Legislative schedule - week starting 3/29/2026

This week's theme seems to be "strikers gone wild redux."

There are 49 measures on regular committee agendas (not Rules) this week and 23 of them will have strikers offered.

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 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, 3/30 

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The chambers' respective Rules committees, House and Senate, will meet to consider proposals approved by other committees.  The agendas are very long.

On Tuesday, 3/31 

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Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology meets at 8:30 a.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: 24 bills, seven strikers.

HB2111 will have one related to "DES; appropriation."

HB2446 will have one related to "commercial motor vehicle drivers."  It's a bigot special from Sen. John Kavanagh that's about having DPS enforce (mostly federal) English language proficiency requirements on truck drivers.  It reads like a backdoor attempt to turn a state agency into an ICE collaborator.

HB2615 will have one related to "DCS; oversight."  This one looks like an attempt to implement a major policy shift that avoids input from the public and other stakeholders while hoping that no one notices.

HB2812 will have one related to "appropriation; DPS."  Sound innocuous...except that it's Kavanagh's ploy to remove the state's attorney general's office as legal counsel for DPS and to funnel $4.75 million to DPS in order to pay for outside counsel.

HB2940 will have one related to "appropriation; school safety."  It funnels $3.45 million to the sheriff's offices in 10 of Arizona's 15 counties for the 'school safety interoperability fund'. It specifically doesn't have funds for the counties of: Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Yuma, and Coconino.

HB2955 will have one related to "fuel formula."  It's about waiving environmental protections related to gasoline due to price hikes/availability reductions dues to Cheeto's Iranian war to distract people from the Epstein files.

HB2957 will have one related to "same subject."  The text isn't available as yet.  The original bill's subject is 'driver license; enhanced; mobile; prohibition.'  It's about crafting Arizona exemptions to the federal REAL ID Act.

House Appropriations meets at 10 a.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda: 25 measures, 17 strikers.  The agenda includes SB1457, a propaganda bill to allow monies from advanced air mobility fund to be used for "border security purposes".

The strikers:

SB1041 will have one related to "health care facilities; electronic monitoring."

SB1118 will have one related to "historic neighborhoods; housing; zoning."

SB1128 will have one related to "rural opportunity initiative; marijuana."

SB1168 will have one related to "licensees; exemptions; business entities."

SB1176 will have one related to "lobbying; municipalities; counties."  This one seeks to place certain limits on lobbying by/for municipalities and/or counties.

SB1189 will have one related to "construction contracts; revitalization districts."

SB1250 will have one related to "construction services; procurement; professional."

SB1274 will have one related to " licensure; timeshare salespersons."

SB1428 will have one related to "notice; fraud; commission; worker’s compensation."

SB1503 will have one related to "first responders; state death benefit."  Seeks to add pilots for law enforcement agencies to the list of first responders eligible for a benefit if they die in the line of duty.

SB1519 will have one related to "coverage; family and medical leave."  Proposed by a Democratic member.  The Rs in the lege have a documented history of running roughshod over proposals from Democratic members.

SB1537 will have one related to "price tags; unfair pricing; penalties."  Proposed by a Democratic member.  

SB1582 will have one related to "backyard fowl; pets; planned communities."

SB1654 will have one related to "individual savings plan program; appropriation."  Another one that seems to look to short circuit input from the public and other stakeholders while hoping that no one notices.

SB1713 will have one related to "independent testing; treatment; pharmacists."

SCR1012 will have two!  One related to "permanent funds; distributions; land trust", proposed by a Democratic member; one related to "compensation; independent salary commission", proposed by the committee's chair.

An SCR bypasses the governor and goes directly to the voters for approval.  The striker related to salaries not only would create a commission that reports to the legislature AND is a backdoor way to raise legislative salaries to $57K/year (I think - it would raise legislative salaries to 60% of the governor's salary, and I believe the governor currently makes $95K/year).

Should we pay our legislators more?  Yes.

Should we reward sneaky?  No.

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/22/2026 Part 2

This week's theme seems to be "strikers gone wild."

There are a LOT of them this week.

Because some agendas are so long and there are so many strikers this week, I have to divide this post into two parts - Monday's and Tuesday's committee agendas will be covered in part 1; part 2 will cover Wednesday's and Thursday's.  I hope to have part 2 up on Monday night, though it may get pushed out until Tuesday.

Note: Any bill that was approved in its originating chamber and then is subsequently changed ("amended") in the other chamber must be returned to its original chamber to be reapproved.  If that doesn't happen, it then goes to a conference committee for the two chambers to work out the differences.

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 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 Wednesday, 3/25 

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Senate Government meets at 7 a.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: 25 measures, two strikers.

HB2917 will have one related to "government surveillance; safeguards; privacy protection" (text not available as yet).

HCR2016 will have one related to "fees; taxes; freeze; affordability" (text not available as yet).

While the agenda isn't completely filled with propaganda, there's enough to make this a very bad agenda.

House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR5.  On the agenda: 19 measures, no strikers. This seems to be a "hate as multi-tasking" agenda - there are anti affirmative action, anti trans, anti municipality

House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: 21 measures, one striker.

SB1004 will have one related to "sex offenders; electronic monitoring."

Includes SCR1040, asking the voters to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75.  On one hand, most judges were appointed under Republican governors, and the Rs may want to extend their influence there even if the Rs get hammered in this fall's elections; on the other hand, Cheeto's obvious mental (and ethical!) deterioration as he's gotten older won't help this one.

Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: 20 bills, seven strikers.

HB2072 will have one related to repealing the state holiday for Cesar Chavez (proposed by Sen. Shawnna Bolick).  I don't disagree with it, not at all, but it would be nice if Sen. Bolick also called for the release of the Epstein files.

Probably not going happen.  Not from someone so heavily involved in overturning the election results in 2020.

HB2400 will have one related to "emergency fuel waiver; petition; requirement".  It's about waiving environmental protections in an effort to lower gasoline prices.  Also from Bolick, who could have called for the end of Cheeto's war of choice in Iran.

Probably not going happen.  Not from someone so heavily involved in overturning the election results in 2020.

HB2456 will have one related to "county comprehensive plans".  Also from Bolick, this one is about protecting small nuclear reactors and data centers.

HB2873 will have one related to "municipal referendum petitions."

HB2877 will have one related to "veterinary technicians; education alternative."

HB2910 will have one related to "oral preventive assistants; repeal."

HB2991 will have one related to "social media; age verification."

House Ways & Means meets at 10 a.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: eight measures.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 10 a.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: one presentation, nine bills, one striker.

HB2932 will have one related to "AHCCCS; reimbursement; noncontracting providers."

Senate Education meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1.  n the agenda: one executive nomination, 13 bills, three strikers.

HB2376 will have one related to "school safety."

HB2381 will have one related to "CTEDs."

HB2383 will have one related to "trampoline court safety."  This one is veerrryyyy short and applies this 

Senate Judiciary and Elections meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: one executive nomination, 21 measures, three strikers.  Lots of propaganda on this one.

HB2028 will have one related to "homelessness; indigence; community service."

HB2406 will have one related to "minor victims; public record prohibition".  

HB4117 will have one related to "same subject."  The underlying bill's subject was "disturbing religious services; worship"; the underlying measure was anti-democratic garbage, but the striker would make it...anti-democratic garbage.

Senate Public Safety meets as 1:30 p.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: two presentations/ anti immigrant propaganda sessions and seven bills.  No strikers.

House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda: six bills, two strikers.

SB1112 will have one related to "appropriation; rehabilitative programming; interventions."

SB1517 will have one related to "homeowners’ associations; property covenants; disclosures."

House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: one presentation, 14 measures, four strikers.  The presentation will be given by noted bigot and committee chair John Gillette and at least seven of the measures to be considered look to be anti democracy propaganda.

Strikers:

SB1060 will have one related to "foreign monies; higher education; prohibition."

SB1134 will have one related to "firearms; destruction; courts."

SB1429 will have one related to "ballot measures; circulators; disclosure."

SB1634 will have one related to "same subject'; the underlying bill's subject is "early voters; signature comparison; MVD(now: driver license voter registration; signature)."

House Science & Technology meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5.  On the agenda: two presentations, one bill, no strikers.

House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: 12 bills, two strikers.

SB1456 will have one related to "authorized third party; bond exemption."

SB1826 will have one related to "office of defense innovation; appropriation."  It mandates a "public-private partnership" and is written very specifically

On Thursday, 3/26 
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House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation meets at 9 a.m.in HHR3.  On the agenda: one presentation, one bill, no strikers.

House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR5.  On the agenda:  22 measures,  six strikers.

SB1013 will have one related to "landlord tenant; rental amounts."  Proposed by a Democrat.

SB1015 will have one related to "coverage; family and medical leave."  Proposed by a Democrat.

SB1021 will have one related to "health profession regulatory boards; notification."

SB1501 will have one related to "elevator contractors; elevator mechanics; regulation."

SB1620 will have one related to "utility relocation notification."

SB1805 will have one related to "mobile home parks; submetering; fees."

House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: 20 measures, three strikers.  One was covered previously (the committee is also scheduled to meet on Wednesday.)  The other two:

SB1100 will have one related to "foreign adversary; lobbying; registration; disclosure."

SB1337 will have one related to "appropriation; coordinated reentry program."

House Rural Economic Development meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: two presentations, two bills, two strikers.

SB1016 will have one related to "municipal improvement districts; petitions."

SB1401 will have one related to "housing; contractors; bonds; taxes."

Senate Judiciary and Elections meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: 21 measures, three strikers.  Same agenda as covered previously, minus the previous agenda's executive nomination (the committee is also scheduled to meet on Wednesday.).

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/22/2026 Part 1

Because some agendas are so long and there are so many strikers this week, I have to divide this post into two parts - Monday's and Tuesday's committee agendas will be covered in part 1; part 2 will cover Wednesday's and Thursday's.  I hope to have part 2 up on Monday night, though it may get pushed out until Tuesday.

Note: Any bill that was approved in its originating chamber and then is subsequently changed ("amended") in the other chamber must be returned to its original chamber to be reapproved.  If that doesn't happen, it then goes to a conference committee for the two chambers to work out the differences.

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 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, 3/23 

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The chambers' respective Rules committees, House and Senate, will meet to consider proposals approved by other committees.

House Health & Human Services meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: 30 bills, nine will have strikers offered.

SB1052 will have one related to the continuation of DES.

SB1115 will have two! One related to "administration; American Indian health program" (agenda subject) (proposed by the committee chair); one related to "coverage; family and medical leave" (agenda subject again, and striker subjects in quotes subsequent to this will also be quoted from the agenda.  Some of these have to much going on for me to summarize them in a single sentence) (proposed by a Democratic member of the committee).

SB1171 will have one related to fingerprinting applicants, licensees, and owners of behavioral health facilities.

SB1172 will have one related to adding a section of law pertaining to "deficiencies; denial; credentialing" of providers of developmental disability services for DCS.

SB1345 will have one related to the creation of a legislative perimenopause and menopause task force.

SB1372 will have one related to "hospital; nurse anesthetist; subscription contract"

SB1399 will have one related to a $160 million appropriation for child care assistance.

SB1458 will have one related to "prohibition; providers; patient prescription information."

SB1668 will have one related to "legal-decision making; decedent; authorization."

The worst/most propagandistic bill: SB1215, which will be subject to an amendment, restricts the use of stem cell therapies that aren't specifically approved by the federal government.  Which is another way of saying if something isn't liked by Cheeto/RFK Jr./MAGA types, it's illegal.

Arizona Off Highway Vehicle Study Committee meets at 10 a.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: no bills, though they will be discussing one.

Senate Federalism and Family Law meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: 11 bills, no strikers.  Includes HB2144, mandating paying child support for fetuses.

Senate Finance meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: 13 bills, one striker to be offered..

HB2140 will have one related to "treasurer; investment; bullion".  It looks like propaganda.

Includes HB2384, imposing severe restrictions on property leasing/acquisition by school districts.  This bill will have an amendment offered.

Senate Military Affairs and Border Security meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: two bills.

House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in  HHR3.  On the agenda: five bills, one striker to be offered.  

SB1199 will have one related to "salt river horse herd".

House Public Safety & Law Enforcement meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda: 10 bills, one striker.  Includes two bills that I've already discussed.  One of them, SB1538, will have a striker offered to permit MDMA and other controlled substances to be prescribed for firefighters and LEOs diagnosed with PTSD and have it covered by worker's comp...if the drugs are approved by the FDA and DEA.

On Tuesday, 3/24 

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Senate Appropriation, Transportation and Technology meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: nine bills, no strikers.

Senate Natural Resources meets at 1:30 p.m.in SHR1.  On the agenda: 19 measures, one striker.

HB2755 will have one related to "mineral exploration; state land; permit."  (Text not available as yet.)

Includes HB2975, barring the use of "solar scores" or other factors that encourage the creation of power-generating solar farms on state land.  If this bill becomes law, state land will only be able to be mined or developed.

House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5.  On the agenda: 12 bills, 8 with strikers.  

SB1254 will have one related to " industrial commission; revisions."

SB1290 will have two!  One related to "open meetings; planned communities" and one related to "price tags; unfair pricing; penalties" (proposed by a Democratic member of the committee).

SB1421 will have one related to "tax deed; sale; affordable housing" (proposed by a Democratic member of the committee).

SB1432 will have one related to "data centers; tax relief; repeal".  The way that I read this is while it's NOT from a Democrat, it doesn't seem bad.  I could be wrong, though. 😃

SB1515 will have one related to "public safety parity fund".  It proposes to take interest earned by the state's rainy day fund and funnel it to retention bonuses for LEOs.

SB1649 will have one related to "employers; list; welfare recipients; commission" (proposed by a Democratic member of the committee).

SB1670 will have one related to "rental price fixing; algorithmic pricing" (proposed by a Democratic member of the committee).

SB1747 will have one related to "social media; minors; fund".

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda: 13 bills, no strikers. 

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: one presentation, seven bills, one striker.

SB1335 will have one related to "groundwater savings credits; irrigation."  Proposed by Gail Griffin, the committee chair.

The Arizona legislature in action: "sneaky" as a political tactic/position

The Republican caucus in the AZ legislature has been described with many words.

"Subtle" is NOT one of them.

At next Monday's committee meeting of House Public Safety & Law Enforcement (HHR1, 2 p.m.), there are two bills scheduled to be considered (both are from Sen. Kevin Payne).

SB1538 is a ploy to end photo radar use in Arizona, but it doesn't do so directly.

Instead, it proposes to limit the issuance of traffic tickets for a "moving civil traffic violation" to peace officers or prosecutors (Senate president Warren Petersen amended the measure on the Senate floor to include prosecutors.  Not sure when they witness a moving violation, but he is a candidate for Arizona Attorney General, and may not want to be left out of the fun.)

SB1537 seeks to rename the "peace officer training equipment fund" in a Newspeak sort of way as the "public safety de-escalation and life safety fund".

(My criticism of SB1537 may be misplaced - many credible people have weighed in as favoring the bill while the Arizona Police Association opposes it.  I'm just trust-deficient.)

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/15/2026

We've reached the penultimate week of committee consideration for this year's edition of the Arizona legislative session (all bills have to go before a committee by 3/27* or they're dead) (* = except for the Appropriations committees of the respective chamber, which have a slightly longer schedule).

The next couple of weeks may get chaotic at the lege, so check committee agendas regularly - they may change.

From the House (the Senate has the same deadline) -

For a couple of weeks after 3/27, the chairs of the Appropriations committees will become the most popular people at the Capitol as members of the legislature desperately try to get their pet proposals on to one of their agendas.

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 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,3/16 

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The chambers' respective Rules committees, House and Senate, will meet to consider proposals approved by other committees.

Senate Federalism and Family Law meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR2 (This committee used to be Senate Federalism, but the name changed mid-session).  On the agenda: seven measures, at least six of which are propaganda.  Includes HCM2001 and HCM2002, urging Congress and POTUS to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as terrorist organizations.  HCM2002 also directs some bile in the direction of the leadership of Iran.

Senate Finance meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: 12 bills. Includes HB4103, a proposal to limit a school district's ability to call for a bond election.

Senate Military Affairs and Border Security meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: four bills, at least two of which are propaganda.  Includes 

House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: 18 bills.  Includes SB1095. an anti trans bill that proposes to bar any and all gender transition medical procedures for minors.

House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: three bills, two of which are propaganda.

House Public Safety & Law Enforcement meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: four bills.  A striker will be offered to alter SB1520, but as it will be offered by a Democratic member and seeks to change a Republican "fear the other" bill, I don't expect it to pass.

On Tuesday, 3/17 

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Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: 16 bills, many bad.

Senate Natural Resources meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: one presentation and 24 measures.  The presentation will be from private industry and many of the measures read as if they were written by someone who believes that the legislature's primary purpose is to maximize the amount of profit accrued by private interests.  Hmmm...

House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5,  On the agenda: six bills. Some bad.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda: four bills.  

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: six measures.  A striker will be offered for SB1200 that would allow a user/landscaper to transport water across a body of water filled or refilled with effluent under certain circumstances (caveat: I don't understand this one completely and may have gotten it wrong; I may have missed some of the nuances.  As the striker is from Rep. Gail Griffin, it probably is NOT intended to benefit the people of Arizona).

On Wednesday, 3/18 

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House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR5.  On the agenda: seven bills.  Some pure propaganda, but my (least) favorite may be SB1686, a ploy by Sen. Jake Hoffman to include Charlie Kirk's name on Wesley Bolin Plaza ("Wesley Bolin and Charlie Kirk Freedom Plaza") and to build a memorial to Kirk.  The bill is almost made palatable by including a memorial to murdered journalist Don Bolles.

Except for two bits of reality:

1. Bolles made Arizona a better place to live.

2. Bolles was actually killed in Arizona.

Neither is true for Kirk.

House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: 14 bills, including a striker to SB1616, proposing to bar the feeding of wild pigeons, with certain exceptions.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: 10 measures, including a striker to HB2048 (text not available as yet).  The agenda lists the subject as "AHCCCS; coverage; non-opioid prescription drugs".

Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: nine bills.  A couple of which are about negating the ability of counties and municipalities to issue regulations of certain activities within their jurisdictions.

Senate Education meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: 10 measures.  Includes HB4033, a proposal to mandate that school districts use certain language in the ballots for bonding questions and informational pamphlets for the same.

Senate Judiciary and Elections meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: 18 measures.  Lots of propaganda here.  Includes HB2168, a proposal to force the state's AG to obtain the permission of a county's supervisors to bring a legal action related to a public nuisance (obscenity),  Currently, the AG, a county's attorney, or city attorney may do so without obtaining the permission of a partisan elected body.

Senate Public Safety meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: four presentations and and seven bills.  At least three of the presentations look to be propaganda-fests to conflate securing the border with protecting America's children. However,  there's no HCM on the agenda that calls on Congress and Cheeto to release the Epstein files and to stop giving a free pass to wealthy pedophiles..

House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda: two bills.

House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: seven measures.  100%  bad.  Includes SCR1001, asking the voters to impose some harsh restrictions on voting/democracy, including doing away with the Active Early Ballot List.

House Science & Technology meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5.  On the agenda: three presentations, no bills.  The presentations will be from people representing private companies.

House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: 10 measures.  Includes SB1010, a proposal to name Phoenix-area highway Loop 202 after Charlie Kirk. 

On Thursday, 3/19 

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House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: one bill and two presentations/sales pitches.

House Rural Economic Development meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: one bill and two presentations.  The agenda does not indicate who will be making the presentations.

Follow the money. ProPublica has published a database of financial disclosures from those folks in Cheeto's administration

Earlier this week, ProPublica  released a database of financial disclosures from Cheeto and some of the officials in his administration.

I heartily recommend perusing it in its entirety.

It turns out that while Cheeto is not the absolute wealthiest person in his admin, he's close (note to readers from ProPublica and other media outlets: a database showing change in wealth over time for the same population would be a good thing).

From their database (note: all pics will be from ProPublica's database unless otherwise noted):

As this is an Arizona blog, I'll focus on his appointees from AZ.

Caveat: This is an incomplete list, and I know it - this list is compiled from news stories, press releases, agency bios, and Congressional records.  I almost certainly missed some folks; if a reader knows of someone who isn't included here, please leave their name and post in a comment.  Also, this is a moment in time - others will accept jobs in Cheeto's admin as time goes on.  Lastly, some folks may drop out of jobs with Cheeto, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.  I've already found two and deleted them from the list.

Kari Lake may soon join the list of folks who no longer work for Cheeto - a judge ruled she was installed as head of her agency unlawfully.

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/8/2026

 As of right now, there's only one striker being offered, but the text of that striker isn't available as yet.  And whether that total remains the same this week or committee agendas are revised to accommodate more, I expect more will be offered next week.

Read bills carefully - bills that look (relatively) harmless may contain a VERY bad provision in them that may be easy to miss.

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 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, 3/9 

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The chambers' respective Rules committees, House and Senate, will meet to consider proposals approved by other committees.

Senate Federalism meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: one bill.

Senate Finance meets at 1:30 p.m.in SHR1.  On the agenda: nine bills and two executive nominations.

House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: 11 bills.  Includes SB1115, proposing to forbid AHCCCS from allowing any of its employees to work remotely.  The fiscal note attached to this one predicts an ongoing cost to taxpayers of $4.1 to $8.4 million per year and a one-time cost of up to $5.7 million.

House Public Safety & Law Enforcement meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda: three bills. Includes a striker that will be offered by a Democrat to SB1055.  Considering that the striker will be offered by a D and is good...and the underlying bill is a "fear the other" anti-immigrant measure, I don't expect the striker to pass.

On Tuesday, 3/10 

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Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: six measures.

Senate Natural Resources meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: 12 measures.  Most of the ones that don't read as if they were written by industry lobbyists are pure ideological propaganda.

House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. is HHR5.  On the agenda: four bills.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda: seven bills.  Includes SB1572, requiring that the state's public schools celebrate "freedom week" and craft and teach an indoctrination course  with the same topic.

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: five measures.  Includes SB1418, mandating that the corporation commission allow small modular nuclear reactors in small counties without more approvals/paperwork.

On Wednesday, 3/11 

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House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda:  11 measures, at least five of which seem to be propaganda.

House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: 10 bills.  Includes SB1148, a ploy to take attorney licensing away from the state bar association.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: seven bills.  Include HB2584, prohibiting the use of public monies to pay for genetic sequencing conducted by a company from a "foreign adversary".

Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency meets at 9:30 a.m.in SHR109.  On the agenda: three bills; includes a proposed striker to HB2184, agenda subject: "remains; disposition; authorization; legal decision-making" (text not available as of this writing).

House Ways & Means meets at 10 a.m.in HHR3.  On the agenda: two measures, both bad.

Senate Education meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: eight measures.  All eight seem to be propaganda.  Includes HB2318, a ploy to impose term limits on school board seats.

Senate Judiciary and Elections meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: seven measures, five of which are propaganda.  Includes HCR2016,  asking the voters to bar early voting centers and casting a ballot in places other than a voter's assigned precinct.

Senate Public Safety meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: two bills.

House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m.  in HHR1.  On the agenda: three bills.

House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: one presentation (from committee chair John Gillette) and four bills.  All propaganda.

House Science & Technology meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5.  On the agenda: one bill.

House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: five measures, including SB1010, a proposal to rename a Phoenix-area highway (Loop 202) after Charlie Kirk

On Thursday, 3/12 

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House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation meets at 9 a.m.in HHR3.  On the agenda: one bill and two presentations.

It may be easy to get caught up in the tumult of an election year, but no one should sleep on school board races.

They may be decidedly unsexy (downballot, nonpartisan, unpaid, entry-level) and easy to ignore.

Most voters don't actually pay attention to them.

However, those positions are often used as resume filler for people seeking higher office.

As school board positions are low profile resume filler, they tend to be easy for anti-public education folks to infiltrate.  Particularly when they're aided and abetted by the county school superintendent.

And Maricopa County's school superintendent is Shelli Boggs, a MAGA/pro Cheeto person who seems to absolutely hate public schools.

While she isn't in charge of elections, she  *does* appoint people to fill vacancies on school boards, and she has a track record of appointing people who are less about education than they are about ideology.

One of the people she appointed was Jeremiah Cota.  I assume he attended a school at some point, but his employment history included stints working for Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and the Arizona Republican Party.

He was appointed by Boggs to fill a vacancy on the Phoenix Union High School Governing Board.

He has since resigned because of his attendance at a party with Nazi ties.

From the article, from the Arizona Republic, written by Erick Trevino, via the State Journal Register -

[snip]

Ceysha Napa, a Phoenix Union governing board member, said she wasn’t surprised that Cota portrayed himself as a victim. His time on the board would have been different if he wasn't so blatant about the disrespect he had for the community, she said.

"Being held accountable can also feel like persecution," Napa said. "I'm the first Indigenous person to serve on that board. Never at any point in time did I feel like I wasn't welcome."

Cota, a conservative Republican, was appointed to the Phoenix Union governing board in June by Maricopa County School Superintendent Shelli Boggs to fill a vacant seat. He represents Ward 1, which covers south Phoenix, Laveen and the Gila River Indian Community. Cota did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[snip]

In 2025, the district solicited the community's input to fill a vacancy on the seven-member governing board, according to Napa. A list of potential candidates was shared with Boggs, but under Arizona law there is no legal obligation for the superintendent to consider any of the district's candidates.

[start sarcasm]

Nazi leanings and worked for Gosar and Biggs?

I'm shocked! Shocked! I say.

[/end sarcasm]

I'm not worried that one of Boggs' appointees will need to replaced by another appointee - I have faith in her ability (and willingness) to find another MAGA/Nazi type for the gig.

Note: Just because someone has filed a Statement of Interest (SOI) for a school board seat already does NOT mean that they will appear on a ballot, and just because someone has not filed an SOI yet does not mean that they won't appear on a ballot.

Maricopa County SOIs are here.

Pima County SOIs are here.

Pinal County SOIs are here.

Yavapai County SOIs are here. (go to the bottom of the page)

Coconino County school board candidates are here.

Mohave County SOIs are unavailable (at least, I couldn't locate them quickly)

La Paz County SOIs are here. (includes candidates for all offices; also, these may be for the primary races only)

Yuma County SOIs are here.

Cochise County SOIs are here.

Santa Cruz County SOIs are unavailable (at least, I couldn't locate them quickly)

Gils County SOIs are unavailable (at least, I couldn't locate them quickly)

Graham County SOIs are unavailable (at least, I couldn't locate them quickly)

Greenlee County SOIs are unavailable (at least, I couldn't locate them quickly)

Apache County SOIs are unavailable (at least, I couldn't locate them quickly)

Navajo County SOIs are unavailable (at least, I couldn't locate them quickly)

While I couldn't locate SOIs in every county, the counties I did locate them in covered over 85% of the state's population.

I have to reiterate and restate my previous advisory - voters should pay attention to school board races; some of the candidates for those offices will eventually be candidates for other offices.

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/1/2026

Right now, there's nary a striker to be found on this week's committee agendas, but I write that with two caveats in mind:

1. That will change as we go further into March.

2. The authors of strikers and committee chair like to spring them on short notice so opposition to them can't coalesce/organize.  In other words, check back frequently.

It *does* mean that all of the bills to be heard in committees this week, other than those going before the Rules committees, started off in the opposite chamber.  The ones that were bad there are still bad.

Read bills carefully - bills that look (relatively) harmless may contain a VERY bad provision in them that may be easy to miss.

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 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, 3/2 

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Senate Director Nomination meets at 11:30 a.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: no bills: Jake Hoffman's vanity project will conduct an inquisition/hearing into Alix Skelpsa Ridgway for director of the state Office of Tourism.

The chambers' respective Rules committees, House and Senate, will meet to consider proposals approved by other committees.

House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: four bills.

On Tuesday,  3/3 

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Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: two bills, includes HB2148, the lege's more to take "non-custodial federal monies" from the recipients so the lege can dole them out as they will. 

Senate Natural Resources meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: three bills.  They read as if they were written by industry lobbyists when they were in the House and they still do.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  On the agenda: three measures.  Includes SCR1006, a proposal to bypass a veto by Governor Hobbs' veto and have the voters approve some anti-trans people language.

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: no bills, one presentation.

On Wednesday, 3/4 

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House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR5.  On the agenda: no bills; a few presentations/propagandafests.  I'm not kidding -

House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: six bills, including SB1053, capping fees for Conceal Weapons Permits.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda: five bills.

Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: four bills.

House Ways & Means meets at 10 a.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: four bills.

Senate Education meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: five bills, including HB2409, mandating that an AI education course be added to AZ school curricula.  Which sounds OK...until one reads the bill.  The course must be taught with a pro-business bent and the bill is written so specifically that only one vendor may be able to fulfill its conditions.  As the bill was introduced by Rep. Alexander Kolodin, a candidate for AZSOS, it will be interesting to see if folks from that vendor funnel some "donations" to him.

Senate Judiciary and Elections meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR2.  On the agenda:11 bills.  Most very bad.

House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: eight bills.  Most very bad.

House Science & Technology meets at 2 p.m.in HHR5.  On the agenda: one bill and one presentation, subject TBA.  Seriously.  "TBA" is what was put on the agenda.

On Thursday, 3/5 

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House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3.  On the agenda: no bills; one presentation. 

House Rural Economic Development meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  On the agenda: no bills; one presentation.