This week shouldn't be as busy as last week. But what it lacks in interim committee activity it may make up for in fireworks.
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, 11/13
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Joint Study Committee on Statewide Animal Control Standards meets at 1 p.m. in SHR1. This committee is chaired by Sen. John Kavanagh, so it'll produce whatever some industry lobbyist wants it to produce.
On Tuesday, 11/14
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House Ad Hoc Committee on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Governance and Oversight meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. This interim committee is chaired by the Speaker of the AZ House of Representatives, Ben Toma. Of the committee membership, one is currently affiliated the corporate lobbying group, the Goldwater Institute, one used to be, and is currently with the AZ Charter Schools Association (AZ CSA), one is a director of AZ CSA, and the last one is one of Tom Horne's minions who is also scheduled to present to the committee.
Yes, the fix is in.
Toma is in the CD8 primary so the fireworks may come from when he justifies blowing a hole in the state budget in order to protect a fraud perpetrated upon the people of Arizona.
Which may help him win that primary, but would also show him to be a lousy public servant and human being.
Which also may help in that primary - he'd fit right in with the R caucus in the US House.
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