WITNESS LIST
Human Services Committee
March 31, 2003-2:30P
HB 712
For: Bower, Bruce (Texas Legal Services Center)
Dieter, Alison (Texas Gray Panthers)
Hagert, Celia (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
Hayes, Aaryce (Advocacy Inc.)
Against: Schellberg, Tim (Sagem Morpho)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Smith, Clint (Gray Panthers)
HB 1423
For: Amschwand, Melissa (Harris Co. Hospital District)
Stone, Nancy (Harris Co. Hospital District)
On: Berndt, Trey (Health and Human Services Commission)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Banning, Tom (TX Academy of Family Physicians)
Brown, Stephen (Texas Medical Association)
Cutrer, Jennifer (Parkland Health and Hospital System)
Hiller, King (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Roy, Tom (Tarrant Co. Hospital District)
HB 1971
For: Gadberry, Gavin (Texas Health Care Association)
Linial, George (Texas Association of Homes and Services
for the Aging)
On: Vasek, Heather (Texas Association for Home Care)
Registering, but not testifying:
On: Stephenson, Scott (Office of the Attorney General -
Medicaid Fraud Control Unit)
HB 2058
For: Foster, Mike (Caring Family Network, Foster Family
Treatment Assoc. (Natl. Board Member))
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Downey, Jack (Texas Alliance of Child and Family
Services, The Children's Shelter)
Puryear, Audrey (Helping Hand Home for Children)
HB 2266
For: Crouch, Gary (Self)
Hayes, Aaryce (Advoacy Inc.)
Against: Rich, Sid (Texas Association of Residential Care
Communities)
On: Willis, John (Texas Dept. on Aging Ombudsman Program)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Carter, Candice (AARP)
Ferris, Beth (Texas Advocacy for Nursing Home Residents)
HB 2298
For: O'Connor, Caroline (Texas State Employees Union)
On: Burch, Curtis (Health and Human Services Commission)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: McGiffert, Lisa (Consumers Union)
Wall, Matt (Texas Hospital Association)
HB 2325
For: Hayes, Aaryce (Advocacy, Inc.)
Higgins, Carlos (Texas Silver Haired Legislature)
Sylvester, James (CLEAT)
Thomason, David (Tx Association of Homes and Services
for the Aging)
Wood, Norma (AARP)
On: Delgado, Evelyn (TX Dept. of Human Services)
Gadberry, Gavin (Texas Health Care Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Ferris, Beth (Texas Advocates for Nursing Homes
Residents)
Linial, George (Texas Association of Homes and Services
for the Aging)
On: Willis, John (Texas Dept. on Aging)
HB 2326
For: Hayes, Aaryce (Advocacy, Inc.)
Thomason, David (TX Association of Homes and Services
for the Aging)
On: Vasek, Heather (Texas Association for Home Care)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Ferris, Beth (Texas Advocates for Nursing Home
Residents)
Gadberry, Gavin (Texas Health Care Association)
Gaul, Mary (AARP)
Higgins, Carlos (Self and Texas Silver Haired
Legislature)
Linial, George (Texas Association of Homes and Services
for the Aging)
Thomas, Peggy (AARP)
HB 2433
For: Crenshaw, Susan (Tarrant County Child Protective
Services Board Chair)
McClure, Madeline (Dallas County Child Welfare Board and
Prevent Child Abuse Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Pardue, Craig (Dallas County)
HB 2451
For: Hopper, Kay (Richardson Development Center for Children
Inc.)
Against: Willgren, Judy (Head Start Diability Services Quality
Improvement Center)
On: Elder, Mary (Interagency Council of Early Childhood
Intervention)
HB 2469
For: O'Connor, Caroline (Texas State Employee Union)
HB 2604
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Brown, Stephen (Texas Medical Association)
Dieter, Alison (Self and Texas Gray Panthers)