Bill Text: TX HCR86 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: Expressing support for the strengthening of our partnership with Taiwan and for the expansion of Taiwan's role on the global stage.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Signed by the Governor [HCR86 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HCR86-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Expressing support for the strengthening of our partnership with Taiwan and for the expansion of Taiwan's role on the global stage.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Signed by the Governor [HCR86 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HCR86-Comm_Sub.html
By: Jetton (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) | H.C.R. No. 86 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2023; | ||
May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 10, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 10, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE VOTE | ||
YeaNayAbsentPNV | ||
HughesX | ||
PaxtonX | ||
BettencourtX | ||
BirdwellX | ||
LaMantiaX | ||
MenéndezX | ||
MiddletonX | ||
ParkerX | ||
PerryX | ||
SchwertnerX | ||
ZaffiriniX | ||
|
||
WHEREAS, The longstanding bonds of friendship between the | ||
United States and Taiwan, embodied in the Taiwan Relations Act of | ||
1979, continue to yield important economic, social, strategic, and | ||
cultural benefits; and | ||
WHEREAS, Taiwan ranks as the United States' ninth largest | ||
trading partner, and bilateral trade reached $114 billion in 2021; | ||
that same year, Taiwan was the sixth largest export market for U.S. | ||
agricultural products; the robust U.S.-Taiwan trade and investment | ||
partnership provides a solid foundation for a mutually beneficial | ||
bilateral trade agreement (BTA) to spur job creation, further | ||
expand the global market, and secure international supply chains; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Taiwan is committed to helping address global | ||
challenges, from humanitarian crises to nontraditional security | ||
threats; moreover, the country has emerged as an important partner | ||
in pandemic prevention, bolstering unprecedented international | ||
support for Taiwan's bid to participate in the World Health | ||
Assembly (WHA); and | ||
WHEREAS, Taiwanese officials and civil society groups | ||
partner with the United States on a range of issues to promote our | ||
common values of freedom, democracy, and human rights; these | ||
partnerships build on the cooperative tradition of prior | ||
initiatives, such as the Global Cooperation and Training Framework | ||
(GCTF), which advances Taiwanese leadership in such arenas as | ||
democratization, human rights, women's empowerment, and public | ||
health; and | ||
WHEREAS, Since 1988, Texas and Taiwan have maintained a | ||
sister-state relationship, and they enjoy particularly close | ||
economic ties; Taiwan is Texas' 10th largest overseas market, and | ||
Texas exported over $7.69 billion in goods and services to Taiwan in | ||
2020; the establishment of a Texas Trade and Investment Office in | ||
Taiwan could enhance the participation of small- and medium-sized | ||
enterprises in trade and investment and advance sister-state ties | ||
between Texas and Taiwan; and | ||
WHEREAS, Texas and the United States have benefited | ||
immeasurably through decades of unwavering friendship with Taiwan, | ||
and the wider world is sure to reap tremendous rewards as Taiwan | ||
works to enhance its presence in the international community; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby express its support for the strengthening of our partnership | ||
with Taiwan and for the expansion of Taiwan's role on the global | ||
stage; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives and Senate | ||
hereby: | ||
(a) express support for a bilateral trade agreement between | ||
the United States and Taiwan; | ||
(b) express support for Taiwan's meaningful participation | ||
in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, the World | ||
Health Assembly, the International Civil Aviation Organization, | ||
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and | ||
other organizations; | ||
(c) express support for a Texas Trade and Investment Office | ||
in Taiwan; and | ||
(d) celebrate the 44th anniversary of the enactment of the | ||
Taiwan Relations Act and the 35th anniversary of the sister-state | ||
relationship between the State of Texas and Taiwan; and, be it | ||
further | ||
RESOLVED, That official copies of this resolution be prepared | ||
for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston as an | ||
expression of the sentiment of the Texas House of Representatives | ||
and Senate. | ||
Expressing support for the strengthening of our partnership with | ||
Taiwan and for the expansion of Taiwan's role on the global stage. | ||
* * * * * |