Does Garnet F Coleman Plan to Bring Lgbtq Rights Forward Again
L Yard B T Q RIGHTS
On Wednesday, I was honored to be named runner-upwards to Mayor Sylvester Turner in OutSmart magazine's Gayest & Greatest 2022 Reader'due south Option Awards for favorite male local politician. I was honored to win the award in 2011 and have finished runner-upwardly numerous times.
In 2017, I was honored by Houston'south Montrose Heart in receiving the LGBT Community Vision Honor for my LGBT advocacy and policy work. I have always supported Texas' various LGBT customs and I will keep to practise so.
I as well received an A+ rating from Equality Texas terminal legislative session, and take been endorsed by the Houston GLBT Political Caucus for this November'south ballot. In 2015, I was voted #i of the Superlative 10 Texas House members on LGBTQ issues. Equality Texas wrote, " If in that location were an LGBTQ Conclave in the Texas House, Garnet Coleman would be its dean. Coleman filed the land's start freedom to marry legislation, the first gender markers correction legislation, the outset transgender hate crimes protection legislation… the list goes on. And then when the Senate tried to sneak an anti-freedom to ally amendment onto one of Coleman'southward bills non simply was information technology particularly insulting, it was laughable. 'If I can't go information technology off, then the bill goes to bill heaven,' Coleman told the Houston Chronicle. 'I don't support that legislation or that language.' True to his word Coleman worked to kill his own bill to prevent the amendments passage. That's dedication. That's a truthful ally. That'south the activity of someone who looks out for all Texans and puts the needs of the people ahead of himself. Which is who Garnet Coleman is."
I have besides been awarded the post-obit awards for my LGBT advocacy:
- Man Rights Campaign John Walzel Political Equality Accolade, 2007
- National HIV/AIDS Partnership Red Ribbon Honour, 2005
- Texas Human Rights Foundation Policy Advocate, 2000
- AIDS Action Leadership Laurels, 1998
I am proud to have received these honors from the LGBTQ community considering LGBTQ rights are civil rights. The last several sessions I take worked diligently in the Legislature to fight against bills that discriminate against the LGBTQ community. I have as well introduced legislation to amend protect LGBTQ individuals and remove discriminatory laws from the books.
Killing bad legislation is just as of import as passing good legislation, because bad legislation can take many sessions to correct. In the last two legislative sessions I killed my own bills because anti-LGBTQ legislation was amended onto them in the Senate against my will. Click here for a Houston Chronicle article from 2022 to read more about how I did it. Additionally, I worked behind the scenes to help kill the "Bath Bill" in the Firm in 2022 and 2017.
As many of y'all know, the Supreme Court caseLawrence five. Texas (2003) ruled that laws criminalizing same-sex sexual activity are unconstitutional. Notwithstanding, many people don't realize the exact Texas law the Court ruled unconstitutional in that case is still on books today in Texas. I take authored legislation the last several sessions to remove this statue from law, and last session this legislation made information technology out of committee for the first time, with help from Chairman of the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Joe Moody (D-El Paso). I will continue to fight this uphill battle to remove this discriminatory language from our laws.
In 2001, I was proud to exist a co-author of the James Byrd Jr. Detest Crimes Act. There are many remarkable policies in the bill, simply one of the more remarkable ones is i that I fought to include protections for sexual preference. Regrettably, the bill did not include protections for transgender individuals. That is why the terminal several sessions I take introduced legislation to add protections for transgender individuals under the James Byrd Jr. Detest Crimes Act. I plan to pursue this bill adjacent session once once again.
I take also worked throughout my career to proceeds state funding for education, prevention, and treatment of HIV/AIDS. I passed legislation last session to better HHSC'south efforts to treat HIV/AIDS patients in Texas' Medicaid arrangement. But there is still work to be done in the expanse of healthcare for the LGBTQ community, including requiring individual insurers and Medicaid to allow access to sexual reassignment surgery for transgender individuals. Also the Texas' Medicaid plan should too provide care for people with HIV/AIDS, but who currently do not qualify based on their T-cell count.LGBTQ rights are ceremonious rights, and similar all ceremonious rights, information technology is an uphill battle to protect them. But, information technology is one I am more than happy to take on.
In Our Customs: Montrose Center to Suspension Ground on Outset LGBTQ Senior Housing Middle in the Southwest
A rendering of the Montrose Center's planned senior housing facility at 2222 Cleburne.
Houston'due south own Montrose Center volition soon begin construction on the country'south second-largest LGBTQ-affirming housing project for low-income seniors. I am proud to exist a leader for this project – the first of its kind in the Southwest. The facility is designed to alleviate the trouble of housing bigotry confronting LGBTQ seniors
As reported by OutSmart Magazine here, half the cost of the projection is covered past federal housing subsidies. The "There's No Place Similar Domicile" campaign that I co-chair along former Mayor Annise Parker will continue to raise coin for the senior housing project.
It volition have over 112 contained living units spread across two master four-story buildings and it is tentatively scheduled to open in the summer of 2020. The facility will exist less than two miles due east of the Montrose Eye, in the historic Third Ward. I am proud to represent such a diverse community in Commune 147.
Click here for more than information on this very important LGBTQ-affirming housing project for low-income seniors.
Recap: County Affairs Hearing
On Wednesday, Oct 17th, the Canton Affairs Commission that I chair held a hearing on four interim charges. The hearing was held at the Coleman Tower at Houston Customs College J ohn B. Coleman Grand.D. College for Health Sciences, located at 1919 Pressler Street in Houston.
Thank yous to all the Committee members for their thoughtful input and of import questions. I would likewise like to give thanks Representative Armando Walle (D-Houston) and Representative Valoree Swanson (R-Bound) for attention as well.
The Commission met to hear invited and public testimony on the following interim charges:
Charge #ane
Examine how emergency response activities are organized, funded, and coordinated. Review the bear on of natural disasters on county finances. Identify any deficiencies in potency for the most populous counties related to infrastructure planning, emergency response, and recovery. Explore ways to improve efficiencies and manage costs while protecting public safety. Additionally, study the human relationship between the country, counties, non-governmental organizations, and churches in preparing for and responding to Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath, and decide if preparedness plans are adequate.
Accuse #ii
Evaluate whether counties have the necessary ordinance-making and enforcement say-so to bargain with flood run a risk in unincorporated rural and suburban areas of Texas. Additionally, examine whether counties have acceptable resource and authority to ensure that new development in unincorporated areas is not susceptible to flooding.
Charge #3
Report how counties identify defendants' and inmates' behavioral wellness needs and deferral opportunities to appropriate rehabilitative and transition services. Consider models for ensuring defendants and inmates with mental illness receive appropriate services upon release from the criminal justice system.
Accuse #v
Monitor the agencies and programs nether the Committee'south jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 85th Legislature.
Panel INFORMATION WITH TIME STAMPS
Ed Emmett, County Judge
Harris CantonSydney Tater, County Approximate
Polk County Emergency Direction – Natural Disasters
Panel one – 01:02
Roy Turner, Emergency Management Coordinator
Chambers County
Panel 2 – 01:15
Daphne Lemelle, Managing director
Harris County Customs Services Department
Panel 3 – 01:53
Russ Poppe, Executive Managing director
Harris Canton Overflowing Control Section
Jon Steiber, Senior Projects Coordinator
Harris County Engineering Department
Rodney Reed, Banana Primary
Harris County Fire Marshal's Function
Indigent Defense force – 02:36
Rodney Ellis, Commissioner
Harris County – Precinct 1
Harris County – Behavioral Health in the Criminal Justice Organisation
Panel 1 – 03:10
Denise Oncken, Bureau Principal,
Mental Health Bureau of the Harris County District Chaser's Office
Tommy Shelton, Lieutenant
Harris County Sheriff's Role – Mental Health Segmentation
Panel two – 04:04
Keena Pace, Chief Operating Officer
The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD
Lillian Ortiz, Master of Staff
The Harris Middle for Mental Health and IDD
Click here to watch Panel 1.
Natural Disasters – 04:19
John Braken, Texas State Director
Salve The Children
Public Testimony – 04:19
Bee Morehead, Executive Director
Texas Bear on
PHOTO GALLERY
Chairman of the County Affairs Commission Garnet Coleman and Committee members heard testimony regarding behavioral health and services in the Criminal Justice System during the Oct 17th County Diplomacy hearing in Houston. This is Charge #3 from House Speaker Joe Straus (R-San Antonio). From left to right: Rep. Valoree Swanson (R-Spring), Rep. Shawn Thierry (D-Houston), Committee Director Nicolas Kalla, Chairman Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), Rep. Tomas Uresti (D-San Antonio), Rep, Kevin Roberts (R-Houston), and Rep. Armando Walle (D-Houston).
Polk County Estimate Sydney Murphy and Harris Canton Judge Ed Emmett discussed the different needs of urban and rural counties when dealing disasters at Wed's hearing.
Harris County Commissioner Precinct 1 Rodney Ellis testified in forepart of the Committee regarding indigent defence force and the need for bond reform.
Denise Oncken, Bureau Main of the Mental Wellness Bureau of the Harris County District Attorney's Function joined Lt. Tommy Shelton of the Harris County Sheriff's Office Mental Health & Jail Diversion Bureau to discuss behavioral health in the criminal justice organization at Midweek's hearing.
From left to right: Keena Pace, Chief Operating Officeholder of the Harris Heart for Mental Health and Intellectual or Developmental Disability (IDD) and Lillian Ortiz, Chief of Staff for the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD speaking on their efforts to divert people with mental affliction from jail at Wednesday's hearing.
Pictured to my right is my sister Kathleen L. Coleman, and to my left is my daughter Evan A. Coleman. Also in the picture are the nieces, k-nieces, and grandnephews of John B. Coleman M.D., along with dignitaries from the ribbon cutting.
Ribbon Cut for Coleman Tower at HCC John B. Coleman Thousand.D. College for Wellness Sciences
I am and so thankful that Houston Customs College named their beautiful new building in honor of my late male parent John B. Coleman Thou.D. (Pictured beneath) This projection means a great deal to me personally and I am sure he would have loved it. The new Coleman Tower is superlative-notch in its compages and pattern. But, what would be my begetter's favorite feature and mine is that it volition educate the healthcare providers of tomorrow.
Please encounter below for a printing release from HCC, and pictures of the ribbon cut ceremony and tower.
This portrait of my late Father, John B. Coleman One thousand.D. is located at Prairie View A&M University. Courtesy of Prairie View A&M.
From left to right: Congressman Al Dark-green (D-Houston), HCC Board of Trustees for Commune 4 Dr. Carolyn Evans-Shabazz, Representative Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), HCC Chancellor Dr. Cesar Maldonado, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), President of the Coleman Higher for Health Sciences Dr. Phillip Nicotera, and HCC Board of Trustees for District 9 Dr. Pretta Vandible Stallworth at Mon's ribbon cut anniversary at the HCC Coleman College Health Sciences Tower.
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HCC cuts ribbon on health sciences tower in Texas Med Heart
HOUSTON (Oct. 15, 2018) – Joined by prominent medical professionals and elective office holders, Houston Community College officials cut the ribbon Monday, October 15, on the new x-story HCC Coleman College Health Sciences Tower in the heart of the Texas Medical Center.
The tower includes floors that simulate hospitals and cut-border grooming facilities for more xx health-related fields. The $68 million belfry is now the centerpiece of the HCC Wellness Sciences program, the only community higher program of its kind in the medical center.
State Representative Garnet Coleman, the son of the tardily Dr. John Coleman for whom Coleman College is named, and numerous other members of the Coleman family were on hand for the ribbon cutting. Representative Coleman said that "practicing medicine came first for his father" and through Coleman Higher his father's legacy continues. The college is the but facility in the medical eye to carry the name of an African American.
"This new Coleman Tower is equipped with 21st century tools to go along up with the irresolute technology and needs of the healthcare industry and community," said HCC Chancellor Cesar Maldonado. "It stands as a monument to HCC's delivery to provide the best health-related didactics possible to our students."
The state-of-the-art edifice received a 2022 Landmark Award in the category of Educational Facility from the Houston Business Periodical. Entries for the Landmark competition were judged on their touch on Houston, including chore creation, innovation, amenities and being environmentally friendly.
"What sets this building apart is the true hospital experience it affords our students," said Dr. Philip Nicotera, president of HCC Coleman College. "Students will work with the very aforementioned equipment they will use in medical facilities in one case they enter the workplace."
The project, part of a upper-case letter improvements bail issue approved by voters in 2013, will accept HCC's rigorous health-related programs to an even higher level. "This facility means new opportunities for educatee success and growth," said Carolyn Evans-Shabazz, chair of the HCC Lath of Trustees.
For more than data on the HCC Health Sciences Center of Excellence, click here.
The new x-story HCC Coleman Higher Health Sciences Tower
in the heart of the Texas Medical Center.
Key features of the Coleman Health Science Tower:
- A pedestrian span that connects the existing HCC Coleman building with the new facility and allows for condom passage across a busy route
- Classrooms and learning stations connected to skills laboratories, simulation laboratories, and biological science and biosafety laboratories to back up hands-on, active learning
- Pupil collaboration spaces on every level
- A entrance hall and 800-seat special events and multi-purpose meeting room that tin can be open to the public without compromising the security of the remainder of the building
Within the new HCC Coleman College Health Sciences Tower, which is designed to look and function like a hospital, providing students with meaningful experiences that prepare them for their future healthcare professions.
Riverside Hospital Update
Unfortunately, I was not able to make it to the press conference yesterday at Riverside Hospital. I take been working to salve Riverside Hospital by rebuilding information technology every bit an integrated principal and behavioral health care outpatient facility since 2014. Click here to read about my work transforming Riverside Hospital.
I desire to thank Harris County for taking this $39 meg project on, especially Harris County Judge Ed Emmett and Canton Commissioner Pct. 1 Rodney Ellis.
Furthermore, Judge Emmett and Commissioner Ellis did a dandy job in helping to secure this $ii.5 million donation from Qatar alongside the $five.three million grant from the nonprofit Houston Endowment that allowed the Harris County Commissioners Court to purchase the vacant lot.
Riverside Hospital ways a great deal to the Third Ward community, the people of greater Houston and to me personally since my late father, John B. Coleman M.D., was named Primary of Staff of Obstetrics/Gynecology in 1965 and was promoted to Chief of Riverside Full general Infirmary in 1974. Please click here to read nigh the extensive achievements of my late Father.
With Qatar's help, Harris County to reopen Third Ward hospital
Meshal bin Hamad Al-Thani, Qatar's ambassador to the U.s., left, greets Harris County Judge Ed Emmett every bit Commissioner Rodney Ellis and U.South. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee await on. Photo: Jon Shapley, Staff Lensman.
A $2.5 million donation from the authorities of Qatar will help Harris County restore an celebrated infirmary in the 3rd Ward, County Judge Ed Emmett appear Wednesday.
At a morning news conference at the site of the former Riverside Hospital at Ennis and Hollman, Emmett said the site would be redeveloped into a principal care facility with a focus on mental wellness, to open by 2021. He was joined by Meshal bin Hamad Al-Thani, the Qatari administrator to the U.s.; U.Due south. Rep Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston; and Harris County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis.
"Exactly what this hospital is going to be has yet to be determined," Emmett said. "Merely nosotros know it'southward going to be master care … considering that is what's been lacking, and so people can accept medical homes."
The donation is office of the $xxx million the tiny oil-rich Centre Eastern nation, which has fewer residents than Harris Canton, has donated to help Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey. Qatar gave more than $100 million to Gulf Declension states after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
"This commitment from his highness and the land of Qatar, and the people of Qatar, stems from the potent relations that Qatar has with the U.s.a., and particularly with the state of Texas," said Al-Thani, who was visiting Houston from Washington. Qatar also has a consulate in the Galleria area.
The estimated total price of the hospital project, which will be role of the canton's hospital district, is $39 meg. Harris Health also operates a dialysis center on Hollman and the Martin Luther King Jr. Health Middle on North MacGregor.
The inscription in the archway above the officials, "Houston Negro Hospital School of Nursing," offered a reminder of the facility's importance to the Third Ward, equally well as Houston'south segregated by.
A grouping of black doctors and oilman-turned-philanthropist Joseph S. Cullinan created the Houston Negro Hospital on the site in 1918, and a nursing school followed in 1931. The facility was the commencement nonprofit hospital for blacks in Houston, where, similar much of the Jim Crow South, they were barred from white hospitals.
The facility was renamed Riverside Infirmary in 1961 and later added a substance corruption handling facility. The hospital closed in 2022 after years of financial instability. The infirmary's one-time president, son, and two others were convicted of a $158 meg Medicare scam in 2014.
Harris County Commissioners Courtroom purchased the vacant iv-acre site in March with the help of a $5.3 meg grant from the nonprofit Houston Endowment.
On Thursday, the site was empty except for several construction workers laboring over the din of an electric generator. Cracked windows and missing floors are a few of the many needed repairs, merely the buildings are structurally audio. Even now, the Spanish revival architecture of the nursing school and main building brand them among the well-nigh prominent structures in the surface area. Both will be restored and become role of the new hospital.
Ellis said though Houston boasts the largest medical center in the world, Third Ward residents lack access to local health care facilities. He said a renovated Riverside Hospital will fill up that gap, and too may help the nearby University of Houston equally it moves forward to create a new medical schoolhouse.
"You desire to figure out what has a client base of operations, and what is important to the community," said Ellis, who was born at the hospital in 1954.
Hobby Symposium Series
"Better Brains, Meliorate Policies, Better Futures"
Click hither to watch the Legislative Roundtable that I was on with Representative Sarah Davis (R-Houston), Armando Walle (D-Houston), and Senator Larry Taylor(R-Friendswood).
I hope you accept the time to scout the hr-long word we had because it was very insightful. The Rice University Baker Constitute for Public Policy, University of Houston Hobby Schoolhouse of Public Affairs, and University of Houston College of Instruction put on a fantastic event.I am proud to see the Academy of Houston Hobby Schoolhouse flourishing after I helped create it in 2013 by getting half a one thousand thousand dollars fix aside in the Texas budget to create a graduate school of public policy at the University of Houston.
Representative Garnet Coleman (D-Houston) Chair of the County Diplomacy Commission, andRepresentative Sarah Davis (R-Houston) Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Article II (the Health and Human Services function of the state budget). I work closely with Representative Sarah Davis on Health Intendance Policy in the Texas Legislature. We worked together last session to increase the funding and number of screenings for Mail service Partum Depression nether Texas Medicaid (HB 2466 (85R)). The last few sessions I have worked with her on the country budget to make sure we increase funding to better serve vulnerable populations in our country including children, women, and the elderly.
From left to right: Representative Armando Walle (D-Houston), Senator Larry Taylor(R-Friendswood), Representative Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), andRepresentative Sarah Davis (R-Houston).
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