While silly season grinds on, there will be some loud posturing going on as legislative Republicans have approved a package of budget bills so bad for average Arizonans and the state that Governor Hobbs has already said that it's DOA if/when it reaches her desk.
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 b, ad (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.
On Monday, 5/4
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Senate Rules is scheduled to meet this week [9:30 a.m. Senate Caucus Room 1]. On the agenda: 16 bills. All are part of the budget package of the Senate's Republican Caucus.
The Senate Caucuses will meet to hear about those bills. No time is listed, either on the agenda or the website itself, but I presume those meetings will take place some time after the Rules meeting.
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On Tuesday, 5/5, Wednesday, 5/6, and Thursday, 5/7 - Nada.
As in no committee meetings on the schedule (for now), though that may change next week. However, there will be some preening and posturing on Tuesday -
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