Note: HHR refers to a hearing room in the House building; SHR refers to one in the Senate building.
Note2: Generally, I'll only specify bills that look to propagate propaganda. Other bills may be more conventionally bad (think: corrupt or other misuses of public monies and/or authority. My recommendation is that if an agenda covers an area of interest to you, read the entire agenda.
Note3: Each chamber's respective Rules Committee meets on Monday, the House's in HHR4 at 1 p.m. and the Senate's in Senate Caucus Room 1, also at 1 p.m. Both committees serve as rubber stamps for bills leadership wants to be advanced and gatekeepers for measures that leadership wants stopped.
Note4: Meeting start times may be listed, but are flexible. Before journeying to the Capitol or viewing the meeting online, verify the start time.
Note5: Watch for strikers, or strike everything amendments. Those involve inserting language into the entirety of a bill. Those can be introduced at any time and can make a previously harmless bill into a very bad one.
This should be the last week for bills to be heard in committee in their originating chamber. Next week should be quieter, but activity will pick up next month.
From the legislative timeline -
From the website of the Arizona Legislature:
On Monday, 2/14 -
House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 12 bills on the agenda.
House Land, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 7 bills on the agenda, including a striker for HB2181.
House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 16 bills on that agenda. It meets again afterward, with 5 more bills on that agenda. The first agenda includes a striker for HB2624, which is tied to HCR2028, both of which pertain to requiring municipalities and counties to spend a certain amount of money on law enforcement. I wonder if the legislature will ignore this requirement as blithely as they ignore the state constitution when it comes to funding schools.
From Article 11, Section 6 of the state's constitution -
Nah, they won't ignore funding for law enforcement, and for two reasons - 1. it wouldn't apply to education, which they hate; and 2. it would apply to others.
There are other bad bills on the agendas (mostly the first one), but these are the most hypocritical.
Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 32 bills on a long and ugly agenda.
Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 9 bills on the agenda, including strikers for SB1134 and SB1596. The striker for SB1134 is about mostly banning the use of photo radar.
On Tuesday, 2/15 -
House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 30 bills on the agenda, including strikers for HB2203 and HB2391. Many bad, and "sneaky bad", bills on this agenda.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 13 bills on the agenda, including HB2086, barring schools from requiring immunizations against HPV and Covid-19; HB2314, an anti-LGBTQ+ bill masquerading as a bathroom accommodations bill; this one really looks like Cathi Herrod crooked her little finger; and HB2739, imposing AZ government open meeting requirements on a private organization. There are other bad bills on this agenda.
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 13 bills on the agenda, including HB2128, putting limits on the Arizona Corporation Commission, and HB2410, making a multitude of changes to environmental laws.
Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 13 bills on the agenda, including 2 that would appropriate a LOT of public money for anti-immigrant efforts, and a couple of anti-democracy bills.
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 13 bills on the agenda.
On Wednesday, 2/16 -
House Government & Elections meets at 8 a.m. in HHR1. 29 bills on a VERY ugly agenda, including HB2787, a scheme to divide Maricopa County into 4 distinct counties.
House Judiciary meets at 8 a.m. in HHR4. 31 bills on the agenda, including some bad ones. It probably isn't a coincidence that this meeting is at the same time as House Government & Elections - members of the public can't be in two places at once.
House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. 5 bills on the agenda, in HB2166, making guns and "firearms safety equipment" exempt from sale taxes and HB2803, a massive expansion of school vouchers.
Senate Finance meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109. 12 bills on the agenda.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 8:30 a.m. in SHR1. 30 bills on the agenda, including strikers for 6 of them where the language of the proposed amendment isn't yet available. A couple of bad bills here, and a few of the strikers look bad, plus one that looks "sneaky bad".
House Appropriations meets at 1:30 p.m. or upon adjournment of the floor session in HHR1. 9 bills on the agenda.
House Transportation meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3 (the website lists the time as "1:30 p.m. or upon adjournment of the floor session" but the published agenda says "2 p.m." I'll go with the published agenda here, but pay attention to this one and call ahead if this is an area of interest). 8 bills on the agenda.
Senate Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 7 bills on the agenda, including strikers for 2 of them. SB1053 makes it a class 2 misdemeanor for an employer who doesn't accommodate an employee's claim of requiring a religious exemption for a Covid vaccination; SB1241, reducing the time limit for bringing actions for violations of the state constitution's gift clause; SB1342, barring the Chinese Communist Party from owning any real property in AZ (yes, this one in a Wendy Rogers' special)
Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 8 bills on the agenda.
On Thursday, 2/17 -
Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. 18 bills on a bad agenda, at least 2 of which will see strikers offered. And at least 1 of those will be bad.
Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 32 bills on a very bad agenda, at least 2 of which will see strikers offered. Same agenda as on Monday.
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