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.
Strikers are back this week, but only two of them. I expect that number to increase until the legislature adjourns its session.
On Monday, 3/7 -
House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 1 bill on the agenda.
It meets again at 2:15 p.m. 12 bills on that agenda, including the first striker of the week, regarding the extension of temporary healthcare licenses.
House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 3 bills on the agenda.
House Military Affairs and Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 4 bills on the agenda, including SB1060, titled "survival of action; deceased sheriff" and SB1718, appropriating $1,140,800 to the "border security fund".
Senate Government meets at 2 p.m.in SHR1. 9 bills on the agenda, including HB2070, adding a civil penalty for the head of a public body that doesn't have enough chairs for the attendees at one their meeting or don't post on the meeting agenda when the public will have physical access to the meeting area; HB2237, barring same-day voter registration; HB2289, requiring that county chairs of political parties to appoint a vote challenger for each precinct polling place and for those people to remain in the polling place until votes there are tabulated and sent to the county recorder; HB2379, adding language to laws regarding voting and the election procedures manual, including language that has the legislature review voting equipment and the procedures manual; and HB2412, among other things, changes "or" to "and" regarding the posting of written minutes and a recording of meetings of a public body.
On Tuesday, 3/8 -
House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 6 or 7 bills on the agenda (more on that later) including SB1278, adding a definition of "labor organization" to a law regarding fiduciary guidelines; and SB1494, making sure that folks who lose their jobs due to not receiving a Covid vaccine or a booster get unemployment compensation benefits. One discrepancy on the agenda:
One bill, SB1168, regarding "vacation rentals; short-term rentals; enforcement" is list on the pdf of the agenda, but on the lege's website, shows as removed from consideration at this meeting.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 6 bills on the agenda.
Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 12 bills on the agenda, including HB2552, appropriating $20,000,000 to build a new prison in Cochise County; and HB2646, altering the law regarding the fair market value of aircraft.
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 7 bills on the agenda, including HB2161, adding to the "parent's bill of rights" regarding education and health care records, and with a section that is so broadly written that I think it allows a parent to use this as a defense for an act of violence.
On Wednesday, 3/9 -
House Judiciary meets at 8 a.m.in HHR4. 7 bills on the agenda, 5 of them bad.
House Government & Election meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1. 9 bills on the agenda.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. 10 bills on the agenda.
House Ways & Means meets at 10 a.m. in HHR3. 2 bills on the agenda.
Senate Finance meets at 10 a.m. in SHR109. 6 bills on the agenda, including HB2166, exempting guns, ammunition and "firearms safety equipment", from sales taxes. This scheme is estimated to cost the state's general fund over $9 million inFY2024.
House Appropriations meets at 1:30 p.m. or upon adjournment of the floor session in HHR1. 8 bills on the agenda, including SB1175, wherein the legislature confiscates "non-custodial federal monies" (with certain specific exceptions) and re-appropriates them; and SB1718, appropriating $1,140,800 to the state's "border security fund."
House Transportation meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 8 bills on the agenda.
Senate Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 13 bills on the agenda, including HCR2031, asking the voters of AZ to amend the state constitution to bar municipalities from having their own to have their own minimum wages or other employment-related compensation rules.
Senate Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 10 bills on the agenda, including HB2411, allowing ADEQ to regulate coal combustion residuals (coal ash, aka toxic materials produced by coal fired power plants). Looks like it was written by an industry lobbyist.
On Thursday, 3/10 -
Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. 11 bills on a very bad agenda. It includes a striker for HB2253, titled "threshold amount; fentanyl" (text not available as of this writing).
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