N U A L Advisory Committee 5 31 rsdt A N N E. RAY COVEY, Conference Chair AEP Texas PATRICK ROSE, Conference Vice Chair Corridor Title Former Texas State Representative Friday, March 22, 2019 KYLE BIEDERMANN – Texas State CONFERENCE RECEPTION Representative 7:45 - 8:35AM REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST MICHAEL CAIN Heavy Hors d’oeuvres • Entertainment Oncor 8:35AM OPENING SESSION DONNA CAMPBELL – State Senator 7:00 pm, Thursday – March 21, 2019 TAL R. CENTERS, JR., Regional Vice Presiding: E. Ray Covey – Advisory Committee Chair President– Texas New Braunfels Civic Convention Center Edmund Kuempel Public Service Scholarship Awards CenterPoint Energy Presenter: State Representative John Kuempel JASON CHESSER Sponsored by: Wells Fargo Bank CPS Energy • Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (GVEC) KATHLEEN GARCIA Martin Marietta • RINCO of Texas, Inc. • Rocky Hill Equipment Rentals 8:55AM CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS OF TEXAS CPS Energy Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG) Moderator: Ray Perryman, The Perryman Group BO GILBERT – Texas Government Relations USAA Panelists: State Representative Donna Howard Former Recipients of the ROBERT HOWDEN Dan McCoy, MD, President – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Texans for Economic Progress Texan of the Year Award Steve Murdock, Former Director – U.S. Census Bureau JOHN KUEMPEL – Texas State Representative Pia Orrenius, Economist – Dallas Federal Reserve Bank DAN MCCOY, MD, President Robert Calvert 1974 James E. “Pete” Laney 1996 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Leon Jaworski 1975 Kay Bailey Hutchison 1997 KEVIN MEIER Lady Bird Johnson 1976 George Christian 1998 9:50AM PROPERTY TAXES AND SCHOOL FINANCE Texas Water Supply Company Dolph Briscoe 1977 Max Sherman 1999 Moderator: Ross Ramsey, Co-Founder & Exec. Editor – Texas Tribune LUCAS MEYERS George H. Mahon 1978 Bill Archer 2000 Panelists: Senator Paul Bettencourt Recurrent Energy Red McCombs 2001 John B. Connally 1979 Senator Kirk Watson, Senate President Pro Tem AMANDA MILLER – Director, Government Abner McCall 1980 George W. Bush 2002 Affairs and Public Relations John Colyandro – Office of the Governor, Policy Director Martin Marietta Anne Armstrong 1981 Karl Rove 2003 DOUG MILLER George H.W. Bush 1982 David Robinson 2004 Laura Bush 2005 Miller & Miller Insurance Agency Lloyd Bentsen 1983 10:45AM ADDRESS BY LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR DAN PATRICK Former Texas State Representative Ed Whitacre 2006 John Ben Shepperd 1984 MARY JANE NALLEY Rick Perry 2007 John Tower 1985 11:05AM TRANSITIONS IN THE LEGISLATURE Guene Hall David Dewhurst 2008 John Traeger 1986 KEVIN PATTESON, General Manager T. Boone Pickens 2009 Moderator: Jeff Moseley, CEO – Texas Association of Business GBRA James A. Baker, III 1987 Peter M. Holt 2010 Panelists Senator Pete Flores RAY PERRYMAN, President & CEO Phil Gramm 1988 Ray Benson 2011 State Representative John Turner The Perryman Group William P. Hobby 1989 Ray Perryman 2012 Former State Representative Larry Gonzales PIKE POWERS, Attorney at Law Barbara Bush 1990 John Sharp 2013 Former State Representative Paul Workman JIMMY RABON, Regional Vice President E (Kika) de la Garza 1991 Wallace Jefferson 2014 CEMEX Robert S. Strauss 1992 Joe Straus 2015 JULIAN O. READ Julian Read Associates Barbara Jordan 1993 John Cornyn 2016 NOON LUNCHEON KEYNOTE ADDRESS Herb Kelleher 1994 CARLTON SCHWAB, President & CEO Pike Powers 2017 Mike Morath, Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner Texas Economic Dev. Council Bob Bullock 1995 George Strait 2018 JOHN SHARP, Chancellor 1:00PM ADJOURN The Texas A&M University System DENISE TRAUTH, Ph.D., President 2019 Texan of Texas State University the Year JUDGE JEFF WENTWORTH Panels approved for 3.0 State Bar of Texas Accredited CLE Hours Lamar Smith Former Texas State Senator