State Rep. Todd Hunter to head travel industry caucus, focus on continuing tourism successes
AUSTIN - Texas' travel and tourism industry is on a winning streak that lawmakers, including key members of the Coastal Bend delegation, are hoping to help continue during this session.
State Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi, will chair the Texas Legislative Tourism Caucus, a bipartisan group of about two-thirds of the membership of both houses that is organizing for its fourth legislative push. Read the full article. |
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What Matters to District 32
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Photos from Recent Events
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working with actor Matthew McConaughey,
and director Richard Linklater to move the film industry forward in Texas.
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 | Todd and Team have been busy organizing meetings for cruise ship development, tourism, film and the music industry. |
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Corpus Christi Hispanic Chamber of Commerce recently presented Todd with a plaque for all of his hard work in the Texas legislature.
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Todd attended the Eagle Ford Consortium Meeting held at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi.
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Filed Bills for the 83rd Texas Legislative Session In previous articles, I began outlining several of the bills which were filed within the pre-filing period. In this week's article I am going to continue outlining some of the pre-filed bills and also include bills which have been filed following the opening of the 83rd Texas Legislature. The 83rd legislative session's pre-filing period officially began on November 12th. It is important to remember that unlike our counterparts in Washington D.C., the Texas Legislature meets for only 140 days in every odd-numbered year. The established pre-filing period allows the legislature the opportunity to hit the ground running at the beginning of the session, which officially started on January 8th of this year. Read the full article.
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For your information the following are two projects that were developed during 2011 and 2012:
Power On Conference
Check out Rep. Hunter's 2012 Power On for Texas Film, Interactive & Tourism conference here:
Morning session: Welcome and Introduction
Luncheon session: Texas Film, Interactive Tourism Conference
Afternoon session: The Economic Impact of Film and Television ProductionBringing the Cruise Industry to Texas
Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 5 the cruise industry bill, was filed as the Senate companion to House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 29 by State Representative Todd Hunter during the 82nd Regular Legislative Session. These resolutions were filed as a result of numerous town hall meetings that Rep. Hunter hosted throughout District 32. The most common theme heard at the town hall meetings was, "why has the cruise industry not been expanded to the South Texas coastline?" Read full article. |
