurring, That the 84th Legislature direct that a
suitable portrait of Governor Rick Perry be placed in an
appropriate location in the Texas Capitol with the portraits of
other governors of Texas; the portrait and the charge for such
portrait may be made by an artist agreeable with Governor Perry, the
lieutenant governor, the Chairman of the Committee on
Administration of the Senate, the speaker of the house of
representatives, and the Chairman of the House Administration
Committee; before the portrait is accepted and placed by the State
Preservation Board, it shall have the approval of the lieutenant
governor, the Chairman of the Committee on Administration of the
Senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the
Chairman of the House Administration Committee; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That a sufficient sum of money be provided through
the Committee on Administration of the Senate and the House
Administration Committee of the House of Representatives to pay the
artist's charges for the portrait.
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