Because there are so many committee agendas at the lege this week, this post will be done in two parts. Part one (this one) will cover Monday and Tuesday while part two will cover Wednesday and Thursday.
There are many bills going before legislative committees this week; some are Culture War stuff, some are simply *bad*.
Few are actually intended to benefit average Arizonans.
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, 1/29
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House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: HB2442, from Rep Steve Montenegro, banning an immunization requirements for school attendance for any immunizations covered by an FDA emergency use authorization.
House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: seven bills sponsored by Rep. Gail Griffin that each read as if they were written by an industry lobbyist.
House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: four bills, including a return visit from HB2120, the bill to bar municipalities from reducing police agency budgets.
Senate Finance and Commerce Committee of Reference meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: no bills, just three sunset reviews.
Senate Transportation, Technology and Missing Children meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: five bills, at least three of which are garbage. Sneaky bad: SB1011, barring municipalities from adopting a general plan that reduces its system's capacity to handle automobile traffic. It would also remove bicycle and multimodal elements from such plans. The primary sponsor of this scheme is Sen. Jake Hoffman; it's been cosponsored by a rogue's gallery of legislators.
It failed on its first trip through committee.
The bill's prime sponsor is on the committee, so after a raft of arm-twisting persuasion, the measure is making a return visit.
Senate Finance and Commerce meets at 2:05 p.m. or upon adjournment of its reference committee in SHR109. On the agenda: Nine bills. Most, but not all, bad. Includes SB1148, further busting the state's budget by creating a tax rebate for senior citizens. To ensure that it doesn't make it past the governor's veto stamp, the sponsor of the bill, Sen. Anthony Kern, made sure to put an "insta-veto" clause into it -
On Tuesday, 1/30
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Joint Legislative Budget Committee meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109, No bills on the agenda. Still, this one could get interesting -
Senate Health and Human Service meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: 10 bills, including SB1076, altering the voter-approved Smart and Safer Arizona Act in order to require that more of the funds raised from that go to enforcement of marijuana laws.
House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: seven bills; some bad bills returning for another visit (like herpes) and HB2077, a scheme from Rep. Lauren Hendrix to reduce transparency in the office of the Arizona Registrar of Contractors.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: five bills, including HB2173, which (I think) would serve to reduce funding to public school districts. Also on the agenda is one bill that I'm pretty sure doesn't belong here - HB2674, relating to the licensing of anesthesiologist assistants.
However, it's sponsored by Rep. Beverly Piingerelli, the committee's chair.
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: 12 bills, most of which were sponsored or cosponsored by the committee chair Rep. Gail Griffin, and even more of which read like they were written by industry lobbyists.
Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: four bills.
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