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, generally at 1 p.m. and the Senate's in Senate Caucus Room 1, generally 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, 3/4
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House Municipal Oversight & Elections meets at 1 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: one bill, and in a change of pace for this committee, it seems to be relatively non-controversial and not election denier propaganda.
Senate Elections meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: 11 bills. Remember what I wrote about the House MOE agenda? Not true here. Includes HB2719, a proposal to limit when municipal (and other political subdivision) bond elections can be held and requiring a minimum voter turnout then for that election to be valid.
Senate Finance and Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: a presentation and 20 bills, including HB2477, designating Pluto as the official state planet. Pluto still isn't a planet. The agenda also includes HB2042, this year's version of last year's infamous "tamale bill."
Senate Transportation, Technology and Missing Children meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: three bills.
House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: a presentation and four bills.
House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m.in HHR1. On the agenda: four bills, including SB1025, a proposal to make it a DUI when having a BAC of greater than .04 or higher when driving or it physical control of a vehicle for hire. This seems redundant as police and prosecutors in AZ already have a CYA clause in AZ law to enforce. From ARS 28-1381 (emphasis added by me) -
A. It is unlawful for a person to drive or be in actual physical control of a vehicle in this state under any of the following circumstances:
1. While under the influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, a vapor releasing substance containing a toxic substance or any combination of liquor, drugs or vapor releasing substances if the person is impaired to the slightest degree.
2. If the person has an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more within two hours of driving or being in actual physical control of the vehicle and the alcohol concentration results from alcohol consumed either before or while driving or being in actual physical control of the vehicle.
3. While there is any drug defined in section 13-3401 or its metabolite in the person's body.
4. If the vehicle is a commercial motor vehicle that requires a person to obtain a commercial driver license as defined in section 28-3001 and the person has an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or more.
On Tuesday, 3/5
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House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: three bills, including HB1477, a proposal to create a Grade Challenge Department in the Arizona Board of Regents if a student feels that they received a bad grade in a course due to political bias.
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: four bills, at least two of which read as if they were written by industry lobbyists.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: four bills.
On Wednesday, 3/6
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House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: eight bills, some bad. Includes SB1628, a proposal that purports to be anti-discrimination that actually enshrines it and SCR1007, a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would prohibit public entities from entering into a contract worth more than $100K with a company unless it provides a written certification that it doesn't discriminate against a firearm entity or a firearm trade association.
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: a presentation and nine bills. Includes a proposed striker for HB2373 (text not available as of this writing) and HB2793, requiring school boards to create rule and policies regarding student access to the internet when that access is provided by the school and to limit the use of wireless devices by students during the school day.
Senate Military Affairs, Public Safety and Border Security meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: five bills.
On Thursday, 3/7
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Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m.in SHR1. On the agenda: two bills.
Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: three presentations and six bills, including HB2097, basically deregulating the use of "gray water" by rich people or those who live in rural settings (the "residential lots of two acres" clause merits that description).
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Budgetary Funding Formulas meets at 10 a.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: one presentation and no bills.
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