Apparently, they think that by changing things up and being sneaky on a Monday instead of Thursday, no one would notice.
They were wrong.
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, February 6
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House and Senate Rules will be meeting. House Rules will be considering a fake budget and a one year fix for the Aggregate Expenditure Limit fiscal cliff looming over public education in Arizona; Senate Rules will be considering only the same temporary fix. Only the Senate's version.
House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. Nine bills on the agenda, with some anti-regulatory and anti-vaxxer propaganda here, including a striker to HB2316
House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. HHR3. Seven bills on the agenda. Includes HCM2002, where the state legislature blames the federal government for the housing crisis and wants to take federal lands from public ownership and give them over to private entities to address the problem.
House Military Affairs and Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. Seven bills on the agenda. Lots of propaganda here, including HB2332, mandating that all schools offer firearms safety training and HB2418, mandating that municipalities increase the number of police officers in order to reduce response time and which has a working title of " law enforcement; response times; requirements" but contains an unrelated clause about voter registration lists in Maricopa and Pima counties.
Senate Elections meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 14 bills on the agenda, most are anti-democracy propaganda.
Senate Finance meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 13 bills on the agenda, most are anti-society propaganda, including SB1243, increasing tax credits for donations to school voucher organizations (almost tripling it)
Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. 11 bills on the agenda; some propaganda bills here, including some anti-Big Tech ones and anti-political entity budgets ones.
On Tuesday, February 7
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House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. Eight bills on the agenda, including some propaganda.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. Four bills on the agenda. All propaganda, including HB2523, mandating that all students recite the pledge of allegiance.
Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 15 bills on the agenda.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 19 bills on the agenda; most OK, some propaganda.
On Wednesday, February 8
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House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. Eight bills on the agenda, most are propaganda, including some anti-LGBTQ and anti-immigrant screeds measures.
House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4. Four or five bills on the agenda (there's a discrepancy between the lege's website and the posted agenda.)
Senate Commerce meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. 15 bills on the agenda, four of which will be subject to strikers (not available as of this writing).
Senate Government meets at 9:30 a.m. in SHR2. 10 bills on the agenda. Looks to be all propaganda.
House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. Six bills on the agenda, at least two of which are bad.
House Municipal Oversight & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. Six bills on the agenda, all propaganda, In a bit of a switch up, only five are anti-democracy while one is anti-school districts.
House Regulatory Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5. Six bills on the agenda.
House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. Four bills on the agenda, including one ode to pettiness.
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 16 bills on the agenda. A few are decent, but most are pure propaganda, like an anti-CRT bill and a "guns in schools" one.
Senate Military Affairs, Public Safety and Border Security meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2, 12 bills on the agenda, including three demonization specials from John Kavanagh, two of which will be subject to strikers (not available as yet).
On Thursday, February 9
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Senate Judiciary meets at 8 a.m.in SHR1. 19 bills on the agenda. Lots of propaganda here.
Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 9:30 a.m. in SHR2. 10 bills on the agenda. Some propaganda, most not. Not necessarily "good" bills, but not "red meat for the base" bills, either. One worries me though, because I'm not sure of the real effect of it. SB1391 would add the state's department of environmental quality to the list of state agencies/entities that can bypass the Attorney General's office and hire their own lawyers for legal advice and representation.
There seem to be a lot of conduits for corruption here.
House Appropriation Subcommittee on Fiscal Accountability meets at 10:30 a.m. in HHR3. No bills on the agenda.
Senate Director Nominations committee meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. Up for an inquisition this time by chair/trumpkin/rabid dog Jake Hoffman are Karen Peters (Dept. of Environment Quality), Dr. Teresa Cullen (Department of Health Services), and Angela Brooke Rodgers (department of Economic Securty).
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy of the AZ Mirror has fuller coverage of the new committee here.
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