House Bill hb9065

    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HR 9065

        By Representative Meadows






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution honoring the Black Affairs

  3         Advisory Council.

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  5         WHEREAS, formed in 1979 and officially recognized by

  6  the Social Security Administration in 1981, the Black Affairs

  7  Advisory Council (BAAC) is a voluntary organization which

  8  works to improve employment opportunities and training

  9  programs for African Americans, and

10         WHEREAS, the mission of the BAAC is to continue the

11  efforts and goals of the Social Security Administration in

12  providing equal employment opportunity, training, and upward

13  mobility for African Americans and to help find ways to ensure

14  that the African-American community receives the full range of

15  quality services available through programs administered by

16  the administration, and

17         WHEREAS, the BAAC serves to advise the Commissioner of

18  the Social Security Administration on ways to promote and

19  stimulate the development and monitoring of affirmative action

20  and career development programs for African Americans and to

21  monitor, encourage, and improve services to the

22  African-American community, and

23         WHEREAS, the BAAC works together with other advisory

24  groups and forms coalitions in order to effect and facilitate

25  changes in Social Security Administration policy that are of

26  mutual concern, translating matters of wide applicability into

27  recommendations in meetings with the Commissioner of the

28  Social Security Administration, NOW, THEREFORE,

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30  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

31  Florida:

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2001                HR 9065

    740-107-01






  1         That the House of Representatives extends sincerest

  2  appreciation to the Black Affairs Advisory Council for its

  3  service to the African-American community in Florida and

  4  nationwide as it strives to enhance and improve opportunities

  5  for African Americans.

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