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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 Bill Archer 2000 Recurrent Energy George H. Mahon 1978 Panelists: Senator Paul Bettencourt Red McCombs 2001 John B. Connally 1979 Senator Kirk Watson, Senate President Pro Tem AMANDA MILLER – Vice President Abner McCall 1980 George W. Bush 2002 Government and Public Affairs 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 Rick Perry, U.S. Energy Secretary (invited) 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 2019 TEXAS LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE ASSOCIATE SPONSORS Association of Electric McKenna Foundation 2019 Texas Legislative A N N U A L Companies of Texas, Inc. (AECT) Mignon McGarry & Associates 5 3 r d Associated General Contractors Natural Bridge Caverns Conference Co-Sponsors of Texas New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF TEXAS March 21-22, 2019 Ashley Furniture HomeStores New Braunfels Independent CEMEX • CENTERPOINT ENERGY Astoria Strategic Wealth School District GUADALUPE BLANCO RIVER AUTHORITY (GBRA) New Braunfels TEXAS WATER SUPPLY COMPANY • USAA Austin Firefighters PAC New Braunfels Civic Convention Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council Republican Women PAC Reception–Luncheon Sponsors Center Bastrop EDC New Braunfels Smokehouse CPS ENERGY • GUADALUPE VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (GVEC) Beatty Navarre Strama P.C. New Braunfels Utilities MARTIN MARIETTA • RINCO OF TEXAS, INC. Borgelt Law Outdoor Advertising Association ROCKY HILL EQUIPMENT RENTALS Broaddus & Associates of Texas (OAAT) ALAMO AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS (AACOG) Broadway Bank Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc. Facility Sponsors Raba Kistner Consultants, Inc. Canyon Lake Republican Women M&S ENGINEERING • RECURRENT ENERGY Reagan Burrus, PLLC Capital West Securities TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS • TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY Mark and Tina Reynolds CASA of Central Texas, Inc. Rocking MJ Ranch Breakfast Sponsors Casteel & Casteel, PLLC Bed & Breakfast FOUR RIVERS ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS • HUNTER INDUSTRIES, LTD. Casteel & Roberts Mitch & Jean Sacco RANDOLPH-BROOKS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION City of Balcones Heights Sage Capital Bank SAN ANTONIO MOBILITY COALITION (SAMCo) City of New Braunfels SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc. TEXAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL City of Seguin San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Pre-Reception Sponsors City of Seguin Utilities San Antonio Economic AEP TEXAS • AMEGY BANK • GVTC COMMUNICATIONS Classen Custom Homes Development Foundation (SAEDF) PROSPERITY BANK • WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Comal Independent San Marcos Area Chamber of School District Commerce AV-Tech Sponsors N U A L Comal County Democratic5 3 Partyr d A N Schlitterbahn Waterparks CORRIDOR TITLE • FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION GREATER SAN MARCOS PARTNERSHIP Communities in Schools of Seguin Area Chamber of Commerce South Central Texas JOHNSON & JOHNSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW • ONCOR Stewart Title Guaranty Company Detex Corporation SCHERTZ BANK & TRUST • SH 130 CONCESSION COMPANY, LLC TCOR Insurance Management Edwards Aquifer Authority Tenet Healthcare Education Sponsors El Campo City Development TenPoints Consulting LLC CANYON LAKE WATER SERVICE COMPANY (CLWSC) Corporation CMC STEEL TEXAS • DOUG AND ANNE MILLER FAMILY Texas Association of Business (TAB) First Commercial Bank MILL STREET ART GALLERY Texas Land Title Association (TLTA) Focused Advocacy THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Texas Mining and Reclamation Freese and Nichols, Inc. Association Frost Bank Texas Public Power Association Arrangements Committee Gonzales Economic DANIEL GONZALEZ, Arrangements ROBIN JEFFERS Development Corporation Texas Taxpayers and Research Association Chair ROB JOHNSON Gristmill River Restaurant Texas Telephone Association NATALIE ROUGEUX, Arrangements ELIZABETH JOOST Harris Road Company Texas Travel Industry Association Vice Chair NELDA JUAREZ Himmel Home Health, LLC (TTIA) MICHAEL MEEK, Program Director SHERMAN KRAUSE 2019 Texan of the Year Hoffmann Financial Services TIP Strategies MARIAN BENSON GERRI LAWING Hospitality and Visitors Union Pacific Railroad BENNIE BOCK MARK LEITA Lamar Smith Association Upstream Communications BRUCE BOYER GREG LUTZ SPONSORED BY: Howard Payne University - UTSA-SBDC VICTOR BOYER KARI MEYER New Braunfels The Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce, Inc. Vickrey & Associates, Inc. CARTER CASTEEL JIM POWERS Keller Williams Heritage Vistra Energy KYLE DICKE WES STUDDARD New Braunfels - Mark Hampton CO-SPONSORED BY: Vulcan Materials Company BRANDON DIETERT CHUCK TEETER Law Office of BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF TEXAS MARK HAMPTON DIB WALDRIP Roy Neal Linnartz, PLLC Senator Jeff Wentworth CEMEX • CENTERPOINT ENERGY SUSAN HEIDRICH BARRY WILLIAMS McCreary, Veselka, Workforce Solutions Alamo GUADALUPE BLANCO RIVER AUTHORITY (GBRA) ROCKY HILL SHANE WOLF Bragg & Allen, P.C. Joyce and Frank Yannuzzi TEXAS WATER SUPPLY COMPANY • USAA For more information: 830/625-2385, Fax: 830/625-7918 or email [email protected] www.txlegislativeconference.com.
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