WITNESS LIST
Ways & Means Committee
August 22, 2025 - 10:00 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
For:
Rabb, Jennifer (Texas Taxpayers and Research Association)
Against:
Baggett, Donnis (Self; Texas Press Association)
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
Rasti, Kelly (Texas Association of School Boards)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Martinez, Jorge (The LIBRE Initiative)
Mayville, James (Americans for Prosperity, Texas)
Saum, Shane (Self; Lago Vista City Council)
Sheetz, Sam (Americans for Prosperity)
Against:
Bakko, Sally (City of Galveston)
Clark, Leah (City of Georgetown)
Grever, Maya (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Gutierrez, Spencer (City of Sugar Land, Texas)
Hale, Angela (City of McKinney)
Myers, Brynn (City of Temple)
Rodriguez, Jennifer (City of Coppell)
Romo, Joel (Nueces County/ Nueces County Hospital District)
Rose, Shannon (Self)
Rose, Valerie (Self)
Shannon, Kelley (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Souriyasak, Kent (City of Leander)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso County)
Thompson, Rick (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
On:
Bulanek, Kristin (Tax Assessor-Collector Association of Texas)
Mansfield, Allison (Comptroller of Public Accounts)
Skrobarczyk, Ryan (City of Corpus Christi)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Rose, Shannon (Self)
Rose, Valerie (Self)
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For:
Healy, Lisa (Self)
Pena, Lauren (Self; Travis county republican party)
Quintero, James (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Rabb, Jennifer (Texas Taxpayers and Reasearch Association)
Saum, Shane (Self; Lago Vista City Council)
Against:
Abbott, Robert (Self; Lake Travis Fire Rescue / Texas Fire Chiefs Assocation)
Avery, Clay (SAFE-D, the Texas State Association of Fire and Emergency Districts)
Babick, Steve (City of Carrollton)
Bloch, John (Self; City of Irving)
Carlton, John (Texas State Association of Fire and Emergency Districts)
Cowen, John (City of Brownsville)
Fawcett, Dustin (Ector County)
Halbrook, Shannon (Every Texan)
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
Hillman, Chris (City of Irving)
Kelly, Patrick (Self; City of Lewisville)
Kirk, Brady (City of Fort Worth)
Moore, Cheryl (Self; Town of Flower Mound)
Morgan, David (City of Georgetown)
Myers, Brynn (City of Temple)
Perkins, Nick (Self; TCESD No. 2)
Pitts, Kevin (City of Georgetown)
Rice, Dalton (Self; City of Kerrville)
Rodriguez, Ralph (Self; Bexar County Emergency Service District No.2)
Rummel, Laura (Self; City of Frisco)
Schiestel, Adam (Self; Town of Flower Mound)
Thomson, Michael (Self; City of Carrollton)
Van Eenoo, Ed (City of Austin)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Martinez, Jorge (The LIBRE Initiative)
Mauro, Megan (Texas Association of Business)
Mayville, James (Americans for Prosperity, Texas)
Sheetz, Sam (Americans for Prosperity)
Against:
Achee, Jeff (Self; Texas Recreation and Park Society)
Anderson, Jake (City of Dallas)
Bailey, Rick (Johnson County. County Judge and Commissioners Association)
Billings, David (Self)
Cain, Randy (City of Round Rock)
Coker, Andrea (North Texas Commission)
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Against:
Deshields, Glenn (Texas State Association of Fire Fighters)
Grever, Maya (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Gutierrez, Spencer (City of Sugar Land, Texas)
Hale, Angela (City of McKinney)
Hausenfluck, Amber (City of McAllen)
Hedrick, Dylan (City of Garland, Texas)
Hills, William (City of Grand Prairie, Texas)
Keating, John (City of Frisco)
Kennard, Karen (City of Missouri City)
Mendelsohn, Cara (City of Dallas)
Rodriguez, Jennifer (City of College Station)
Romo, Joel (Nueces County)
Rose, Shannon (Self)
Rose, Valerie (Self)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Sierega, John (TMPA)
Skrobarczyk, Ryan (City of Corpus Christi)
Souriyasak, Kent (City of Leander)
Spence, Logan (City of Denton)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso County)
Thompson, Rick (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas)
Trubee, Alton Glenn (Texas Fire Marshals Association)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
On:
Fowler, Perry (Texas Water Infrastructure Network)
Mansfield, Allison (Comptroller of Public Accounts)
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