WITNESS LIST
State Affairs Committee
March 14, 2005 -10:00A
SB 50
FOR: Claypool, Jamie (Texas Medical Group Management
Association, J. Claypool Association Inc.),
Spicewood, TX
Kolodzey, Patricia (Texas Hospital Association),
Austin, TX
Strate, Susan MD (Texas Medical Association),
Wichita Falls, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Calvert, Raif (Texas Academy of Family Physicians),
Austin, TX
Clardy, Mike (Texas Occupation Therapy Association,
Inc.), Austin, TX
On: Tredway, Ryan (TDI), Austin, TX
SB 53
ON: Bingham, Bill (Texas Department of Insurance),
Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Strate, Susan MD (Texas Medical Association),
Wichita Falls, TX
On: Drummond-Borg, Margaret (DSHS), Austin, TX
SB 155
FOR: Kolodzey, Patricia (Texas Hospital Associatoin),
Austin, TX
McCandless, Pati (UniCare and Texas Association of
Health Plans), Austin, TX
Sorian, Richard (National Committee fo Quality
Assurance), Washington, DC
AGAINST: Strate, Susan MD (Texas Medical Association),
Wichita Falls, TX
ON: Bingham, Bill (Texas Department of Insurance),
Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Brodersen, Blake (Scott and White Health Plan),
Temple, TX
Green, Shelton (Texas Association of Business),
Austin, TX
Hammond, Deborah (PacifiCare Health Systems),
Austin, TX
Oates, John (Aetna, Inc.), Austin, TX
Phenix, Billy (America's Health Insurance Plans
(AHIP)), Austin, TX
Pollard, Mike (Texas Association of Life and Health
Insurers), Austin, TX
Rummel, Leah (Texas Association of Health Plans),
Austin, TX
Stuart, Charles (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas),
Austin, TX
SB 179
ON: Nail, William (ERS), Austin, TX
SB 309
FOR: Edwards, Aimee (SafePlace (Domestic Violence
Center)), Austin, TX
Rodriguez, Ana (Texas Council on Family Violence
(TCFV)), Austin, TX
ON: Borofsky, Cliff (Elections Administrator), San
Antonio, TX
Green, Bob (Texas Fathers Alliance, Lone Star
Fatherhood Initiative), Austin, TX
McCleskey, Howell Gene (Office of Attorney General),
Austin, TX
McGeehan, Ann (Office of Secretary of State)
Millholland, Herman (Office of the Attorney
General), Austin, TX
SB 310
FOR: Elharrar, Vanessa (Texas State Association of
Firefighters), Silver Spring, MD
Mason, Laura (Self), Troup, TX
Yates, Stuart (Austin Firefighters), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Bresnen, Steve (Texas State Association of
Firefighters), Austin, TX
Higgins, Mike (Texas State Association of
Firefighters), Austin, TX
Hinojosa, Walter (Texas AFL-CIO), Austin, TX
Johnson, Helen (State Firemen's and Fire Marshals
Association), Austin, TX
Kolodzey, Patricia (Texas Hospital Association),
Austin, TX
Seale, Mark (Texas State Association of
Firefighters), Austin, TX
Villarreal, Johnny (Houston Firefighters Local 341),
Houston, TX
On: Perkins, Kathrynn (Texas Department of State Health
Services), Austin, TX
Providing written testimony:
On: Townsend, Marvin (TML Intergovernmental RiskPool),
Austin, TX
SB 368
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Vahlenkamp, Virgil (Denton County Statutory County
Courts), Denton, TX
SB 427
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Borofsky, Cliff (Elections Administrator), San
Antonio, TX
On: Winn, Elizabeth (Office of the Secretary of State),
Austin, TX
SB 486
FOR: Durant, Larry (Harris County Texas), Houston, TX
ON: Harrison, Tom (Texas County and District Retirement
System), Austin, TX
Krueger, Tom (Texas County and District Retirement
System), Austin, TX