Texas 2021 - 87th Regular

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1		-	H.C.R. No. 5
	1	+	By: Cole, et al. (Senate Sponsor - West, Miles) H.C.R. No. 5
	2	+	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 2021;
	3	+	May 17, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
	4	+	Administration; May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following
	5	+	vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.)
	6	+	Click here to see the committee vote
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4	9		HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
5	10		WHEREAS, A towering figure in the Texas Legislature and the
6	11		United States Congress, Houston native Barbara Jordan blazed a
7	12		remarkable trail on the national stage for other women and people of
8	13		color; and
9	14		WHEREAS, Barbara Charline Jordan was born in 1936 and
10	15		graduated from Texas Southern University and Boston University
11	16		School of Law; in 1966, she became the first African American woman
12	17		elected to the Texas Senate, and she pushed through bills
13	18		establishing antidiscrimination clauses in business contracts, the
14	19		Texas Fair Employment Practices Commission, and the state's first
15	20		minimum wage law; recognizing her wisdom and skill, her peers chose
16	21		her as president pro tempore; and
17	22		WHEREAS, Barbara Jordan continued her work to advance social
18	23		progress after winning election to the U.S. House of
19	24		Representatives in 1972, when she became the first African American
20	25		woman from the Deep South to be elected to Congress; as a member of
21	26		the Judiciary Committee, she galvanized the nation during the
22	27		Watergate hearings, signaling the historic weight of the
23	28		proceedings as she thundered, "My faith in the Constitution is
24	29		whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be
25	30		an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the
26	31		destruction of the Constitution"; and
27	32		WHEREAS, Following her third term in the house, Congresswoman
28	33		Jordan retired from politics to take up the Lyndon Johnson Chair in
29	34		National Policy at The University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of
30	35		Public Affairs; she inspired the next generation of leaders by
31	36		teaching courses on intergovernmental relations, political values,
32	37		and ethics, and she served as ethics advisor to then-governor Ann
33	38		Richards; appointed chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration
34	39		Reform, she again emerged as a key supporter of the framers' intent
35	40		in 1994 when she powerfully decried a proposal to end the
36	41		constitutional provision of birthright citizenship; and
37	42		WHEREAS, Barbara Jordan passed away in 1996, but the
38	43		magisterial voice she lifted as a champion of the vulnerable and
39	44		disenfranchised and as a defender of the constitution continues to
40	45		resonate, and naming a new building in the Capitol Complex in her
41	46		honor would provide a fitting tribute to her enormous legacy; now,
42	47		therefore, be it
43	48		RESOLVED, That the 87th Legislature of the State of Texas
44	49		hereby direct the Texas Facilities Commission to name the building
45	50		being constructed on the east side of North Congress Avenue between
46	51		16th and 17th Streets the Barbara Jordan Building in recognition of
47	52		her contributions to our state and nation; and, be it further
48	53		RESOLVED, That the secretary of state forward an official
49	54		copy of this resolution to the chair and to the executive director
50	55		of the Texas Facilities Commission.
51		-	Cole Rose Cole Rose
52		-	Cole Rose
53		-	Turner of Tarrant Thierry Turner of Tarrant Thierry
54		-	Turner of Tarrant Thierry
55		-	Bowers Campos Bowers Campos
56		-	Bowers Campos
57		-	Collier Crockett Collier Crockett
58		-	Collier Crockett
59		-	Ellzey Gervin-Hawkins Ellzey Gervin-Hawkins
60		-	Ellzey Gervin-Hawkins
61		-	Goodwin A. Johnson of Harris Goodwin A. Johnson of Harris
62		-	Goodwin A. Johnson of Harris
63		-	Johnson of Dallas Lopez Johnson of Dallas Lopez
64		-	Johnson of Dallas Lopez
65		-	Minjarez Morales Shaw Minjarez Morales Shaw
66		-	Minjarez Morales Shaw
67		-	Morales of Harris Ordaz Perez Morales of Harris Ordaz Perez
68		-	Morales of Harris Ordaz Perez
69		-	Raymond Reynolds Raymond Reynolds
70		-	Raymond Reynolds
71		-	Rodriguez Rosenthal Rodriguez Rosenthal
72		-	Rodriguez Rosenthal
73		-	Turner of Dallas Turner of Dallas
74		-	Turner of Dallas
75		-	______________________________ ______________________________
76		-	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
77		-	I certify that H.C.R. No. 5 was adopted by the House on May
78		-	14, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 128, Nays 0, 1 present, not
79		-	voting.
80		-	______________________________
81		-	Chief Clerk of the House
82		-	I certify that H.C.R. No. 5 was adopted by the Senate on May
83		-	24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
84		-	______________________________
85		-	Secretary of the Senate
86		-	APPROVED: __________________
87		-	Date
88		-	__________________
89		-	Governor
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91		-	Cole Rose
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93		-	Turner of Tarrant Thierry
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95		-	Bowers Campos
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97		-	Collier Crockett
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99		-	Ellzey Gervin-Hawkins
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101		-	Goodwin A. Johnson of Harris
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103		-	Johnson of Dallas Lopez
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105		-	Minjarez Morales Shaw
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107		-	Morales of Harris Ordaz Perez
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109		-	Raymond Reynolds
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111		-	Rodriguez Rosenthal
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113		-	Turner of Dallas
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