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HR 1332

Honoring Helen and Rene Alcala on their posthumous receipt of the 2025 Buda Local Legends Award.

89th Legislature (2025) Introduced by Erin Zwiener

Honors Helen and Rene Alcala posthumously with the 2025 Buda Local Legends Award and records the recognition in the Congressional Record; ceremonial, with no policy effect.

Reported enrolled
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Bill Summary · HR 1332

Summary of H. Res. 1332

Title: Honoring Helen and Rene Alcala on their posthumous receipt of the 2025 Buda Local Legends Award
Classification: Resolution (congratulatory & honorary)
Bill Number: HR 1332
Introduced: February 13, 2025
Primary Sponsor: Rep. Dave Min
Cosponsors: Ed Case; Sarah Elfreth; Zoe Lofgren; Julia Brownley; Jill N. Tokuda; Mike Levin; Jared Huffman
Subject Code: ALCALA, HELEN (N00RJ), RENE (NP5G5), Resolutions--Congratulatory & Honorary (I0705)
Status: Reported enrolled; Adopted by the House (June 1, 2025)

Purpose / Intent

This House resolution formally honors Helen and Rene Alcala for being posthumously awarded the 2025 Buda Local Legends Award. Its purpose is ceremonial: to recognize and commemorate the Alcala family’s receipt of a local civic honor and to place that recognition into the official Congressional record.

Key Provisions

  • Expresses the House’s congratulations and honors the memory of Helen and Rene Alcala in light of their posthumous receipt of the 2025 Buda Local Legends Award.
  • Directs that the resolution (and its text) be entered into the Congressional Record as an official acknowledgement.

Note: The resolution is purely honorary and contains no policy directives, regulatory changes, or appropriations.

Who Is Affected

  • Primarily symbolic beneficiaries: the family and descendants of Helen and Rene Alcala, the City of Buda and its community, and the organizers of the Buda Local Legends Award.
  • No federal agencies, programs, or budgets are affected.

Procedural History / Timeline

  • 2025-02-13: Introduced in the House; referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
  • 2025-05-23: Filed.
  • 2025-05-25: Referred to Local & Consent Calendars.
  • 2025-05-30: Considered in Local & Consent Calendars.
  • 2025-06-01: Placed on the Congratulatory & Memorial Resolutions Calendar; laid before the House; adopted (non-record vote recorded in the Journal); reported enrolled (finalized).

Impact and Notes

  • Legal/fiscal impact: None. The resolution is ceremonial and carries no binding legal effect, regulatory change, or federal expenditure.
  • Parliamentary effect: As a House-congratulatory resolution, adoption by the House concludes congressional action on the measure; it is intended to create an official acknowledgment in the House record.

This measure serves to memorialize and publicly acknowledge the Alcala family’s recognition by the City of Buda in 2025.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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