WITNESS LIST
Ways & Means Committee
April 21, 2025 - 1:00 PM
For:
Mann, Scott (Self)
Mcdougal, Marc (Self)
Quintero, James (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Rabb, Jennifer (Texas Taxpayers and Research Assoc)
Against:
Branick, Jeff (Self; Jefferson County and County Judges and Commissioners Association)
Bryant, Byron (Self; Royse City Isd, Fast Growth School Coalition, TASA)
Clark, Andrew (Self; City of Bee Cave)
Elliott, Troy (City of San Antonio)
Ganguly, Ashika (Transit Forward)
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
Hurlbert, Heather (City of Corpus Christi)
Hurley, Reed (University Health)
Krogman, Travis (Austin Chamber of Commerce)
Laufer, Alex (City of Fort Worth)
Mazure, Lisa (Texas Association of Community Colleges)
McKibben, Vincent (Self)
Milligan, Maureen (Teaching hospitals of texas)
Nunez, Michael (University Medical Center of El Paso)
Olivares, Kimberly (City of Austin)
Penn, Kyle (Prosper ISD)
Picheloup, Chip (Stacy Witbeck)
Rivera Matos, Ricardo (Self)
Zeno, Reginald (City of fort Worth)
On:
Ray, Alfred (Self; Stephens Inc)
Smith, Kimberly (Frisco ISD, Dallas ISD, McKinney ISD, Allen ISD, Celina ISD, Richardson
ISD, Little Elm ISD)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Fine, Rick (Self)
Martinez, Jorge (Self; The LIBRE Initiative)
Sheetz, Samuel (Self; Americans for prosperity)
Thornton, Brian (Self; Local Politics Matter ATX)
Against:
Azhar, Awais (Self)
Baez III, Celso (Self; CapMetro)
Bakko, Sally (City of Galveston)
Borja, Rob (Central Health)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Brooks, Ruven (Self)
Brousseau, Everette (Self)
Caldwell, Katelyn (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Camacho, Priscilla (Alamo Colleges District)
Campbell, Karen (Self; AECOM)
Chen, Kevin (Self)
Clark, Leah (City of Georgetown)
Costello, Schuyler (Self)
De Luna, Amy (Self)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Faddis, Zachary (Self; AURA)
Fouts, David (Self)
Frazier, Amy (Self)
Geske, Matthew (Downtown Austin Alliance)
Gonzalez, Cutter (Self)
Greenfield, Adam (Self)
Gutierrez, Spencer (City of Sugar Land, Texas)
Handal, Edgar (Self)
Harrington, Oliver (Self)
Hausenfluck, Amber (City of McAllen)
Hubert, Martin (Parsons)
Kyi, Albert (Self)
Laine, Dale (VIA Transit)
Martinez, Diego (Self; Safe Streets Austin)
Maxwell, Felicity (Self)
Metzger, Luke (Self; Environment Texas)
Miller, Katrina (Farm&City)
Montemayor, Rachel (Self)
Mueller, Laura (City of Dripping Springs)
Nichols, Colby (Texas Association of Community Schools)
Niday, Brandon (Self)
Patterson, Vivian (Self)
Poteet, Brian (Self)
Razian, Anoosh (Self)
Reed, Stephen (Self)
Reynolds, Isabelle (Self)
Rivera, Bryan (Austin Transit Partnership)
Rodriguez, Jennifer (City of College Station)
Rodriguez, Jennifer (North Texas Commission)
Sanders, Joshua (City of Houston)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Shipton, Patricia (Nueces County Hospital District)
Shipton, Patricia (Nueces County)
Shipton, Patricia (City of Port Aransas)
Spence, Jack (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Stuckmann, Peter (Self)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso County)
Tiscareno, Armando (Stacy Witbeck)
Traub, Ariel (City of Garland, Texas)
Trevino, Lawrence (CapMetro)
Wassdorf, Petrus (City f Lubbock)
Weist, Jon (City of Irving, Texas)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Wiggins, Grant (Self)
Woods, Alice (Self)
Zabojnik, Abbigail (Self; Environment Texas)
Zaleski, Danielle (Self; Environment Texas)
On:
Carnahan, Alina (Real Estate Council of Austin)
Fowler, Perry (Texas Water Infrastructure Network (TXWIN))
Stewart, Scott (American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas)
Todd, Jack (Self; Lubbock Professional Firefighters Association)
Wynn, Monty (Texas Municipal League)
For:
Quintero, James (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Walker, Carl (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association)
Against:
Branick, Jeff (Self; Jefferson County and County Judges and Commissioners Association)
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
On:
Bakko, Sally (City of Galveston)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Martinez, Jorge (Self; The LIBRE Initiative)
Sheetz, Samuel (Self; Americans for prosperity)
Against:
Brooks, Ruven (Self)
Caldwell, Katelyn (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Sanders, Joshua (City of Houston)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
Traub, Ariel (City of Garland, Texas)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
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WITNESS LIST
On:
Skrobarczyk, Ryan (City of Corpus Christi)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Jones, Robert (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allen, Sara (Sysco)
Borskey, Mark (Texas Trucking Association)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Hodgini, Ashley (Expedia Group)
Holmes, Mark (Council On State Taxation)
Inge, Stephanie (Self)
Kangralkar, Asha (Self)
Lasher, William (EBay Inc. and Etsy, Inc.)
Rabb, Jennifer (Texas Taxpayers and Research Assoc)
Sam, Mohamad (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Burdett, Jeff (NFIB)
Joiner, Caroline (Amazon)
Ledyard, Lindsey (Ebay Inc.)
Mauro, Megan (Texas Association of Business)
McCord, John (Texas Retailers Association)
Rodriguez, Jennifer (Apple, Inc.)
Shannon, Fred (Walmart)
Soto, Renzo (TechNet)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
On:
Brandt, Shannon (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Garcia, Theresa (Self; Textile Rental Service Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ash, Ryan (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association - (TTARA))
Deline, Steven (Self)
Schwalb, Kevin (Self; Textile Rental Services Association)
For:
Christian, John (Ryan LLC)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ash, Ryan (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association - (TTARA))
Mauro, Megan (Texas Association of Business)
On:
Langenberg, Ray (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
For:
Andro, Richard (Self; Refund Advisory Corp)
Andro, Ricky (Self; Brentwood consulting company)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Juergens, Seth (Texas Realtors)
For:
Gonzales, JR (Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers if Commerce)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bragiel, Justin (Texas Hotel & Lodging Association)
Castro, Desiree (Texas Food & Fuel Association)
Cruz, Nelia (Pepitas Cafe and Bar)
Delgado, Maria (Jalisco’s Restaurant)
Delgado, Maricela (Los Pinos)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Loyola, Efren (Self; Native Scenery Landscapes)
Lucio, Eddie (Self)
Mahamuth, Naomi (Self; Vim Gym)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
McCartt, J. (Capital One Bank)
McCord, John (Texas Retailers Association)
Streufert, Kelsey (Texas Restaurant Association)
Whitehurst, Darren (Texas Automobile Dealers Association)
Wilbanks, Chad (The Wilbanks Group, Inc.)
On:
Ashley, Phillip (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
Brandt, Shannon (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
For:
Briones, Jose Luis (Airbnb, Inc.)
Mauro, Megan (Texas Association of Business)
On:
Bragiel, Justin (Texas Hotel & Lodging Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ash, Ryan (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association - (TTARA))
Caldwell, Katelyn (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Hodgini, Ashley (Self)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Krogman, Travis (Austin Chamber of Commerce)
Lyra, Mackenzie (Booking.com)
Murphy, Kaitlyn (Greater Houston Partnership)
Patterson, T. J. (City of Fort Worth)
Salinas, JD (Self; Rio Grande Valley Partnership)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Soto, Renzo (TechNet)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso County)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
On:
Brandt, Shannon (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
For:
Botkin, Shelly (Texas Broadband Associarion)
Mackey, Scott (AT&T)
Mackey, Scott (Verizon)
Mackey, Scott (T-Mobile)
On:
Brandt, Shannon (Comptrollers office)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Avera, Ashley (Texas Cable Association)
Baxter, Todd (Charter Communications)
Brugnoli, Darlene (Verizon)
Chenelle, Rebekah (Dallas Regional Chamber)
Cox, Nora (Texas e-Health Alliance)
Cruz, Velma (Comcast)
Mauro, Megan (Texas Association of Business)
Montford, John T. (Self; AT&T)
Morehead, Tracy (Texas Rural Broadband Association)
Morgan, Todd (T-Mobile)
Murphy, Kaitlyn (Greater Houston Partnership)
Nezda-Orr, Elizabeth (AT&T)
Rodriguez, Jennifer (North Texas Commission)
Seale, Mark (Texas Telephone Association)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso County)
Against:
Weedon, Janette (City of Dallas)
For:
Davis, Tricia (Self; Texas Royalty Council)
Foreman, Dean (Texas Oil and Gas Association)
Longanecker, Ed (TIPRO)
McCormick, Travis (Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Assoc)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allison, Jay (Self; Milestone Environmental Services)
Brown, Jay (Repsol)
Bujano, Gil (Bpx energy)
Carter, Teddy (Devon Energy)
Chick, Craig (Murphy Oil Corporation)
Cohn, Jim (Verdun Oil EF lll LLC)
Cohn, Jim (Verdun Oil & Gas LLC)
Cohn, Jim (Verdun Oil EF ll LLC)
Cohn, Jim (Protege Energy lll LLC)
Cohn, Jim (EP Energy E&P Company, LLC)
Finley, Trace (Port of Corpus Christi Authority)
Finley, Trace (Texas Independent Produced Water Association)
Gibson, Kari (ConocoPhillips)
Hosek, Chris (Halliburton)
Ingham, Karr (Texas Alliance of Energy Producers)
Lozano, Michael D. (Permian Basin Petroleum Association)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Macksood, Greg (Hilcorp Energy)
Maxwell Biard, Amy (Self; Aethon Energy)
Moore, Julie (Oxy)
Omey, Samantha (ExxonMobil)
Poinsett, Royce (Coterra)
Smitherman, Barry (Self; Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance)
Vane, Mark (Civitas Resources)
Williams, Julie (Chevron)
Wood, Robert (Texas Association of Manufacturers)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Frazier, Amy (Self)
On:
Brandt, Shannon (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
Pham, Lynn (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
Against:
Gaddes, Larry (Self; Tax Assessor/Collectors Assoc. of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Branick, Jeff (Self; Jefferson County and County Judges and Commissioners Association)
Castro Garcia, Josie (Dallas County)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Ross, Susan (Self; MVBA Law Firm)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
Yarbrough, Brian (Perdue, Brandon, Fielder, Collins & Mott LLP)
For:
Noonan, Ed (United Rentals)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Vane, Mark (HB Strategies)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Davis, Eric (Self; TX Commercial Mariculture Oyster Advisory Board)
Lomax, Bradley (Self; Texas Surf Conservancy)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Streufert, Kelsey (Texas Restaurant Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brown, Jay (Self)
Granado, Arthur (Self)
Park, Joey (Texas Mariculture Association)
Phenix, Billy (Coastal Conservation Association - Texas)
Shannon, Fred (Self; Texas Oyster Mariculture Association)
Shipton, Patricia (Nueces County)
Shipton, Patricia (City of Port Aransas)
Skrobarczyk, Ryan (City of Corpus Christi)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Fulton, Erin (Self; Texas surf conservancy)
Hupp, Jacob (Galveston Bay Foundation)
Lomax, Bradley (Self; Texas Surf Conservancy)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brown, Jay (Self)
Davis, Eric (Self; TX Commercial Mariculture Oyster Advisory Board)
Granado, Arthur (Self)
Park, Joey (Texas Mariculture Association)
Phenix, Billy (Coastal Conservation Association - Texas)
Shannon, Fred (Self; Texas Oyster Mariculture Association)
Shipton, Patricia (Nueces County)
Shipton, Patricia (City of Port Aransas)
Skrobarczyk, Ryan (City of Corpus Christi)
Streufert, Kelsey (Texas Restaurant Association)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Hale, J.D. (Texas Association of Builders)
Hanson, Dale (Self; IBEW Local Union 60)
Noble, Shannon (Texas Air Conditioning Contractors Association)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Fagan, Jennifer (Texas Construction Association)
Pollock, Ryan (Self; Texas State Association of Electrical Workers)
Rodriguez, Jennifer (Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association (PHCC))
Wood, Robert (Texas Association of Manufacturers)
On:
Brandt, Shannon (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
For:
Cyrus, Kristi (MasTec Utility Services Group)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Botkin, Shelly (Texas Broadband Association)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Johnson, Paige (AT&T)
Posey, Jake (MasTec)
On:
Brandt, Shannon (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
For:
Fine, Rick (Self)
Quintero, James (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Spataro, Susan (Self)
Walker, Carl (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association)
Against:
Carnahan, Alina (Real Estate Council of Austin)
Ganguly, Ashika (Transit Forward)
Krogman, Travis (Austin Chamber of Commerce)
Miller, Katrina (Farm&City)
Picheloup, Chip (Stacy Witbeck)
Rivera, Bryan (Austin Transit Partnership)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Krishnan, Gopal (Self)
Martinez, Jorge (Self; The LIBRE Initiative)
McCormick, Travis (Self)
Searle, Michael (Self)
Sheetz, Samuel (Self; Americans for prosperity)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Thornton, Brian (Self; Local Politics Matter ATX)
Against:
Albright, Steven (AGC of Texas)
Azhar, Awais (Self)
Baez III, Celso (Self; CapMetro)
Brousseau, Everette (Self)
Camacho, Priscilla (Alamo Colleges District)
Campbell, Karen (Self; AECOM)
Campos, Lorena (Texas Rail Advocates)
Chen, Kevin (Self)
Costello, Schuyler (Self)
Davis, Denise (Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce)
De Luna, Amy (Self)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Faddis, Zachary (Self; AURA)
Fouts, David (Self)
Frazier, Amy (Self)
Geske, Matthew (Downtown Austin Alliance)
Gonzalez, Cutter (Self)
Greenfield, Adam (Self)
Handal, Edgar (Self)
Harrington, Oliver (Self)
Houston, Joshua (Caritas of Austin)
Hubert, Martin (Parsons)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Kyi, Albert (Self)
Laine, Dale (VIA Transit)
Martin, Jeremy (Austin Chamber of Commerce)
Martinez, Diego (Self; Safe Streets Austin)
Maxwell, Felicity (Self)
McKibben, Vincent (Self)
Metzger, Luke (Self; Environment Texas)
Montemayor, Rachel (Self)
Niday, Brandon (Self)
Parrish, Colin (HNTB)
Patterson, Vivian (Self)
Poteet, Brian (Self)
Razian, Anoosh (Self)
Reed, Stephen (Self)
Reynolds, Isabelle (Self)
Richmond, Debra (Kiewit Infrastructure)
Rivera Matos, Ricardo (Self)
Rogers, Carrie (City Austin of Austin)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Spence, Jack (Self)
Stewart, Scott (ACEC Texas)
Stuckmann, Peter (Self)
Tiscareno, Armando (Stacy Witbeck)
Trevino, Lawrence (CapMetro)
Weist, Jon (City of Irving, Texas)
Wiggins, Grant (Self)
Woods, Alice (Self)
Zabojnik, Abbigail (Self; Environment Texas)
Zaleski, Danielle (Self; Environment Texas)
For:
Christian, John (Ryan LLC)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Dunkin, Chad (Ryan, LLC)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Longanecker, Ed (TIPRO)
Lozano, Michael D. (Permian Basin Petroleum Association)
Troxclair, Caleb (Permian Resources and WaterBridge)
On:
Ashley, Phillip (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Bender, Missy (Texas School Coalition)
Littleton, Kristi (Port Aransas ISD)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brownson, Amanda (Texas Asscn. Of School Business Officials)
Rasti, Kelly (Texas Association of School Boards)
Rodriguez, Jennifer (North Texas Commission)
Shipton, Patricia (City of Port Aransas)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Quintero, James (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ash, Ryan (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association - (TTARA))
Martinez, Jorge (Self; The LIBRE Initiative)
Sheetz, Samuel (Self; Americans for prosperity)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Quintero, James (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ash, Ryan (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association - (TTARA))
Burdett, Jeff (NFIB)
Juergens, Seth (Texas Realtors)
Martinez, Jorge (Self; The LIBRE Initiative)
Sheetz, Samuel (Self; Americans for prosperity)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Weist, Jon (City of Irving, Texas)
For:
Walker, Carl (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association)
Against:
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Martinez, Jorge (Self; The LIBRE Initiative)
Sheetz, Samuel (Self; Americans for prosperity)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
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