HR 79 Texas House · 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)

In memory of Lionel Charles Betancourt.

This is a memorial resolution (HR 79) honoring Lionel Charles Betancourt, a San Benito resident who died in 2025 at age 91. It commemorates his life, career (including work on NASA communications equipment and founding First National Bank of San Benito), and community service as a Rotary Club leader and founder of the Adoption Awareness Project. The resolution extends condolences to his family and formally recognizes his contributions to San Benito and Texas. As a memorial resolution, it has no policy impact and solely serves to honor his legacy.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Aug 2025

Committee Review

Aug 2025

House Passage

Sep 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Aug 26, 2025 Last action Sep 2, 2025

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Introduced → Enrolled · 3 edits

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The bill text was reformatted from a compact legislative markup style to a clean, readable enrolled version. The substantive content of the resolution honoring Lionel Charles Betancourt remained unchanged, with only formatting adjustments, spacing corrections, and removal of internal tracking codes.

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Removed internal legislative tracking codes and compact formatting markers that were present in the introduced version

Added accessibility update notice at the top of the document

Reorganized text layout from dense paragraph format to spaced-out enrolled version format for readability

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This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Sep 2, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted

lower

Aug 28, 2025

Committee

Referred to Local & Consent Calendars

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors