WITNESS LIST

            Defense & Veterans' Affairs Committee

            March 22, 2021 - 10:00 AM

HB 1589

                 For:

                                 Cabrera, Maria (Self; Houston Police Department)

                                 Farr, Paul (Self; City of Dallas Police Department)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Carranza, Susana (Self)

                                 Griffith, Idona (Self)

                                 Reed, Dallas (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))

HB 1736

                 For:

                                 Castillo, Melissa (Veterans County Service Officers Association of Texas - Vice-President

                                 (Current))

                                 Kemp, Josh (Self; Tcjc)

                                 Williams, Jeremy R (Self; Marine Corps League / Dept. of Texas)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Collins, Daniel (County of El Paso)

                                 Lovitt, Matthew (National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas)

                                 Norris, Robert (Self)

                                 Reed, Charles (Dallas County Commissioners Court)

                                 Schaffner, Russell (Tarrant County)

                                 Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)

                 On:

                                 Zamora, April (Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

HB 1936

                 For:

                                 Campbell, Scott (US Army Special Forces Association - Austin Chapter)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Carranza, Susana (Self)

                                 Griffith, Idona (Self)

                 On:

                                 Thompson, Clint (Texas Department of Motor Vehicles)

HB 2115

                 For:

                                 Castillo, Melissa (Veterans County Service Officers Association of Texas - Vice-President

                                 (Current))

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WITNESS LIST

                 For:

                                 Hilbert, Emma (Texas Civil Rights Project)

                                 Romo, Lawrence (American G.I. Forum)

                                 Williams, Jeremy R (Self; Marine Corps League / Dept. of Texas)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Collins, Daniel (County of El Paso)

HB 2167

                 For:

                                 Jordan, JP (Self; 2nd LT Lloyd Pete Hughes Group)

                                 Slack, Michael (Self)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Berlanga, Hugo (Self)

HB 2210

                 For:

                                 Bonner, Stephen (Self)

                                 Canales, Barbara (Nueces Count Commissioners Court)

                                 Stinson, Lori (San Antonio Chamber of Commerce; Governors Committee to Support the

                                 Military)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Ayala, General Juan (Texas Mayors of Military Communities (TMMC))

                                 Berlanga, Hugo (Self; Nueces county)

                                 Collins, Daniel (County of El Paso)

                                 Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of el paso)

                                 Embrey, Tammy (City of Corpus Christi)

                                 Romo, Joel (Nueces County)

                                 Schaffner, Russell (Tarrant County)

                                 Smith, R Clint (Abilene Chamber of Commerce)

                                 Van de Putte, Leticia (City of Del Rio)

HB 2307

                 For:

                                 Willis, Brandon (IUOE Local 450)

                 On:

                                 Arbour, Courtney (Texas Workforce Commission)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Ayala, General Juan (Texas Mayors of Military Communities (TMMC))

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                 For:

                                 Harris, Dana (The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce)

                                 Lara, Rene (Texas AFL-CIO)

                                 McCord, John (NFIB)

                                 Stinson, Lori (San Antonio Chamber of Commerce; Governors Committee to Support the

                                 Military)

                                 Tredway, CJ (Independent Electrical Contractors of Texas)

                                 Weiner, Molly (United Ways of Texas)

HB 2356

                 For:

                                 4theLord, Soldier (Self)

                                 Fuller, Mitch (Self; Department of Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) aka Texas VFW)

                                 Lowe, Al (Self; Texas VFW)

                                 Mata, Eric (Self)

                                 Small, VR (Veteran Women's Enterprise Center (VWEC))

                 On:

                                 Harris, Blake (Texas Veterans Commission)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Carranza, Susana (Self)

                                 Griffith, Idona (Self)

                                 Norris, Robert (Self)

                                 Reed, Charles (Dallas County Commissioners Court)

                                 Reed, Ender (Harris County Commissioners Court)

                                 Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)

HB 2678

                 For:

                                 Creighton, Rebecca (Self)

                                 Holley, James (Self)

HB 2739

                 For:

                                 Sabo, Jason (Children at Risk)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Ayala, General Juan (Texas Mayors of Military Communities (TMMC))

                                 Stinson, Lori (San Antonio Chamber of Commerce; Governors Committee to Support the

                                 Military)

                                 Weiner, Molly (United Ways of Texas)

                                 Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)

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WITNESS LIST

HB 2740

                 For:

                                 Stinson, Lori (San Antonio Chamber of Commerce; Governors Committee to Support the

                                 Military)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Ayala, General Juan (Texas Mayors of Military Communities (TMMC))

                                 Harris, Dana (The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce)

                                 Lara, Rene (Texas AFL-CIO)

                                 Tredway, CJ (Independent Electrical Contractors of Texas)

HCR 25

                 For:

                                 Bennett, Tony (Texas Assn of Manufacturers)

                                 Chase, Brian (Bell)

HCR 51

                 For:

                                 Fuller, Mitch (Self; Department of Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) aka Texas VFW)

Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Nuss, Melynda (Self)

                                 Smith, Jamaal (City of Houston, Office of the Mayor Sylvester Turner)

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