WITNESS LIST
Public Health Committee
March 10, 1999-1:30P
HB 273
For: Moore, Les (Self)
Against: Gantt, Melanie (Mental Health Association in Texas)
Lovelace, Joe (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of
Texas)
On: Fillmore, Debbie J. (Texas Commission on Jail Standards
and Texas Council on Offenders with Mental
Impairments)
Malatich, James (Texas Mental Health Directors
Consortium)
McClure, Spencer (Texas Council of Community MHMR
Centers, Inc.)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Walker, Craig (Texas Ambulance Association)
Against: Mitchell, Beth (Advocacy Inc.)
HB 748
Registering, but not testifying:
On: Hatcher, Johnny R. (Department of Public Safety)
HB 970
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Courtney, Chuck (Texas Retailers Association)
Reagan, Karen (Texas Pharmacy Association)
On: Morse, Steve (Texas State Board of Pharmacy)
HB 1145
For: Ashby, Cindy (Texas Counseling Association)
HB 1270
Against: Schaefer, Wendy Kendall (Self)
On: Mitchell, Beth (Advocacy, Inc.)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Gilchrist, Alfred (Texas Medical Association)
On: Bivens, Carolyn (Adult Protective Services)
Gold, Marc (Texas Department of Human Services)
HB 1285
On: Hamilton, Kathleen (Texas Department of Health)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Kent-Davis, Helen (Texas Medical Association)
Murphree, Susan (Advocacy, Inc.)
Samuels, Marc (Texas Pediatric Society)
HB 1311
For: Berlanga, Hugo (Self)
Edwards, Carol (Self)
Gilligan, Lillie (Glaxo Wellcome Inc.)
Granfor, Jim (Self)
Hammond, Bill (Texas Association of Business)
Rodgers, George P. (Self and Texas Coalition on
Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke)
On: Noren, M.D., Jay (The Texas A&M University System Health
Science Center)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Banning, Tom (Texas Academy of Family Physicians)
Boucher, Terry (Texas Osteopathic Medical Association)
Cummings, Bill (Self and Texas Silver-Haired
Legislature)
Gagen, Joe (Texas 5.01(a) Alliance)
Holtermann, John W. (Texas Silver-Haired Legislature)
Hooser, Greg (Scott & White Hospital & Clinic, Texas
Dietetic Association)
Reagan, Karen (Texas Pharmacy Association)
Reynolds, David (American Heart Association, TX
Affiliate)
Samuels, Marc (Texas Academy of Internal Medicine, East
Texas Regional Health Care System, Wyeth Ayerst
Pharm.)
Walker, Craig (Texas Organization of Rural & Community
Hospitals)
Williams, Ellen (Merck)
On: Smith, Jennifer (Texas Department of Health)
HB 2085
For: Bizzel, Lynn (Texas Fire Chief's Association)
Campbell, Helen (Self and State Firemen's & Fire
Marshals' Association)
Higgins, Mike (Texas State Association of Fire Fighters)
Murphree, Susan (Advocacy, Inc.)
Against: Holtermann, John W. (Self)
Janda, R.N., P.A., Steve (Self)
Redus D.D.S., M.D., Ronald C. (Self)
Tips, R.N., M.S.N., Gaylen (Self and Austin Chapter
Emergency Nurses Association)
On: Archer, M.D., Reyn (Texas Department of Health)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Gilchrist, Alfred (Texas Medical Association)
Walker, Craig (Texas Organization of Rural & Community
Hospitals, Texas Ambulance Association)
Against: Redus, Clark (Self)
On: Daniel, Katrina (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Hubbard, John (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Levin, Ilan (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Levine, Ken (Sunset Advisory Commission)
Mendez, Margaret C. (Texas Department of Health)
Wall, Matthew T. (Texas Hospital Association)
SB 61
For: Ledlow, Geneva (Self)
Leis, M.D., Paula (Texas Dermatological Society, Texas
Medical Association)
LeGros, Kim (Self)
Newman, Timothy (Self and Miss Fortune Tattoo Parlor)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Parker, Ph.D., Carolyn A. (Texas AIDS Network)
On: Culmo, Cynthia (Texas Department of Health)
SB 356
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Walker, Craig (Texas Organization of the Rural &
Community Hospitals)
On: Coe, Colin (Sunset Advisory Commission)
SB 414
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Courtney, Chuck (Texas Retailers Association)
Reagan, Karen (Texas Pharmacy Association)
On: Morse, Steve (Texas State Board of Pharmacy)