WITNESS LIST
Economic Development Committee
March  14, 2007 - 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess
HB  1188 - Committee Substitute  (Ortiz Jr.)
 
    For:
Cook, John (City of El Paso)
 
 
Drayer, Phil  (Self and Emerging Tech Fund Executive Committee)
 
 
Gannaway, Dale  (Self and West Texas Coalition For Innovation & Commercialization ETF RCIC for West Texas)
 
 
Reed, Cyrus (Lone Star Chapter of Sierra Club)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Diedrich, Guy (Texas A&M University System)
 
 
Ellison, Mark (Office of the Governor - Emerg. Tech Comm.)
 
 
Miller, Clifton E.  (Self and MBB Institute for Public Policy; D/FW Minority Business Council)
 
 
 
 
HB  1188
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Barksdale, Jay (Greater Dallas Chamber)
 
 
Blocker, Trey (Peabody Energy)
 
 
Bonner, Stephen (Texas Instruments Incorporated)
 
 
Clark, Jeffrey (American Electronics Assoc.)
 
 
Hammond, Bill (TX. Association of Business)
 
 
Hentges, Sandra (Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce)
 
 
Howden, Robert S. (Texas Association of Manufacturers)
 
 
Kowalski, Tom (Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute)
 
 
Schwab, Carlton (Texas Economic Development Council)
 
 
 
 
HB  1617
 
    For:
Lewis, Matt  (Self)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Kroll, John (Town of Little Elm)
 
 
Pore, David (City of Lufkin Economic Development Corporation)
 
 
 
 
HB  1629
 
    For:
Castaneda, Blas  (Self)
 
 
Foster, Chad (Texas Border Coalition)
 
 
Garza, Wanda F. (Texas Border Coalition)
 
 
Townsend Jr., Pat  (Self)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
Delgado, Janie  (Self)
 
 
Engol, Jon  (Self and Literacy Coalition of Central Texas)
 
 
Moser, Katherine  (Self)
 
 
Nevarez, Christine (Texas Council of Adult Basic Education)
 
 
Ruvalcaba, Guadalupe C. (Texas Council for Adult Basic Education)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Green, Anson (Texas Workforce Commission)
 
 
Rethlake, Joanie (Texas LEARNS)
 
 
Thompson, Elizabeth B.  (Self)
 
 
Tondre - El Zorkani, Barbara  (Self)
 
 
Valek, Millicent (Texas Association of Community Colleges)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Cook, John (City of El Paso)
 
 
de Lafuente, Veronica (Office of the Hidalgo County Judge County Judge J.D. Salinas)
 
 
Guerra, Michael (The Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce)
 
 
Guerra, Jr., John C. (Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce (TAMACC))
 
 
Hammond, Bill (TX Association of Business)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
Coronado, Rene  (Self)
 
 
Garcia, Teodoro F.  (Self)
 
 
 
 
HB  2029
 
    For:
Congleton, Commissioner Ronny  (Self)
 
 
Gross, Michael (Texas State Employees Union)
 
 
Sherv, Paul  (Self and Texas State Employees Union / Communications Workers of America)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Cunningham, Michael (TX Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL - CIO)
 
    For:
Moeller, Becky (Texas AFL - CIO)
 
 
Pruitt, Garland  (Self)
 
 
White, Roberto A. (Texas State Employees Union)
 
 
 
 
 
Against:
Hammond, Bill (TX Association of Business)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Miller, Reagan (Texas Workforce Commission)
 
 
 
 
HB  2120
 
     On:
Ross, Chuck (Texas Workforce Commission)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
    For:
Cunningham, Michael (Texas Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL - CIO)
 
 
Moeller, Becky (Texas AFL - CIO)
 
 
Pruitt, Garland  (Self)
 
 
 
 
HB  2185
 
Against:
Hammond, Bill (TX Association of Business)
 
 
 
 
 
     On:
Carr, Fran (TX Workforce Commission)
 
 
 
 
 
Registering, but not testifying:
 
Against:
Bratton, Pamela (Career Consultants Staffing Svs. & TX Assn. of Staffing)
 
 
Lively, Lance (National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB))
 
 
Reaves, Jim (Texas Nursery & Landscape Association)