Friday is the last day that bills can be heard in committee, though there are ways around that restriction (bills can still be considered in the respective chambers' Appropriations committees. Other committees can meet to consider bills, but they'll need the permission of the respective chamber's Rules committees/head.
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, 3/18
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House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: 15 bills.
House Land, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: seven bills, including a proposed striker for SB1410, relating to the interstate transfer of marijuana and its products. Requires a 3/4 vote to pass.
House Land, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs meets upon the adjournment of the first LARA meeting in HHR3. On the agenda: one bill, SB1403, which, with certain exemptions, would bar a "foreign principal" from a designated country from owning land in AZ. The report containing the list of countries is here.
House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: 11 bills, including a proposed striker for SB1196. There two, related but different, strikers listed; I think that I've linked to the one that will be considered, but the other one is here. Includes SCM1040, a love letter to Congress urging the creation of a Space National Guard.
House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at upon the adjournment of the first MAPS meeting. in HHR1. On the agenda: one bill.
Senate Elections meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: 11 bills, including a proposed striker for HB2497. The agenda looks to be mostly propaganda.
Senate Finance and Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda:15 bills, including HB2504, allowing insurers to not pay for genetic sequencing, organ transplants, etc., if a "foreign adversary" is involved and HB2661, mandating that all tablets and smartphones manufactured after 1/1/2026 that filter out "obscene" material for minors. I initially thought that this bill was pure propaganda...but as I was writing this a TV ad came on for a company that provides devices that do just this. To many members of the lege this is just political propaganda; to others, it may be corruption. To me, it's evidence that many legislators are capable of multi-tasking.
Senate Transportation, Technology and Missing Children meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: nine bills, including a proposed striker to HCR2049. It, like much of this agenda, is pure propaganda. On the plus side, this agenda includes a bill about missing children, which is kind of rare for this committee. HB2479 seems to be about requiring DCS to do what it does in response to reports of abducted, missing, or runaway children...only quicker. There is a clause at the end of the bill that looks to be about enabling corruption -
Legislators get to decide if someone is following the laws crafted by the legislators themselves, and will siphon public funds into private pockets in response.
Hmmm...
On Tuesday, 3/19
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House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: five bills, three of which have proposed strikers. While one seems bad, the really bad one is a proposed striker to SCR1040, a scheme fronted by Rep. Justin Wilmeth to allow employers to pay tipped employees 25% less than the mandated minimum wage.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: two bills; both are propaganda.
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: six bills, including two with proposed strikers. Both seem bad, but the one for SB1242 would siphon public money into private pockets. Both these and the other bills on the agenda read as if they were written by industry lobbyists.
Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: 11 bills, including HB2506, mandating that people acting as agents of a "country of concern" register with the state's AG.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: 12 bills.
On Wednesday, 3/20 -
House Judiciary meets at 8:30 a.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: Lots of ugly. 13 bills, including SB1687, expanding the definition of drive by shooting.
House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: seven bills. Lots of usurping of municipal authority here.
House Ways & Means meets at 10 a.m. is HHR1. On the agenda: eight bills. mostly running the gamut from pure propaganda, thru conduits for corruption, to simply bad government.
House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: six bills.
House Municipal Oversight & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: nine bills, mostly propaganda. My personal favorite (that's sarcasm, folks) - SCR1044, removing term limits from judges subject to specific term lengths or retention elections, with specified exceptions.
House Regulatory Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: five bills.
House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: nine bills.
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: four bills, including HB2095, expanding eligibility for STO scholarships (school vouchers).
Senate Military Affair, Public Safety and Border Security meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: eight bills, including two with proposed strikers (text not available as of this writing.) The one that raises the most red flags has a working title of "military; public safety". This agenda has lots of propaganda on it, including two bills to make undocumented immigration a state crime, HB2748 and HB2821.
On Thursday, 3/21
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Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: eight bills. including two with proposed strikers. The texts aren't available as of this writing, but one has a working title that raises red flags - "elected officials." Lots of propaganda on this agenda.
Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: two executive branch nominations and 17 bills, three with proposed strikers (texts not available as yet). All bills read as if they were written by industry lobbyists.
Senate Government meets at 1 p.m. or upon adjournment of the other committees in SHR1. On the agenda: 21 bills. Includes HB2591, barring public entities and public power entities from entering into or renewing contracts with persons or companies that utilize forced labor or "oppressive child labor." I don't disagree with the sentiment but have to ask -
Would this impact companies controlled by Cheeto or Vanky?
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