Hide your children and small animals - the Arizona State Legislature is back in session.
It may be the first week of the session, but the Rs are already starting with the Culture War/War on America bills.
Schedules can, and frequently do, change at any moment when the legislature is in session. So pay attention.
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 become a very bad one.
Monday, 1/12 - Nada. The chambers' respective Rules Committees aren't even scheduled to meet as no bills have been approved by the other committees yet.
Tuesday, 1/13
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Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency Committee of Reference (RAGE COR) meets at 10 a.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: no bills; four sunset reviews and one "performance audit review."
Senate Natural Resources meets at 10:30 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: no bills; one presentation from the state's Water Infrastructure Finance Authority.
Senate Natural Resources Committee of Reference meets at 10:45 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: no bills; one sunset review.
House Commerce (meeting as its Committee of Reference) meets at 2 p.m.in HHR5. On the agenda: no bills; four sunset reviews and one review of a performance audit. Looks to be a rerun of the RAGE COR meeting.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: one bill and three sunset reviews (they'll be acting acting as their Committee of Reference).
House Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: five water-related bills sponsored by Rep. Gail Griffin that read as if by an industry lobbyist. And one presentation from the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona.
On Wednesday, 1/14
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House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m.in HHR4. On the agenda: five bills and a sunset review of the Arizona Civil Rights Advisory Board. All of the bills are bad, though the worst may be HB2043, a proposal to make killing an unborn child part of the felony murder statute.
Senate Judiciary meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: 13 bills, mostly bad, all from the fetid minds of Sens. Wendy Rogers, John Kavanagh, and Mark Finchem. Rogers chairs this committee, Kavanagh is the vice chair, and Finchem is a member, so this committee should be "colorful" (read: "hate-filled") through the entire legislative session. They're also scheduled to receive a presentation about Bar Association discipline from three interesting people who seem to be familiar with the topic - Rachel Alexander, April Sponsel, and Star Moffatt.
To misquote Yoda of "Star Wars" fame: "The 'woe is us' is strong with this trio."
House Ways & Means and Senate Finance (the Senate equivalent of House WM) hold a joint meeting at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: two bills - HB2153 and its Senate analog, SB1106, about conforming tax law in AZ to changes in federal law.
Interestingly, the bills propose to add a budget-busting provision to AZ law (while this snippy is from the Senate bill, the House bill has the same provision) -
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