The House Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues
79th Legislature
February 9, 2005
10:30 a.m. or upon final adjourn./recess
Capitol Extension, E2.014
Pursuant to a notice posted on February 4, 2005, the House
Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues met in a public
hearing and was called to order by the chair, Representative
Dutton, at 12:07 p.m.
The roll was answered as follows:
Present: Representatives Dutton; Goodman; Castro; Davis,
Yvonne; Thompson (5).
Absent: Representatives Dunnam; Moreno, Joe E.; Nixon; Strama
(4).
A quorum was present.
(Representative Strama now present.)
The chair recognized invited testimony from the following
agencies:
Testimony was taken. (See attached witness list.)
The Honorable Thomas Stansbury, Texas Family Law Foundation
Ms. Vicki Spriggs, Executive Director- Texas Juvenile Probation
Commission
Mr. Dwight Harris, Executive Director- Texas Youth Commission
Mr. Weldon T. Graham, Budget Director- Texas Youth Commission
Dr. Linda Reyes, Deputy Executive Director- Texas Youth
Commission
Mr. Richard Casey Hoffman, Deputy Attorney General- Office of
the Attorney General
Ms. Alicia Key, Director, Child Support Division- Office of the
Attorney General
Mr. Jim Underwood, Director, Family and Legal Policy- Office of
the Attorney General
Mr. Robert Martinez, Director, Juvenile Crime Intervention-
Office of the Attorney General
Professor John J. Sampson, Self
At 1:57 p.m., on the motion of the chair and without objection,
the meeting was adjourned subject to the call of the chair.
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Rep. Dutton, Chair
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Nicole R. Bates, Clerk