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                                                                  H.R. No. 1798


R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has received the 2004 Texas State Agency Safety Excellence Award for its efforts to improve and maintain agency safety; and WHEREAS, This prestigious award is presented to the state agency that has shown the most improvement in increasing safety awareness among its personnel and that has demonstrated a commitment to improving work environments, equipment, materials, operations, and all other facets of workplace safety; and WHEREAS, To be nominated for this award, the agency must first earn the Texas State Agency Safety Gold Award, which is presented to those state agencies that have shown a decrease in injury frequency rate of 50 percent or more in comparison to the agency's five-year injury frequency rate average; and WHEREAS, Through the development of programs that focus on the health and safety of employees who work at the agency, the administrators at the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation have addressed the issues of injury and accidents at their agency; and WHEREAS, Executive Director William Kuntz, Jr., and Steven Wilkins, agency risk manager, have played key roles in encouraging employee involvement in safety issues to ensure the promotion of safety throughout the agency; and WHEREAS, Receiving the Texas State Agency Safety Excellence Award rewards the hard work and dedication of agency personnel, and it is most appropriate to recognize the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and its staff at this time; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 79th Texas Legislature hereby congratulate the administration and staff of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on receiving the 2004 Texas State Agency Safety Excellence Award and extend best wishes to those individuals associated with this fine agency. Giddings 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 Straus Dukes King of Parker Swinford Dunnam King of Zavala Talton Dutton Kolkhorst Taylor Edwards Krusee Thompson Eiland Kuempel Truitt Eissler Laney Turner Elkins Laubenberg Uresti Escobar Leibowitz Van Arsdale Farabee Luna Veasey Farrar Madden Villarreal Flores Martinez Vo Flynn Martinez Fischer West Frost McCall Wong Gallego McClendon Woolley Gattis McReynolds Zedler ______________________________ Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 1798 was adopted by the House on May 24, 2005, by a non-record vote. ______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House