H.R. No. 231R E S O L U T I O N WHEREAS, For nearly four decades, Community Action Agencies (CAAs) in Texas have provided vital services to the Lone Star State's most vulnerable citizens in an effort to help them combat poverty and become self-sufficient; and WHEREAS, Created under the Economic Opportunity Act signed into law by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964, CAAs may be found in 45 locations throughout the state, each of which is operated by a board of directors composed of elected officials, civic leaders, and low-income area residents; and WHEREAS, CAAs provide a wide range of services that have kept pace with the changing needs of society, encompassing day care for youth and adults, emergency food and clothing distribution, domestic violence and substance abuse prevention and treatment, literacy classes, employment training, small business development, and a host of other programs too numerous to mention; and WHEREAS, Living up to their motto, "Helping people. Changing lives," Community Action Agencies have made innumerable contributions to making Texas a better place in which to live, work, and raise a family; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 78th Texas Legislature heartily commend the administrators, employees, and supporters of Community Action Agencies in Texas for their exceptional efforts to improve the lives of all of the citizens of this state; and, be it further RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be prepared for the Texas Association of Community Action Agencies as an expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives. Naishtat Craddick Giddings Merritt Allen Goodman Miller Alonzo Goolsby Moreno of Harris Bailey Griggs Moreno of El Paso Baxter Grusendorf Morrison Berman Guillen Mowery Bohac Gutierrez Naishtat Bonnen Haggerty Nixon Branch Hamilton Noriega Brown of Kaufman Hamric Oliveira Brown of Brazos Hardcastle Olivo Burnam Harper-Brown Paxton Callegari Hartnett Pena Campbell Heflin Phillips Canales Hegar Pickett Capelo Hilderbran Pitts Casteel Hill Puente Castro Hochberg Quintanilla Chavez Hodge Raymond Chisum Homer Reyna Christian Hope Riddle Coleman Hopson Ritter Cook of Navarro Howard Rodriguez Cook of Colorado Hughes Rose Corte Hunter Seaman Crabb Hupp Smith of Tarrant Crownover Isett Smith of Harris Davis of Harris Jones of Lubbock Smithee Davis of Dallas Jones of Bexar Solis Dawson Jones of Dallas Solomons Delisi Keel Stick Denny Keffer of Dallas Swinford Deshotel Keffer of Eastland Talton Driver King Taylor Dukes Kolkhorst Telford Dunnam Krusee Thompson Dutton Kuempel Truitt Edwards Laney Turner Eiland Laubenberg Uresti Eissler Lewis Van Arsdale Elkins Luna Villarreal Ellis Mabry West Farabee Madden Wilson Farrar Marchant Wise Flores Martinez Fischer Wohlgemuth Flynn McCall Wolens Gallego McClendon Wong Garza McReynolds Woolley Gattis Menendez Zedler Geren Mercer ______________________________ Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 231 was adopted by the House on March 20, 2003, by a non-record vote. ______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House