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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

            Elections Committee

            April 10, 2017 - 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess

            HB 273

                 For:

                                 Fairbrother, Bill (Self; Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association)

                                 Hammerlein, George (Harris County Clerks Office)

                                 Johnson, Ed (Harris county clerks office)

                                 Maxey, Glen (Texas Democratic Party)

                                 Parenteau, Julia (Texas Association of Realtors)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                                 Davis, Chris (Texas Association of Elections Administrators)

                                 Gentry, Karen (Self)

                                 Gonzalez, Daniel (Texas Assocation of REALTORS)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                                 Roberts, Cary (County and District Clerks' Association of Texas)

                                 Vera, Alan (Harris County Republican Party Ballot Security Committee)

                 Against:

                                 Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of El Paso)

                 On:

                                 Connolly, Maren (Self)

                                 Fischer, Ashley (Secretary of State)

                                 Hopkins, Terry (Self)

                                 Marsh, Deborah (Self)

                                 Tuo, Ruei (Self)

            HB 365

                 For:

                                 Johnson, Ed (Harris county clerks office)

                                 Maxey, Glen (Texas Democratic Party)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Bradley, Susan (Self)

                                 Connolly, Maren (Self)

                                 Davis, Chris (Texas Association of Elections Administrators)

                                 Fairbrother, Bill (Self; Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association)

                                 Forbes, Nanette (Texas Association of Counties)

                                 Gentry, Karen (Self)

                                 Hammerlein, George (Harris County Clerks Office)

                                 Hopkins, Terry (Self)

                                 Marsh, Deborah (Self)

                                 Moreno, Celina (MALDEF)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 For:

                                 Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)

                                 Roberts, Cary (County and District Clerks' Association of Texas)

                                 Treiber, Andre (Self)

                                 Tuo, Ruei (Self)

                                 Vera, Alan (Harris County Republican Party Ballot Security Committee)

                                 Weatherby, Cinde (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)

                 On:

                                 Fischer, Ashley (Secretary of State)

            HB 1173

                 For:

                                 Bullock, Carlos (Self; Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas)

                                 Maxey, Glen (Texas Democratic Party)

                 On:

                                 Ingram, Keith (Texas secretary of State, Elections division)

                                 Vera, Alan (Harris County Republican Party Ballot Security Committee)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Andy, Diann (Self; Bexar County Democratic Women)

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                                 Burnam, Lon (Self)

                                 Gutierrez, Anthony (Common Cause Texas)

                                 Iracheta, Jaime (Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas)

                                 Johnson, Ed (Harris county clerks office)

                                 Parks, Virginia (Self)

                                 Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)

                                 Roberts, Cary (County and District Clerks' Association of Texas)

                                 Weatherby, Cinde (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)

                 Against:

                                 Fairbrother, Bill (Self; Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association)

                                 Kalthoff, Wendy (Self)

                 On:

                                 Davis, Chris (Texas Association of Elections Administrators)

            HB 2481

                 Against:

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                                 Gutierrez, Anthony (Common Cause Texas)

                                 Maxey, Glen (Texas Democratic Party)

                                 Moreno, Celina (MALDEF)

                 On:

                                 Ingram, Keith (Texas secretary of State, Elections division)

                                 Pier, Steven (Office of Attorney General)

                                                                                               2


                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 On:

                                 Starr, Brantley (Texas Office of the Attorney General)

                                 Vera, Alan (Self)

                                 Weatherby, Cinde (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Capps, Judy (Self; Mt. Pleasant prayer network)

                                 Davis, Chris (Texas Association of Elections Administrators)

                                 Dodson, Ruby (Self; TxAPN)

                                 Dundas, Dorothy (Self; House of Accord)

                                 Fulp, Camilla (Self; Bethesda Church Ministries)

                                 Hahn, Valerie (Self; Trinity fellowship church)

                                 Hammerlein, George (Harris County Clerks Office)

                                 Hettinger, Ann (Self; Centerr for the Preeservation of American Ideals)

                                 Johnson, Ed (Harris county clerks office)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                                 Roberts, Cary (County and District Clerks' Association of Texas)

                                 Schlueter, Thomas (Self; Texas Apostolic Prayer Network)

                                 Spencer, Bernadette (Self; Bethesda Church)

                 Against:

                                 Andy, Diann (Self; Bexar County Democratic Women)

                                 Armitstead, Dana (Self; Tx democat women)

                                 Ashbrook, Joni (Self)

                                 Camarillo, Lydia (Southwest Voter Registration & Education Project)

                                 Connolly, Maren (Self)

                                 Drummond, Marie (Self)

                                 Gentry, Karen (Self)

                                 Ghosh, Sumita (Self)

                                 Gonzales, Patricia (William C. Velasquez Institute)

                                 Hopkins, Terry (Self)

                                 Lara, Rene (Texas AFL-CIO)

                                 Marrs, Annie (Self)

                                 Marsh, Deborah (Self)

                                 Michaelis, Christina (Self)

                                 Parks, Virginia (Self)

                                 Qureshi, Naila (Self)

                                 Scott, Glenn (Self; Left up to us)

                                 Shepard, Cindy (Self)

                                 Sterling, Karen (Self)

                                 Summers, Heather (Self)

                                 Switzer, Brittany (Texas Democratic Party)

                                 Treiber, Andre (Self)

                                 Tuo, Ruei (Self)

                                 Underhill, Jill (Self)

                                                                                               3


                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 Against:

                                 Ward, Patricia (Self)

                                 Wierzbicki, Angela (Self)

            HB 3285

                 For:

                                 Gutierrez, Anthony (Common Cause Texas)

                 Against:

                                 Hammerlein, George (Harris County Clerks Office)

                                 Johnson, Ed (Harris county clerks office)

                 On:

                                 Ingram, Keith (Texas secretary of State, Elections division)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Andy, Diann (Self; Bexar County Democratic Women)

                                 Baggett, Donnis (Texas Press Association)

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                                 Birch, Carol (Public Citizen Texas)

                                 Burnam, Lon (Self)

                                 Masey, Chris (Coalition  of  Texans  with  disabilities)

                                 Schneider, Michael (Texas Association of Broadcasters)

                                 Shannon, Kelley (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas)

                                 Weatherby, Cinde (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)

                 Against:

                                 Fairbrother, Bill (Self; Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association)

                                 Vera, Alan (Harris County Republican Party Ballot Security Committee)

            HB 3422

                 For:

                                 Fairbrother, Bill (Self; Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association)

                                 Johnson, Ed (Harris county clerks office)

                                 Vera, Alan (Harris County Republican Party Ballot Security Committee)

                 Against:

                                 Maxey, Glen (Texas Democratic Party)

                 On:

                                 Ingram, Keith (Texas secretary of State, Elections division)

                                 Weatherby, Cinde (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Davis, Chris (Texas Association of Elections Administrators)

                                 Hammerlein, George (Harris County Clerks Office)

                                 Lee, Donald (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)

                                                                                               4


                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 For:

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                                 Roberts, Cary (County and District Clerks' Association of Texas)

                 Against:

                                 Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)

                 On:

                                 Starr, Brantley (Texas Office of the Attorney General)

            HB 3648

                 For:

                                 Fairbrother, Bill (Self; Texas Republican County Chairmen's Association)

                                 Maxey, Glen (Texas Democratic Party)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Andy, Diann (Self; Bexar County Democratic Women)

                                 Hammerlein, George (Harris County Clerks Office)

                                 Johnson, Ed (Harris county clerks office)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                                 Vera, Alan (Harris County Republican Party Ballot Security Committee)

                                 Weatherby, Cinde (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)

                 On:

                                 Fischer, Ashley (Secretary of State)

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