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.
I was going to call this week "strikers gone wild", but I'm pretty sure it'll get worse before the lege ends its session.
Far worse.
From the website of the Arizona Legislature:
On Monday, 2/21 -
House Appropriations meets at 8:30 a.m. in HHR1. 23 bills on the agenda, including 7 strikers. There's one for HB2001 that seeks to override local ordinances/rules concerning worker productivity. Most safety precautions affect employee productivity. This one looks like it was written by an industry lobbyist.
There's also one for HB2552 to take $20 million from the state's general fund to build a prison in Cochise County. There's already a prison in Douglas that looks to be at well below capacity.
Lastly, there's also a striker being offered for HB2726, related to "ballot fraud countermeasures; ink; paper". This anti-democracy language has been floating around the lege for a while now. The original House bill, HB2041, was held in committee.
Senate Health and Human Services will meet at 9:30a.m. in SHR1. Same agenda as last Wednesday, where I wrote " 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". "
A partial hearing was already held and some of the bills were already considered; I'm not sure where they left off..
On Tuesday, 2/22 -
Senate Appropriations meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109. 37 bills on the agenda, including 20 strikers.
There's one for SB1001 that would make it extortion for someone to threaten to expose a secret in a social media message or in "any other manner".
There's another for SB1003 that would compel counties and municipalities to reduce their property taxes by the amount of money they receive under the American Rescue Plan.
There's yet another for SB1180, imposing reporting requirement for certain expenditures related to the American Rescue Plan.
There's one for SB1458, barring the counting of early ballots until election day.
Lastly, there's one for SCR1018 that's confusing. The agenda says one thing -
However, the striker, when opened, seems more innocuous -
Given that the author of both the bill and the striker is someone who despises Arizona and its people, like other GQPers, don't be shocked if this one ends up being really bad.
The House is scheduled to enter COW, or Committee of the Whole, 3 non-controversial bills on Monday. COW sessions are where bills are officially amended, though committee meetings are the place to support/criticize proposed amendments. Once bills are amended in committee, COW consideration is usually a pro-forma thing.
COW calendars can and will pop up on no/short notice and future calendars will probably be more controversial.
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