An observer can easily tell that the lege is controlled by Rs and that this is an election year. There is a lot of "Culture War" stuff on committee agendas this week.
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, 1/22
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House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: HB2183, a proposal to grant parents access to all of their minor child's medical records, even for those procedures that don't require parental consent. Also on the agenda is a striker to HB2114. The striker and the original bill are both from Rep. Julie Willoughby, a Republican from the SE valley.
House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: HB2191, expanding the definition of criminal damage as it relates to property.
House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: HB2120, a proposal to bar municipalities from reducing funding for a law enforcement agency and HB2175, adding university police agencies to the list of organizations slated to receive monies from marijuana funds sent to the state.
Senate Elections meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: three bills, all bad.
Senate Finance and Commerce Committee of Reference meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. No bills on the agenda, just some sunset reviews.
Senate Finance and Commerce meets at 2:05 or upon adjournment of the committee of reference in SHR109. On the agenda: SCR1006, a proposed amendment to the state constitution for municipalities to refund property taxes if they fail to enforce laws violated by homeless persons.
Senate Transportation, Technology and Missing Children meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: some propaganda presentations and six bills, including the return of three propaganda bills on banning vehicle mileage taxes and use of photo radar.
On Tuesday, 1/23
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House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: HB2185 and HB2199, seeking to expand alcohol availability and profits from same.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: HB2178, a ploy be Rep. Alexander Kolodin to have individual students at public universities be able to designate receive funding from the tuition and fees that they pay.
House Natural Resource, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: nine bills that appear to be written by industry lobbyists and/or are sneaky bad.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m.in SHR1. On the agenda: five bills and three presentations.
On Wednesday, 1/24
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House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: HB2078, expanding exemptions to require that public business be conducted in public. One bill to unequivocally support: HB2595, a proposal to authorize a memorial for Don Bolles, an Arizona Republic reporter who was assassinated in 1976.
House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m.in HHR4. On the agenda: HB2043, a scheme by Rep. Travis Grantham to protect sex predators and others from responsibility for their acts by reducing the statute of limitations from starting at the time of the discovery of the crime to the actual date of the crime. Actually, there are 10 bills on the agenda, and while, IMO, 2043 is the worst of them, they're all bad.
Very bad.
House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1. Five bills on the agenda. Most seem sneaky bad.
Senate Government meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: six bills, all are partisan propaganda.
House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: three bills.
House Municipal Oversight & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: seven measures, all propaganda.
House Regulatory Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: seven bills, most not bad...though HB2071, repealing the civil penalty for dentist who dispense drugs without a license is an exception to that.
House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: eight bills. Doesn't seem too bad.
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: four bills, including SB1097, a proposal from Sen. Justine Wadsack to turn school board elections into partisan events.
Senate Military Affairs, Public Safety and Border Security meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: three bills, including SCR1007, a proposed amendment to the state constitution that reads as if it were written by the NRA.
On Thursday, 1/25
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House Appropriations Subcommittee on Budgetary Funding Formulas meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: No bills, just some agency presentations.
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Fiscal Accountability meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: No bills, just some agency presentations.
House Appropriations Subcommittee on State &Local Resources meets at 9 a.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: No bills, just some presentations.
Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: two bills, both very bad. One bill is from Sen. Jake Hoffman; one is from Sen. John Kavanagh.
Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: four bills, at least two of which are utter garbage.
House Ethics meets at 11 a.m. in HHR4 regarding Rep. Leezah Sun.
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