Bill Text: TX HCR153 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Expressing support for the Green New Deal.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-15 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HCR153 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HCR153-Introduced.html
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| By: Reynolds | H.C.R. No. 153 | |
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| WHEREAS, The Green New Deal seeks to mobilize our nation's | ||
| unparalleled wealth, creativity, and human potential to address the | ||
| twin crises of climate change and worsening income inequality; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Like President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New | ||
| Deal, the Green New Deal recognizes that an existential challenge | ||
| requires bold action on a grand scale; it is designed to combat | ||
| climate change through a range of historic national projects that | ||
| modernize the economy while providing meaningful, high-paying jobs | ||
| for millions of Americans; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Fourth National Climate Assessment, released in | ||
| November 2018, warns that climate change presents mounting risks to | ||
| human health and safety, quality of life, and economic growth; | ||
| frequent extreme weather events and the disruption of average | ||
| climate conditions will exacerbate existing barriers to prosperity | ||
| caused by crumbling infrastructure, stressed ecosystems, and | ||
| economic inequality; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Communities, governments, and businesses are | ||
| working to reduce the dangers and costs associated with climate | ||
| change, but the National Climate Assessment found that mitigation | ||
| and adaptation efforts do not yet approach the scale necessary to | ||
| avert substantial damage over the coming decades; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Green New Deal establishes a number of vital | ||
| goals: achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, creating | ||
| millions of high-wage jobs, investing in 21st-century | ||
| infrastructure and industry, securing clean air and water, and | ||
| maintaining a healthy food supply; while the changing climate | ||
| threatens to exert a disproportionate negative impact on the most | ||
| vulnerable, the Green New Deal promotes justice and equity to | ||
| ensure broad avenues of opportunity for all members of society in | ||
| this time of upheaval; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Climate change is a looming threat to our nation and | ||
| the world, but the Green New Deal provides a framework to engage all | ||
| Americans in the mission of transforming our society through | ||
| investment in measures that support environmental sustainability | ||
| and create widely shared prosperity; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby express its support for the Green New Deal; and, be it | ||
| further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
| members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
| this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
| memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
