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WITNESS LIST
Elections Committee
March  16, 2009 - 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess
HB  513
 
    For:
Green, Blake (Help America's Youth Vote)
 
 
Sanders, Christina (Help America's Youth Vote)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
Johnson, Ed (Harris County Tax Office)
 
 
Wallace, Skipper (Texas Republican County Chair's Association)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
McGeehan, Ann (Texas Secretary of State)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Gutierrez, Anthony (Texas Democratic Party)
 
 
Privett, Anita (League of Women Voters of Texas)
 
 
Santana, Sonia (ACLU-TX)
 
 
 
 
HB  536
 
    For:
DeBeauvoir, Dana (Legislative Committee for Co. and District Clerks Assoc. of Texas)
 
 
Johnson, Ed (Harris County Tax Office)
 
 
Wallace, Skipper (Texas Republican County Chair's Association)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Nickless, Melinda (Secretary of State)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Pardue, Craig (Dallas County)
 
 
Privett, Anita (League of Women Voters of Texas)
 
 
Santana, Sonia (ACLU-TX)
 
 
 
 
HB  551
 
    For:
DeBeauvoir, Dana (Legislative Committee for Co. and District Clerks Assoc. of Texas)
 
 
Wallace, Skipper (Texas Republican County Chair's Association)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Nickless, Melinda (Secretary of State)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Privett, Anita (League of Women Voters of Texas)
 
 
Santana, Sonia (ACLU-TX)
 
 
 
 
HB  790
 
    For:
Figueroa, Luis (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF))
 
 
Santana, Sonia (ACLU-TX)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
Crawford, Lauren (Texas Municipal League)
 
 
Johnson, Ed (Harris County Tax Office)
 
 
Wallace, Skipper (Texas Republican County Chair's Association)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Mc Geehan, Ann (Office of Secretary of State)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Miller, Jeff (Advocacy Incorporated and the Disability Policy Consortium)
 
 
Sanchez, Joe (AARP of Texas)
 
 
 
 
HB  1103
 
    For:
Wallace, Skipper (Texas Republican County Chair's Association)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
Johnson, Ed (Harris County Tax Office)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Mc Geehan, Ann (Office of the Secretary of State)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Privett, Anita (League of Women Voters of Texas)
 
 
 
 
HB  1143
 
    For:
Wallace, Skipper (Texas Republican County Chair's Association)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
England, Samuel  (Self and ACLU of Texas)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Mc Geehan, Ann (Office of the Secretary of State)
 
 
Nickless, Melinda (Secretary of State)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Johnson, Ed (Harris County Tax Office)
 
 
Martinez, Maria (Immigration and Reform Coalition of Texas)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Miller, Jeff (Advocacy Incorporated)
 
 
 
 
HJR 34
 
    For:
Green, Blake (Help America's Youth Vote)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
Johnson, Ed (Harris County Tax Office)
 
 
Wallace, Skipper (Texas Republican County Chair's Association)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Mc Geehan, Ann (Office of the Secretary of State)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Gutierrez, Anthony (Texas Democratic Party)
 
 
Santana, Sonia (ACLU-TX)