WITNESS LIST

            Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Committee

            March 18, 2015 - 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess

            HB 331

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Bresnen, Steve (Texas Family Law Foundation)

                 On:

                                 Kromrei, Elizabeth "Liz" (Child Protective Services)

                                 Rogers, Joel (Office of the Attorney General - Child Support Division)

                                 Smith, Charles (Office of the Attorney General - Child Support Division)

            HB 364

                 For:

                                 Hays, Karl (Self; Texas Family Law Foundation)

                 On:

                                 Rogers, Joel (Office of the Attorney General - Child Support Division)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                                 Gerrick, Emily (Texas Fair Defense Project)

                                 Montgomery, Ingrid (Self; Intended parents'Rights)

                                 Smith, Douglas (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)

                 On:

                                 Smith, Charles (Office of the Attorney General - Child Support Division)

            HB 545

                 Against:

                                 Hays, Karl (Self; Texas Family Law Foundation)

                                 Wood, Cecilia (Self)

                 On:

                                 Kromrei, Elizabeth "Liz" (Child Protective Services)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                                 Gerrick, Emily (Texas Fair Defense Project)

                                 Montgomery, Ingrid (Self; Intended parents'Rights)

            HB 825

                 For:

                                 Battise, Arnold (Self; Alabama Coushatta Tribal Member)

                                 Battise, Jo Ann (Self; Alabama Coushatta Tribal Member)

                                 Battise, Nita (Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 On:

                                 Amberboy, Tina (Cc)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Barillas, Ph.D., Katherine (One voice texas)

                                 Bresnen, Steve (Texas Family Law Foundation)

                                 Emerson, Jennifer (Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (Tigua Indians) of El Paso)

                                 Gray, Connie (Self; Texas adoptee rights)

                                 Gustafson, Carl (Self)

                                 Kessler, Austin (Self)

                                 Kidd, Nicole (Self; Intended parents rights)

                                 Lind, Rod (Self)

                                 Lind, Tamara (Self)

                                 Mcdaniel, Erskine (Intended Parents Rights Org)

                                 Munlin, Natalie (Self; Intended parents rights)

                                 Plummer, Letitia (Self; Intendeded Parents Rights)

                                 Purcell, Marci (Self)

                                 Purcell, Thomas (Self)

                                 Scanlon, Jonathan (Self)

                                 Sessions, Roger (Self)

                                 Swan, Jennifer (Self)

                                 Watson, Daryn (Self; Texas Adoptee rights)

                 On:

                                 Kromrei, Elizabeth "Liz" (Child Protective Services)

            HB 826

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 Amberboy, Tina (Supreme Court Children's Commission)

                                 Kromrei, Elizabeth "Liz" (Child Protective Services)

                                 Rogers, Joel (Office of the Attorney General - Child Support Division)

                                 Smith, Charles (Office of the Attorney General - Child Support Division)

            HB 943

                 For:

                                 Smith, Douglas (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)

                 Against:

                                 Wood, Cecilia (Self)

                 On:

                                 Rogers, Joel (Office of the Attorney General - Child Support Division)

                                 Smith, Charles (Office of the Attorney General - Child Support Division)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                                 Berry, Traci (Goodwill Central Texas)

                                 Gerrick, Emily (Texas Fair Defense Project)

                                 Henning, Lori (Texas Association of Goodwills)

                                 Marzullo, Amanda (Texas Defender Service)

                                 Montgomery, Ingrid (Self; Intended parents'Rights)

                                 Simpson, Matt (ACLU of Texas)

                 On:

                                 Hays, Karl (Self; Texas Family Law Foundation)

            HB 984

                 For:

                                 Babino, Erica (Self)

                                 Betzen, Bill (Self)

                                 Dimick, Roger (Self)

                                 Dorner, Patricia Martinez (Self)

                                 Hodgson, Shawna (Self)

                                 Hudspeth, Ann (Self)

                                 Neal, Patricia (Self)

                                 Scott, Dawn (Self)

                                 Slaughter, Richard Dobie (Self; Texas adoptees)

                                 Smith, Walter (Self)

                                 Wilson, Mary (Self)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Allmon, Jennifer (The Texas Catholic Confeence of Bishops)

                                 Barillas, Ph.D., Katherine (One voice texas)

                                 Blossom, Lauryl (Self)

                                 Booker, Denee (Self)

                                 Brownhill, Julie (Self)

                                 Dimick, Kimberlee (Self)

                                 Ferguson, Sherry (Self)

                                 Fralia, Martha (Self)

                                 Gray, Connie (Self; Texas adoptee rights)

                                 Gustafson, Carl (Self)

                                 Jane, Marian (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                                 Jurenovich, Elizabeth (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                                 Kessler, Austin (Self)

                                 Kidd, Nicole (Self; Intended parents rights)

                                 Lind, Rod (Self)

                                 Lind, Tamara (Self)

                                 Mcdaniel, Erskine (Intended Parents Rights Org)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 For:

                                 Montgomery, Ingrid (Self; Intended parents'Rights)

                                 Munlin, Natalie (Self; Intended parents rights)

                                 Plummer, Letitia (Self; Intendeded Parents Rights)

                                 Purcell, Anna (Self)

                                 Purcell, Marci (Self; Adoption Knowledge Afiliates / Texas Adopttee Rights)

                                 Purcell, Thomas (Self)

                                 Saxton, Josette (Texans Care for Children)

                                 Scanlon, Jonathan (Self)

                                 Sessions, Roger (Self)

                                 Swan, Jennifer (Self)

                                 Swanson, James (Self)

                                 Swanson, Julia (Self)

                                 Watson, Daryn (Self; Texas Adoptee rights)

                                 Withrow, Chavon (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                 On:

                                 Brown, Cindy (Dept State Health Svcs)

                                 Kromrei, Elizabeth "Liz" (Child Protective Services)

            HB 1309

                 On:

                                 Specia, John (Department of Family and Protective Services)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                                 Barillas, Ph.D., Katherine (One voice texas)

                                 Crockett, Sarah (Texas CASA)

                                 Gustafson, Carl (Self)

                                 Jane, Marian (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                                 King, Read (Self)

                                 Powell, Judy (Parent Guidance Center)

                                 Saxton, Josette (Texans Care for Children)

                                 Smith, Casey (United Ways of Texas)

                                 Smith, Douglas (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)

                                 Smith, Douglas (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)

                                 Spiller, Lee (Self; Citizens Commission on Human Rights)

            HB 1371

                 For:

                                 Barillas, Ph.D., Katherine (One voice texas)

                                 Blackburn, Renellquiana (Self)

                                 Bryant, Rebecca (Self)

                                 Crockett, Sarah (Texas CASA)

                                 Jackson, Tiffany (Self)

                                 McWilliams, April (Self)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 For:

                                 Sharp, Kristopher (Self)

                 On:

                                 Specia, John (Department of Family and Protective Services)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                                 Betzen, Bill (Self)

                                 Blossom, Lauryl (Self)

                                 Bresnen, Steve (Texas Family Law Foundation)

                                 Dorner, Patricia Martinez (Self)

                                 Fralia, Martha (Self)

                                 Francis, Will (National association of social workers -texas chapter)

                                 Gray, Connie (Self; Texas adoptee rights)

                                 Gustafson, Carl (Self)

                                 Homer, Andrew (Texas CASA)

                                 Jane, Marian (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                                 Jurenovich, Elizabeth (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                                 Kessler, Austin (Self)

                                 Kidd, Nicole (Self; Intended parents rights)

                                 Lind, Rod (Self)

                                 Lind, Tamara (Self)

                                 Mcdaniel, Erskine (Intended Parents Rights Org)

                                 Munlin, Natalie (Self; Intended parents rights)

                                 Neal, Patricia (Self)

                                 Powell, Judy (Parent Guidance Center)

                                 Purcell, Thomas (Self)

                                 Rutan, Reyna (Self; Foster Youth Leadership Council)

                                 Saxton, Josette (Texans Care for Children)

                                 Scanlon, Jonathan (Self)

                                 Scott, Dawn (Self)

                                 Sessions, Roger (Self)

                                 Smith, Casey (United Ways of Texas)

                                 Smith, Douglas (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)

                                 Spiller, Lee (Self; Citizens Commission on Human Rights)

                                 Swan, Jennifer (Self)

                                 Torres-Garcia, Adrianna (Self)

                                 Watson, Daryn (Self; Texas Adoptee rights)

                                 Wilson, Mary (Self)

                                 Withrow, Chavon (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                 On:

                                 Hendricks, Elisa (Health and Human Services Commission)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

            HB 1781

                 For:

                                 Betzen, Bill (Self)

                                 Gray, Connie (Self; Texas adoptee rights)

                                 Gustafson, Carl (Self)

                                 Gustafson, Dylan (Self)

                                 Gustafson, Megan (Self)

                 On:

                                 Fry, Richard (Texas Family Law Foundation)

                                 Rogers, Joel (Office of the Attorney General - Child Support Division)

                                 Specia, John (Department of Family and Protective Services)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Allmon, Jennifer (The Texas Catholic Confeence of Bishops)

                                 Barillas, Ph.D., Katherine (One voice texas)

                                 Blossom, Lauryl (Self)

                                 Brownhill, Julie (Self)

                                 Costa, Sebastien (Self)

                                 Crockett, Sarah (Texas CASA)

                                 Dorner, Patricia Martinez (Self)

                                 Ferguson, Sherry (Self)

                                 Fralia, Martha (Self)

                                 Gustafson, Kandra (Self)

                                 Gustafson, Theresa (Self)

                                 Hudspeth, Ann (Self)

                                 Jane, Marian (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                                 Jurenovich, Elizabeth (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                                 Kessler, Austin (Self)

                                 Kidd, Nicole (Self; Intended parents rights)

                                 Lind, Rod (Self)

                                 Lind, Tamara (Self)

                                 Mcdaniel, Erskine (Intended Parents Rights Org)

                                 Montgomery, Ingrid (Self; Intended parents'Rights)

                                 Munlin, Natalie (Self; Intended parents rights)

                                 Neal, Patricia (Self)

                                 Plummer, Letitia (Self; Intendeded Parents Rights)

                                 Purcell, Marci (Self)

                                 Purcell, Thomas (Self)

                                 Scanlon, Jonathan (Self)

                                 Scott, Dawn (Self)

                                 Sessions, Roger (Self)

                                 Swan, Jennifer (Self)

                                 Torres-Garcia, Adrianna (Self)

                                 Watson, Daryn (Self; Texas Adoptee rights)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 For:

                                 Wilson, Mary (Self)

                                 Withrow, Chavon (Self; Abrazo Adoption Associates)

                 On:

                                 Kromrei, Elizabeth "Liz" (Child Protective Services)

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