By:  Turner                                      S.R. No. 925
    1-1                           SENATE RESOLUTION
    1-2        WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas takes great
    1-3  pleasure in congratulating the students graduating from
    1-4  Georgetown's Northside Middle School who have completed the
    1-5  Drug Abuse Resistance Education program; and
    1-6        WHEREAS, The D.A.R.E. program originated in Los Angeles
    1-7  in 1983, where it was a joint project of the Los Angeles Police
    1-8  Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District; and
    1-9        WHEREAS, Introduced in Williamson County in a limited
   1-10  way during the 1987-1988 school year, the D.A.R.E. program has
   1-11  pleased parents, students, educators, and law enforcement
   1-12  officials; and
   1-13        WHEREAS, The D.A.R.E. approach is different and effective
   1-14  because it teaches children how to refuse drugs and alcohol and
   1-15  still maintain their self-image in the face of peer pressure; and
   1-16        WHEREAS, Project D.A.R.E. focuses attention on students
   1-17  who are in their senior year in elementary school, usually fifth
   1-18  or sixth graders; young people this age have not yet been to
   1-19  middle school and faced situations in which they are forced,
   1-20  usually for the first time, to make decisions that could affect
   1-21  their health and their lives forever; and
   1-22        WHEREAS, Parents and teachers are very proud of the students
   1-23  who have completed the D.A.R.E. program; these superb students have
    2-1  brought honor to themselves, their families, and their community
    2-2  and are truly worthy of legislative recognition; now, therefore, be
    2-3  it
    2-4        RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas,
    2-5  73rd Legislature, hereby commend and applaud the students graduating
    2-6  from Georgetown's Northside Middle School who have completed the
    2-7  D.A.R.E. program; and, be it further
    2-8        RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for
    2-9  these outstanding young people as an expression of great admiration
   2-10  from the Texas Senate.
   2-11                                 _____________________________________
   2-12                                        President of the Senate
   2-13                                      I hereby certify that the
   2-14                                 above Resolution was adopted by
   2-15                                 the Senate on May 13, 1993.
   2-16                                 _____________________________________
   2-17                                        Secretary of the Senate
   2-18                                 _____________________________________
   2-19                                         Member, Texas Senate