WITNESS LIST
State Affairs Committee
March 31, 2003-2:30P
HB 1027
For: Strayhorn, Comptroller Carole Keeton (Comptroller's
Office)
On: Ancira, Jesse (Office of the Comptroller of Public
Accounts)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against: Whalen, Ken (Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the
Texas Press Association)
HB 1562
For: Burke, John (Texas Rural Water Association and the Aqua
Water Supply Corporation)
Key, Robert (Coppell ISD and TASB)
Stephens, Ron (City of Kilgore)
Streater, Joy (Self and County and District Clerk
Association)
Against: Baggett, Donnis (Texas Daily Newspaper Association and
the Texas Press Association)
Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Igo, Shanna (Texas Municipal League)
Against: Kenny, Conor (Public Citizen Texas)
Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas)
On: Kennedy, Boyd (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department)
Parsley, Cathleen (State Office of Administrative
Hearings)
HB 1796
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Whalen, Ken (Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the
Texas Press Association)
HB 1904
For: Whitehead, II, Tracy (City of Houston Building Services
Department)
On: Aucoin, Aline (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Baldwin, Jeff (Texas Department of Criminal Justice)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Gillory, Ronald (Houston Police Department)
HB 2004
For: Mitchell, Seth (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Pardue, Craig (Dallas County)
Schweninger, Edward (Bexar County Commissioners Court
and the Bexar County District Attorney)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Douglass, Cathy (Texas Association of School Boards)
Jackson, Jim (Dallas County Commissioners Court)
Keliber, Margaret (Dallas County Commissioners)
Lee, Donald (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)
Mayfield, Kenneth (Self and Dallas County Commissioners
Court)
Against: Baggett, Donnis (Texas Daily Newspaper Association and
the Texas Press Association)
Mitchell, Kathy (Consums Union)
Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas)
HB 2032
For: Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union)
Sisk, Cathy (Harris County Attorney and the Harris
County Commissioners Court)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Fenz, Caton (Harris County Commissioners Court)
On: Cary, Missy Katherine (Office of the Attorney General)
HB 2040
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Igo, Shanna (Texas Municipal League)
On: Durso, Susan (Public Utility Commission)
Lawson, Richard (Texas Telephone Association)
Pettigrew, Karen (Office of the Attorney General)
HB 2243
For: Jackson, William (Harris County Hospital District)
Webb, John S. "Jess" (St. David's Healthcare
Partnership)
Against: Baggett, Donnis (Texas Daily Newspaper Association and
the Texas Press Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Fenz, Caton (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Against: Harrell, Will (American Civil Liberties Union)
On: Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union)
Stone, Nancy (Harris City Hospital District)
HB 2343
For: Balzarette, James (HEARTS Veterans Museum)
Fuchs, John (HEARTS Veteran's Museum)
Pierce, Danny (Self and HEARTS Museum)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: McFarland, Dee (Huntsville-Walker County Chamber of
Commerce)
Shotwell, BJ (HEARTS Veterans Museum)
HB 2455
Against: Baggett, Donnis (Texas Daily Newspaper Association and
the Texas Press Association)
Lewis, Fred (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union)
On: Longley, Joey (Sunset Commission - Director)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against: Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas)
HB 2485
On: Gilmore, Barnie (State Auditor's Office)
Jacobs, Mickey (Small State Agency Task Force)
HCR 28
For: Alcorn, Lee (Coalition for the Advancement of Civil
Rights (CACR))
Crear, Lacisha (Self and Africans and African Americans
for Enslavement Reparations)
Haggerty, Michael (Self and Family)
Henry, Jr., Charles (Self)
Lands, Kristoffer Sterling (Self)
Lands, Richard (Self and Greater Calvary Baptist Church)
Lands, Talib (Self and Greater Calvary Academy)
Muhammed, Thomas (Africans and Africans for Enslavement
Reparations)
Taharka, Kofi (National Black United Front - Houston and
National and the Local Action Committee for
Reparations)
Vicks, Oscar (Self and San Antonio Committee for
Reparations)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Harrell, Will (ACLU of Texas and the NAACP)
McNeel, Raymond (Texas Democratic Party)
Against: Gerstenschlager, MerryLynn (Self and Texas Eagle Forum)
HCR 69
For: Springstube, Woodord (Self)
Venable, Peggy (Citizens for a Sound Economy)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against: McNeel, Raymond (Texas Democratic Party)
HJR 25
Registering, but not testifying:
Against: Gerstenschlager, MerryLynn (Self and Texas Eagle Forum)
HJR 58
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Harris, Dwight (Texas Federation of Teachers)