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 on committee agendas this week as the crossover deadline approaches - bills not heard in committee in the originating chamber will be all but dead. Hence, the rush.
Also, there are some "misdirection" bills on agendas as members try new approaches to things that they've been slapped down on before or they simply lie about a proposal's effects. Proposals that may look to be harmless at first glance may not be, and will merit closer examination.
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, 2/5
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House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: 11 bills, including HB2451, Rep. Steve Montenegro's scheme to restrict advertising by marijuana dispensaries; he has proposed some amendments to his idea, perhaps to make it more palatable. It's still crap. Also on the House HHS agenda is HB2621, which is a piece of propaganda declaring that the R talking point of a "border crisis" is actually a public health crisis too.
House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: four bills, two bad.
House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: 12 bills, including HB2135, Rep. Timothy Dunn's proposal to "reform" private prison adult incarceration contracts by expanding which corporations are eligible for them.
Senate Elections meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: 14 bills, including SB1131, Sen. John Kavanagh's backdoor plan to force municipalities to move their elections to another date. Direct Republican schemes to do the same thing keep getting slapped down by the courts.
Most, but not quite all, of the other bills are bad.
Senate Finance and Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: 16 bills, including SB1213, Sen. Wendy Rogers' plan to create a tax credit for increased labor costs due to a municipality enacting a minimum that is higher than the state's minimum wage, and have the municipality pay for it.
Senate Transportation, Technology and Missing Children meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: eight bills, including SB1500, an ode to Republican "fear the other" propaganda masquerading as an anti-drone measure.
On Tuesday, 2/6
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Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: 22 bills.
House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: 13 bills, including HCM2001, a love letter to the feds declaring that the chemical industry is already too regulated and restricted and all future regulation/restrictions should be eased.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. HHR4. On the agenda: five bills, including HB2400, Rep. Matt Gress' proposal to give more power to school resource officers and Tom Horne's Department of Education in schools.
House Natural Resource, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: 15 bills, most of which appear to have been written by an industry lobbyist. On the agenda: SB1147, Sen Anthony Kern's proposal to appropriate $250K to the state's livestock compensation fund. And amendment has been proposed by Sen. Juan Mendez.
It 's a great proposal by Mendez, but it won't pass - it seems to be anti-corruption and he's a Democrat (and my state senator).
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