TITLE: Commending the recipients of the Texas Treasure Business Award.

SUMMARY: Commending the recipients of the Texas Treasure Business Award.

FULL TEXT:
WHEREAS, The Texas House of Representatives is pleased to join the Texas Historical Commission in recognizing the businesses that have been named as recipients of the Texas Treasure Business Award; and WHEREAS, This prestigious award honors companies that have been in continuous and substantially similar independent operation in the state for at least 50 years with an uninterrupted employment history and good standing with the state; and WHEREAS, Previous winners of this award include Adams Extract; Big Red, Incorporated; Burford and Ryburn, LLP; Carneiro, Chumney, and Company; Chacon Autos; Cox Manufacturing; DeWese's Tip Top Caf ; Dixie Flag Manufacturing Company; Don Strange of Texas; DPT Laboratories, LTD; Dury's Gun Shop; Earl Abel's Restaurant; Ebensberger-Fisher Funeral Home; First State Bank of Burnet; Firstmark Credit Union; H. E. Butt Grocery Company; Holt CAT; and Houston Jewelry; and WHEREAS, Additional previous award winners are Jacala Mexican Restaurant; Johnson Roofing; J. R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art; Kiolbassa Provision Company; Marmon Mok Architecture; Mills County State Bank; New Braunfels Smokehouse, Incorporated; Penner's Menswear; the Queen Isabel Inn; R. H. McCrary Hardware; Roberts Jewelry; the San Angelo Standard-Times; San Antonio Federal Credit Union; Security Service Federal Credit Union; Stewart Title Company; Strickland Drugs; Toudouze Market; and Univision, KWEX-TV; and WHEREAS, New award winners are the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum; Frontier Enterprises; Holland Jewelry, Incorporated; McBride's Guns, Incorporated; Page Southerland Page; and The RK Group; and WHEREAS, The success of these exemplary businesses has played an important role in the growth and progress of our state, and it is truly fitting that they be recognized for their resilience, their longevity, and their many outstanding contributions to the communities they serve; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas Legislature hereby commend the recipients of the Texas Treasure Business Award and extend to them sincere best wishes for continued success; and, be it further RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be prepared to commemorate the relaunch of the Texas Treasure Business Awards program. Menendez Anderson Straus M. Gonzalez of El Paso Oliveira Allen N. Gonzalez of El Paso Orr Alonzo Gooden Otto Alvarado Guerra Paddie Anchia Guillen Parker Anderson Gutierrez Patrick Ashby Harless Perez Aycock Harper-Brown Perry Bell Hernandez Luna Phillips Bohac Herrero Pickett Bonnen of Brazoria Hilderbran Pitts Bonnen of Galveston Howard Price Branch Huberty Raney Burkett Hughes Ratliff Burnam Hunter Raymond Button Isaac Reynolds Callegari Johnson Riddle Canales Kacal Ritter Capriglione Keffer Rodriguez of Bexar Carter King of Hemphill Rodriguez of Travis Clardy King of Parker Rose Coleman King of Taylor Sanford Collier King of Zavala Schaefer Cook Kleinschmidt Sheets Cortez Klick Sheffield of Bell Craddick Kolkhorst Sheffield of Coryell Creighton Krause Simmons Crownover Kuempel Simpson Dale Larson Smith Darby Laubenberg Smithee Davis of Dallas Lavender Springer J. Davis of Harris Leach Stephenson S. Davis of Harris Lewis Stickland Deshotel Longoria Strama Dukes Lozano Taylor Dutton Lucio III Thompson of Brazoria Eiland Marquez Thompson of Harris Elkins Martinez Toth Fallon Martinez Fischer Turner of Collin Farias McClendon Turner of Harris Farney Menendez Turner of Tarrant Farrar Miles Villalba Fletcher Miller of Comal Villarreal Flynn Miller of Fort Bend Vo Frank Moody Walle Frullo Morrison White Geren Munoz, Jr. Workman Giddings Murphy Wu Goldman Naishtat Zedler Gonzales Nevarez Zerwas Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 140 was adopted by the House on January 23, 2013, by a non-record vote. Chief Clerk of the House