Bill
HR 599
H.R. 599/2025 ceremonial resolution honors Dr. Jose A. Marquez-Leon for leadership advancing Latino representation in IT, technology careers, and arts; no policy or funding changes.
Status
- Introduced: January 22, 2025
- Referred: House Committee on Energy and Commerce (1/22/2025)
- House Read and Adopted: March 31, 2025 (reported enrolled 4/1/2025)
- Classification: House resolution (honorific)
Purpose and intent
- This resolution recognizes and commends Dr. Jose A. Marquez‑Leon for his leadership and contributions to advancing Latino representation in technology, workforce development, arts and culture, and community humanitarian work. It is an honorific, non‑binding measure intended to publicly acknowledge his achievements.
Key provisions
- Finds and states that Dr. Marquez‑Leon:
- Founded TechLatino: The National Association of Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association (LISTA) in 1997 and has served as its National President and CEO.
- Led programs to promote Latino participation in IT and science, including classroom technology initiatives, career pipelines, certification training, job‑matching, online collaboration, and recognition of Latino IT leaders.
- Chairs 16 TechLatino/LISTA councils and has led humanitarian initiatives bringing technology resources to disadvantaged communities in the Caribbean and South America.
- Earlier founded Hispanics in Information Technology and Telecommunications (HITT) in 1997 to address underrepresentation of Latinos in IT and telecommunications.
- Serves as CEO of the Georgia Latino Film Alliance and International Film Festival and has held appointments to local film, tourism and public arts commissions.
- Has received multiple awards (examples cited: Politics 360 Game Changers Award 2019; Negocios Now President’s Award 2018; Hispanic Trends Magazine Technology Trendsetter 2007).
- Resolves that the House “recognize and commend” Dr. Marquez‑Leon and directs the Clerk to make an appropriate copy of the resolution available for distribution to him.
Who is affected / impact
- Primary: Dr. Jose A. Marquez‑Leon (honoree).
- Secondary: TechLatino/LISTA, the Latino technology community, and related cultural organizations benefit from public recognition of their leader; the resolution carries no legal, regulatory, or funding implications.
Sponsors and support
- Introduced by Representative (per bill text) Moore (91st). The legislative record lists numerous cosponsors from both parties, including Robert B. Aderholt, Jimmy Gomez, Brandon Gill, and many others, indicating broad, bipartisan support.
Procedural notes and related material
- The resolution is ceremonial and non‑legislative — it does not change policy, appropriations, or statutory text.
- The package also contains, likely from a prior Congress, text of an enacted Public Law (Public Law 118–108, Nov. 25, 2024) redesignating a USPS facility in Los Angeles as the “Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Post Office” by updating an address in Public Law 108–239. That postal designation is a separate enacted measure and not substantive to the commendation resolution.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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