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                                                                              WITNESS LIST

              SB 1563

              Senate Committee Report

              Open Government

              April 8, 2013 - 2:00 PM or upon adjournment

                         AGAINST COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE(CSSB 1563):

                                          Allison, Jim   General Counsel  (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas),

                                          Austin, TX

                        FOR:

                                          Aleshire, Bill   Attorney  (Self; Riggs, Aleshire & Ray PC), TX

                                          Fuentes, Diana   Editor & Publisher  (FOIFT), Del Rio, TX

                                          Patterson, Bill   Publisher- Denton Record-Chronicle  (Denton Record-Chronicle, Dallas

                                          Morning News & Texas Press Association), Denton, TX

                        AGAINST:

                                          Horton, Susan   Attorney  (Texas Municipal League), TX

                        ON:

                                          Campbell, Chuck   Attorney at Jackson Walker LLP  (Self) , TX

                                          Crawford, Amanda   Chief of Open Records Division  (Office of the Attorney General),

                                          Austin, TX

                                          Lee, Donald   Executive Director  (Texas Conference of Urban Counties), Austin, TX

                                          Prather, Laura   Attorney  (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas; Texas

                                          Association of Broadcasters & Texas Press Association), Austin, TX

                       Registering, but not testifying:

                        FOR:

                                          Baggett, Donnis   Executive Vice President  (Texas Press Association), Austin, TX

                                          Chadwick, Ashley    (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas), Austin, TX

                                          Forth, Kay   Legislative Liaison  (American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU of TX)), Austin,

                                          TX

                                          Morin, Tom   Publisher: President  (Daily Court Review), Houston, TX

                                          Schneider, Michael    (Texas Association of Broadcasters), Austin, TX

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