WITNESS LIST
State Affairs Committee
April 28, 2025 - 8:00 AM
For:
Blair, Ammon (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Against:
Cruz, Sarah (ACLU of Texas)
Gomez, Krystal (Self; Texas Immigration Law Council; American Immigration Lawyers
Association- Texas Chapter)
Lugo, Priscilla (Self; Texas Immigration Law Council)
Venegas-Matula, Michelle (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
On:
Mills, Brady (Texas DPS Crime Lab)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Castilla, Cindi (Self; Texas Eagle Forum)
Flatt, Bryan (Texas Municipal Police Association)
Hawthorne, Brian (Sheriffs’ Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Parnell, James (Dallas Police Association)
Seelig, Bonnie (Self)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
French, Emily (Common Cause Texas)
Gavrilla, Sandra (Self)
Green, Shelton (Fellowship Southwest)
Gundu, Krish (Texas Jail Project)
Guo, Zhao (Self)
Hernandez, Daniela (Self; Workers Defense Action Fund)
Hoffacker, Daphne (Self)
Looney, Kairos (Self)
Margulies, Jennifer (Self)
McJunkins, Phillip (Self)
Schlesinger, Ellen (Self)
Steele, Montana (Self)
Torres, Alicia (Self)
Walter, Erin (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter-Mahoney, Melanie (Self)
Woodward, Daniel (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Against:
Chandler, Anne (Texas Immigration Law Council)
Crawford, Karen (Self)
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Against:
Etter, Kristin (Self; Texas Immigration Law Council)
Figueroa, Luis (Every Texan)
Gomez, Krystal (Self; Texas Immigration Law Council; American Immigration Lawyers
Association- Texas Chapter)
Harriger, Elise (Self)
Hash, Cori (Self)
Prado, Maximiliano (Self)
Thornton, Bis (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Torres, Alicia (Self)
Venegas-Matula, Michelle (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter, Erin (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Woodward, Daniel (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Hunt, Daniel (Self; State Republican Executive Committee)
Klein, Jacqueline (Self)
Moody, Grant (Self)
Seelig, Bonnie (Self)
Against:
Brooks, Katherine (Self)
Cabot, Jessica (Self)
Cigarroa, Maria Cristina (Self)
Dechert, Katharina (Self; Tahirih Justice Center)
Deline, Steven (Self)
French, Emily (Common Cause Texas)
Garcia, Amanda (Texas AFT-AAUP)
Gavrilla, Sandra (Self)
Gonzalez, Ana (Texas AFL-CIO)
Grever, Maya (Harris County Commissioners Court)
Guo, Zhao (Self)
Hernandez, Daniela (Self; Workers Defense Action Fund)
Hoffacker, Daphne (Self)
Huang, Tao (Self)
Looney, Kairos (Self)
Lopez, Vanessa (Self)
Lopez-Tilson, Beatriz (Self)
Marcich, Nikola (Self)
Margulies, Jennifer (Self)
McJunkins, Phillip (Self)
Nam, Samuel (Self)
Person, Maria (Self)
Quan, Gordon (Self)
Schlesinger, Ellen (Self)
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Against:
Smith, Trudy (Self; Children's Defense Fund-Texas)
Steele, Montana (Self)
Steglich, Elissa (Self)
Walter-Mahoney, Melanie (Self)
Warsi, Eshal (Self)
Watson, Robert (Texas Impact)
Wheeler, Julie (Travis County Commissioners Court)
For:
Hunt, Daniel (Self; State Republican Executive Committee)
Against:
Bradford, Brian (Self)
Cai, Qirui (Self)
Chen, Kyle (Self)
Fu, Yihong (Self)
Guo, Zhao (Self)
Hall, Jessica (Self)
He, Yukuai (Self)
Huang, Tao (Self)
Ku, Stella (Self)
Li, Thierry Shanjian (Self)
Luo, Jie (Self)
Luo, Mingqiu (Self)
Syed, Sarah (Self; Woori Juntos)
Walter, Erin (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Wei, Ce (Self)
Wen, David (Self)
Wu, Xiaoyu (Self)
Xu, Shiyong (Self)
Yuan, Jason (Self)
Zhang, Changhua (Self)
Zhang, Santiago (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Castilla, Cindi (Self; Texas Eagle Forum)
EVANS, MICHELLE (Self; WILLIAMSON COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY)
Roach, Blake (Texas Farm Bureau)
Seelig, Bonnie (Self)
Thomas, Leslie (Self)
Against:
Cruz, Sarah (Self; ACLU of Texas)
Deline, Steven (Self)
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Against:
Ding, Niu (Self)
Embrey, Celeste (Texas Bankers Association)
Fowler, Meredyth (Texas Mortgage Bankers Association)
Gavrilla, Sandra (Self)
Gu, Qin (Self)
Gundu, Krish (Texas Jail Project)
He, Zhangyi (Ngc Transmission Equipment)
Hoffacker, Daphne (Self)
Ingle, Tim (Self)
Ingle, Yifan (Self)
Li, Yuxiao (Self)
Liu, Xuli (Self)
Looney, Kairos (Self)
Margulies, Jennifer (Self)
McJunkins, Phillip (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Norman, Jr., M. Scott (Texas Association of Builders)
Parenteau, Julia (Texas Realtors)
Person, Maria (Self)
Quan, Gordon (Self)
Ru, Ziling (Self)
Schlesinger, Ellen (Self)
Steele, Montana (Self)
Stitt, Tristan (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Thornton, Bis (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Torres, Alicia (Self)
Venegas-Matula, Michelle (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter-Mahoney, Melanie (Self)
Wei, Peng (Self)
Woodward, Daniel (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Yi, Alice (Self)
Zhu, Daniel (Self)
On:
Hunter, Dan (Texas Dept of Agriculture)
Wadzeck, Loren (Ngc)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Against:
French, Emily (Common Cause Texas)
Guo, Zhao (Self)
Hoffacker, Daphne (Self)
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Against:
Walter-Mahoney, Melanie (Self)
Against:
Gomez, Krystal (Self; Texas Immigration Law Council; American Immigration Lawyers
Association- Texas Chapter)
Hernandez, Daniela (Self; Workers Defense Action Fund)
Ortiz, Lilly (Self)
Quan, Gordon (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Seelig, Bonnie (Self)
Against:
Figueroa, Luis (Every Texan)
Lugo, Priscilla (Self; Texas Immigration Law Council)
McJunkins, Phillip (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Stitt, Tristan (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Thornton, Bis (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter-Mahoney, Melanie (Self)
Woodward, Daniel (Texas Civil Rights Project)
On:
Colehower, Jennifer (Texas Workforce Commission)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Gessner, Madison (Texas Restaurant Association)
Guo, Zhao (Self)
Horn, Sarah (National Federation of Independent Business)
Huang, Tao (Self)
Quan, Gordon (Self)
Yi, Alice (Self)
Yuan, Jason (Self)
Against:
Gavrilla, Sandra (Self)
Looney, Kairos (Self)
Margulies, Jennifer (Self)
McJunkins, Phillip (Self)
Schlesinger, Ellen (Self)
Steele, Montana (Self)
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Against:
Venegas-Matula, Michelle (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter, Erin (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter-Mahoney, Melanie (Self)
On:
Cruz, Sarah (Self; ACLU of Texas)
For:
Isaac, Jason (Self; American Energy Institute)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Bell, Mark (Association of Electric Companies of Texas)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Parker, Zoe (Wartsila North America, Inc.)
Shannon, Fred (Hunt Consolidated)
On:
English, Barksdale (Public Utility Commission of Texas)
For:
Brown, Andrew (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Campa, Frank (Self)
Dominguez, Cyndi (Self)
Martinez, Jaydan (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Benton, Megan (Self; Texas Values Action)
Litzler, John (Baptist General Convention of Texas Christian Life Commission)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Seelig, Bonnie (Self)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Venegas-Matula, Michelle (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
For:
Hunt, Daniel (Self; State Republican Executive Committee)
Against:
Figueroa, Luis (Every Texan)
Gomez, Krystal (Self; Texas Immigration Law Council; American Immigration Lawyers
Association- Texas Chapter)
Quan, Gordon (Self)
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
French, Emily (Common Cause Texas)
Seelig, Bonnie (Self)
Against:
Cruz, Sarah (Self; ACLU of Texas)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Guo, Zhao (Self)
Hernandez, Daniela (Self; Workers Defense Action Fund)
McJunkins, Phillip (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Person, Maria (Self)
Stitt, Tristan (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Venegas-Matula, Michelle (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter, Erin (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter-Mahoney, Melanie (Self)
Woodward, Daniel (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Wu, Xiaoyu (Self)
Yi, Alice (Self)
Against:
Stitt, Tristan (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Isaac, Jason (Self; American Energy Institute)
Lee, Tabia (Do No Harm Action)
Against:
Benton, Megan (Self; Texas Values Action)
Carranza, Susana (Self)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Figueroa, Luis (Every Texan)
Gavrilla, Sandra (Self)
Griffith, Idona (Self)
Guo, Zhao (Self)
Hall, Leslie (Self)
Ingram II, Antonio (Legal Defense Fund)
Laeky, Miriam (Self; Equality Texas)
Latham Sikes, Chloe (IDRA (Intercultural Development Research Association))
Mcjunkins, Phillip (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Person, Maria (Self)
Pollock, Kristen (Self)
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Against:
Reyburn, Beth (Self)
Steele, Montana (Self)
Thompson, Stephanie (Self)
Venegas-Matula, Michelle (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter, Erin (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Woodward, Daniel (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Yi, Alice (Self)
On:
Johnson, JR (Texas Ethics Commission)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
French, Emily (Common Cause Texas)
Shelley, Adrian (Public Citizen)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Steele, Montana (Self)
Against:
Andrews, Jenny (Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops)
Chavez, Tania (La Union del Pueblo Entero-LUPE)
Crawford, Karen (Self)
Dominguez, Stephanie (Self)
Etter, Kristin (Self; Texas Immigration Law Council)
Hanes, Rachel (Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance)
Lopez, Marco (La Union del Pueblo Entero-LUPE)
Ortiz, Lilly (Self)
San Martin, Dara (La Union del Pueblo Entero-LUPE)
Singleton, Samantha (The Border Network for Human Rights)
Venegas-Matula, Michelle (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Walter, Erin (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Woodward, Daniel (Texas Civil Rights Project)
On:
Weber, Andrew (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Against:
Cruz, Sarah (Self; ACLU of Texas)
Deline, Steven (Self)
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Against:
Figueroa, Luis (Every Texan)
Gavrilla, Sandra (Self)
Gonzalez, Ana (Texas AFL-CIO)
Gundu, Krish (Texas Jail Project)
Guo, Zhao (Self)
Hernandez, Daniela (Self; Workers Defense Action Fund)
Huang, Tao (Self)
Ingle, Yifan (Self)
Latham Sikes, Chloe (IDRA (Intercultural Development Research Association))
Looney, Kairos (Self)
Lugo, Priscilla (Self; Texas Immigration Law Council)
Maley, Charles (Self; South Texans’ Property Rights Association)
Margulies, Jennifer (Self)
McGeary, Judith (Self; Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance)
McJunkins, Phillip (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Person, Maria (Self)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone Star Chapter Sierra Club)
Schlesinger, Ellen (Self)
Steele, Montana (Self)
Stitt, Tristan (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso County)
Thornton, Bis (Self; Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry)
Torres, Alicia (Self)
Watson, Robert (Texas Impact)
Wei, Ce (Self)
Yi, Alice (Self)
Yuan, Jason (Self)
On:
Roscetti, Jennifer (Office of the Attorney General)
For:
Lucci, Michael (Self; State Armor)
Against:
Smith, Caitlin (Jupiter Power LLC)
On:
Hamer, Glenn (Texas Association of Business)
Norman, Jr., M. Scott (Texas Association of Builders)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Roach, Blake (Texas Farm Bureau)
Solis, Eddie (Abilene Chamber of Commerce)
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Against:
Amthor, Jonatahn (Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance)
Villarreal, Tori (Base Power Company)
Wu, Xiaoyu (Self)
On:
Embrey, Celeste (Texas Bankers Association)
Fowler, Meredyth (Texas Mortgage Bankers Association)
Messer, Judd (Advanced Power Alliance)
Powell, Abby (Texas Land Title Association)
Weber, Bri (Texas Solar + Storage Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Guo, Zhao (Self)
Hoffacker, Daphne (Self)
Syed, Sarah (Self; Woori Juntos)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Saldana, Amanda (Cameron County)
Stitt, Tristan (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Woodward, Daniel (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Van de Putte, Leticia (Self)
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