Bill Text: TX HR2321 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Commemorating Mother's Day 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-30 - Reported enrolled [HR2321 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HR2321-Enrolled.html

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H.R. No. 2321

R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, On Mother's Day, May 12, 2024, sons and daughters
across Texas and the nation will make an extra effort to honor those
special women who raised them and to celebrate the fundamental and
enduring institution of motherhood; and
WHEREAS, This annual celebration took root in the years
before the Civil War, when Ann Reeves Jarvis organized "Mother's
Day Work Clubs" to reduce child mortality by improving sanitation
conditions and to help nurse and provide medicine for the sick;
after the war, Mrs. Jarvis created "Mother's Friendship Day"; and
WHEREAS, After the death of Ann Reeves Jarvis in 1905, her
daughter, Anna Jarvis, envisioned a regular observance of Mother's
Day, when individuals would visit their mothers or attend church
while wearing white carnations, her own mother's favorite flower;
in May 1908, Miss Jarvis arranged for a Mother's Day celebration to
be held at St. Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia;
and
WHEREAS, Anna Jarvis went on to establish the Mother's Day
International Association, and she embarked upon a letter-writing
campaign urging legislators across the nation to adopt the holiday;
by 1912, many states, communities, and churches across the country
had begun to celebrate Mother's Day, and in 1914, President Woodrow
Wilson created the national holiday by officially designating the
second Sunday in May as a "public expression of our love and
reverence for the mothers of our country"; and
WHEREAS, Over the course of the past century, Mother's Day
has become a treasured occasion when we celebrate the irreplaceable
bond between mother and child and when Americans of all ages and
backgrounds express their affection and gratitude to the women who
nurtured, comforted, educated, and loved them; now, therefore, be
it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas
Legislature hereby commemorate Mother's Day 2024 and pay tribute to
all the mothers of the Lone Star State.
Price
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 2321 was adopted by the House on May
29, 2023, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House