WITNESS LIST
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Committee
March 19, 2025 - 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
For:
Escott, Mark (City of Austin)
On:
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Kidd, Nim (TDEM)
Martin, Freeman (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Stevens, Greg (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brock, Alison (Texas Association of School Boards)
Easley, Jennifer (Texas PTA)
Gutierrez, Spencer (City of Sugar Land)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
McMahan, Stacy (Self; East Texans for Liberty)
Moledina, Ayaan (Self)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Romo, Joel (Texas Ambulance Association)
On:
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Rubin, Scott (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Ruiz, Heidi (Houston Police Department)
For:
Blair, Ammon (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Against:
Hendrickson, Andrew (ACLU of Texas)
Woodward, Daniel (Texas Civil Rights Project)
On:
Villarreal, Omar (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Glass, Tom (Self)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Kershaw, James (Harris County Deputies' Organization FOP #39)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Assoc)
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Against:
Kalthoff, Wendy (Self)
Kalythoff, Wendy (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Kershaw, James (Harris County Deputies' Organization FOP #39)
Against:
Malik, Natasha (Texas Appleseed)
Martinez, Justin (Self; LatinoJustice PRLDEF)
For:
Taylor, Emily (Self; Gun Owners of America)
Zimmerman, Gary (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Hayes, Richard (Self)
Kalthoff, Wendy (Self)
McNutt, Chris (Self; Texas Gun Rights)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
On:
Klein, Jorie (Department of State Health Services)
Robertson, Natalie (Texas Department of Public Safety)
For:
Soza, Justin (Self; Alamo Area Police Chiefs)
Wilson, Sarah (Self; Texas Assoc Property and Evidence Technicians)
Against:
Baggett, Donnis (Self; Texas Press Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Blanchard, Jonathan (Dallas Police Department)
Day, Jason (City of Royse City)
Dye, Steve (Self; Allen Police Department)
Engler, Tracy (Self; TAPEIT)
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Franco, Santiago (Harris County Commissioners Court)
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For:
Green, Eddie (Self; Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Hill, Lana (Self; Texas Association of Property and Evidence Inventory Technicians)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Kay, Cicely (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Kershaw, James (Harris County Deputies' Organization FOP #39)
Lodge, Grace (Self; TAPEIT)
Mata, Katy (Self; Tapeit)
Morris, Joe (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Quiroz, Jasmine (Self; TAPEIT)
Rubin, Scott (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Ruiz, Heidi (Houston Police Department)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Williams, M Paige (Dallas Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)
Against:
Cates, Emily (Self; Daily commercial record)
Morin, Tom (Daily Court Review)
Patterson, Bill (Self; Texas Press Association, Denton Record-Chronicle)
Pillifant, Reid (Self; Texas Press Association)
For:
Zimmerman, Gary (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Kalthoff, Wendy (Self)
Moledina, Ayaan (Self)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Williams, M Paige (Dallas Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)
Against:
McNutt, Chris (Self; Texas Gun Rights)
On:
Daughtry, Lisa (TXDPS)
Robertson, Natalie (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Taylor, Emily (Gun Owners of America)
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