WITNESS LIST
Public Education Committee
April 22, 2003-2:00P
HB 22
For: Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Newman, Anne (Self and Texas Justice Foundation)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
Against: Beneski, Amy (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
Carpenter, Bill (Houston ISD)
DeLeon, Marty (Texas Association of School Boards)
HB 173
For: Kester, Steve (American Electronics Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Smisko, Ann (Texas Education Agency)
HB 442
For: Boyd, Polly J. (Self)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
HB 469
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Ageny)
HB 511
For: Sabedra, Rosalinda (Edgewood I.S.D. / Dr. Luis Gonzales,
Superintendent of Education)
HB 552
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Beneski, Amy (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
Harris, Dwight (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 561
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
HB 607
Against: Smoot, Samantha (Texas Freedom Network)
HB 612
For: Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Sabedra, Rosalinda (Edgewood I.S.D / Dr. Luis Gonzales,
Superintendent of Education)
Against: Beneski, Amy (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
HB 773
For: Newman, Anne (Self and Texas Justice Foundation)
Against: DeLeon, Marty (TASB)
HB 774
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Lambert, Kay (Advocacy, Inc.)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
Against: Beneski, Amy (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
DeLeon, Marty (Texas Association of School Boards)
Harris, Dwight (Texas Federation of Teachers)
HB 860
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
Against: Hodgins, David (TASB/TASA)
On: Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
HB 1070
For: Beinke, David (Self)
Breeding, John (Self and Texans for Safe Education)
Davis, Edmund (Self)
Prough, Andrew (Citizens Commission on Human Rights)
Against: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
DeLeon, Marty (Texas Association of School Boards)
Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Jackson, Mary (Texas School Nurses Organization)
HB 1168
For: DeLeon, Marty (Texas Association of School Boards)
Against: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 1172
For: Ames, Bill (Self and Citizens For A Sound Economy)
Newman, Anne (Self and Texas Justice Foundation)
Against: Sanchez, Joe (M.A.L.D.E.F.)
Smoot, Samantha (Texas Freedom Network)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
Neavel, Richard (Self)
HB 1222
For: Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Soehnge, Karen (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
Thompson, David (Self)
HB 1314
For: Boyd, Polly J. (Self)
Eaton, Holly (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
HB 1504
For: Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Jackson, Mary (Texas School Nurse Organization)
Latham, Jeffery W (Self and Traumatec, Inc.)
Myers, Samuel (Self)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Tounget, Craig (Texas PTA)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 1857
For: Ames, Bill (Self)
Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Newman, Anne (Self and Texas Justice Foundation)
Schlueter, Linda (Texas Justice Foundation)
Shonebarger, Paul (Self)
Trotter, Richard Clayton (Self)
HB 1927
For: De La Garza, Veronica (American Diabetes Association)
Haley, Judith L (Texas Diabetes Council)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
Against: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
On: Ferry, Lt Col Robert (Self)
Jackson, Mary (Texas School Nurses Organization)
Ozias, Janice (Texas Diabetes Council & Texas Department
of Health)
HB 1988
For: Eaton, Holly (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Smisko, Ann (Texas Education Agency)
HB 2102
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
HB 2103
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Beneski, Amy (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
DeLeon, Marty (TASB)
Eckhart, Harley (Texas Elementary Principals &
Supervisors Association)
Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Dawson, Robert (Self)
HB 2108
For: Allamon, Dana (Self and Family & Consumer Sciences
Teachers Association of Texas)
Green, Terry (Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers
Association of Texas)
Hensley, Clayton (Self)
Holcombe, Linda (Texas Industrial Vocational
Association)
Ogden, Michael (Cleveland High School)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
Young, Gerald (Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Association)
HB 2167
For: Carpenter, Bill (Houston I.S.D.)
Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Eckhart, Harley (Texas Elementary Principals &
Supervisors Association)
Leyden, Tom (Texas Association of Secondary School
Principals)
Soehnge, Karen (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
On: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Eaton, Holly (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
HB 2218
For: Williams, Ellen (Houston ISD)
HB 2276
For: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
HB 2449
For: Nava, Lionel (YISD & Parents of the R.H.S. Community)
On: Anderson, David (Texas Education Agency)
HB 2527
For: Carpenter, Bill (Houston ISD)
Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers
Association)
James, Janelle (Houston ISD)
Williams, Ellen (Houston ISD)
Against: Bacon, Tim (TSTA)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 2528
For: Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Thompson, David (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
HB 2683
For: Beneski, Amy (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
Brown, Cindy (Northwest ISD)
Criswell, Donna (Northwest ISD)
DeLeon, Marty (TASB)
Volding, Jeffrey (Northwest ISD)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 2707
For: Hodgins, David (TCAN, TASB, & TASA)
HB 2822
For: Carpenter, Bill (Houston I.S.D.)
DeLeon, Michael (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Board)
Johnson, Georgia (Self)
Norrell, Carrol (Goliad Special Education Cooperative)
Price, Dennis (Self and Amarillo I.S.D.)
Soehnge, Karen (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
HB 2823
For: DeLeon, Marty (TASB)
DeLeon, Michael (Texas Association of School
Administrators)
Lambert, Kay (Advocacy, Inc.)
Statman, Rona (The Arc of Texas)
HB 2831
For: Ames, Bill (Self)
Crager, Vickie M.W. (Self)
Newman, Anne (Self and Texas Justice Foundation)
Schlueter, Linda (Texas Justice Foundation)
Shonebarger, Paul (Self)
Against: Green, Dorcas (Texas Assoc. School Boards & Texas Assoc
School Admin)
Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers)
Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
Whitsett, JoHannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 2908
For: Bond, Nathan (Texas Foreign Language Association)
Coachman, Frank (TX Assc. for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation, and Dance)
Cornwell, Betsy (TX Educational Theatre Assc., and
Center for Educator Development in the Fine Arts)
Eaton, Holly (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Eckhart, Harley (Texas Elementary Principals &
Supervisors Association)
Floyd, Robert (TX Music Educators Assc., and Texas
Coalition for Quality Arts Education)
Leyden, Tom (Texas Association of Secondary School
Principals)
Marstaller, Kristen (Texas Art Education Association)
May, John (Texas Music Administrators Conference)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HB 3289
For: Carr, Mike (Self)
Wadsworth, Keith (Lago Vista Taxpayers Organized for
Fiscal and Academic Responsibility)
On: Winsoski, Joe (Texas Education Agency)
HB 3329
Against: Raab, Ted Melina (Texas Federation of Teachers)
HB 3458
For: Pewitt, Bill (Texas Licensed Child Care Association)
Whitsett, Jo-Hannah (Association of Texas Professional
Educators)
HJR 34
Against: Smoot, Samantha (Texas Freedom Network)