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                                                                              WITNESS LIST

              HB 3766

              HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORT

              Higher Education Committee

              April 27, 2017 - 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess

                       Against :

                                 Brennan, Jim (Self; Texas Coalition of Veterans Organizations)

                                 Cunningham, James (Texas Coalition of Veterans Organizations and Texas Council of

                                 Chapters of the Military Officers Association of America)

                                 Darwin, Jim (Self)

                                 Gonzalez, Victor (Self; Student Veterans Association)

                                 Hince, John (Self; American Legion)

                                 Ivie, Walter (Self; American Legion Department of Texas)

                                 Mckinny, John (Self; American Legion)

                                 Ransom, Travis (Self)

                                 Silva, Javier (Self; Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion)

                                 Torres, Ann Marie (VFW Post 2375)

                                 West, Dan (Self; Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars)

                       On :

                                 Palladino, Thomas (Texas veterans commission)

                                 Paredes, Raymund (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board)

                       Registering, but not testifying:

                       Against :

                                 Briscoe, Rick (Self)

                                 Craig, Terry (Self; Veterans of Foreign Wars , Leander Tx Post 10427)

                                 Doffing, Kevin (Self; Lone Star Veterans Association)

                                 Frye, Edward (Self)

                                 Jimenez, Manuel (Self; ATXVET)

                                 Lumpkin, Peyton (Self; Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars)

                                 Martin, Will (Self; American Legion)

                                 Norton, Douglas (Self; American Legion George Johns Post 447)

                                 Owen, Mike (Self; Vfw 4443 oak hill)

                                 Pearce, Matt (Self)

                                 Russell, Claudia (El Paso County)

                                 Smith, Arianna (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, CLEAT)

                       On :

                                 Bryant, Charles (Texas veterans commission)

                                 Eklund, Julie (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board)

                                 Micallef, Tammy (Texas veterans commission)

                                 Paredes, Raymund (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board)

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