WITNESS LIST Veteran Affairs & Military Installations March 25, 2009 - 01:30 PM or upon adjournment SB  1022 FOR: Little, Morgan   Captain. USN (Retired)  (Reserve Officers Association of Texas),  Dripping Springs, TX ON: Garcia, Smiley   Legislative Liaison to the Adjutant General (also providing written testimony)  (Adjutant General's Department of Texas),  Austin, TX Vollbrecht, Stephen   General Counsel  (State Office of Risk Management),  Austin, TX Registering, but not testifying: For: Cunningham, Major James   President  (Texas Council of Chapters Military Officers Association. of America),  San Antonio, TX SB  1075 FOR: Palmer, Stephenie   Representative  (National Military Family Association),  Nolanville, TX Registering, but not testifying: For: Clark, Jeffrey   Volunteer  (Military Child Education Coalition),  Austin, TX Cunningham, Major James   President  (Texas Council of Chapters, Military Officers Association of America),  San Antonio, TX Exter, Monty   (Association of Texas Professional Educators),  Austin, TX Higgins, Carlos   Legislative Affairs Officer  (Military Officers Association of America - Austin Chapter),  Austin, TX Williams, Paige   (Texas Classroom Teachers Association),  Austin, TX SB  1408 FOR: Peters, Ray   Director  (Texas State Guard, Adjutant General's Department of Texas),  Austin, TX ON: Garcia, Smiley   Legislative Liaison to the Adjutant General  (Adjutant General's Department of Texas),  Austin, TX SB  1537 Registering, but not testifying: For: Cunningham, Major James   President  (Texas Council of Chapters, Military Officers Association of America),  Austin, TX Higgins, Carlos   Legislative Affairs Officer  (Military Officers Association of America - Austin Chapter),  Austin, TX Jacksits, Connie   Director, Veterans Education  (Texas Veterans Commission),  Elgin, TX Spahr, John   State Legislative Chairman  (Department of Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars),  Georgetown, TX On: Cooper, Connie   Assistant Director, Grants and Special Programs  (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board),  Austin, TX SB  1538 FOR: Montoya, Marco  (also providing written testimony)  (Self),  Austin, TX Zavala, Elaine   Student  (Self),  San Antonio, TX ON: Grundy, Allen   Program Manager  (University of Houston-Veterans Services),  Houston, TX Nier, James   Executive Director  (Texas Veterans Commission),  Pflugerville, TX Registering, but not testifying: For: Cunningham, Major James   President  (Texas Council of Chapters Military Officers Association of America),  San Antonio, TX Jimenez, Margarita   Secretary  (Student Veterans Association at University of Texas at Austin),  Austin, TX Spahr, John   State Legislative Chairman  (Department of Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars),  Georgetown, TX On: Cooper, Connie   Assistant Director Grants and Special Programs  (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board),  Austin, TX Jacksits, Connie   Director, Veterans Education  (Texas Veterans Commission),  Elgin, TX SCR 5 FOR: Elam, Earl   Historian  (Texas Heritage Museum at Hill College),  Hillsboro, TX Versluis, John   Director  (Texas Heritage Museum at Hill College),  Hillsboro, TX ON: Higgins, Carlos   Legislative Affairs Officer  (Military Officers Association of America - Austin Chapter) SCR 22 FOR: Quiroz, Michael   Principal  (US Hispanic Contractors Association),  Huntington Beach, CA Registering, but not testifying: For: Spahr, John   State Legislative Chairman  (Department of Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars),  Georgetown, TX SCR 38 FOR: Higgins, Carlos   Legislative Affairs Officer  (Military Officers Association of America - Austin Chapter),  Austin, TX Little, Morgan   Captain USN (Retired) (also providing written testimony)  (ROA/ESGR),  Dripping Springs, TX, TX Registering, but not testifying: For: Cunningham, Major James   President  (Texas Council of Chapters, Military Officers Association of America),  San Antonio, TX Green, Shawn   Staff Sergeant, US Army  (Self),  Sam Houston, TX Miterko, John   Chair, Government Affairs Commission  (Vietnam Veterans of America),  Austin, TX