WITNESS LIST
Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee
March 28, 2023 - 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
Against:
Dewey, Elizabeth (Self)
Glass, Tom (Self; Texas Constitutional Enforcement)
Hemmens, Christin (Self)
Porter, Gregory (Self; Texas For Liberty)
On:
Gipson, Sheri (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Foster, Wendy (Independent Bankers Assoc of Texas)
Miller, Jeff (DocTrace)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Against:
Aguirre, Jane (Self)
Anderson, Lou (Self)
Bovik, Kai (Self)
Gremont, Lindsey (Self)
Ibe, Natalie (Self)
McCarty, Julie (Self; True Texas Project)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
On:
Evans, Michelle (Self)
For:
Salazar, Javier (Self; Bexar County Sheriff’s Office; Urban County Sherriff's Committee of the
Sherrif Assoc. of Texas)
On:
Grissom, Cullen (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Batton, David (Harris County Deputies Organization FOP 39)
Cavazos, Sergio (City of Fort Worth)
Chancellor, John (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of El Paso)
Franco, Brie (City of Austin)
Hunt, Ray (Self; HPOU)
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For:
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Kay, Cicely (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association)
Morris, Joe (Game Warden Peace Officers Assoc.)
Narvaez, Tammy (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Pantel, Jama (Justices of the Peace and Constables Association of Texas)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Rubin, Scott (Texas Police Chief Association)
Ruiz, Heidi (Houston Police Department)
Smith, James (San Antonio Police Department)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso Commissioners Court)
Wynn, Monty (Texas Municipal League)
On:
Schenck, Chris (Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Christensen, Laurie (Harris County Fire Marshal)
Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact)
Kay, Cicely (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Mazur, Jeremy (Texas 2036)
Narvaez, Tammy (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso Commissioners Court)
On:
Kidd, Nim (TX Division of emergency management)
Against:
Carson, Bethany (Self; Grassroots Leadership)
Hendrickson, Andrew (ACLU of Texas)
Ma, Nicole (Self; Woori Juntos)
Sanchez, Rebecca (Self)
Sybille, Sybil (Self; Grassroots Leadership)
Wu, Steven (Self; Woori Juntos)
On:
Hicks, Matt (Texas Department of Public Safety)
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Chancellor, John (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Hunt, Ray (Self; HPOU)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Against:
Bay, Alexis (Self; Texas Civil Rights Project)
Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of El Paso)
Kolodny, Zachary (Self)
Nguyen, Quynh-Huong (Self; Woori Juntos)
Puente, Jaime (Every Texan)
For:
Rubin, Scott (Texas Police Chief Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cavazos, Sergio (City of Fort Worth)
Chancellor, John (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of El Paso)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Pressley, Nikki (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Wynn, Monty (Texas Municipal League)
On:
Grissom, Cullen (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
For:
Dippel, Donnie (Self; Texas Ag Industries Association)
On:
Gipson, Sheri (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Villarreal, Omar (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Davis, Joy (Texas Farm Bureau)
Dow, Jim (Texas Craft Brewers Guild)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
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Against:
Grisolia, Christopher (Self; Texas Cannabis Collective)
Kolodny, Zachary (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Bay, Alexis (Self; Texas Civil Rights Project)
Birkholz, Jennie (Self)
Carson, Bethany (Self; Grassroots Leadership)
Doyle, Madeline (Self)
Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact)
Ma, Nicole (Self; Woori Juntos)
Meitzen, Nicole (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Just Liberty)
Nguyen, Quynh-Huong (Self; Woori Juntos)
Puente, Jaime (Every Texan)
Stewart, Susan (Self)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso Commissioners Court)
Wu, Steven (Self; Woori Juntos)
For:
Gebhaer, Nicholas (Self; Austin Police Dept)
Gil, Matthew (Austin Police Department)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Batton, David (Harris County Deputies Organization FOP 39)
Cavazos, Sergio (City of Fort Worth)
Gonzalez, Julio (Dallas Police Department)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; HPOU)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association)
ORyan, Anne (AAA TEXAS)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Ruiz, Heidi (Houston Police Department)
Salazar, Javier (Self; Bexar county sheriffs office)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
Stewart, Susan (Self)
Wynn, Monty (Texas Municipal League)
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For:
Tomsu, Michael (Texas 9-1-1 Alliance)
VanSteenberg, Chip (Montgomery County Emergency Communication District)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cavazos, Sergio (City of Fort Worth)
Goerke, James (Texas 911 Alliance)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
Laney, J Pete (State Firefighters' & Fire Marshals' Association)
Messer, Caroline (AT&T)
Montford, John T. (Self; AT&T)
Paxton, Bill (Tarrant 911 District)
Raulston, Natalie (City of Arlington)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso Commissioners Court)
Weist, Jon (City of Irving)
On:
Roquemore, Clarisse (Comptroller of Public Accounts)
On:
Gipson, Sheri (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Evans, Michelle (Self)
Gonzalez (Self)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Against:
Kolodny, Zachary (Self)
Ma, Nicole (Self; Woori Juntos)
Nguyen, Quynh-Huong (Self; Woori Juntos)
Wu, Steven (Self; Woori Juntos)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Chancellor, John (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Hunt, Ray (Self; HPOU)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association)
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For:
Morris, Joe (Game Warden Peace Officers Assoc.)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Stewart, Susan (Self)
Against:
Kolodny, Zachary (Self)
Ma, Nicole (Self; Woori Juntos)
Nguyen, Quynh-Huong (Self; Woori Juntos)
Wu, Steven (Self; Woori Juntos)
On:
Gipson, Sheri (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Gipson, Sheri (Texas Department of Public Safety)
For:
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Gustin, Virginia (Self)
Hunt, Ray (Self; HPOU)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association)
Margolis, Eve (Self)
Morris, Joe (Game Warden Peace Officers Assoc.)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
On:
Gipson, Sheri (Texas Department of Public Safety)
For:
Bresnen, Steve (PGM of Texas)
Doran, Laird (Gulf States Toyota)
On:
Floyd, Beaman (Texas Coalition for Affordable Insurance Solutions)
Hester, Jason (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Wright, Mel (Recycling Council of Texas)
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Batton, David (Harris County Deputies Organization FOP 39)
Braziel, Robert (Texas Automobile Dealers Association)
Campbell, Drew (AAFIA)
Chancellor, John (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Deadrick, June (CenterPoint Energy)
Gonzalez, Julio (Dallas Police Department)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; HPOU)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association)
Millette, Richard (Self)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
ORyan, Anne (AAA TEXAS)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Ruiz, Heidi (Houston Police Department)
Shields, Chris (Toyota)
Smith, James (San Antonio Police Delartment)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Weist, Jon (City of Irving)
Wilkes, Morris (New Car Dealers of West Texas)
Wynn, Monty (Texas Municipal League)
For:
Reed, Dallas (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))
On:
Grissom, Cullen (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Evans, Michelle (Self)
Hunt, Ray (Self; HPOU)
Millette, Richard (Self)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Against:
Carson, Bethany (Self; Grassroots Leadership)
Reyes, Sarah (Texas Center for Justice and Equity)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
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On:
Hicks, Matt (Texas Department of Public Safety)
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