Witness List Display

WITNESS LIST

Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

April 29, 2025 - 8:00 AM

HB 115

For:

Baumgartner, Chase (Innocence Project of Texas)

Butler, Burke (Self; Texas Defender Service)

Marzullo, Amanda (Self; Austin Community Law Center)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Carcerano, Eric (Self; Chambers County District Attorney’s Office)

Jaquette, Shannon (Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops)

Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)

Against:

Deline, Steven (Self)

Mollberg, Nicholas (Self)

On:

Wolff, Benjamin (Office if Capital and Forensic Writs)

HB 507

For:

Butler, Burke (Self; Texas Defender Service)

Marzullo, Amanda (Self; Austin Community Law Center)

On:

Wolff, Benjamin (Office if Capital and Forensic Writs)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Jaquette, Shannon (Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops)

Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)

Stewart, Susan (Self)

Against:

Mollberg, Nicholas (Self)

HB 1765

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Deline, Steven (Self)

Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)

Margolis, Eve (Self)

Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)

Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

Pressley, Nikki (Texas Public Policy Foundation)

Rubin, Scott (Texas Police Chiefs Association)

WITNESS LIST

For:

Stewart, Susan (Self)

Against:

Mollberg, Nicholas (Self)

Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))

Wilkerson, John (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))

HB 1847

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Deline, Steven (Self)

Franco, Santiago (Harris County Commissioners Court)

Marzullo, Amanda (Self; Austin Community Law Center)

Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)

HB 2046

For:

Williams, M Paige (Dallas Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Blanchard, Jonathan (Dallas Police Department)

Brooks, Lyndi (Kaufman County District Attorney’s Office)

Carcerano, Eric (Self; Chambers County District Attorney’s Office)

Deel, Shane (Self; Callahan County Attorney’s Office)

Deline, Steven (Self)

Kershaw, James (Harris County Deputies' Organization FOP #39)

Margolis, Eve (Self)

Morris, Joe (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)

Mudge, Jennifer (Texas Council on Family Violence)

Stewart, Susan (Self)

Wilkerson, John (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))

Against:

Mollberg, Nicholas (Self)

HB 2239

For:

Briscoe, Richard (Self; Open Carry Texas)

Rathner, Todd (Knife Rights)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Kershaw, James (Harris County Deputies' Organization FOP #39)

Morris, Joe (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)

Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

WITNESS LIST

For:

Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)

Stewart, Susan (Self)

Wilkerson, John (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))

HB 2309

On:

Burks, Brody (Texas Attorney General)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Wilkerson, John (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))

Against:

Williams, M Paige (Dallas Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)

On:

Deline, Steven (Self)

HB 2328

For:

Henry, Patti (Self; County & District Clerks Assoc.)

On:

Marzullo, Amanda (Self; Austin Community Law Center)

Quinzi, Paul (Self)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Castro Garcia, Josie (Dallas County Commissioners Court)

Tucker, Terra (Self; Alliance for Safety and justice)

Against:

Deline, Steven (Self)

HB 2417

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Deline, Steven (Self)

Kay, Cicely (Travis County Commissioners Court)

Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)

Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)

Stewart, Susan (Self)

Wilkerson, John (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))

WITNESS LIST

HB 2728

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

Against:

Carcerano, Eric (Self; Chambers County District Attorney’s Office)

Lawrence, Lauren (Phil Sorrells - Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney)

Wilkerson, John (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))

Williams, M Paige (Dallas Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)

HB 2813

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Margolis, Eve (Self)

Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

Against:

Deline, Steven (Self)

HB 3206

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Kay, Cicely (Travis County Commissioners Court)

HB 3566

For:

Ortega Carter, Dolores (Travis County Treasurer)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs Association of Texas)

Kay, Cicely (Travis County Commissioners Court)

HB 3694

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Beving, Rita (Public Citizen)

Kershaw, James (Harris County Deputies' Organization FOP #39)

Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)

Wilkerson, John (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))

WITNESS LIST

HB 3744

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Jones, Chris (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))

Stewart, Susan (Self)

On:

Brown, Lane (Office of the Attorney General)

Sanchez, Ricardo (Office of the Attorney General)

HB 4254

For:

Bond, Laura (Self; Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office)

Waddle, Amy (Self; Montgomery County District Attorney)

Against:

Marzulli, Amanda (Self; Austin Community Law Center)

Place, Allen (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Carcerano, Eric (Self; Chambers County District Attorney’s Office)

HB 4697

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Castro Garcia, Josie (Dallas County Commissioners Court)

Deline, Steven (Self)

Krenek, Tricia (Self; Justice of thE Peace & Constable Association (JPCA))

Margolis, Eve (Self)

Patterson, T. J. (City of Fort Worth)

Skrobarczyk, Ryan (City of Corpus Christi)

Sparks, Clifford (City of Dallas)

Stewart, Susan (Self)

Woolley, J.R. (Self; Justices of the Peace and Constables Association)

HB 4733

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Deline, Steven (Self)

Margolis, Eve (Self)

Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)

Stewart, Susan (Self)

Tucker, Terra (Self; Alliance for Safety and justice)

WITNESS LIST

HB 4915

On:

Ehlers, Scott (Texas Indigent Defense Commission)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Castro Garcia, Josie (Dallas County Commissioners Court)

Franco, Santiago (Harris County Commissioners Court)

Krenek, Tricia (Self; Justice of thE Peace & Constable Association (JPCA))

Marzullo, Amanda (Self; Austin Community Law Center)

Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)

Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

Williams, M Paige (Dallas Criminal District Attorney John Creuzot)

Woolley, J.R. (Self; Justices of the Peace and Constables Association)

HB 5465

On:

Taylor, Kristi (Texas Judicial Commission om Mental Health)

Registering, but not testifying:

For:

Busse, Christine (NAMI Texas)

Malone, Nicole (National Association of Social Workers- Texas Chapter)

Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)

On:

Simpson, Jennie (Health and Human Services Commission)

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