R E S O L U T I O N 1-1 WHEREAS, On February 20, 2001, with more than 23 years of 1-2 outstanding service to the Lone Star State, Benny Mathis announced 1-3 his retirement as executive director of the Texas Structural Pest 1-4 Control Board; and 1-5 WHEREAS, Since joining the board as an investigator in 1978, 1-6 and subsequently being promoted to executive director in 1991, 1-7 Mr. Mathis has worked to implement regulations, policies, and 1-8 practices for the pest control industry that helped to establish 1-9 standards and criteria for Integrated Pest Management throughout 1-10 the state; and 1-11 WHEREAS, As president and longtime board member of the 1-12 Association of Structural Pest Control Regulatory Officials, this 1-13 esteemed Texan has been an emissary to Mexico and to other states 1-14 throughout the United States in his development of the Model 1-15 Technician Training Standards and the Model IPM plan; and 1-16 WHEREAS, He was instrumental in having the Texas Structural 1-17 Pest Control Board designated as the state agency that oversees 1-18 the federal project known as the "US and Mexico Pesticide 1-19 Information Exchange," a program that ensures cooperation between 1-20 the Mexican and U.S. border states on issues concerning pesticide 1-21 safety, scientific and technological information, and pesticide 1-22 registration, use, and removal; and 1-23 WHEREAS, Mr. Mathis has committed himself to facilitating the 1-24 flow of information among all those potentially affected by pest 2-1 control practices, including environmentalists, real estate agents, 2-2 building inspectors, contractors, consumers, businesspersons, and 2-3 industry members; and 2-4 WHEREAS, For more than two decades, this esteemed individual 2-5 has acted with integrity and foresight in promoting the profession 2-6 of structural pest control in Texas, and his many contributions to 2-7 this state and the pest control industry will not soon be 2-8 forgotten; now, therefore, be it 2-9 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 77th Texas 2-10 Legislature hereby congratulate Benny Mathis on the occasion of his 2-11 retirement from the Texas Structural Pest Control Board and extend 2-12 to him sincere best wishes for happiness and success in all of his 2-13 future endeavors; and, be it further 2-14 RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be 2-15 prepared for Mr. Mathis as an expression of high regard by the 2-16 Texas House of Representatives. Swinford 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. 922 was adopted by the House on May 2, 2001, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House