HJR 467 Summary

• Commends Kelsey Richter for being selected Miss Jefferson County 2012 and for competing in the Miss Alabama pageant as part of the Miss America preliminaries.

• Recognizes Richter as a Samford University graduate with degrees in Nursing and Spanish who will pursue a Family Nurse Practitioner program at Samford University in August 2012.

• Highlights her volunteer work with Hospice, including her "Spirit Bears" project donating teddy bears to children under palliative care, and her work as a grief counselor for children.

• Notes her planned employment at Children's Hospital in cardiac ICU beginning July 2012 and her platform for the Miss America competition titled "Hospice: A Servant's Heart."

• Adopted by the House on May 9, 2012, and by the Senate on May 16, 2012.