Legislative schedule - week starting 1/22/2023

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 spread 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 that replaces the entirety of a bill.  Those can be introduced at any time and can make a previously harmless bill into a very bad one. 

On Monday, January 23 

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Both Rules Committees will be meeting.

House Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  Seven bills on the agenda.  It mostly seems noncontroversial, though HB2227 may be problematical - it would exempt certain after school programs from licensing requirements.

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

Senate Elections meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  Two bills on the agenda - SB1025, banning municipalities from designating more than 10% of its land area as a tourism zone where political signs can be removed; and SCR1002, from insurrectionist Anthony Kern, that, if approved by the voters, would require the support of 60% of voters to amend the state constitution.  It's more than a little hypocritical as the requirement faced by the lege to refer such things to the ballot would remain unchanged at a simple majority.

Senate Finance meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  No bills on the agenda.

Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2.  One bill on the agenda; seems noncontroversial.

Senate Finance Committee of Reference meets upon the adjournment of the meeting of the regular Senate Finance Committee.

On Tuesday, January 24 

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House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  Four bills on the agenda.  Looks noncontroversial.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  Six bills on the agenda, at two of which are problems - HB2291, mandating that superintendent's contracts with school districts don't matter; and HB2504, expanding school vouchers.

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  Seven bills on the agenda, many of which are problems.

Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  No bills on the agenda.

On Wednesday, January 25 

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House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3.  Eight bills on the agenda.

House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  Five bills on the agenda, including HB2212, which proposes to criminalize criticism of utility companies.

House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1.  Four bills on the agenda

Senate Commerce meets at 10 a.m. in SHR1.  Two bills on the agenda.

House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  Either two or four bills on the agenda (there's a discrepancy between the posted agenda [4 bills] and the lege's website [2])

House Municipal Oversight & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  Six bills on the agenda; lots of ugly here.  HB2305 would add partisanship to observers of signature verification; HB2308 would require AZ Secretaries of State to remove themselves from running any election in which they are a candidate; HB2319, which is all about the legislature thumbing its nose at judicial opinions it doesn't like;  HB2322, expanding challenges of signatures on early ballots; HB2477, expressing legislative support for the Electoral College; and HB2378, barring someone who runs an election from also being an officer or member of a PAC.

House Regulatory Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5.  Three bills on agenda.

House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  Four bills on the agenda.

Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  Two bills on the agenda,  including SB1054, funneling money to organizations that push propaganda on middle school students.

Senate Military Affairs, Public Safety and Border Security meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2.  Three bills on the agenda, including SB1058, barring the giving of polygraph examinations/lie detector tests to LEO applicants or volunteers for law enforcement agencies.

On Thursday, January 26 

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Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1.  Five bills on the agenda.

Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2.  Two bills on the agenda

House Appropriations Subcommittee on Fiscal Accountability meets at 10:30 a.m. in HHR3.  No bills on the agenda.

House Appropriations Subcommittee on Budgetary Funding Formulas meets at 10:30 a.m (or 5 p.m.). There's a discrepancy between the posted agenda [10:30] and the lege's website [5] . in HHR4.  No bills on the agenda.