HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 35
Relating to the renaming of a building at the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center.
WHEREAS, the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center is located near Farmington, Missouri; and
WHEREAS, the Center Building of the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center has a bed capacity of one hundred eighty-six beds, plus forty beds in five adjacent group homes; and
WHEREAS, Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center maintains an Acute and Intermediate Care Unit and a Forensic Services Unit to provide a client environment that includes interdisciplinary treatment in the areas of psychiatry, psychiatric nursing, patient and family education, work therapy, a group home program, an interactive computer system, a fitness center and other services; and
WHEREAS, Danny Staples was a member of the House of Representatives for six years and a state Senator for twenty years representing the citizens of his district; and
WHEREAS, former Senator Danny Staples was a leader and instrumental in furthering the development of the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center which provides treatment and care in the state of Missouri; and
WHEREAS, because of Senator Staples' efforts, the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center is the modern treatment center that it is today; and
WHEREAS, Senator Staples deserves permanent recognition of his work on behalf of mental health treatment and care in the state of Missouri:
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the Missouri Senate, Ninety-Second General Assembly, Second Regular Session, the House of Representatives concurring therein, hereby designate that the Center Building at the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center at Farmington in St. Francois County shall hereinafter be known as the "Danny Staples Building"; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Missouri Senate be instructed to prepare properly inscribed copies of this resolution for the Governor for his approval or rejection pursuant to the Missouri Constitution, and if approved, notify the Director of the Missouri Department of Mental Health.