TITLE: Recognizing the Texas Dispute Resolution System on its 25th anniversary.

SUMMARY: Recognizing the Texas Dispute Resolution System on its 25th anniversary.

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WHEREAS, The Texas Dispute Resolution System celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010; and WHEREAS, Created in 1985 by Lubbock County, the Texas Dispute Resolution System is the most active statewide public Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) provider; Alternative Dispute Resolution refers to the use of a trained and neutral third party to formulate a viable solution to a problem; and WHEREAS, The Texas Dispute Resolution System operates four distinct programs: the Dispute Resolution Training Institute, which has provided ADR training and continuing education workshops to more than 1,000 trainees, the South Plains ADR System, which handles thousands of mediation activities each year for 10 counties, the Domestic Relations Office, which offers family-related mediation services, and Texas Rural Mediation Services, which addresses disputes between consumers and various USDA agencies, as well as other issues affecting rural Texans, including estate settlement, land boundaries, crop insurance, and compliance with farm programs; and WHEREAS, The governor designated Lubbock County as the state-certified mediation program to mediate USDA disputes in Texas through the Texas Dispute Resolution System; and WHEREAS, D. Gene Valentini played an instrumental role in the establishment of the Texas Dispute Resolution System; he became the system's director in 1988, and he continues to lead the program today as the most tenured director of any ADR system in Texas created under Chapter 152 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code; and WHEREAS, The commissioners court and the board of judges of Lubbock County have supported the growth of the Texas Dispute Resolution System; and WHEREAS, For a quarter of a century, the Texas Dispute Resolution System has upheld its mission to provide an effective alternate resource for the resolution of disputes while saving taxpayers millions of dollars, and the program is indeed worthy of commendation; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas Legislature hereby recognize the Texas Dispute Resolution System on its 25th anniversary and extend to all those associated with the program sincere best wishes for continued success; and, be it further RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be prepared for the Texas Dispute Resolution System as an expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives. Perry Frullo 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 Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 1739 was adopted by the House on May 12, 2011, by a non-record vote. Chief Clerk of the House