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                                                                S.C.R. No. 2  




SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
	WHEREAS, Created in 1999 to help state and local 
jurisdictions prepare for a national emergency, the Strategic 
National Stockpile is a repository of pharmaceuticals and medical 
supplies administered jointly by the United States Department of 
Homeland Security and United States Department of Health and Human 
Services; and
	WHEREAS, Currently, if an act of bioterrorism occurs within 
Mexico near the United States border, it is up to each United States 
border state, including Texas, to request and deploy the Strategic 
National Stockpile across the border to protect the citizens of the 
state; and
	WHEREAS, Procedures for deploying Strategic National 
Stockpile assets require the affected state governor's office to 
request deployment from the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention or the Department of Homeland Security; although the 
assets are transferred to state and local authorities once they 
arrive at the designated receiving and storage site in the affected 
state, the stockpile materials remain a federal asset; and
	WHEREAS, Deployment, which may include a mass antibiotic 
dispensing operation, requires substantial state and local 
resources to receive, secure, and distribute Strategic National 
Stockpile assets; staging and dispensing the assets in another 
country requires a coordinated, comprehensive approach that is best 
addressed by the federal government; and
	WHEREAS, The Homeland Security Act of 2002 charged the United 
States Department of Homeland Security with defining the goals and 
performance requirements of the Strategic National Stockpile 
program as well as managing the actual deployment of assets; 
critical to the success of this initiative is ensuring capacity at 
the federal level to respond to binational public health 
emergencies; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the 79th Legislature of the State of Texas 
hereby respectfully request the Congress of the United States to 
enact legislation to provide for federal deployment of the 
Strategic National Stockpile within Mexico, provided that the 
Mexican government approves said request pursuant to treaties and 
other agreements with the United States; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official 
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to 
the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the 
senate of the United States Congress, and to all the members of the 
Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this 
resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a 
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.

                                                                              





______________________________    ______________________________
President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.C.R. No. 2 was adopted by the Senate 
on March 31, 2005.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.C.R. No. 2 was adopted by the House 
on May 20, 2005. 




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


______________________________ 
            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor