Bill Text: TX SR316 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Recognizing March 15, 2023, as Texas Small Business Development Center Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-15 - Reported enrolled [SR316 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR316-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Recognizing March 15, 2023, as Texas Small Business Development Center Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-15 - Reported enrolled [SR316 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR316-Introduced.html
88R18990 CW-D | ||
By: Menéndez | S.R. No. 316 |
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WHEREAS, Members of the Texas Small Business Development | ||
Center Network are celebrating Texas Small Business Development | ||
Center Day at the State Capitol on March 15, 2023; and | ||
WHEREAS, The Texas SBDC Network is part of America's SBDC, a | ||
national program established by the Small Business Development | ||
Center Act of 1979; since its inception, America's SBDC has grown to | ||
include around 1,000 service centers and more than 5,000 | ||
professional business advisors who provide personalized and | ||
confidential assistance to small business owners; today, the Texas | ||
SBDC Network encompasses four lead offices at universities and | ||
colleges across the state and over 50 field and specialty centers in | ||
urban and rural areas; and | ||
WHEREAS, For more than three and a half decades, the Texas | ||
SBDC Network has provided business consulting to clients at no cost | ||
and offered affordable training to guide small businesses through | ||
every stage of development; in 2022, the organization helped | ||
businesses access over $829 million in financing, including Small | ||
Business Administration COVID-19 disaster loans; moreover, it is | ||
estimated that the network's efforts in the past year saved nearly | ||
17,000 jobs and created some 10,500 jobs, and companies affiliated | ||
with the organization generated approximately $553 million in new | ||
sales and $92 million in tax revenue; and | ||
WHEREAS, The Texas SBDC Network has contributed immeasurably | ||
to the success of numerous new and existing companies, and in so | ||
doing, it has greatly enhanced the economic prosperity of the Lone | ||
Star State; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the Senate of the 88th Texas Legislature | ||
hereby recognize March 15, 2023, as Texas Small Business | ||
Development Center Day at the State Capitol and extend to all those | ||
associated with the Texas Small Business Development Center Network | ||
sincere best wishes for a memorable and enjoyable visit; and, be it | ||
further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for the Texas SBDC Network as an expression of high regard | ||
by the Texas Senate. |