WITNESS LIST

            Pensions Committee

            April 20, 2015 - 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess

            HB 1397

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 Against:

                                 Cradduck, Nathan (Self; Texas Association of County Auditors)

                                 Elfant, Bruce (Self; Travis county tax assessor-collectors association of Texas)

                                 John, Conrad (Travis County Commissioners Court)

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

                                 Lawrence, Kevin (Texas municipal Police Association)

            HB 2572

                 For:

                                 Clark, Todd (Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund)

                                 Newport, Christopher (City of Houston)

                 Against:

                                 Costello, Stephen (Self)

                                 Hooper, Don (Self)

                                 Noteware, James (Self)

                 On:

                                 May, Bob (State Pension Review Board)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Alvarado, Aidan (Laredo Fire Fighters Association)

                                 Crow, David (Arlington Professional Fire Fighters)

                                 Dailey, Sean (Self; Houston Professional Firefighters Association)

                                 Deshields, Glenn (Texas State Association of Fire Fighters)

                                 Elkin, Bill (Houston Police Retired Officers Association)

                                 Lawrence, Kevin (Texas municipal Police Association)

                                 Maher, Frank (Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund)

                                 Villareal, Johnny (Self; Houston Professional Firefighters Association)

                 Against:

                                 Fields, Jess (Texas Public Policy Foundation)

                                 Grimes, Windi (Self)

                                 Jones, Max (The Greater Houston Partnership)

                                 Korkmas, Thomas (Self)

                                 Lennon, James C. (Self; Coalition For Public Responsibility)

                                 Lennon, Robin (Self; Kingwood TEA Party)

            HB 2608

                 For:

                                 Christensen, Lance (Reason Foundation)

                                 Costello, Stephen (Self)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 For:

                                 Frazer, Bill (Self)

                                 Hammond, Bill (Texas association of business)

                                 Hooper, Don (Self)

                                 Hooper, Don (Self)

                                 Noteware, James (Self)

                                 Quintero, James (Texas Public Policy Foundation)

                 Against:

                                 Bratton, Terry (Self; Houston police officers pension system)

                                 Clark, Todd (Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund)

                                 Elkin, Bill (Houston Police Retired Officers Association)

                                 Heck, Matt (Self)

                                 Hunt, Ray (Houston Police Officers' Union)

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

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

                                 Lawson, John (Houston police officers' pension system)

                                 Newport, Christopher (City of Houston)

                                 Nicks, Bob (Self; Austin firefighters association)

                                 Reed, Larry (Texas association of public employee retirement systems)

                                 Smith, James (San antonio police officers association)

                                 Smith, Rhonda (Houston municipal employees pension system)

                                 Stacy, David (Self; Midland Firemen' Relief and Retirement Fund)

                 On:

                                 Mason, Craig (Self)

                                 May, Bob (State Pension Review Board)

                                 McGee, Josh (Self)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Bryan, Clyde (Self; Coalition For Public Responsibility)

                                 Fields, Jess (Texas Public Policy Foundation)

                                 Gates, Gary (Self; Texas Citizens Coalition)

                                 Grimes, Windi (Self)

                                 Huls, Dale (Self)

                                 Korkmas, Thomas (Self)

                                 Lennon, James C. (Self; Coalition For Public Responsibility)

                                 Lennon, Robin (Self; Kingwood TEA Party)

                                 Mallette, Cindy (Self; New revolution now)

                                 Neeley, Josiah (R Street Institute)

                                 Pierce, Lauren (Self; Americans for Prosperity - Texas)

                                 Wright, Dean (Self; New revolution now)

                 Against:

                                 Aguirre, Adam (Self)

                                 Alvarado, Aidan (Laredo Fire Fighters Association)

                                 Arnold, Justin (Self)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 Against:

                                 Bartell, Scott (Self)

                                 Bravenec, George (Self; Assoc of Retired Houston Municipal Employees)

                                 Brookover, Aaron (Self)

                                 Brown, Paul (Self; TEXPERS)

                                 Bunte, Richard (Self)

                                 Buzan, Jamie (Self)

                                 Canales-Zarate, Eyna (TEXPERS)

                                 Carrillo, Joe (San antonio police officers association)

                                 Crain IV, Charles (Self)

                                 Crane, Stuart (Self)

                                 Crow, David (Arlington Professional Fire Fighters)

                                 Crum, Robert (Self; Austin Firefighters' Association)

                                 Dahler, Erik (Self; San Antonio Fire & Police Pension Fund)

                                 Dailey, Sean (Self; Houston Professional Firefighters Association)

                                 De la reza, Andre (Self)

                                 Delareza, Leigh (Self)

                                 Deshields, Glenn (Texas State Association of Fire Fighters)

                                 Donelson, Elizabeth (Self; Austin firefighters Association)

                                 Duffee, Mike (Self; Afa local 975)

                                 Earnest, Daniel (Self; Combined Law Enforcement of Texas)

                                 Ederer, Steve (Self)

                                 Esau, Scott (Self; Austin Association of firefighters)

                                 Fleischauer, Mark (Self)

                                 Fox, Gretchen (Self)

                                 Fox, Jonathan (Self)

                                 Glos, Brady (Self)

                                 Glover, David (Self)

                                 Gonzales, Pedro (Self)

                                 Gottschalk, Kelly (Dallas Police and Fire Pension System)

                                 Granados, Oscar (Austin FF Assn. Local 975)

                                 Grossman, Tyler (Self; El Paso Firemen & Polimen's Pension Fund)

                                 Guerrero, George (Self; Hpops)

                                 Haas, Kevin (Self; Austin firefighters)

                                 Hamill, Joe (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees- Texas)

                                 Hinojosa, Steve (Austin Firefighters Association)

                                 Horton, Kevin (Self)

                                 Ihrman, Chris (Self)

                                 Janecek, Scott (Self)

                                 Johnson, Eric (Self)

                                 Jordan, Sam (Austin Police Retirement System)

                                 Klepac, Michael (Self)

                                 Knobloch, Kelly (Self)

                                 Krcmarik, Tim (Self)

                                 Langhorst (Self)

                                 Lara, Rene (Texas AFL-CIO, United Labor Legislative Committee)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 Against:

                                 Lawrence, Kevin (Texas municipal Police Association)

                                 Lowe, Donald (Self)

                                 Lynch, Justin (Self; Local 975)

                                 Maher, Frank (Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund)

                                 Martinez, Mike (Self; Austin Firefighters Association)

                                 Martinez, Shannon (Self)

                                 May, Ritchie (Self)

                                 Mccandless, Matt (Self)

                                 McCullough, Donald (Self)

                                 McKinney, Donald (Houston Police Deprtment)

                                 Melton, Kyle (Self)

                                 Mena, Victor (Self)

                                 Miller, Daniel (Self)

                                 Miller, Rodger (Self)

                                 Mitchell, Geoffrey (Self; Austin firefighters association)

                                 Moreno, Randy (Self; Austin Firefighters Association)

                                 Morrissey, Jack (Austin Association of Professional Firefighters Local 975)

                                 Nixon, Danny (Self)

                                 Nunez, Aaron (Self)

                                 Owen, Lonnie (Self)

                                 Parker, James (Self; Austin local 975 firefighter union member)

                                 Parnell, James (Dallas police association)

                                 Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)

                                 Pearson, Dean (Self; San Antonio Fire and Police Pension Fund)

                                 Pederson, Eric (Self; Austin firefighters)

                                 Perez, Daniel (Self)

                                 Phillips, Mark (Self; Local 975)

                                 Price, Todd (Self)

                                 Ratoza, Andrew (Self)

                                 Reiner, Tom (Self)

                                 Rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)

                                 Rodriguez, Rolando (Self)

                                 Rogers, Thomas (Self)

                                 Romero, Andrew (Austin police association PAC)

                                 Sconci  Jr., Pat (Self)

                                 Skowron, David (Self)

                                 Steele, Christopher (San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association)

                                 Sullivan, Michael (Self; Austin firefighters)

                                 Tanner, Roger (Self)

                                 Throop, Christopher (Self)

                                 Tittle, Stephen (Self)

                                 Trainer, Michael (San Antonio Fire And Police Pensioners' Association)

                                 Van Horn, Scott (Self)

                                 Villareal, Johnny (Self; Houston Professional Firefighters Association)

                                 Vitale, Micheal (Self; Afa local 975)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 Against:

                                 Vocke, Thomas (Self)

                                 Williams, Harold (Self; Austin Firefighters Local975)

                                 Zuiker, Nicholas (Self)

            HB 2877

                 For:

                                 Blair, Rhonda (Self)

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

                                 Lawrence, Kevin (Texas municipal Police Association)

                                 McCauley, William (Self)

                                 Morris, Trae (Self; Pasadena ISD Police Officers Association)

                 On:

                                 Hinderer, Scott (Self)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Grice, Jason (Self; Pasadena ISD Police Officers Association)

                 On:

                                 Guthrie, Brian (Teacher Retirement System)

                                 Loeffler, Christopher (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)

                                 Villalobos, Alexander (Self)

            HB 3377

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 On:

                                 Slayton, David (Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council)

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