WITNESS LIST

            Government Transparency & Operation Committee

            May 1, 2017 - 2:00 PM or upon final adjourn./recess

            HB 2073

                 For:

                                 Belt, Mollie (Self)

                                 Jones, Thurman (Self; North Dallas Gazette)

                 On:

                                 Baggett, Donnis (Self; Texas Press Association)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Green, Joseph (Travis County Commissioners Court)

                                 Longley, Bill (Texas Municipal League)

                 On:

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

            HB 2175

                 On:

                                 Vassar, Ryan (Office of the Attorney General)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

            HB 2400

                 For:

                                 Habluetzel, Martha (Self; Campaign to Opt Out of Daylight Saving Time in TX)

                                 Hackemack, Ralph (Self)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Brinkman, James (Self)

                                 Brinkman, Shirley (Self)

                                 Courtney, Annie (Self)

                                 Dixon, Kelly (Self)

                                 Legere, Barbara (Self)

                                 O'Bryant, Aziza (Self)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                                 Propes, Jay (Self)

                                 Rich, John (Self)

                 Against:

                                 Cahn, Adam (Cahnman's Musings)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

            HB 3203

                 For:

                                 Harris, Aaron (Self; Direct action tx)

                 Against:

                                 Longley, Bill (Texas Municipal League)

                 On:

                                 Dahill, John (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)

                                 Joseph, Zenobia (Self)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Baggett, Donnis (Self; Texas Press Association)

                                 Cahn, Adam (Cahnman's Musings)

                                 COMPTON, David (Self; New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, Southern Newspapers Inc, Texas

                                 Press Association)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                                 Patterson, Bill (Self; Denton Record-Chronicle, Texas Press Association)

                                 Shannon, Kelley (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas)

                 Against:

                                 Bailey, Richard (City of Austin)

                                 Bakko, Sally (City of Galveston)

                                 Nichols, Colby (Texas Rural Education Association)

                                 Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)

                                 Tagliabue, Tom (City of Corpus Christi)

                                 Thompson, Rick (Texas Association of Counties)

                                 Warndof, Donna (Harris County)

                                 Weist, Jon (City of Irving)

                                 Wichmann, Jennifer (City of Arlington)

            HB 3250

                 For:

                                 Chapman, Jeff (Self)

                                 Fowler, Perry (Texas Water Infrastructure Network)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Cahn, Adam (Cahnman's Musings)

                                 Fisher, Jon (Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                 Against:

                                 Cuellar, Lupe (City of El Paso)

                                 Ginsburg, Tracy (Texas Association of School Business Officials)

                                 Longley, Bill (Texas Municipal League)

                                 Nichols, Colby (Texas Rural Education Association)

                                 Smith, Michelle (Fast Growth School Coalition)

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                                                                                    WITNESS LIST

                 Against:

            HB 3780

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                 On:

                                 Sun, Zhenzhen (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board)

            HB 3896

                 Against:

                                 COMPTON, David (Self; New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, Southern Newspapers Inc, Texas

                                 Press Association)

                                 Patterson, Bill (Self; Denton Record-Chronicle, Texas Press Association, myself)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Longley, Bill (Texas Municipal League)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                                 Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)

                                 Tagliabue, Tom (City of Corpus Christi)

                                 Weist, Jon (City of Irving)

                                 Wichmann, Jennifer (City of Arlington)

                 Against:

                                 Baggett, Donnis (Self; Texas Press Association)

                                 Shannon, Kelley (Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas)

            HB 4157

                 For:

                                 Alejandre, Marcela (Self; La Union del Pueblo Entero)

                                 Herrera, Esther (Self; La Union del Pueblo Entero)

                                 Landeros, Andrea (Self)

                                 Ramirez, Josue (Texas Low Income Housing Information Service)

                                 Ramos, Jen (Self)

                 Against:

                                 Dahill, John (Texas Conference of Urban Counties)

                 Registering, but not testifying:

                 For:

                                 Moreno, Celina (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund)

                                 Parkinson, Thomas (Self)

                                 Russell, Claudia (El Paso County)

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