Bill Text: TX SR220 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Commemorating the 46th anniversary of the year Mickey Leland was sworn in as a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-19 - Reported enrolled [SR220 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SR220-Enrolled.html
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| WHEREAS, The year 2019 marks the 46th anniversary of the | ||
| year the Honorable Mickey Leland was sworn in as a member of the | ||
| Texas House of Representatives; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Born in Lubbock in 1944, George Thomas "Mickey" | ||
| Leland III grew up in Houston's Fifth Ward and earned his | ||
| bachelor's degree in pharmacy at Texas Southern University; | ||
| while working as an instructor of clinical pharmacy at his alma | ||
| mater, he developed an educational outreach campaign offering | ||
| medical screenings to low-income residents; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Congressman Leland was only 28 when he won | ||
| election to the Texas House of Representatives from District 88, | ||
| then located in Harris County; he quickly gained renown as a | ||
| champion of health care for the poor, and he helped secure | ||
| passage of legislation giving those in need access to affordable | ||
| generic drugs; a member of numerous committees, he became the | ||
| first African American to serve on the Senate-House Conference | ||
| Committee as a member of the House Appropriations Committee, and | ||
| he was vice chair of the Joint Committee on Prison Reform; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In 1978, following three terms in the Texas | ||
| Legislature, Congressman Leland was elected to the United States | ||
| House of Representatives; he founded the House Select Committee on | ||
| Hunger and helped establish the National Commission on AIDS; in | ||
| addition, he secured passage of bills providing fresh produce to | ||
| low-income families and medical clinics and food to the homeless; | ||
| he also served as chair of the Black Caucus, and he won praise from | ||
| the State Department for his successful efforts in arranging the | ||
| release of four Americans imprisoned in Cuba; tragically, he lost | ||
| his life in a plane crash in 1989, while leading a relief mission to | ||
| a refugee camp in Ethiopia; his contributions have since continued | ||
| to resonate, and over the years, a number of facilities and | ||
| initiatives have been renamed in his honor, among them a federal | ||
| building in Houston, the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
| Quality's Internship Program, and the Mickey Leland College | ||
| Preparatory Academy for Young Men; moreover, the Barbara | ||
| Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern | ||
| University celebrates the contributions of these two | ||
| groundbreaking representatives from the 18th Congressional | ||
| District; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Mickey Leland demonstrated a tremendous commitment | ||
| to his fellow Texans and to vulnerable people the world over, and | ||
| his legacy remains a source of inspiration to all; now, therefore, | ||
| be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 86th | ||
| Legislature, hereby commemorate the 46th anniversary of Mickey | ||
| LelandbeingsworninasamemberoftheTexasHouse | ||
| of Representatives. | ||
| Miles | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on February 19, 2019. | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Member, Texas Senate | ||
