WITNESS LIST
HB 2641
HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORT
Public Health Committee
March 24, 1999 - 1:30P
For: Donovan, Jr., James D. (Amercaid Community Care)
Dunkelberg, Anne (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
Marshall, Susan (The Arc of Texas)
Schwartz, Jonas (United Cerebral Palsy of Texas)
Sjoberg, Elizabeth (Self)
Against: Baccus, Roy (Self)
Blackburn, Audley (Self and Alliance Of and For Visually
Impaired Texas)
Brown, Robert (Blind Industrial Workers of Texas)
Cherry, Evelyn (Self)
Coverson, Anita (Self)
Crosby, Norma (National Federation of the Blind of
Texas)
Good, Patricia Francis (Self)
Green, Deborah (Texas Guardianship Advisory Board)
Guerra, Edward (American Council of the Blind of Texas)
Nooasco, Joe (Self)
Pearcy, Jeff (Texas Association of Blind Entrepreneurs)
Pearcy, Zena (Texas Association of Parents of Blind
Children)
Scott, Chuck (Self)
Shaidnagle, Joe (Self and National Federation of the
Blind)
Skelton, Jr., James O (National Federation of the Blind
of Texas - Houston)
Snyder, Ruth (Self)
Ward, Nancy (Self)
On: Gilbert, Don (Health and Human Services Commission)
McGiffert, Lisa (Consumers Union)
Morris, Robert (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Murphree, Susan (Advocacy, Inc.)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas State Employees Union)
Salinas, Pam (Department of Economic Development)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Cernoch, Jennifer M. (Texas Respite Resource Network)
Garcia, David (Self)
Hardy, Alan (American Association of Retired Persons)
Jones, Kelley (Texas Association of Health Plans)
Against: Baccus, Bobbie (Self)
Baker, Norma (Self and National Federation of the Blind)
Castro, Raymond (Self)
Crosby, Glenn (National Federation of the Blind)
Datray, Trace (Self)
Doiron, Lawre (Self)
Hall, Clint (Self)
Higgins, Evelyn (Self)
Moore, Andrea (Self)
Porter, Joyce (Self and National Federation of the
Blind)
Puffer, Diane (National Federation of the Blind of
Texas)
Ray, Jimmie Vernon (Self)
Scott, Carol (Self)
Scott, Pamela (Self)
Snuggs, Edmund E. (Self)
Snuggs, Nancy McBryde (Self and John "Alan" McBryde)
Sofka, James (Self)
Toelle, Nancy (Self and Alliance Of and For Visually
Impaired Texans)
Williams, Sherry (Self)
Zamarripa, Gloria (National Federation for the Blind)
On: Alexander, Cindy (Comptroller of Public Accounts)
Martinez, Joseph A. (United Way of Texas)
Amendment (Maxey #1)
For: Carlile, M.D., Mary (Self and Texas Traumatic Brain
Injury Advisory Board)
Latham, Jeffrey W. (Texas Traumatic Brain Injury
Advisory Board)
Rossi, Sylvan (Self and Brain Injury Association of
Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Heiling, Elizabeth (Self)
Howe, Chip (Self and Brain Injury Association of Texas)
Longsine, William (Self)
Stepan, Sandra (Self and Brain Injury Association of
Texas)
Swift, Larry (Self and Brain Injury Association of
Texas, Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board)
Zitz-Evancih, Michael (Self)