WITNESS LIST
Culture, Recreation & Tourism Committee
March  24, 2009 - 12:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess
HB  661
 
    For:
Akers, Cecilia Garcia  (Self)
 
 
Birmingham, Patrick (Corpus Christi Caller - Times)
 
 
Canales, Barbara (Dr. Hector P. Garcia Family)
 
 
Elliff, Scott  (Self)
 
 
Herrera, Paul (The American G.I Forum of Texas)
 
 
Maline, John  (Self)
 
 
Ortiz, Joe (The American G.I. Forum of Corpus Christi, Texas)
 
 
Protas, Elizabeth  (Self)
 
 
Rodriguez, Gil (American GI Forum)
 
 
Vazquez-Contez, Patricia M.  (Self)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Berlanga, Hugo  (Self)
 
 
Garcia  C, Elizabeth  (Self)
 
 
Garza, Rudy (City of Corpus Christi)
 
 
Luna, Vilma  (Self)
 
 
Neal Jr, Samuel L. (Nueces County Com. Court)
 
 
 
 
HB  664
 
     On:
Pollard, Kenneth (Texas Parks & Wildlife)
 
 
 
 
HB  665
 
     On:
Pollard, Kenneth (Texas Parks & Wildlife)
 
 
 
 
HB  795
 
    For:
Arnold, Jim (Jewish Federation of Greater Houston)
 
 
Goodgame, Lisa (Anti-Defamation League & Jewish Community Association of Austin)
 
 
Verveer, Chaja (Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Houston)
 
 
Webeck, Mary Lee (Holocaust Museum Houston)
 
 
 
 
HB  1739
 
    For:
Anderson, Barbara G (Native Plant Society of Texas)
 
 
Schwartzman, Steven  (Self)
 
 
Tessnow, Faye (Native Plant Society of Texas)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Bulla, Dale  (Self)
 
 
Bulla, Pat  (Self)
 
 
Hadden, Karen Hadden (SEED Coalition)
 
 
Stout, Bill (Green Party of Texas)
 
 
 
 
HB  1805
 
    For:
Virden, Stacie  (Self and President, Texas Optometric Assn.
)
 
 
 
 
HB  2088
 
    For:
Bulla, Dale  (Self)
 
 
England, Richard  (Self)
 
 
Love, Matthew  (Self)
 
 
Schwartzman, Steven  (Self)
 
 
Sessler, Jordan (EcoTexas)
 
 
Whitlow, Elizabeth  (Self)
 
 
Wiseman, Sue  (Self and Past President, Native Plant Society of TX)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
Reaves, Jim (Texas Nursey and Landscape Association)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Kostroun, David (Texas Department of Agriculture)
 
 
Waitt, Damon (Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center  Texas Invasive Plant & Pest Council)
 
 
Wright Steele, Catherine (Texas Department of Agriculture)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Bajekal, Rishi (EcoTexas)
 
 
Bulla, Pat  (Self)
 
 
Estes, Howard (Eco Texas)
 
 
Giacomazza, Angelina (EcoTexas)
 
 
Hadden, Karen (Seed Coalition)
 
 
Mathes, Alexander  (Self)
 
 
Myers, Grace-Katharine (Eco Texas)
 
 
Peierls, Stefan (eco Texas)
 
 
Stout, Bill (Green Party of Texas)
 
 
Timmons, Joseph (EcoTexas)
 
 
Walker, Scott  (Self)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Davis, John (TX Parks & Wildlife Dept as a Reource witness only.)
 
 
 
 
HB  2229
 
    For:
Golden, Robert Brian (Aircraft Maintenance Technicians Association  Ken Mactiesman)
 
 
 
 
HCR 16
 
    For:
Denny, Gretchen (Fort Worth Museum of Science and History)
 
 
Pan, Aaron (Forth Worth Museum of Science and History)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
Murthy, Shashwath  (Self)
 
 
 
 
HCR 53
 
    For:
Head, Logan  (Self)
 
 
 
 
HCR 71
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Doherty, Joanne  (Self)
 
 
Edmundson, Dean (Burton Cotton Gin Museum, Inc.)
 
 
Felder, Peggy  (Self)
 
 
Linke, Glenn  (Self)
 
 
Moore, Jerry (Burton Cotton Gin Museum)
 
 
Prenzler, Glen  (Self)
 
 
Russell, Linda (Burton Cotton Gin Museum)
 
 
Williams, Tony (Texas Cotton Ginners' Association)
 
 
Winkler, Roy  (Self)
 
 
 
 
HCR 72
 
    For:
Casey, Doug  (Self)
 
 
Hammonds, Gene (Economic Development Alliance)
 
 
Rutherford, Clive (Lago Vista Area Chamber of Commerce)
 
 
Stevens, Amy (Lago Vista Economic Development Alliance and Hines, Inc.)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Parker, Rita  (Self)