2020 TEXAS LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE ASSOCIATE SPONSORS America’s SBDC Texas McKenna Foundation 2020 Texas Legislative A N N U A L Associated General Contractors Mignon McGarry Conference Co-Sponsors 5 4 t h of Texas (AGC) Moeller & Associates ACCENTURE • BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF TEXAS September 2020 Astoria Strategic Wealth Moody Bank CEMEX • CENTERPOINT ENERGY – Brian Cox, Principal Natural Bridge Caverns GUADALUPE BLANCO RIVER AUTHORITY (GBRA) New Braunfels TEXAS WATER SUPPLY COMPANY • WALMART Austin Firefighters Association New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung Civic Convention Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council New Braunfels Independent Reception–Luncheon Sponsors School District Center Bascon Crahan PLLC ALAMO AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS • CPS ENERGY New Braunfels Smokehouse GUADALUPE VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (GVEC) Bluebonnet Motors New Braunfels Utilities MARTIN MARIETTA • TASKUS Borgelt Law Outdoor Advertising Association Facility Sponsors Broaddus & Associates of Texas (OAAT) GREATER TEXAS CREDIT UNION • M&S ENGINEERING Broadway Bank Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc. TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS • TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY Buda Economic Phillips 66 Breakfast Sponsors Development Corporation Raba Kistner Consultants, Inc. FOUR RIVERS ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS • HUNTER INDUSTRIES, LTD. Capital West Securities Reagan Burrus, PLLC RANDOLPH-BROOKS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Resolute Health Hospital CASA of Central Texas, Inc. SAN ANTONIO MOBILITY COALITION (SAMCo) Rocking MJ Ranch TEXAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL Casteel & Casteel, PLLC Bed & Breakfast Pre-Reception Sponsors Casteel & Roberts Sage Capital Bank AEP TEXAS • AMEGYBANK OF TEXAS CGT US Ltd SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc. GVTC COMMUNICATIONS • PROSPERITY BANK City of New Braunfels San Antonio Chamber of Commerce WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. City of Seguin San Antonio Economic AV-Tech Sponsors Development Foundation (SAEDF) Comal Independent U A L h A N N CORRIDOR TITLE • FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION School District5 4 t San Marcos Area Chamber of FROST BANK • SCHERTZ BANK & TRUST Commerce Crosswind Public Relations SH 130 CONCESSION COMPANY, LLC Schlitterbahn Waterparks & Resort TEXAS AGGREGATES & CONCRETE ASSOCIATION Detex Corporation Seguin Area Chamber of Commerce Edwards Aquifer Authority Education Sponsors City of Seguin Utilities CANYON LAKE WATER SERVICE COMPANY (CLWSC) El Campo City Development Stewart Title Guaranty Company Corporation CMC STEEL TEXAS • EPHESUS FOUNDATION TenPoints Consulting LLC DOUG AND ANNE MILLER FAMILY First Commercial Bank Texas Association of Business (TAB) THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Focused Advocacy Texas Mining and Reclamation Freese and Nichols, Inc. Association Arrangements Committee Gonzales Economic Texas Taxpayers and Research DANIEL GONZALEZ, Arrangements Development Corporation Association SHERMAN KRAUSE Chair GERRI LAWING Himmel Home Health, LLC Texas Travel Industry Association NATALIE ROUGEUX, Arrangements MARK LEITA Hoffmann Financial Services (TTIA) Vice Chair JAMES LOVETT TIP Strategies ALYSSA COKER, Program Director Johnson & Johnson GREG LUTZ 2020 Texan of the Year Attorneys At Law TrustTexas Bank, SSB MARIAN BENSON NATHAN MANLOVE Keller Williams Heritage Union Pacific Railroad BENNIE BOCK Charles Duke BRUCE BOYER MIKE MAXWELL New Braunfels – Mark Hampton Vickrey & Associates, Inc. CARTER CASTEEL MICHAEL MEEK SPONSORED BY: Law Office of Vulcan Materials Company KARI MEYER Roy Neal Linnartz, PLLC KYLE DICKE The Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce, Inc. Hon. Jeff Wentworth, KATHRYN DEBERJEOIS WES STUDDARD Lhoist Former Sate Senator MARK HAMPTON IAN TAYLOR CO-SPONSORED BY: Linebarger, Attorneys at Law Kelly and Tracy White SUSAN HEIDRICH CHUCK TEETER ACCENTURE • BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF TEXAS McCreary, Veselka, Frank D. Yannuzzi ROBIN JEFFERS DIB WALDRIP CEMEX • CENTERPOINT ENERGY Bragg & Allen, P.C. ROB JOHNSON BARRY WILLIAMS GUADALUPE BLANCO RIVER AUTHORITY (GBRA) ELIZABETH JOOST SHANE WOLF TEXAS WATER SUPPLY COMPANY • WALMART For more information: 830/625-2385, Fax: 830/625-7918 or email [email protected] www.txlegislativeconference.com U A L Advisory Committee 5 41 tsht A N N E. RAY COVEY, Conference Chair Las Aguilas Enterprises PATRICK ROSE, Conference Vice Chair Corridor Title SEPTEMBER 2020 JONATHAN ANDREWS Accenture Texan of the Year Dinner HOWARD BAKER September 8 & 9 at 10:00AM (Virtual) Greater Texas Credit Union Thursday, September 3, 2020 – 7:00 pm KYLE BIEDERMANN – State THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN OUR ECONOMY Representative New Braunfels Civic Convention Center Moderator: Ray Perryman, The Perryman Group DONNA CAMPBELL – State Senator Panelists: Tom Kowalski, President & CEO – Texas Healthcare and Co-Sponsors TALMADGE R. CENTERS, JR., Vice Bioscience Institute President Regional Operations Accenture • Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas • Cemex CenterPoint Energy Jon Mogford, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Research – The Texas A&M CenterPoint Energy • Guadalupe Blanco River Authority (GBRA) JASON CHESSER Texas Water Supply Company • Walmart University System Wells Fargo Bank Wayne Roberts, CEO – Cancer Prevention and Research DAVID DRASTATA Former Recipients of the Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Walmart Texan of the Year Award KATHLEEN GARCIA September 10 & 11 at 10:00AM (Virtual) CPS Energy ROBERT HOWDEN Robert Calvert 1974 Kay Bailey Hutchison 1997 FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS FOR TEXAS Texans for Economic Progress Leon Jaworski 1975 George Christian 1998 Moderator: Victor Boyer, Executive Director – San Antonio Mobility Coalition (SAMCo) JOHN KUEMPEL – State Representative Lady Bird Johnson 1976 Max Sherman 1999 Panelists: State Senator Kelly Hancock – Senate Transportation Committee Dolph Briscoe 1977 Bill Archer 2000 DAN MCCOY, MD, President Vice Chair Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas George H. Mahon 1978 Red McCombs 2001 State Representative Ray Lopez KEVIN MEIER John B. Connally 1979 George W. Bush 2002 Texas Water Supply Company Abner McCall 1980 Karl Rove 2003 James Bass, Executive Director – Texas Department of Transportation DOUG MILLER Anne Armstrong 1981 David Robinson 2004 Travis Kelly, Vice President of Stakeholder Engagement – Miller & Miller Insurance Agency George H.W. Bush 1982 Laura Bush 2005 Texas Central KEVIN PATTESON, General Manager Lloyd Bentsen 1983 Ed Whitacre 2006 GBRA John Ben Shepperd 1984 Rick Perry 2007 September 15 & 16 at 10:00AM (Virtual) RAY PERRYMAN, President & CEO John Tower 1985 David Dewhurst 2008 The Perryman Group John Traeger 1986 T. Boone Pickens 2009 CENSUS 2020: IMPACTS ON FUTURE ELECTIONS AND FUNDING PIKE POWERS, Attorney at Law James A. Baker, III 1987 Peter M. Holt 2010 Moderator: Patrick Rose, President – Corridor Title, Former State Representative JIMMY RABON, Regional Vice President Phil Gramm 1988 Ray Benson 2011 Panelists: State Representative Phil King – House Redistricting Committee Chair CEMEX William P. Hobby 1989 Ray Perryman 2012 Ross Ramsey, Executive Editor & Co-Founder – Texas Tribune DIANE RATH, Executive Director Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG) Barbara Bush 1990 John Sharp 2013 E (Kika) de la Garza 1991 Wallace Jefferson 2014 September 17 & 18 at 10:00AM (Virtual) JULIAN O. READ Julian Read Associates Robert S. Strauss 1992 Joe Straus 2015 LUNCHEON AND FEATURED PANEL: THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION JASON REED – Vice President of Operations Barbara Jordan 1993 John Cornyn 2016 Martin Marietta Herb Kelleher 1994 Pike Powers 2017 Moderator: Gerry Griffin, Flight Director for all Apollo missions and Former CARLTON SCHWAB, President & CEO Bob Bullock 1995 George Strait 2018 Director – Johnson Space Center Texas Economic Dev. Council James E. “Pete” Laney 1996 Lamar Smith 2019 Panelists: Charles Duke, Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot HEMANT SEHGAL, Vice President TaskUs Daniel Brandenstein, Former Astronaut and Executive Vice President and COO – United Space Alliance JOHN SHARP, Chancellor The Texas A&M University System 2020 Texan of Tom Henricks, Former Astronaut and Former President – Aviation DENISE TRAUTH, Ph.D., President the Year Week Texas State University Charles Duke JUDGE JEFF WENTWORTH Panels approved for 3.0 State Bar of Texas Accredited CLE Hours..