Legislative schedule - week starting 3/13/2022

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. 

Only 3 strikers this week, so far, but I expect that to increase over the next couple of weeks.

On Monday, 3/14 -

House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  10 bills on the agenda.

House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  5 bills on the agenda.

House Military Affairs and Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  3 bills on the agenda.

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  14 bills on a very bad agenda.

Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m.in SHR109.  3 bills on the agenda.

On Tuesday, 3/15 -

House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  7 bills on the agenda, including SB1166, barring public employers from compensating employees for union activities; SB1278, imposing some fiduciary guidelines/rules on labor unions; SB1459, reducing money and regulations available for sports betting and sports fantasy leagues; and SB1494, mandating unemployment insurance payments for folks who lost a job due to their refusing a Covid vaccination or booster.

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  1 bill on the agenda.

Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  19 bills on the agenda,  including HB2255, adding the Hindu holiday of Diwali to the list of days where large municipalities cannot regulate the sale of use of fireworks; HB2317, appropriating $150,000,000 from the state's general fund to the construction of a border wall; HB2456, appropriating $3,980,000 for a "rural county interoperability communication system"; and HB2506, appropriating $30,000,000 from the state's general fund to the "local immigration enforcement reimbursement fund".  2 measures will have strikers offered - HB2132, appropriating $12,000,000 to the victim compensation and assistance fund, $10 million from monies given to AZ as part of the American Rescue Plan and $2 million from the state's general fund...and the reappropriating those funds to the Arizona criminal justice commission and to HB2201, relating to "Competitive grant program; technology solution; patient continuity of care; hospital interconnectivity; annual report".

Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  9 bills on the agenda, including HB2161, expanding parents' rights to view educational records and HB2495, barring schools from referring a student to or using sexually explicit materials without parental permission, with certain, limited, exceptions.

On Wednesday, 3/16 -

House Government & Elections meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1.  7 bills on the agenda, including SB1255 and SCR1024, relating to the creation on a Lieutenant Governor's position and SB1260, well, from the Senate fact sheet for the bill, "Classifies, as a class 5 felony, knowingly providing a mechanism for another person who is registered in another state to vote. Requires a person who receives an early ballot of a former resident of the address to write "not at this address" on the envelope and place the envelope into a mail receptacle. Requires a county recorder, to cancel a person's registration and remove the person's name from the county's Active Early Voting List (AEVL) upon confirmation that a person has registered to vote in another county or upon receipt of a ballot envelope indicating the person has moved."

House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  12 bills on the agenda

House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3.  4 bills on the agenda.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1.  7 bills on the agenda.

Senate Finance meets at 10 a.m. in SHR109.  11 bills on the agenda including HB2166, exempting guns, ammunition, and gun safety equipment from sales tax.  The JLBC fiscal note attached to this estimates that this red meat for the base measure will cost the state's general fund and other governmental entities more than $40 million in FY2024 and later.

House Appropriations meets at 1:30 p.m. or upon adjournment of the floor session in HHR1.  7 bills on the agenda.

House Transportation meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  7 bills on the agenda.

Senate Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  4 bills on the agenda.

Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  10 bills on the agenda, including a striker for HB2389, subject "River Water Transfer" (text not available as of this writing)

On Thursday, 3/17 -

Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1.  10 bills on the agenda, including HB2319, Rep. John Kavanagh's love letter to LEOs barring the recording of law enforcement activity from within 8 feet.