TITLE: Designating February 15, 2011, as Texas Manufacturers Day.

SUMMARY: Designating February 15, 2011, as Texas Manufacturers Day.

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WHEREAS, The United States is the world's largest manufacturing economy, and Texas is the nation's second leading manufacturing state by number of employees and number of manufacturing entities; and WHEREAS, U.S. manufacturing produces $1.6 trillion of value each year, or 11 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product; Texas manufacturing contributes $158.8 billion to the economy, or 13 percent of Texas Gross State Product, and it has been the leading exporting state for 8 years in a row; manufacturing accounts for 93 percent of Texas exports; and WHEREAS, Responsible for more than half of all private sector research and development spending, manufacturers boost the state's economy by promoting innovation, investment, and job creation; manufacturing employs 840,000 Texans, and the average annual salary is almost $76,000; moreover, a multiplier effect leads to the creation of between 2 and 16 additional jobs for each manufacturing job created; and WHEREAS, The broad diversity of products manufactured across the Lone Star State includes, by rank as a percentage of Gross State Product, chemicals, computers and electronics, machinery, petroleum and coal products, food products, aerospace, motor vehicles and parts, and plastics and rubber; Texas produces 60 percent of the nation's chemicals, 30 percent of its natural gas, and 19 percent of its oil; and WHEREAS, In an increasingly global economy, the future prosperity and competitiveness of the State of Texas are tied to the future prosperity and competitiveness of its manufacturing base; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the 82nd Legislature of the State of Texas hereby designate February 15, 2011, as Texas Manufacturers Day and commend manufacturers across the state, including the Texas Association of Manufacturers, the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center, and the regional manufacturers' associations from Dallas County, New Braunfels, San Antonio, San Marcos, South Texas, Washington County, and Harlingen, for their continued efforts to produce Texas products with Texas jobs. Keffer Straus Gonzales of Williamson Morrison Aliseda Gonzalez Munoz, Jr. Allen Gooden Murphy Alonzo Guillen Naishtat Alvarado Gutierrez Nash Anchia Hamilton Oliveira Anderson of Dallas Hancock Orr Anderson of McLennan Hardcastle Otto Aycock Harless Parker Beck Harper-Brown Patrick Berman Hartnett Paxton Bohac Hernandez Luna Pena Bonnen Hilderbran Perry Branch Hochberg Phillips Brown Hopson Pickett Burkett Howard of Fort Bend Pitts Burnam Howard of Travis Price Button Huberty Quintanilla Cain Hughes Raymond Callegari Hunter Reynolds Carter Isaac Riddle Castro Jackson Ritter Chisum Johnson Rodriguez Christian Keffer Schwertner Coleman King of Parker Scott Cook King of Taylor Sheets Craddick King of Zavala Sheffield Creighton Kleinschmidt Shelton Crownover Kolkhorst Simpson Darby Kuempel Smith of Harris Davis of Dallas Landtroop Smith of Tarrant J. Davis of Harris Larson Smithee S. Davis of Harris Laubenberg Solomons Deshotel Lavender Strama Driver Legler Taylor of Collin Dukes Lewis Taylor of Galveston Dutton Lozano Thompson Eiland Lucio III Torres Eissler Lyne Truitt Elkins Madden Turner Farias Mallory Caraway Veasey Farrar Margo Villarreal Fletcher Marquez Vo Flynn Martinez Walle Frullo Martinez Fischer Weber Gallego McClendon White Garza Menendez Woolley Geren Miles Workman Giddings Miller of Comal Zedler Gonzales of Hidalgo Miller of Erath Zerwas President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.C.R. No. 52 was adopted by the House on February 15, 2011, by a non-record vote. Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.C.R. No. 52 was adopted by the Senate on February 15, 2011, by a viva-voce vote. Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: Date Governor