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                                                                              WITNESS LIST

              HB 616

              HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORT

              Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee

              March 6, 2019 - 8:00 AM

                       For :

                                 Black, Jenny (Self; SAFE Alliance)

                                 Jerwick, Sophie (Self; Deeds Not Words)

                                 Masters, Bertha Lavinia (Self)

                                 Shahane, Rhea (Deeds Not Words)

                                 Strandberg, Katherine (Self; TEXAS ASSOCIATION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT)

                                 Zeko, Tatum (Deeds Not Words)

                       On :

                                 McCleskey, Gene (Office of Attorney General)

                                 Yoder, Katherine (Parkland Health & Hospital System)

                       Registering, but not testifying:

                       For :

                                 Anderson, Jessica (Houston Police Department)

                                 DeFrates, Ana (Self; Survivor Justice Project)

                                 Francis, Will (National Association of Social Workers - Texas Chapter)

                                 Giardino, Vincent (Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney's Office)

                                 Green, Christina (Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas, Inc.)

                                 Haverlah, Kirsha (Self)

                                 Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact)

                                 Martin, Emily (Self)

                                 Ostrander, Rita (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas)

                                 Ott, Olivia (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                                 Phan, Linda (Texas council on family violence)

                                 Piccola, Kyle (The Arc of Texas)

                                 Reed, Charles (Dallas County Commissioners Court)

                                 Rhodes, Terrence (Dallas Police Department)

                                 Rocap, Blake (NARAL Pro-Choice Texas)

                                 Wang, Jasmine (Self; NARAL Pro Choice Texas)

                       On :

                                 Garcia, Lynn (Texas Forensic Science Commission)

                                 Lesko, Michael (Texas DPS)

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