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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

            Agriculture & Livestock Committee

            April 8, 2021 - 8:00 AM

            HB 2619

                 For:

                                 Mitchell, Colin (Self; National Center for Appropiate Technology)

                                 Schilling, Richard L. (Self; Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts)

                 On:

                                 Foster, John (State Soil and Water Conservation Board)

                                 Isom, Rex (State Soil and Water Conservation Board)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Benz, Simone (Self; Sustainable Food Center)

                                 Floerke Gouak, Sarah (Lower Colorado River Authority)

                                 Kercheval, Todd (Self; Texas Conservation Association for Water and Soil (TCAWS))

                                 McGeary, Judith (Self; Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance)

                                 Pitts, Jr, John (Farm&City)

                                 Reed, Cyrus (Lone Star Chapter Sierra Club)

                                 Schumann, Peyton (Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)

                                 Stone, Harold (Texas Farm Bureau)

                                 Turley, Darren (Texas Association of Dairymen)

            HB 3289

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Sinclair, David (Self)

                 On:

                                 Dudley, Patrick (Texas Department of Agriculture)

                                 Wright, Phil (Texas Department of Agriculture)

            HB 3855

                 On:

                                 Schwartz, Andy (Texas Animal Health Commission)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Choate, Elizabeth (Texas Veterinary Medical Association (TVMA))

            HB 3856

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Choate, Elizabeth (Texas Veterinary Medical Association (TVMA))

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 On:

                                 Schwartz, Andy (Texas Animal Health Commission)

            HB 3948

                 For:

                                 Hays, Susan (Self; Wild Hempettes)

                                 Hemphill, Coleman (Self; Texas Hemp Industries Association)

                                 Hemphill, Sheila (Self; Texas Hemp Industries Association. Texas Right To Know)

                                 Jackson, Elias (Vyripharm Enterprises)

                                 Kerns, Jesse (New Bloom Labs and Texas Hemp Coalition)

                                 Leake, W T Skip (PrimeMyBody.com)

                                 Maxwell, Zachary (Texas Hemp Growers)

                                 Meggs, Benjamin (Self; Bayou City Hemp Company, Texas Hemp Coalition)

                                 Owens, Aaron (Self; Tejas Hemp LLC and Texas Hemp Coalition)

                                 Salvaje, Shaun (Self)

                                 Williams, Jesse (Self)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Caldo, Aldo (Self)

                                 Carranza, Susana (Self)

                                 Castaneda, Tris (Texas Hemp Federation)

                                 Collins, Karen (Self)

                                 Corona, Cynthia (Self)

                                 Davis, Joy (Texas Farm Bureau)

                                 Garcia, Sarah (Self)

                                 Ingram, Ian (Self)

                                 Ingram, Jeri Lynn (Self)

                                 Keysor, Georgia (Self)

                                 MacDougal, Vanessa (Self)

                                 McLean, Gentry (Self)

                                 Melendez, Jennifer (Self)

                                 Murphy, Sarah (Self)

                                 Nolan, Ilissa (Texas Hemp Coalition)

                                 Perez, Rene (Self; Libertarian Party of Texas)

                                 Perry, Courtney (Self)

                                 Rick, Hardcastle (Self)

                                 Rivera, Brett (Self)

                                 Sinclair, David (Self)

                                 Torabi, Shayda (Self; Texas hemp coalition)

                 On:

                                 Hunter, Dan (Texas Department of Agriculture)

                                 Pahl, Stephen (Department of State Health Services)

                                 Rivera, Randy (Texas Department of Agriculture)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

            HB 4181

                 For:

                                 Choate, Elizabeth (Texas Veterinary Medical Association (TVMA))

                                 Golla, Steven (Self; Texas Veterinary Medical Association)

                                 Leyendecker, Sandra (Self)

                 On:

                                 Helenberg, John (Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Poinsett, Royce (Texs Veterinary Medical Association)

                                 Sinclair, David (Self)

            HB 4548

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Davis, Joy (Texas Farm Bureau)

                                 Essler, JC (Texas Poultry Federation)

                                 Kercheval, Todd (Texas Conservation Association fo Water and Soil)

                                 Laney, J Pete (Texas Citrus Mutual)

                                 Morris, Joe (Texas Forestry Association)

                                 Schumann, Peyton (Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association)

                                 Turley, Darren (Texas Association of Dairymen)

                                 Woodard, Shayne (Tyson Foods, Texas cotton ginners association)

                 On:

                                 Archer, Jimmy (Texas Department of Motor  Vehicles)

                                 Hunter, Dan (Texas Department of Agriculture)

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