WITNESS LIST
Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee
March 18, 2021 - 9:00 AM
Game Warden Peace Officers Association
On:
Sinclair, David (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Texas Council on Family Violence
On:
Scott, David (Tcfv)
Texas Police Chiefs Association
On:
Standridge, Stan (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
On:
Vickers, Kim (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
McDowell, Brian (Self)
Riley, Janice (Self)
Rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Sinclair, David (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Switzer, Gyl (Texas Gun Sense)
Szimanski, Jennifer (CLEAT)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Wichers, Louis (Self; Texas Gun Sense)
Wright, Christine (City of San Antonio)
On:
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Louderback, Aj (Sheiffs Association of Texas)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
On:
Hodges, Brad (Self)
Schafer, Eric (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Belsick, Michael (Self)
Briscoe, Richard (Self; Legislative Director, Open Carry Texas)
Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of El Paso)
Fitzpatrick, Robert (Self)
Fossum, Michael (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Frazier, Frederick (Self; Dallas Police Assoc.State FOP)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Louderback, Aj (Sheiffs Association of Texas)
McDowell, Brian (Self)
Mica, Tara (National Rifle Association)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Perez, Diana (Self)
Perez, Noe (Self)
Riley, Janice (Self)
Sinclair, David (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Smith, Angela (Self; Fredericksburg Tea Party)
Turner, Andi (Texas State Rifle Association)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
York, Ruth (Self)
Zimmerman, Gary (Self)
Against:
Griffith, Idona (Self)
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
For:
Mobley Turney, Aimee (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)
Schenkkan, Frances (Self; Texas Gun Sense)
Switzer, Gyl (Texas Gun Sense)
Zhu, Ling (Self)
Against:
Belsick, Michael (Self)
Bolgiano, John (Self)
Bousman, Brett Sterling (Self; Dimmit County Republican Party)
Briscoe, Richard (Self; Legislative Director, Open Carry Texas)
Chambless, Dee (Diana) (Self; Smith County Republican Women)
Dahl, Donald (Self)
Deininger, Susan (Self)
Franklin, Jon (Self)
Guarco, Kyle (Self)
Hodges, Brad (Self)
Light, Ervin (Self)
Malone, Rachel (Self; Gun Owners of America)
Mica, Tara (National Rifle Association)
Mostert, Michelle (Self)
Muston, Billy (Self)
Overstreet, Mark (Self)
Price, Dylan (Self)
Raines, Charles (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Schafer, Eric (Self)
Swirsky, Alexie (Self)
Turner, Andi (Texas State Rifle Association)
Zimmerman, Gary (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allmon, Jennifer (The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops)
Griffith, Idona (Self)
Kerr, Lonzo (Self; Texas State Conference of NAACP)
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Wichers, Louis (Self; Texas Gun Sense)
Against:
Berlanga, Hugo (Self)
Brooks, Melanie (Self)
Bull, Felisha (Self; Gun Owners of America)
Fillip, Mark (Self)
Fitzpatrick, Robert (Self)
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Frazier, Frederick (Self; Dallas Police Assoc.State FOP)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Hendrix, Tommy (Self)
Holman, Frank (Self)
Louderback, Aj (Sheiffs Association of Texas)
McDowell, Brian (Self)
Muguira, Maritza (Self)
Riley, Janice (Self)
Sinclair, David (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Smith, Angela (Self; Fredericksburg Tea Party)
Taylor, Emily (Self)
Temple, David (Self)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
Wallace, Lee (Self)
Wallace, Tracy (Self)
York, Ruth (Self)
For:
Briscoe, Richard (Self; Legislative Director, Open Carry Texas)
Against:
Szimanski, Jennifer (CLEAT)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Griffith, Idona (Self)
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Just liberty)
Mobley Turney, Aimee (Self)
Against:
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Frazier, Frederick (Dallas Police Association)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Houston Police Officers' Union)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Sinclair, David (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
On:
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
For:
Bolgiano, John (Self)
Buntrock, James (Self; Glorious Way Church, Precinct Chair, Sd7 Chairman)
Chambless, Dee (Diana) (Self; Smith County Republican Women)
Light, Ervin (Self)
Mostert, Michelle (Self)
Muston, Billy (Self)
Price, Dylan (Self)
Schafer, Eric (Self)
Swirsky, Alexie (Self)
Against:
Behrman, John Robert (Self)
Mobley Turney, Aimee (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)
Switzer, Gyl (Texas Gun Sense)
Zhu, Ling (Self)
On:
Briscoe, Richard (Self; Legislative Director, Open Carry Texas)
Hodges, Brad (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Belsick, Michael (Self)
Brooks, Melanie (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Bull, Felisha (Self; Gun Owners of America)
Fitzpatrick, Robert (Self)
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Franklin, Jon (Self)
Frazier, Frederick (Self; Dallas Police Assoc.State FOP)
Guarco, Kyle (Self; Self)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Hendrix, Tommy (Self)
Holman, Frank (Self)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Malone, Rachel (Self; Gun Owners of America)
McDowell, Brian (Self)
Mica, Tara (National Rifle Association)
Muguira, Maritza (Self)
Perez, Diana (Self)
Perez, Noe (Self)
Raines, Charles (Self)
Riley, Janice (Self)
Smith, Angela (Self; Fredericksburg Tea Party)
Taylor, Emily (Self)
Temple, David (Self)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
Wallace, Lee (Self)
Wallace, Tracy (Self)
York, Ruth (Self)
Zimmerman, Gary (Self)
Against:
Collins, Daniel (County of El Paso)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Wichers, Louis (Self; Texas Gun Sense)
On:
Bitter, Adam (Secretary of State)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
For:
Zulkowski, Kyle (Self; College Station Police Department)
On:
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bridges, Chad (Self; Fort Bend County DA’s Office)
Frazier, Frederick (Dallas Police Association)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Frazier, Frederick (Self; Dallas Police Assoc.State FOP)
Johnson, Noel (Self; JPCA)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association)
Lopez, Carlos (Self; Justices of the peace and constables association of texas)
Nobis, Tom (Self; Harris County Republican Party)
Pantel, Jama (Justices of the Peace and Constables Association of Texas)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Scott, David (TCFV)
Shetter, Ken (Self; One Safe Place)
Sinclair, David (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Strandberg, Katherine (Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (TAASA))
Switzer, Gyl (Texas Gun Sense)
Szimanski, Jennifer (CLEAT)
Wichers, Louis (Self; Texas Gun Sense)
Williams, M Paige (Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot)
On:
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
For:
Briscoe, Richard (Self; Legislative Director, Open Carry Texas)
On:
Szimanski, Jennifer (CLEAT)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Belsick, Michael (Self)
Lovitt, Matthew (National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas)
McDowell, Brian (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Just liberty)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Riley, Janice (Self)
Smith, Angela (Self; Fredericksburg Tea Party)
York, Ruth (Self)
Against:
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Frazier, Frederick (Self; Dallas Police Assoc.State FOP)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Houston Police Officers' Union)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
On:
Fitzpatrick, Robert (Self)
Rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
For:
Black, Jenny (Self; SAFE Alliance)
Scott, David (Self; Tcfv)
Scott, David (Tcfv)
Strandberg, Katherine (Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (TAASA))
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Griffith, Idona (Self)
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Riley, Janice (Self)
Shetter, Ken (Self; One Safe Place)
On:
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
For:
McAngus, Drew (Travis County Constable Pct 3)
Nitsch, Julie (Travis constable pct 3)
Samuels, Eric (Texas Homeless Network)
On:
Anderson, Jessica (Houston Police Department)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Gilbert, Earl (Self; Equality Texas)
Guidangen, Jason (Self; Equality Texas)
Harris, Ashley (United Ways of Texas)
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
Lovitt, Matthew (National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas)
Martinez, Ricardo (Self; Equality Texas)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Riley, Janice (Self)
Williams, M Paige (Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot)
Against:
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
On:
Grissom, Cullen (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
For:
Bonner, Buck (Self)
Bounds, Stephen (Self)
Against:
Mitchell, Kathy (Just liberty)
Oakley, Keith ((ASSIST) Associated security services and investigators of the stase of Texas
and (TALI) Texas Association of Locensed Investigators)
Schafer, Eric (Self)
On:
Hester, Jason (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
Against:
Rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Szimanski, Jennifer (CLEAT)
On:
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
For:
Bolgiano, John (Self)
Briscoe, Richard (Self; Legislative Director, Open Carry Texas)
Brooks, Melanie (Self)
Franklin, Jon (Self)
Hodges, Brad (Self)
Light, Ervin (Self)
Mostert, Michelle (Self)
Muston, Billy (Self)
Overstreet, Mark (Self)
Schafer, Eric (Self)
Swirsky, Alexie (Self)
Taylor, Emily (Self)
Against:
Switzer, Gyl (Texas gun sense)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Wichers, Louis (Self; Texas Gun Sense)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Belsick, Michael (Self)
Bull, Felisha (Self; Gun Owners of America)
Fillip, Mark (Self)
Fitzpatrick, Robert (Self)
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Guarco, Kyle (Self; Self)
Hendrix, Tommy (Self)
Holman, Frank (Self)
Malone, Rachel (Self; Gun Owners of America)
McDowell, Brian (Self)
Mica, Tara (National Rifle Association)
Muguira, Maritza (Self)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Perez, Diana (Self)
Perez, Noe (Self)
Price, Dylan (Self)
Raines, Charles (Self)
Riley, Janice (Self)
Smith, Angela (Self; Fredericksburg Tea Party)
Temple, David (Self)
Turner, Andi (Texas State Rifle Association)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
Wallace, Lee (Self)
Wallace, Tracy (Self)
York, Ruth (Self)
Zimmerman, Gary (Self)
Against:
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
On:
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
For:
Almendarez, Alice (Self)
Fritts, David (Self)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Holt, Lynn (Self; Justices of the Peace and Constables Association of Texas)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Johnson, Noel (Self; JPCA)
Kahan, Andy (Crime Stoppers Houston)
Lopez, Carlos (Justices of the peace and constables association of texas)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Mitchell, Kathy (Just liberty)
Nobis, Tom (Self; Harris County Republican Party)
Pantel, Jama (Justices of the Peace and Constables Association of Texas)
Rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Szimanski, Jennifer (CLEAT)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
Zuiker, Sydney (Self; Crime Stoppers of Houston)
On:
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
For:
Briscoe, Richard (Self; Open Carry Texas)
Lopez Rolirad, Karen (Bexar County)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Lovitt, Matthew (National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Sinclair, David (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
Williams, M Paige (Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot)
On:
Grissom, Cullen (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
For:
Briscoe, Richard (Self; Legislative Director, Open Carry Texas)
Brooks, Melanie (Self)
Chambless, Dee (Diana) (Self; Smith County Republican Women)
Dahl, Donald (Self)
Franklin, Jon (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Hodges, Brad (Self)
Light, Ervin (Self)
Mica, Tara (National Rifle Association)
Mostert, Michelle (Self)
Muston, Billy (Self)
Overstreet, Mark (Self)
Perez, Noe (Self)
Schafer, Eric (Self)
Taylor, Emily (Self)
Against:
Switzer, Gyl (Texas gun sense)
Wichers, Louis (Self; Texas Gun Sense)
Zhu, Ling (Self)
On:
Bragiel, Justin (Texas Hotel and Lodging Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Belsick, Michael (Self)
Bolgiano, John (Self)
Bryan, Tina (Self)
Bull, Felisha (Self; Gun Owners of America)
Bull, Felisha (Self; Gun Owners of America)
Fillip, Mark (Self)
Fitzpatrick, Robert (Self)
Fossum, Michael (Self)
Frazier, Frederick (Self; Dallas Police Assoc.State FOP)
Guarco, Kyle (Self; Self)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Hendrix, Tommy (Self)
Holman, Frank (Self)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Malone, Rachel (Self; Gun Owners of America)
McDowell, Brian (Self)
McMahan, Stacy (Self; East Texans for Liberty)
Muguira, Maritza (Self)
Perez, Diana (Self)
Price, Dylan (Self)
Raines, Charles (Self)
Riley, Janice (Self)
Swirsky, Alexie (Self)
Temple, David (Self)
Turner, Andi (Texas State Rifle Association)
Vega-marchena, Zoila (Self)
11
WITNESS LIST
For:
Wallace, Lee (Self)
Wallace, Tracy (Self)
York, Ruth (Self)
Zimmerman, Gary (Self)
On:
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
For:
Riley, Janice (Self)
Against:
Malone, Rachel (Self; Gun Owners of America)
On:
Briscoe, Richard (Self; Legislative Director, Open Carry Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Keysor, Georgia (Self)
Mobley Turney, Aimee (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)
Against:
Belsick, Michael (Self)
Bolgiano, John (Self)
Fitzpatrick, Robert (Self)
McDowell, Brian (Self)
Smith, Angela (Self; Fredericksburg Tea Party)
York, Ruth (Self)
On:
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Associaction of Texas)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs Association of Texas)
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