- Health & Human Services - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: Senate Chamber
- Transportation - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E1.016 (Hearing Room)
- Economic Development - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 9:00 AM, Location: E1.028 (Hearing Room)
- Finance - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 9:00 AM, Location: E1.036 (Finance Room)
- Jurisprudence - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 9:00 AM, Location: 2E.20 (Betty King Cmte. Rm.)
- Natural Resources - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 9:00 AM, Location: E1.012 (Hearing Room)
- Local Government - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:30 AM, Location: 2E.20 (Betty King Cmte. Rm.)
- State Affairs - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 9:00 AM, Location: Senate Chamber
HILLCO IN THE NEWS
Since its founding in 1998, HillCo Partners has consistently been the top-rated and most successful public affairs firm in Texas.
HillCo In The News
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Accolades for HillCo Partners
Texas Monthly
“In 1998, Buddy Jones and Bill Miller formed HillCo Partners, which has been at the top of the lobby pyramid ever since.”
“A talent-laden consulting firm that does issue campaigns, lobbying and public relations.”
Capitol Inside
“HillCo Partners has been a groundbreaking enterprise that’s become the blueprint, essentially, for the teamwork principle.”
“HillCo Partners has been the premier lobby shop in Austin since Jones and fellow hall-of-famer Bill Miller founded it around the turn of the century. With Jay Howard as another top 10 members of the contract lobbyist list, HillCo has been in the middle of every major fight in the Legislature with a Rolodex of marquee clients”
Southern Political Report
“HillCo Partners named as the top ranked lobby firm in Texas in the 2015 Summer publication of the Southern Political Report.”
Individual Accolades
Buddy Jones
Twice named among top 25 most powerful people in the State of Texas (Texas Monthly)
Included in the “Lobbyist Hall of Fame” (Capitol Inside)
Ranked as a “Top Hired Gun” (Capitol Inside)
David Anderson
Ranked as a “Top Education Lobbyist” (Capitol Inside)
Sandi Borden Tribute to Texas Children Award (June 2021) from TEPSA “For a history of distinguished and exceptional service to children and public education in Texas Schools…”
Nelda Hunter
Ranked as a “Rising Star” (Capitol Inside)
Ranked as a “Top Hired Gun” (Capitol Inside)
Marsha Jones
Ranked as a “Rising Lobby Star to Watch” (Capitol Inside)
Ranked as a “Top Hired Gun” (Capitol Inside)
Ranked “Best in Health Care Under 40” (Austin Under 40 Awards)
J. McCartt
Ranked as a “Top Hired Gun” (Capitol Inside)
Eddie Solis
Ranked as a “Top Hired Gun” (Capitol Inside)
Bill Miller
Twice named among top 25 most powerful people in the State of Texas (Texas Monthly)
Named as a Texas Lobby Legend and the only person in a “League of Their Own” (Capitol Inside)
Ranked as a “Top Hired Gun” (Capitol Inside)
Included in the “Lobbyist Hall of Fame” (Capitol Inside)
Kelly Barnes
Ranked as a “Top Hired Gun” (Capitol Inside)
Jay Howard
“Howard commands the kind of respect and admiration that transcends partisan politics as a truly consummate professional and gentleman.” (Capitol Inside)
Ranked as a “Top Hired Gun” (Capitol Inside)
Ranked as a “Rising Lobby Star to Watch” (Capitol Inside)
Kyle Mauro
Ranked as a “Rising Star” (Capitol Inside)
Ranked as a “Top Hired Gun” (Capitol Inside)
Shea Pearson
Ranked as a “Rising Star” (Capitol Inside)
Legislative News from Texas
Upcoming Senate Committee Meetings
Upcoming House Committee Meetings
- Culture, Recreation & Tourism - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E1.030
- Insurance - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E2.026
- Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E2.030
- Natural Resources - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E2.036
- Pensions, Investments & Financial Services - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E2.012
- S/C on Juvenile Justice - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E1.010
- State Affairs - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: JHR 140
- Trade, Workforce & Economic Development - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E2.014
- Corrections - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 9:00 AM, Location: E1.014
- Delivery of Government Efficiency - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted, Location: E2.010
- Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs - 4/23/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted, Location: E2.016
- Criminal Jurisprudence - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E2.014
- Land & Resource Management - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E2.026
- Natural Resources - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: JHR 120
- S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E2.030
- S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E1.014
- Transportation - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: E2.010
- Elections - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted, Location: E2.012
- Environmental Regulation - 4/24/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted, Location: E2.016
- State Affairs - 4/25/2025on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am
Time: 8:00 AM, Location: JHR 140
Upcoming Joint Committee Meetings
- No committee meetings scheduled.on April 23, 2025 at 3:01 am