This is going to be a (relatively) quiet week in terms of committee activity. Most of the action will take place behind the scenes as bill sponsors try to persuade committee chairs in the other chamber to put the sponsors' bills on a committee agenda. Monday and Tuesday look to be the busiest days in terms of committee activity, though that is subject to change.
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, 2/19
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House Appropriations meets at 1:30 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: 23 bills, including six with proposed strikers. The most interesting one may be Rep. Timothy Dunn's proposal regarding private organizations and professional certifications. There's also some pure propaganda here, like HCR2060, Rep. Ben Toma's bid to win a seat in Congress to bar undocumented immigrants from receiving public financial support.
On Tuesday, 2/20
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Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m.in SHR109. On the agenda: 23 bills. Includes SB1148, Sen. Anthony "Insurrection" Kern's wish to further bust the state's budget by giving a tax rebate of an unspecified amount to Arizona citizens who are over the age of 55.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: one presentation and five bills. The presentation is regarding AZ DHS' pandemic response plan (I expect a lot of pushback on that from the R members of the committee) and the bills are regarding the continuation of certain state boards/departments.
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