R E S O L U T I O N 1-1 WHEREAS, Billy Hamilton, deputy comptroller of public 1-2 accounts, has had a long and distinguished career that has spanned 1-3 three decades and three Texas comptrollers: Bob Bullock, John 1-4 Sharp, and Carole Keeton Rylander; and 1-5 WHEREAS, For nine years, Mr. Hamilton has demonstrated his 1-6 outstanding leadership skills as deputy comptroller, and for his 1-7 exemplary work he was given the Administrator of the Year Award by 1-8 the Texas State Agency Business Administrators Association; he has 1-9 also served as executive director for the Select Committee on Tax 1-10 Equity and as chief revenue estimator of Texas, and he survived the 1-11 tax reform of the 75th Texas Legislature; and 1-12 WHEREAS, This esteemed gentleman organized and managed the 1-13 nationally recognized Texas Performance Reviews of 1991, 1993, 1-14 1994, and 1996, identifying a combined total of more than $11.5 1-15 billion in potential savings while ensuring numerous improvements 1-16 in the performance of state government; and 1-17 WHEREAS, Mr. Hamilton designed, planned, and directed the 1-18 Texas Information Technology (IT) Academy, a collaborative effort 1-19 between state government agencies and the private sector to help 1-20 the state recruit, train, and retain IT workers while also 1-21 expanding the private IT labor pool in Texas; moreover, he created 1-22 the Agency's Renaissance Project: Rethinking the Way We Do 1-23 Business, invoking a new period of employee creativity, 1-24 inventiveness, and innovation to improve service to citizens of 2-1 Texas, and this project has now expanded to include the annual Idea 2-2 Fair; and 2-3 WHEREAS, Recognized for his expertise in tax administration 2-4 and financial management, Mr. Hamilton is the past president and 2-5 current board member of the National Tax Association and the 2-6 National Federation of Tax Administrators; he was the first 2-7 recipient of the Bob Bullock Award for Public Stewardship presented 2-8 by the Government Technology Conference; and 2-9 WHEREAS, This McGregor, Texas, native graduated from The 2-10 University of Texas at Austin with highest honors and the Lyndon B. 2-11 Johnson School of Public Affairs, and the LBJ School presented him 2-12 its first Distinguished Alumni Award; Mr. Hamilton is a devoted 2-13 husband and father, and he and his wife, Chris, have raised three 2-14 outstanding children: Kelly, Michael, and Mark; and 2-15 WHEREAS, Referencing the contributions of Billy Hamilton to 2-16 the State of Texas evokes an expression he is wont to use: "It's 2-17 like eating potato chips--or Krispy Kreme Doughnuts: Once you 2-18 start, it's hard to stop"; now, therefore, be it 2-19 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 77th Texas 2-20 Legislature hereby honor Billy Hamilton on the occasion of his 50th 2-21 birthday and extend to him sincere best wishes for continued 2-22 success and happiness in all his endeavors. Junell Laney Goodman Merritt Alexander Goolsby Miller Allen Gray Moreno of Harris Averitt Green Moreno of El Paso Bailey Grusendorf Morrison Berman Gutierrez Mowery Bonnen Haggerty Naishtat Bosse Hamric Najera Brimer Hardcastle Nixon Brown of Kaufman Hartnett Noriega Brown of Brazos Hawley Oliveira Burnam Heflin Olivo Callegari Hilbert Pickett Capelo Hilderbran Pitts Carter Hill Puente Chavez Hinojosa Ramsay Chisum Hochberg Rangel Christian Hodge Raymond Clark Homer Reyna of Bexar Coleman Hope Reyna of Dallas Cook Hopson Ritter Corte Howard Sadler Counts Hunter Salinas Crabb Hupp Seaman Craddick Isett Shields Crownover Janek Smith Danburg Jones of Lubbock Smithee Davis of Harris Jones of Bexar Solis Davis of Dallas Jones of Dallas Solomons Delisi Junell Swinford Denny Keel Talton Deshotel Keffer Telford Driver King of Parker Thompson Dukes King of Uvalde Tillery Dunnam Kitchen Truitt Dutton Kolkhorst Turner of Coleman Edwards Krusee Turner of Harris Ehrhardt Kuempel Uher Eiland Lewis of Tarrant Uresti Elkins Lewis of Orange Villarreal Ellis Longoria Walker Farabee Luna West Farrar McCall Williams Flores McClendon Wilson Gallego McReynolds Wise Garcia Madden Wohlgemuth George Marchant Wolens Geren Martinez Fischer Woolley Giddings Maxey Yarbrough Glaze Menendez Zbranek _______________________________ Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 725 was adopted by the House on April 9, 2001, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House