Bill Text: TX HR1343 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass H.R. 412, designating the U.S. Post Office at 620 East Pecan Boulevard in McAllen as the Agent Raul H. Gonzalez Jr. Memorial Post Office.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Reported enrolled [HR1343 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR1343-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 1343 |
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WHEREAS, United States Representative Monica De La Cruz | ||
introduced a bipartisan bill, H.R. 412, on January 20, 2023, to | ||
designate the U.S. Post Office at 620 East Pecan Boulevard in | ||
McAllen as the Agent Raul H. Gonzalez Jr. Memorial Post Office; and | ||
WHEREAS, On December 7, 2022, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Raul | ||
H. Gonzalez of Edinburg was engaged in a high-speed chase when his | ||
ATV crashed; he was transported to a hospital but died of his | ||
injuries that day, at the age of 38, leaving two children, Sebastian | ||
and Camila Gonzalez, and a large extended family, as well as | ||
numerous bereaved colleagues; and | ||
WHEREAS, Agent Gonzalez was a graduate of Economedes High | ||
School in Edinburg and the Border Patrol Academy; deeply patriotic, | ||
he demonstrated great dedication over the course of a career that | ||
spanned more than a decade with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, | ||
which is within the Department of Homeland Security; he was | ||
assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector McAllen Station; and | ||
WHEREAS, Committed to the important mission of the U.S. | ||
Border Patrol, Agent Gonzalez lost his life in the line of duty, and | ||
it would be most fitting to recognize his exemplary service and | ||
supreme sacrifice by naming the post office in McAllen in his honor; | ||
now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby respectfully urge the United States Congress to | ||
pass H.R. 412, designating the U.S. Post Office at 620 East Pecan | ||
Boulevard in McAllen as the Agent Raul H. Gonzalez Jr. Memorial Post | ||
Office; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the chief clerk of the Texas House of | ||
Representatives 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 | ||
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. | ||
Canales | ||
______________________________ | ||
Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 1343 was adopted by the House on May | ||
23, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||