Bill Text: TX SCR55 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulating former State Representative Ken Mercer on his retirement from USAA.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Received by the Secretary of the Senate [SCR55 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SCR55-Introduced.html
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| By: Flores, et al. | S.C.R. No. 55 | |
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| WHEREAS, The Honorable Ken Mercer is retiring from USAA on | ||
| February 28, 2019, drawing to a close an outstanding career in the | ||
| insurance and financial services industry that has spanned nearly | ||
| three and a half decades; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Mr. Mercer earned a bachelor's degree in biology | ||
| from The University of Texas at Austin, a bachelor's degree in | ||
| business administration from UT San Antonio, and a master's degree | ||
| in business administration from St. Mary's University; he joined | ||
| USAA in November 1984, and over the course of his 34-year career in | ||
| information technology, he has played a leading role in | ||
| implementing the first information engineering workstations, | ||
| processes, and procedures, and he has served as lead internal | ||
| consultant for the company's first use of rapid application | ||
| development (RAD) technologies; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Later in his career, Mr. Mercer led projects to | ||
| develop financial systems, telecommunications accounting, disaster | ||
| recovery, and enterprise software and hardware asset management, | ||
| and he helped implement new acquisition processes to select | ||
| company-wide software suites and hardware; he is retiring as a | ||
| project manager for critical enterprise-wide migrations of several | ||
| important software systems; and | ||
| WHEREAS, From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Mercer represented District | ||
| 117 in the Texas House of Representatives, and he served on the | ||
| Higher Education, House Administration, and Transportation | ||
| committees; during his tenure, he worked to ensure that children of | ||
| military families serving overseas could pay in-state tuition, and | ||
| he played an instrumental role in legislation that created the San | ||
| Antonio campus of Texas A&M University and brought Toyota to San | ||
| Antonio; he also helped create the city's Memorial Highway in honor | ||
| of the U.S. Army's 2nd Indian Head Division, and he became only the | ||
| second civilian to be made a "Lifetime Member" of the division; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Currently, Mr. Mercer is serving his fourth term as | ||
| a member of the State Board of Education, where he represents 13 | ||
| counties and 1.6 million Texans; as chair of the board's Charter | ||
| School Committee, he helped establish the first dual-language | ||
| Hebrew-English immersion program in Texas and the first trilingual | ||
| Spanish-English-Mandarin program; he has also worked to ensure that | ||
| history and government curriculum includes the contributions of our | ||
| men and women in uniform; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In all his endeavors, Mr. Mercer enjoys the love and | ||
| support of his wife, Rosalia, his daughters, Rebekah Mercer and | ||
| Sarah Fisher, and his son-in-law, Ryan Fisher; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Ken Mercer's dedication, professionalism, and | ||
| commitment to excellence have earned him the respect and admiration | ||
| of his professional peers, and he may indeed reflect with pride on | ||
| his outstanding record of achievement; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby congratulate the Honorable Ken Mercer on his retirement from | ||
| USAA and extend to him sincere best wishes for the future; and, be | ||
| it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for Mr. Mercer as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
| House of Representatives and Senate. | ||
