WITNESS LIST
Higher Education Committee
April 19, 2017 - 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess
For:
Bryan, Sean (Tarrant County College Foundation)
Giovannini, Gene (Tarrant county college)
Sommerville, Frank (Tarrant County College Foundation)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Lewis, Raymond (Community college association of texas trustees)
Meador, Dustin (Texas Association of Community Colleges)
Poteat, Jennifer (Community College Association of Texas Trustees)
Sparks, Cheryl (Howard College)
Zarate, Roberto (Alamo colleges district)
On:
Beebe, Barbara (Self)
Wallace, Brent (Self)
On:
Hallmark, James (Texas A&M University System)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Cahn, Adam (Cahnman's Musings)
On:
Peebles, Rex (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
For:
Litle, Ben (Brazos Higher Education Authority)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Propes, Jay (Self; North Texas Higher Education Authority)
Turman, Ricky (Self; Brazos Higher Education Authority, Inc.)
Wambsganss, Phillip (Self; North Texas Higher Education Authority)
On:
Martin, Ken (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
For:
Forse, MD, Armour (Self; Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Health System)
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On:
Arbour, Courtney (Texas Workforce Commission)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Arnold, Ellen (Texas PTA)
Castillo, Evelyn C (City of Pharr)
Forse, Armour (Self)
Hawkins, John (Texas Hospital Association)
Lippincott, Elizabeth (Texas Border Coalition)
Meade, Alex (Mission Economic Development Corporation)
Milligan, Maureen (Teaching hospitals of texas)
Randolph, Ian (Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD)
Van de Putte, Leticia (Pharr San Juan Alamo Independent School District)
Villarreal, Bobby (Hidalgo county judge ramon garcia)
Against:
Beebe, Barbara (Self)
May, Joe (Dallas County Community College)
Meador, Dustin (Texas Association of Community Colleges)
Wallace, Brent (Self)
On:
Peebles, Rex (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
Poteat, Jennifer (Community College Association of Texas Trustees)
Against:
Vickers, Neil (Texas Association of Community Colleges)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Poteat, Jennifer (Community College Association of Texas Trustees)
Against:
Lewis, Raymond (Community college association of texas trustees)
Meador, Dustin (Texas Association of Community Colleges)
Wallace, Brent (Self)
Zarate, Roberto (Alamo colleges district)
On:
Eklund, Julie (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
For:
Kaiser, Chris (Texas Association Against Sexual Assault)
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Arnold, Jim (Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy)
Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)
Blinkhorn, Ashley (Self)
Francis, Will (National Association of Social Workers - Texas Chapter)
George, Maddie (Self)
Halbrook, Allen (Self)
Halbrook, Audrey (Self)
Harris, Dwight (Self; Texasaft)
Jones, Sarah (Self)
Weigel, Alicia (Self)
For:
Daverth, Gwen (Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)
Blinkhorn, Ashley (Self)
Bufkin, Alice (Healthy Futures of Texas)
Chisholm, Mechisholm@gmail.com (Self)
Harris, Dwight (Self; Texasaft)
Kreeger, Lauren (Self; The League of Women Voters of Texas)
For:
Barrera, George (Self)
Davis, Kade (Self; Barbers Hill Independent School District)
Lee, Blake (Self; Barbers Hill ISD)
Poole, Greg (Barbers Hill ISD - Superintendent)
Venters, Neely (Self)
Watkins, Nathan (Self; City Of Mont Belvieu, City Manager)
Against:
Alfaro, Pete (Self; Lee College Board of Regent)
Hall, Mark (Self; Lee College Board of Regents)
Moore-Fontenot, Susan (Self; Lee College Board of Regents)
On:
Brown, Dr. Dennis (Lee College)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ponder, Barbara (Self; Barbers Hill ISD)
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Against:
Beebe, Barbara (Self)
Coburn, Keith (Self; Lee College Board of Regents)
Haddox, Ronald (Self; Lee College Board of Regents)
Lewis, Raymond (Community college association of texas trustees)
Meador, Dustin (Texas Association of Community Colleges)
Poteat, Jennifer (Community College Association of Texas Trustees)
Wallace, Brent (Self)
Zarate, Roberto (Alamo colleges district)
On:
Peebles, Rex (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)
Hernandez, Steven (Self)
Martinez, Ray (Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas (ICUT))
On:
Booker, Jerel (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Lewis, Raymond (Community college association of texas trustees)
Peebles, Rex (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
Poteat, Jennifer (Community College Association of Texas Trustees)
Zarate, Roberto (Alamo colleges district)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Davenport, Becky (Self; Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy)
Davis, Lindsey (Self)
Hansch, Greg (Self; National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) TX)
Harris, Dwight (Self; Texasaft)
Rosales-Elkins, Deborah (Self; NAMI Texas)
Smith, Jeanene (Self; Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapists Government
Affairs Chair)
Thurston, James (United Ways of Texas)
Yanas, Christine (Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas)
On:
Puls, Chad (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
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For:
Tharp, Susan (Self; San Antonio Food Allergy Support Team)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Alexander, Troy (Texas Medical Association)
Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)
Banning, Tom (Texas Academy of Family Physicians)
Cates, Andrew (Texas Nurses Association)
Harris, Dwight (Self; Texasaft)
Meador, Dustin (Texas Association of Community Colleges)
Tharp, Rebecca (Self)
Townsend, Paul (Children's Hospital Association of Texas)
Travis, Clayton (Texas Pediatric Society)
Vadca, Belinda (Self)
Against:
Cahn, Adam (Cahnman's Musings)
On:
Auzenne, David (Department of State Health Services)
Peebles, Rex (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Scheberle, Drew (The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce)
On:
Paredes, Raymund (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
Peebles, Rex (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
On:
Booker, Jerel (Higher Education Coordinating Board)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Harris, Dwight (Self; Texasaft)
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