WITNESS LIST
Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee
March 15, 2023 - 8:00 AM
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Calvert, Raif (Texas Association of School Boards)
McPeters, Pamela (Texas Classroom Teachers Association)
Terry, Mark (Self; Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association)
Against:
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Roberts, Cary (County and District Clerks' Association of Texas)
Tamez, Laura (Texas Trial Lawyers Association)
Wendell, Ware (Texas Watch)
For:
Donker, Annette (Self)
Renteria, Martin (Self; Texas Association of Notaries Public)
For:
Hill, Brian (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Herman, Guy (Self; STatutory Probate Courts of Texas)
Hopper, Craig (Self; Texas Real Estate Probate Institute (T-REP))
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Herman, Guy (Self; STatutory Probate Courts of Texas)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
On:
Habersham, Jacqueline (State Commission on Judicial Conduct)
Against:
Leatherbury, Thomas (Self; Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, Texas Press
Association)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Against:
Hodges, Mike (Texas Press Association)
Kirby Harrison, Chnequa (Self)
Shannon, Kelley (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Afifi, Amanda (Self; Texas Association of School Psychologists)
Calvert, Raif (Texas Association of School Boards)
Chevalier, Andrea (Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education (TCASE))
Galvan, Lyssette (NAMI Texas)
Herman, Guy (Self; Presiding Judge of the Stautory Probate Judges of Texas)
Kirby Harrison, Chnequa (Self)
Terry, Mark (Self; Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association)
Williams, M Paige (Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Kibbe, Scot (American Property Casualty Insurance Association)
Kirby Harrison, Chnequa (Self)
On:
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
For:
Evans, Michelle (Self; Texans for Vaccine Choice)
On:
Shuford, Jennifer (Department of State Health Services, Commissioner)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deadrick, June (CenterPoint Energy)
Ellmer, Regan (Independent Insurance Agents of Texas)
Hoy, Sandy (Texas Apartment Association)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Streufert, Kelsey (Texas Restaurant Association)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Kirby Harrison, Chnequa (Self)
Against:
Covey, Jonathan (Texas Values)
On:
Briscoe, Rick (Self; Open Carry Texas)
Grisham, CJ (Self; Open Carry Texas)
Tomlinson, John (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
Against:
Castle, Mary Elizabeth (Texas Values Action)
For:
Hill, Brian (Self)
On:
Hopper, Craig (Self; Texas Real Estate Probate Institute (T-REP))
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Grisham, CJ (Self)
Herman, Guy (Self; STatutory Probate Courts of Texas)
For:
Soberon, Luis (Texas 2036)
On:
LaVoie, Megan (Office of Court Administration)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Herman, Guy (Self; STatutory Probate Courts of Texas)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Williams, M Paige (Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Christian, George (Texas Civil Justice League)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Fleming, John (Self)
Kirby Harrison, Chnequa (Self)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Tamez, Laura (Texas Trial Lawyers Association)
Wendell, Ware (Texas Watch)
For:
Hamer, Glenn (Texas association of Business)
Morris, Nathan (U.S. Chamber, Institute for Legal Reform)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Against:
Allison, Jim (County Judges and Commissioners Association ofTexas)
Belt, Brandon (Self)
Bingham, Tiffany (Harris County Attorney’s Office)
Eiland, Craig (Self; Texas Trial Lawyers Association)
Harper, David (Self; Advocates for Community Transformation or ACT)
Kreider-Dusek, Kimberly (Self; McMullen County Attorney's Office)
Loncar, Abby (Self)
Neil, JoDee (Self)
Reed, Charles (Dallas County Commissioners Court)
Rodriguez, Justin (Self)
Schaffner, Russell (Tarrant County Commissioners Court)
Schweninger, Edward (Bexar County Hospital District)
Tracy, Laurel (Self)
Walker, Jack (Self; Texas Trial Lawyers Assoc.)
Wendell, Ware (Texas Watch)
On:
Pettit, Lanora (Office of the Attorney General)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Albright, Steven (AGC of Texas)
Alexander, Lee Ann (American Property Casualty Association)
Christian, George (Texas Civil Justice League)
Colyandro, John (Carbon Neutral Coalition)
Essler, JC (Texas Poultry Federation)
Gammage, Sam (Dow)
Hoy, Sandy (Texas Apartment Association)
Kearns, Dennis (Texas Railroad Association)
Landwehr, Martha (BASF Corporation)
Mauro, Megan (Texas Association of Business)
McCormick, Travis (Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Assoc)
Meroney, Mike (Chubb, Inc)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Oswald, Bill (Self; Koch Companies)
Rivero, Hector (Texas Chemical Council)
Roberts, Cary (US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform)
Shannon, Fred (Texas Civil Justice League)
Streufert, Kelsey (Texas Restaurant Association)
Tisdale, Ward (National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies)
Winegarner, Josh (Texas Cattle Feeders Association)
Against:
Amare, Tsion (Environmental Defense Fund)
Carranza, Susana (Self)
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
Hernandez, Elisa (University Medical Center of El Paso)
Islam, Nadia (City of San Antonio)
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
Kirby Harrisom, Chnequa (Self; Advocates for Community Transformation)
Milligan, Maureen (Teaching Hospitals of Texas)
Narvaez, Tammy (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone Star Chapter Sierra Club)
Russell, Claudia (City of San Marcos)
Sabo, Jason (Environment Texas)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Shelley, Adrian (Public Citizen)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
Stout, David (Self; El Paso County)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso County)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
For:
Estes, David (Texas Regional Bank)
Gurwitz, Danny (Texas Regional Bank)
Against:
Hopper, Craig (Self; Texas Real Estate Probate Institute (T-REP))
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Kirby Harrison, Chnequa (Self)
Scurlock, Stephen (Independent Bankers Association of Texas)
Against:
Herman, Guy (Self; Presiding Judge of the Stautory Probate Judges of Texas)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Christian, George (Texas Civil Justice League)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Christian, George (Texas Association of Defense Counsel)
Kearns, Dennis (Texas Railroad Association)
Kirby Harrison, Chnequa (Self)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Shannon, Fred (Texas Civil Justice League)
On:
LaVoie, Megan (Office of Court Administration & Texas Judicial Council)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Fortune, Andrew (City of Plano City Council)
Herman, Guy (Self; Presiding Judge of the Stautory Probate Judges of Texas)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Williams, M Paige (Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)
Against:
Loncar, Abby (Self)
McLean, Gentry (Self)
Pacheco, Maria (Act)
For:
Chapman, Randy (Self)
Johnson, Roland (Self; Texas access to justice foundatiom)
Torres, Betty (Texas Access to Justice Foundation)
On:
Angus, Matthew (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Herman, Guy (Self; STatutory Probate Courts of Texas)
Kirby Harrison, Chnequa (Self)
Miller, Karen (Self; Texas legal services center)
For:
Tamez, Laura (Texas Trial Lawyers Association)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Wendell, Ware (Texas Watch)
On:
LaVoie, Megan (Office of Court Administration)
Schaffner, Russell (Tarrant County Commissioners Court)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Christian, George (Texas Civil Justice League)
Christian, George (Texas Association of Defense Counsel)
Herman, Guy (Self; STatutory Probate Courts of Texas)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Against:
Haynes, Adam (Conference of Urban Counties)
On:
Roberts, Cary (County and District Clerks' Association of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Christian, George (Texas Civil Justice League)
Christian, George (Texas Association of Defense Counsel)
Herman, Guy (Self; STatutory Probate Courts of Texas)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Roberts, Cary (County and District Clerks' Association of Texas)
Tamez, Laura (Texas Trial Lawyers Association)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Wendell, Ware (Texas Watch)
Williams, M Paige (Dallas County Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)
For:
Barde, Jacob (El Paso Association of Builders)
Harwell, Gregory (Self; Texas association of builders)
Muñoz, Ned (Texas Association of Builders)
Rudnicki, James (Self)
Against:
Cagle, Greg (Self; Texas Legislative Action Committee)
Eiland, Craig (Self; Texas Trial Lawyers Association)
Hovis, Angela (Self)
McKenzie, Cass (Self)
Wendell, Ware (Texas Watch)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Adauto, Raymond (Self; El Paso Association of Builders)
Alexander, Lee Ann (American Property Casualty Association)
Allen, Don (Self; Greater Fort Worth Builders Assoc)
Allen, Troy (Greater Houston Builders Association)
Aschmann, Adam (Greater Houston Builders Association)
Bryan, Jared (Self; Texas Association of Builders)
Burchfield, John (Self; Greater Houston Builders Association)
Conine, Kent (Self; Dallas Builders Association)
Evans, Donnie (Self; Texas Association of Builders)
Kirkpatrick, Shawn (Self; KB Home Lone Star, Inc.)
Lantrip, Gene (Self; Big Country Home Builders Association)
Martin, Brett (Self; Tilson Homes)
Motheral, Lynn (Greater Fort Worth Builders Assiociation)
Norman, Scott (Texas Association of Builders)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Pendleton, DJ (Texas Manufactured Housing Association)
Sachs, Brodie (Southern framing)
Sachs, Letha (Hba of greater austin area)
Sachs, Mark (Hba of greater austin)
Schmid, Abigail (Self)
Schmid, Andrea (Self)
Schmid, Olivia (Self)
Schmid, Shad (Self; Greater San Antonio Builder Association)
Stratmann, Ben (Texans for Reasonable Solutions)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Turner, Scott (Self; Home Builders Association of Greater Austin)
Against:
Campbell, Drew (Associa)
Kelly, Bill (Mayor’s Office, City of Houston)
For:
Aschmann, Adam (Greater Houston Builders Association)
Burchfield, John (Self; Greater Houston Builders Association)
Motheral, Lynn (Greater Fort Worth Builders Assiociation)
Norman, Scott (Texas Association of Builders)
Rudnicki, James (Self)
Sachs, Mark (Self; Hba of greater austin)
Against:
Cagle, Greg (Self; Texas Legislative Action Committee)
Eiland, Craig (Self; Texas Trial Lawyers Association)
Hovis, Angela (Self)
McKenzie, Cass (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Wendell, Ware (Texas Watch)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Adauto, Raymond (Self; El Paso Association of Builders)
Alexander, Lee Ann (American Property Casualty Association)
Allen, Don (Self; Greater Fort Worth Builders Assoc)
Allen, Troy (Greater Houston Builders Association)
Barde, Jacob (El Paso Association of Builders)
Bryan, Jared (Self; Texas Association of Builders)
Conine, Kent (Self; Dallas Builders Association)
Evans, Donnie (Self; Texas Association of Builders)
Harwell, Gregory (Self; Texas assoc of builders)
Kirkpatrick, Shawn (Self; KB Home Lone Star, Inc.)
Lantrip, Gene (Self; Big Country Home Builders Association)
Martin, Brett (Self; Tilson Homes)
Parenteau, Julia (Texas Realtors)
Parsley, Lee (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Pendleton, DJ (Texas Manufactured Housing Association)
Sachs, Brodie (Southern framing)
Sachs, Letha (Hba of greater austin area)
Schmid, Abigail (Self)
Schmid, Andrea (Self)
Schmid, Olivia (Self)
Schmid, Shad (Self; Greater San Antonio Builder Association)
Stewart, Scott (American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas)
Stratmann, Ben (Texans for Reasonable Solutions)
Tillman, Calvin (Self)
Turner, Scott (Self; Home Builders Association of Greater Austin)
Walker, Becky (Texas Society of Architects)
Against:
Campbell, Drew (Associa)
Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)
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