H.R. No. 728
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, The Laura Recovery Center Foundation is dedicated to
finding missing children, and the efforts of this worthwhile
organization are deserving of special legislative recognition; and
WHEREAS, The Laura Recovery Center was established in
response to the abduction of Laura Kate Smither on April 3, 1997,
near her home in Friendswood; an unprecedented relationship of
cooperation, now called the Triangle of Trust, developed between
Laura's family, the Friendswood Police Department, and the
community, as more than 6,000 volunteers tirelessly searched for
the 12-year-old girl, whose body was found 17 days later; and
WHEREAS, Emerging from this heart-wrenching experience was
the Laura Recovery Center Foundation, a beacon of hope and support
for other missing children and their families; the foundation works
to establish emergency preparedness action plans in every
community, fostering a Triangle of Trust among family members,
citizens, and law enforcement, and improving the response time
critical to recovering missing children; and
WHEREAS, The Laura Recovery Center Foundation provides
education to the public, offering the Laura Recovery Center Manual
to citizens faced with a missing child incident as well as tactical
support in the recovery effort; in the event that a child is
reported missing, the center helps to immediately establish a
mobile recovery center and then helps in the search; and
WHEREAS, A source of comfort and urgent assistance to the
family of a missing child, the Laura Recovery Center Foundation is
an admirable endeavor that benefits countless Texans in the most
difficult of times; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 78th Texas
Legislature hereby recognize and commend the organizers and staff
of the Laura Recovery Center Foundation and extend to them sincere
best wishes for success in the future; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for the Laura Recovery Center Foundation as an expression
of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives.
Taylor
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
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 728 was adopted by the House on April
10, 2003, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House