Recognizing the 10-mile coastal zone off the gulf coast that Texas has sovereignty over as the “Gulf of Texas.”
RESOLVED, That the 89th Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby recognize the 10-mile coastal zone off the gulf coast that
Texas has sovereignty over as the “Gulf of Texas”; and, be it
further
RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature hereby respectfully
request the Congress of the United States to name that zone the
“Gulf of Texas”; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that
this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.
