WITNESS LIST

            Appropriations - S/C on Article III Committee

            February 20, 2015 - 7:30 AM

            Baylor College of Medicine

                 On:

                                 Klotman, Paul (Baylor College of Medicine)

            Health Related Institutions Summary

                 On:

                                 Hoffman, Emily (Legislative Budget Board)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 Hernandez, Demetrio (Legislative Budget Board)

            Optional Retirement System

                 On:

                                 Featherston, Pattie (Legislative Budget Board)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 MacLaurin, Andy (Legislative Budget Board)

            Special Provisions for TSBVI and TSD

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 Featherston, Pattie (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 MacLaurin, Andy (Legislative Budget Board)

            Teacher Retirement System

                 On:

                                 Clayton, Michael (State Auditors Office)

                                 Featherston, Pattie (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 Guthrie, Brian (Teacher Retirement System)

                                 Haenisch, Barry (Texas Association of Community Schools)

                                 Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)

                                 Lee, Tim (Texas retired teachers association)

                                 Martin, Edward (Texas State Teachers Assn.)

                                 Melina Raab, Ted (Texas AFT (American Federation of Teachers))

                                 Norris, Robert (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 Ramirez, Angelica (State Auditor's Office)

                                 Sanderson, Josh (Association of Tx Professional Educators)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 Hernandez, Maria (Legislative Budget Board)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 On:

                                 Hickman, William (Gabriel Roeder Smith & Company)

                                 Lilly, Janna (Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education)

                                 MacLaurin, Andy (Legislative Budget Board)

            Texas Education Agency

                 On:

                                 Aleman, Steven (Disability Rights Texas)

                                 Arnold, Ellen (Texas Association of Goodwills)

                                 Arnold, Ellen (Texas Association of Goodwills)

                                 Brauer, Andrea (Texans care for children)

                                 Carpenter, Clint (Windham)

                                 Densford, Ellie (Self; Communities In Schools of Texas)

                                 Giarratani, Dominic (Texas associations of School boards)

                                 Grusendorf, Bill (Texas assoc of rural schools)

                                 Henricksen, Aaron (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 Justice, Shirlene (Texas Partnership for Out of School Time (TXPOST))

                                 Killian, Douglas (Self; Fast Growth Coalition, Texas Association of Community Schools and

                                 Hutto ISD)

                                 Latta, Karen (Sunset Commission)

                                 MacLaurin, Andy (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 McRoberts, Mary (Self; Texas Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs)

                                 Nieto, Carlos (Presidio ISD)

                                 Norris, Robert (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 Pierce, Denise (Texas Charter Schools Association)

                                 Pierce, Wayne (Equity Center)

                                 Rome, Christy (Texas School Coalition)

                                 Sabo, Jason (Children at Risk)

                                 Shepherd, Josh (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 Villanueva, Chandra (Center for Public Policy Priorities)

                                 Ward, Kyle (Texas PTA)

                                 Williams, Michael (Texas education agency)

                                 Winkler, Andrea (Legislative Budget Board)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 Berry, Traci (Goodwill Central Texas and Texas Association of Goodwills)

                                 Brown, Paul (Windham School District)

                                 Duron, Jodi (Self; Elgin isd; TACS; TAMS)

                                 Hollingsworth, Lonnie (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)

                                 Lilly, Janna (Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education)

                                 Martin, Edward (Texas State Teachers Assn.)

                                 Melina Raab, Ted (Texas AFT (American Federation of Teachers))

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            Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

                 On:

                                 Daugherty, William (Texas school for the blind and visually impaired)

                                 Featherston, Pattie (Legislative Budget Board)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 MacLaurin, Andy (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 Schulz, Barney (Tx School for the Blind & Visually Impaired)

            Texas School for the Deaf

                 On:

                                 Bego, Gary (Tsd)

                                 Bergeron, Jon (Self; Parents of TSD students)

                                 Bugen, Claire (Texas school for the Deaf)

                                 Featherston, Pattie (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 Fernandez, Rogelio (Self; Texas Latino Council of Deaf and Hard of Hearing)

                                 Hogue, Eric (Texas School for the Deaf)

                                 Kennedy, Jasi (Self)

                                 Valverde, Donna (Self)

                                 Withrow, Heather (Self)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 MacLaurin, Andy (Legislative Budget Board)

                                 Martinez, Christine (Self)

                                 Robles  Hovinga, Lucia (Texas School for the Deaf)

            UT Health Science Center San Antonio

                 On:

                                 Henrich, William (UT HSC San Antonio)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 Marks, Andrea (UT Health Science Center at San Antonio)

            UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

                 On:

                                 DePinho, M.D., Ronald (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)

            UT Southwestern Medical Center

                 On:

                                 Podolsky, M.D., Daniel K. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 Dontes, Arnim (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

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