H.R. No. 6  


R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, The Honorable Rick Noriega, duly elected to serve as state representative for House District 145 for the 79th Legislature, is serving on active duty in the armed forces of the United States as a major in the Texas Army National Guard stationed in Afghanistan and under the terms of his activation will be on active duty for longer than 30 days; and WHEREAS, Representative Rick Noriega has taken the oath of office from an officer authorized by Texas law to give the oath and has begun serving his term as a member of the House of Representatives of the 79th Texas Legislature; and WHEREAS, Pursuant to Article XVI, Section 72, of the Texas Constitution, Representative Rick Noriega has selected Melissa Meisgeier Noriega to serve as temporary acting representative for House District 145; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 79th Texas Legislature hereby approves Representative Rick Noriega's selection of Melissa Meisgeier Noriega to serve as temporary acting representative for House District 145 for the shorter period of: (1) the term of Representative Rick Noriega's active military service; or (2) the term of office to which Representative Rick Noriega was elected; and, be it further RESOLVED, That Temporary Acting Representative Melissa Meisgeier Noriega has all the powers, privileges, and duties of the office and is entitled to the same compensation, payable in the same manner and from the same source, as Representative Rick Noriega, the member of the house whom she is temporarily replacing. Davis of Harris Craddick Geren Menendez Allen of Harris Giddings Merritt Allen of Dallas Gonzales Miller Alonzo Gonzalez Toureilles Moreno of Harris Anchia Goodman Moreno of El Paso Anderson Goolsby Morrison Bailey Griggs Mowery Baxter Grusendorf Naishtat Berman Guillen Nixon Blake Haggerty Noriega Bohac Hamilton Oliveira Bonnen Hamric Olivo Branch Hardcastle Orr Brown of Kaufman Harper-Brown Otto Brown of Brazos Hartnett Paxton Burnam Hegar Pena Callegari Herrero Phillips Campbell Hilderbran Pickett Casteel Hill Pitts Castro Hochberg Puente Chavez Hodge Quintanilla Chisum Homer Raymond Coleman Hope Reyna Cook of Navarro Hopson Riddle Cook of Colorado Howard Ritter Corte Hughes Rodriguez Crabb Hunter Rose Crownover Hupp Seaman Davis of Harris Isett Smith of Tarrant Davis of Dallas Jackson Smith of Harris Dawson Jones of Lubbock Smithee Delisi Jones of Dallas Solis Denny Keel Solomons Deshotel Keffer of Dallas Strama Driver Keffer of Eastland Swinford Dukes King of Parker Talton Dunnam King of Zavala Taylor Dutton Kolkhorst Thompson Edwards Krusee Truitt Eiland Kuempel Turner Eissler Laney Uresti Elkins Laubenberg Van Arsdale Escobar Leibowitz Veasey Farabee Luna Villarreal Farrar Madden Vo Flores Martinez West Flynn Martinez Fischer Wong Frost McCall Woolley Gallego McClendon Zedler Gattis McReynolds ______________________________ Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 6 was adopted by the House on January 11, 2005, by a non-record vote. ______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House