Bill Text: TX HR2072 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating Colonel Craig Hunter on his retirement as director of law enforcement for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Reported enrolled [HR2072 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR2072-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 2072 |
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WHEREAS, Colonel Craig Hunter is retiring as director of law | ||
enforcement for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department on August | ||
31, 2017, concluding an exemplary career with the agency that has | ||
spanned 33 years; and | ||
WHEREAS, Joining the department as a game warden in | ||
Montgomery County in 1984, Craig Hunter brought to his position | ||
nine years of law enforcement experience at the city and county | ||
levels; he was one of the first to use a decoy deer to catch illegal | ||
night hunters, and his initial night of operations resulted in more | ||
than 100 convictions; in 1998, he became the first Texas game warden | ||
to graduate from the FBI National Academy; while rising steadily | ||
through the TPWD ranks, he supervised the Internal Affairs Unit and | ||
the Executive Protection Team, and from 2001 until 2013, he also | ||
served on Governor Rick Perry's Special Operations Group and on the | ||
Homeland Security Council; and | ||
WHEREAS, Colonel Hunter supervised Field Operations and the | ||
Special Operations Unit before being named director of law | ||
enforcement in 2012; over the course of his tenure, he has | ||
investigated or supervised hundreds of criminal investigations as | ||
well as several officer-involved shootings, and he played a key | ||
role in the management and supervision of the responses to many | ||
emergencies, among them the Jarrell tornado, the Space Shuttle | ||
Columbia disaster, and Hurricanes Rita and Ike; following Hurricane | ||
Katrina in 2005, he led a team of more than 100 game wardens to New | ||
Orleans, where they conducted over 5,000 rescues; he received the | ||
Lifetime Achievement Award from the 100 Club of Texas in 2010; and | ||
WHEREAS, Colonel Hunter holds a federal commission as an | ||
agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; he completed his | ||
master's degree in criminal justice at Texas A&M | ||
University--Central Texas, and since 2000, he has served as an | ||
adjunct professor for the U.S. Army at Fort Hood; and | ||
WHEREAS, Through his outstanding leadership and steadfast | ||
commitment to excellence, Colonel Hunter has greatly benefited his | ||
fellow citizens in the Lone Star State and beyond, and he may indeed | ||
take pride in his long and impressive record of achievement; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 85th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby congratulate Colonel Craig Hunter on his | ||
retirement as director of law enforcement for the Texas Parks and | ||
Wildlife Department and extend to him sincere best wishes for the | ||
future; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for Colonel Hunter as an expression of high regard by the | ||
Texas House of Representatives. | ||
Wilson | ||
______________________________ | ||
Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 2072 was adopted by the House on May | ||
25, 2017, by a non-record vote. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||