WITNESS LIST

HB 139

HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORT

Insurance Committee

March 26, 2025 - 8:00 AM

For :

Burdett, Jeff (NFIB)

Girvan, Gregg (Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity)

Hamer, Glenn (Texas Association of Business)

Hutson, Blake (Texas Association of Health Plans)

Isett, Carl (Self; Texas Association of Benefit Administrators)

Meroney, Shannon (NABIP-TX (National Association of Benefits and Insurance

Professionals))

Spilman, Annie (Texans for Affordable Healthcare)

Watts, Jessica (National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals- Texas)

Against :

Bearden, Chase (Self; Coalition of Texans with Disabilities)

Beckmon, Morgan (Self; NeuroRestorative)

Carriker, Terri (Self; Protect texas fragile kids)

De LaGarza-Barone, Heather (Texas Hospital Association)

Masel, Brent (Self; Texas Brain Injury Providers Alliance)

Nicewarner Daly, Melissa (Self; Brain Injury Association of America)

Samaratunga, Erin (NeuroRestorative)

Silva, Ezequiel “Zeke” (Self; Texas Medical Association)

On :

Jones-Smith, Tiffany (Self; Texas Kidney Foundation)

Registering, but not testifying:

For :

Duncan, Cameron (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas)

GLENN, ERIC (SUPERIOR HEALTH PLAN)

Rutledge, Gray (Texas Conservative Coalition)

Simmons, Carrie (Texas Employers for Affordable Healthcare)

Against :

Allen, Sara (Texas college of emergency physicians)

Allen, Sara (Texas radiological society)

Allen, Sara (Texas society of pathologists)

Banning, Tom (Texas Academy of Family Physicians)

Busse, Christine (NAMI Texas)

Comfort, Mark (Self)

Cowles, Lynn (Every Texan)

Dobson, Diana (Texans for Health Access)

Evans, Richard (Texas Society of Anesthesiologists)

Fox, Januari (Prism Health North Texas Administration)

Gagen, Charlie (Ameeican Lung Association)

Galligher, Duane (Texas Pharmacy Association)

Galligher, Duane (Texas Association of Addiction Professionals; Association of Substance

Abuse Programs)

Griffin, Allison (Texans for Health Access)

Kuykendall, Deanna L. (Texas Brain Injury Providers Alliance)

Reynolds, David (Texas Chapter American College of Physicians)

Sheffield, Austin (Self; Rehab Without Walls)

Travis, Clayton (Texas Pediatric Society)

Wittenburg, Michelle (USAP-TX)

Woomer, Eric (Federation of Texas Psychiatry, Texas Dermatological Society, Texas

Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology Society)