Bill Text: TX HCR26 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Authorizing the State Preservation Board, subject to state law and rules of the board, to approve the construction of a monument honoring victims of communism at the State Capitol Complex, at a site outside of the historic Capitol grounds.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Signed by the Governor [HCR26 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HCR26-Enrolled.html
| H.C.R. No. 26 | ||
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| WHEREAS, Throughout history, countless lives have been lost | ||
| to oppressive communist regimes; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In 2017, November 7 was designated as a national day | ||
| of remembrance for the victims of communism; the date commemorates | ||
| the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, when | ||
| the first communist regime, led by Vladimir Lenin, initiated | ||
| decades of oppression and violence around the world; despite | ||
| promises of equality and liberation, communist dictators such as | ||
| Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Nicolae Ceausescu, | ||
| Fidel and Raúl Castro, and the Kim dynasty of North Korea have | ||
| murdered vast numbers of people in genocidal purges, persecuted | ||
| others for speaking out, and suppressed freedom of thought, | ||
| cultural life, and self-determination movements in more than 40 | ||
| nations; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Based on the theories of Karl Marx, this political | ||
| ideology has been responsible for the deaths of more than 100 | ||
| million people, and it has subjected countless others to some of the | ||
| worst human rights abuses in history; as the bipartisan | ||
| U.S. Congressional Caucus for the Victims of Communism has stated, | ||
| "Marx's defenders often say he cannot be held accountable for what | ||
| communist regimes did long after his life and death, but Marxist | ||
| dictators who massacred their own people were applying communist | ||
| ideology to political practice"; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Under Chapter 443, Government Code, and rules of the | ||
| State Preservation Board, a portion of the north Capitol grounds is | ||
| available for new monuments, subject to legislative approval, | ||
| specified procedural requirements, the provision of funding from | ||
| private donors, conformity to certain size and design limitations | ||
| and parameters, and completion on a timely basis; and | ||
| WHEREAS, A memorial on the Capitol grounds would provide a | ||
| communal place for Texans to honor the legacies of those who lost | ||
| their lives to communism; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby authorize the State Preservation Board, subject to state law | ||
| and rules of the board, to approve the construction of a monument | ||
| honoring victims of communism at the State Capitol Complex, at a | ||
| site outside of the historic Capitol grounds; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward an | ||
| official copy of this resolution to the executive director of the | ||
| State Preservation Board. | ||
| Oliverson | ||
| Metcalf | ||
| Plesa | ||
| Garcia | ||
| Troxclair | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.C.R. No. 26 was adopted by the House on May | ||
| 9, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 3 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.C.R. No. 26 was adopted by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
