AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

 

S.C.R. 40 directs the State Preservation Board to acquire and place a portrait of Governor Rick Perry, the 47th Governor of the State of Texas, with the other portraits of governors of Texas in the Texas Capitol.

 

It is a time-honored custom that the portrait of each outgoing Governor of the State of Texas be hung in the Texas Capitol along with those of previous Texas governors.

 

The term of Governor Rick Perry, 47th Governor of the State of Texas, is drawing to a close.

 

RESOLVED

 

Resolved by the Senate of the State of Texas, the House of Representatives concurring, that the 84th Legislature direct that a suitable portrait of Governor Rick Perry be placed in an appropriate location in the Texas Capitol with the portraits of other governors of Texas; the portrait and the charge for such portrait may be made by an artist agreeable with Governor Perry, the lieutenant governor, the Chairman of the Committee on Administration of the Senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the Chairman of the House Administration Committee. Before the portrait is accepted and placed by the State Preservation Board, it shall have the approval of the lieutenant governor, the Chairman of the Committee on Administration of the Senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the Chairman of the House Administration Committee.

 

That a sufficient sum of money be provided through the Committee on Administration of the Senate and the House Administration Committee of the House of Representatives to pay the artist's charges for the portrait.