Saturday, February 12, 2022

Legislative schedule - week starting 2/13/2022

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 propagate 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 at 1 p.m. and the Senate's in Senate Caucus Room 1, 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 into the entirety of a bill. Those can be introduced at any time and can make a previously harmless bill into a very bad one.

This should be the last week for bills to be heard in committee in their originating chamber. Next week should be quieter, but activity will pick up next month.

From the legislative timeline -

From the website of the Arizona Legislature:

On Monday, 2/14 -

House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 12 bills on the agenda.

House Land, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 7 bills on the agenda, including a striker for HB2181.

House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 16 bills on that agenda. It meets again afterward, with 5 more bills on that agenda. The first agenda includes a striker for HB2624, which is tied to HCR2028, both of which pertain to requiring municipalities and counties to spend a certain amount of money on law enforcement. I wonder if the legislature will ignore this requirement as blithely as they ignore the state constitution when it comes to funding schools.

From Article 11, Section 6 of the state's constitution -

Nah, they won't ignore funding for law enforcement, and for two reasons - 1. it wouldn't apply to education, which they hate; and 2. it would apply to others.

There are other bad bills on the agendas (mostly the first one), but these are the most hypocritical.

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 32 bills on a long and ugly agenda.

Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 9 bills on the agenda, including strikers for SB1134 and SB1596. The striker for SB1134 is about mostly banning the use of photo radar.

On Tuesday, 2/15 -

House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 30 bills on the agenda, including strikers for HB2203 and HB2391. Many bad, and "sneaky bad", bills on this agenda.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 13 bills on the agenda, including HB2086, barring schools from requiring immunizations against HPV and Covid-19; HB2314, an anti-LGBTQ+ bill masquerading as a bathroom accommodations bill; this one really looks like Cathi Herrod crooked her little finger; and HB2739, imposing AZ government open meeting requirements on a private organization. There are other bad bills on this agenda.

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 13 bills on the agenda, including HB2128, putting limits on the Arizona Corporation Commission, and HB2410, making a multitude of changes to environmental laws.

Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 13 bills on the agenda, including 2 that would appropriate a LOT of public money for anti-immigrant efforts, and a couple of anti-democracy bills.

Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 13 bills on the agenda.

On Wednesday, 2/16 -

House Government & Elections meets at 8 a.m. in HHR1. 29 bills on a VERY ugly agenda, including HB2787, a scheme to divide Maricopa County into 4 distinct counties.

House Judiciary meets at 8 a.m. in HHR4. 31 bills on the agenda, including some bad ones. It probably isn't a coincidence that this meeting is at the same time as House Government & Elections - members of the public can't be in two places at once.

House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. 5 bills on the agenda, in HB2166, making guns and "firearms safety equipment" exempt from sale taxes and HB2803, a massive expansion of school vouchers.

Senate Finance meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109. 12 bills on the agenda.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 8:30 a.m. in SHR1. 30 bills on the agenda, including strikers for 6 of them where the language of the proposed amendment isn't yet available. A couple of bad bills here, and a few of the strikers look bad, plus one that looks "sneaky bad".

House Appropriations meets at 1:30 p.m. or upon adjournment of the floor session in HHR1. 9 bills on the agenda.

House Transportation meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3 (the website lists the time as "1:30 p.m. or upon adjournment of the floor session" but the published agenda says "2 p.m." I'll go with the published agenda here, but pay attention to this one and call ahead if this is an area of interest). 8 bills on the agenda.

Senate Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 7 bills on the agenda, including strikers for 2 of them. SB1053 makes it a class 2 misdemeanor for an employer who doesn't accommodate an employee's claim of requiring a religious exemption for a Covid vaccination; SB1241, reducing the time limit for bringing actions for violations of the state constitution's gift clause; SB1342, barring the Chinese Communist Party from owning any real property in AZ (yes, this one in a Wendy Rogers' special)

Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 8 bills on the agenda.

On Thursday, 2/17 -

Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. 18 bills on a bad agenda, at least 2 of which will see strikers offered. And at least 1 of those will be bad.

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 32 bills on a very bad agenda, at least 2 of which will see strikers offered. Same agenda as on Monday.

State Committee update

From the website of the Arizona Secretary of State -

I couldn't find out much about Ectman in a quick search. He appears to be head of an NGO.

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Rep. Mark Finchem may tell and believe "The Big Lie" but have no doubt - most of all, he wants to win the R primary that he's part of.

Yes, he was part of the January 6th insurrection, and yes, he thoroughly hates (see the proposals he has sponsored and cosponsored) citizens, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, Covid mitigation measures and, of course, voters (which is interesting, because the office that he's running for, Arizona Secretary of State, oversees the state's elections. So I guess that means he only hates voters who don't agree with him.)

He's running in the R primary for AZSOS against "Beau" Lane and fellow legislators Shawna Bolick and Michelle Ugenti-Rita. The winner of the D primary, Adrian Fontes or Reginald Bolding, waits in the general.

The culmination of his hate is his sponsorship of HCR2033, wherein he seeks to overturns the 2020 presidential election, but only in Maricopa, Pima, and Yuma counties. Biden won Maricopa and Pima, and Trump barely won Yuma, and, if they're overturned, combined, the margins in those places would be more than the margin of Biden's victory in AZ.

Finchem is doing his level best to help...Democrats win in 2022, even though they are widely expected to lose control of both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections.

From Politico's Playbook on 2/7 -

[snip]
DOUG SOSNIK of Brunswick Group argues that “there would need to be a series of developments in order for the Democrats to defy history”:
The virus needs to be contained with the country returning to a new normal.
Inflation needs to start going down by summer.
The economy and the stock market need to maintain steady growth, particularly as interest rates begin to rise.
The supply chain needs to return to normal.
There is not a global crisis.
Biden’s job approval rating needs to be in the high 40s by summer.
Republicans need to nominate unelectable general-election candidates and run lousy campaigns. They are capable of this and have done this in recent past cycles, choosing far-right candidates such as TODD AKIN or CHRISTINE O’DONNELL who ended up losing in the general election.
Trump and Republicans need to keep talking about the 2020 election.

1 seems to be happening already; 2 will happen (I hope); 3 and 4 are already happening and, I expect, will mirror 1; 5 could be a problem, especially if Putin invades Ukraine; 6 will follow 1, 2, 3, and 4; and 7 and 8 are where Finchem comes in.

I don't know if he's "unelectable" in the general, but, while whining about the election in 2020 and treason may show well in an R primary, it doesn't look good in a general election.

In and of itself, the events of January 6th, and Finchem's part in both it and continuing the "Big Lie" don't make him eligible for the coveted Legislative Loon Award..

Nope, like the Darwin Awards, there are rules for the Legislative Loon Award, and the events of that day caused the deaths of others during and after the events.

Wednesday, February 09, 2022

It's nice to see that AZ isn't the only place with idiots in elected office...

...though we do seem to have a LOT of them here.

From WOIO (Cleveland) -

Hudson mayor suggests that ice fishing could lead to prostitution
The mayor of Hudson suggested during a city council discussion on ice fishing safety that the winter activity could lead to prostitution.
Hudson Mayor Craig Shubert made the remarks during a Tuesday evening city council meeting.
Council members were discussing whether ice fishing should be allowed at Hudson Springs Parks due to liability purposes.
Mayor Shubert said:
“If you open this up to ice fishing, while on the surface it sounds good, then what happens

next year? Does somebody come back and say,

‘I want an ice shanty in Hudson Springs Park for ‘X’ amount of time?’

And if you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem.

Prostitution.”

Well, it shouldn't be an issue here -

In central and southern Arizona, we don't have much ice fishing. And that's as far as I'm going with this. :)

Sunday, February 06, 2022

Democracy isn't easy; People have to pay attention and put in some work, otherwise bad things happen

A few months ago, I wrote about how school board races have become the focus for trumpkins and other folks who believe that ideology matters more than facts.

This week, a story broke about the effects of normal people ignoring the world around them and letting trumpkins be in charge of things.

From KMGH (CO) -

Douglas County school board fires superintendent in 4-3 vote
In a 4-3 vote, the Douglas County School District Board of Education voted to fire superintendent Corey Wise during a meeting Friday evening.
The meeting comes after the head of the Douglas County School District was allegedly asked to resign by school board president Mike Peterson and vice president Christy Williams.

Yes, elections have consequences.

So do petty decisions rooted in ideology.

Also from KMGH -

Douglas County teachers' union warns 'high percentage' may leave after Wise's firing
The president of Douglas County Federation, the union representing some teachers and staff in the Douglas County School District, warned Saturday a "high percentage of staff" may leave following superintendent Corey Wise's firing.
Wise's 26-year career with the district came to an end Friday night after all four newly-elected Board of Education members voted to terminate his contract, effective immediately.

It's not just school boards.

From The Guardian (UK) -

California county recalls top official, giving militia-aligned group a path to government
Voters in far northern California have solidified the ouster of a Republican county official, giving control of the Shasta county board of supervisors to a group supported by local militia members.
Leonard Moty, a retired police chief and Republican with decades of public service, lost his seat in a recall election in one of California’s most conservative counties. The Tuesday recall came as tensions reached a high in the county after two years of threats and increasing hostility toward moderate Republican officials over pandemic health restrictions.

The lesson here is a clear one -

PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE!

Democracy is *not* a "fire it up and forget it" kind of operation.

Since its inception, Arizona was known for the 5 "C"s; it's time to update them

Originally, the 5 Cs were copper, cattle, cotton, citrus, and climate.

I humbly offer a few words for an updated version of the 5 Cs.

Mine are

Looking at this list (which could have been far longer), it appears to be about the majority of members of the Arizona Legislature, not Arizonans.

Saturday, February 05, 2022

Legislative schedule - week starting 2/6/2022

Note: HHR refers to a hearing room in the House building; SHR refers to one in the Senate building.

Note4: Meeting start times may be listed, but are flexible. Before journeying to the Capitol or viewing the meeting online, verify the start time.

From the website of the Arizona Legislature:

On Monday. 2/7 -

House Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 9 bills on the agenda, HB 2086, barring DHS requirements for school vaccinations against Covid or human papillomavirus.

House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 2 bills on the agenda.

House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 12 bills on the agenda

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 19 bills on the agenda. The vast majority of the proposals are anti-democracy/voters/elections.

Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 3 bills on the agenda.

On Tuesday, 2/8 -

House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 7 bills on the agenda, including HB 2674, a proposal to override municipal building codes pertaining to energy conservation for one- or two-family residential structures.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 14 bills on the agenda.

House Natural Resource, Energy, & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 1 bill on the agenda.

Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 15 bills on the agenda.

Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 7 bills on the agenda, including SB 1657 and SB 1707, expanding school vouchers.

On Wednesday, 2/9 -

House Judiciary meets at 8 a.m. in HHR4. 23 bills on the agenda, including HB 2115, requiring certain internet accessible devices to have filters that can block minors from viewing "harmful" material; HB 2253, increasing the hoops that a victim of asbestos exposure has to jump through to file a claim; HB 2447, a "guns in universities and community colleges" bill; HB 2621, forbidding the entering into of consent decrees when a provision of ARS title 16 is challenged. That section applies to election law; A "sneaky bad" proposal; and HB 2662, implementing a series of prohibitions related to "digital application platforms."

House Government & Elections meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1. 20 bills on the agenda, many bad ones.

House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. 6 bills on the agenda, including HB 2375, requiring municipalities to use revenue sharing monies only for public safety services; and HCR 2017, which looks like a sneaky bad expansion of exemption to property taxes. Not sure of how this one works, but with a rogue's gallery of sponsors and co-sponsors like Representatives Carter, Biasiucci, Blackman, Fillmore, Finchem, Kaiser, Kavanagh, Martinez, and Wilmeth, it probably doesn't benefit Arizonans or the budgets of the state's counties, municipalities, or school districts.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 8:30 a.m. in SHR1. A bad agenda, one that has bills that are anti-poor people, anti-LGBTQ+-people, and pro-Covid. 16 bills on the agenda.

Senate Finance will meet at 9 a.m. in SHR109. 12 bills on the agenda, including SB 1408, expanding tax credits against the luxury privilege tax. 12 bills on the agenda.

House Appropriation meets at 1:30 p.m. or upon recess of the floor in HHR1. 13 bills on the agenda.

House Transportation meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 11 bills on the agenda, including HB 2282, banning photo radar.

Senate Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 6 bills on the agenda, including SB 1166, barring public employers from paying for union activities; and SB 1248, prohibiting beer suppliers from using coercion to compel wholesalers to accept a shipment.

Senate Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 7 bills on the agenda.

On Thursday, 2/10 -

Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109. 13 bills on the agenda, including strikers for SB 1137 (subject "prohibition; consent decree") (text not available as yet) and SB 1191 (subject "union labor; prohibition") (text not available as yet); SB 1352, barring the release of the audio of a minor's 911 call without the permission of the minor's parent or guardian. Even if the call is about the parent or guardian; and SB 1379, making it a felony to transport or harbor one undocumented immigrant and decreasing the number of undocumented immigrants involved before it becomes an increased level of felony.

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 21 bills on the agenda; most bad in an anti-voter or pro-Covid sort of way (most are anti-voter).

State Committee update

Since there are no new committees for statewide office this week, this is a mostly irrelevant post...except for one current legislator running for a Maricopa County office.

From the website of the Maricopa County Recorder's Office -

Rios is the current Senate Democratic Leader in the State Senate.

Friday, February 04, 2022

The Republican Party believes that violence is "legitimate political discourse'...if they like it. Peaceful protest that they don't like? Not so much.

They're quick to praise violence that they like, but they criticize, as violent, that which they don't like.

First, the stuff that they like.

From CNN -

In censure of Cheney and Kinzinger, RNC calls events of January 6 'legitimate political discourse'
In a resolution formally censuring GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the Republican National Committee on Friday described the events surrounding the January 6, 2021 insurrection -- which have been at the center of a House probe -- as "legitimate political discourse."
A copy of the resolution obtained by CNN claimed that the two lawmakers were "participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse" from their perches on the House select committee, which has conducted interviews with close to 400 individuals -- from members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle to organizers who helped plan the "Stop the Steal" rally on the morning of January 6.

They REALLY should tell themselves that.

From the GOP itself (snippy taken in case they alter this) -

And the stuff they don't like? (Brennan is a journalist for CBS, McDaniel is the chair of the national GOP.)

From Politico -

Facing bleak November, Republicans look to stoke BLM backlash
For a brief moment after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis policeman in late May, some members of the GOP joined calls for change as protests exploded onto streets across the country. That moment is over.
Facing possible electoral calamity, Republicans are now turning to a familiar playbook: stoking fear by trying to redefine the Black Lives Matter movement as a radical leftist mob looking to sabotage the white, suburban lifestyle.

From CBS News -

Transcript: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel on "Face the Nation," August 23, 2020

[snip]
MARGARET BRENNAN: One area where Republicans also differ from voters overall is on the Black Lives Matter movement. Most voters nationwide agree with the ideas of it, while most Republicans, two-thirds of them, strongly disagree. Eight in 10 Republicans think there has been too much attention on the issue of discrimination. Doesn't this type of thinking hurt Republicans' chances of making gains with Black voters?
MCDANIEL: Well, I think that there's a big distinction between the words "Black lives matter" and the movement, which has been led by people who embrace Marxism, who have said on networks, we want to burn this country down. And I think you have to separate that, because as we are seeing in the name of Black Lives Matter, these riots and these looters who really aren't affiliated with any type of peaceful protest, we all condemn what happened to George Floyd. Republicans and Democrats alike recognize that.

Gotta love the hypocrisy. Of course, they might consider this political two-step a dance.

Of course2, if it is one, it's a hypocritical one.

Thursday, February 03, 2022

Coming soon to Arizona?

Pointed to this by Taegan Goddard's Political Wire.

The proposal doesn't seem to be here yet, but give it time - the RWNJs in the Arizona legislature totally HATE public education.

Usually, AZ is ahead of UT in the "crazy" race, but that's not due to a lack of effort on UT's part. Apparently.

From the Salt Lake Tribune -

Utah parents could sue education officials or teachers for almost any reason under proposed bill
SB157 puts parental rights above any other consideration when it comes to public education.
A new bill in the Utah Legislature would give parents the authorization to sue schools or education officials for any perceived infringement of their rights as a parent.
SB157 from Sen. John Johnson, R-Ogden, gives parents blanket legal standing “obtain judicial and other legal relief,” to exercise their rights as a parent.

Johnson's Utah proposal is here.

Puns are the lowest form of humor...unless they work

And in Minnesota, they work (probably while wearing a parka, but I digress :) ).

From Minnesota Public Radio -

'Betty Whiteout,' 'Ctrl Salt Delete' top winners in MnDOT Name-a-Snowplow contest
A tribute to a Golden Girl will soon grace an orange truck clearing snow and ice from Minnesota highways.
"Betty Whiteout" is the runaway winner in this winter's Minnesota Department of Transportation Name-A-Snowplow contest.
The name honoring Hollywood icon Betty White, who died Dec. 31 at age 99, received 40,024 online votes in the results announced Thursday.
Coming in second with 21,372 votes was "Ctrl Salt Delete," followed by "The Big Leplowski" (17,478), "Plowasaurus Rex" (13,209) and "Scoop Dogg" (13,144).
"Blizzard of Oz" (12,742), "No More Mr. Ice Guy" (11,198) and "Edward Blizzardhands" (10,664) rounded out the top eight.
Find complete vote totals here.

Wednesday, February 02, 2022

Hey, Arizona may not be perfect, but at least it isn't Texas

Of course - we're a LONG way from perfect.

We elect people like Doug Ducey, Wendy Rogers, Kelly Townsend, Paul Gosar, and many others, but Texas elects people like Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, Sid Miller, Louie Gohmert (and others).

And then there's this.

From Business Insider -

A Texas parent demanded a Michelle Obama biography be pulled from schools because they said it would make white girls feel 'ashamed'
A parent in Texas called for a children's biography about former first lady Michelle Obama to be pulled from school libraries because they viewed it as unfair to former President Donald Trump.
The Katy, Texas, parent took issue with a book titled "Michelle Obama: Political Icon" by Heather E. Schwartz, saying it "unfairly" depicted Trump "as a bully," according to NBC News, which on Wednesday published a list of 50 books that parents in Texas have asked schools to remove.
The request came as books depicting race, sexuality, and gender have faced heightened scrutiny from conservatives in the US, with many demanding certain titles be pulled from school libraries.

Nope, AZ isn't perfect, and maybe we shouldn't be talking smack about anyone, but TX could give us lessons in nuttiness, and that's saying something.

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Howard Hesseman dies: it's official, 2022 sucks

From The Hollywood Reporter -

Howard Hesseman, Dr. Johnny Fever on ‘WKRP in Cincinnati,’ Dies at 81

Howard Hesseman, who made a career out of portraying off-the-wall characters, none more popular than the disc jockey Johnny Fever on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, has died. He was 81.

Hesseman died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles of complications from colon surgery he first had last summer, his wife, actress and acting teacher Caroline Ducrocq, told The Hollywood Reporter.

If you don't like what people have to say about your proposals, the Arizona Legislature has a simple solution to offer.

Don't let people have the opportunity to comment on, or even look at, bill proposals.

In other words, the ALIS website is not functioning.

Commenting on bills -

Bill lookup-

Legislative schedule - week starting 1/30/2022

Note: HHR refers to a hearing room in the House building; SHR refers to one in the Senate building.

Note4: Meeting start times may be listed, but are flexible. Before journeying to the Capitol or viewing the meeting online, verify the start time.

From the website of the Arizona Legislature:

On Monday. 1/31 -

House Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 10 bills on the agenda.

House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 3 bills on the agenda.

House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 10 or 11 bills on the agenda (it's a little unclear; the lege's website has 10, but the published agenda has 11); includes HB2102, repealing the section of law that allows an action against a sheriff or his deputies to proceed after the sheriff's death; HB2107, repealing the authority of municipal mayors and chairs of county boards of supervisors to order the closure of businesses during a declared public emergency; HB2159, disallowing polygraph examinations of law enforcement officers (LEOs) during an administrative investigation unless requested by the LEO, and disallowing payroll deductions for "nonfederally qualified abortions"; HB2317, appropriating $150million for the construction of a border fence; and HB2328, disallowing the introduction into evidence medical costs paid by the state for the treatment of a prisoner who then sues a contractor over an injury or death as a result of the prisoner's work in Arizona correctional industries. Introduced by Rep. Kevin Payne, this measure seems to have a specific beneficiary in mind, and it isn't the prisoner...or the taxpayer.

Senate Government meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 13 bills on the agenda, almost all bad measures.

Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m in SHR109. 5 bills on the agenda.

On Tuesday, 2/1 -

House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. 7 bills on the agenda, including HB2198, a retroactive act mandating that employers either rehire someone fired for failing to get a Covid vaccination or give that person severance pay in the amount of 1 year's salary for that person.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. 10 bills on the agenda, including HB2277, giving large landowners in the affected area veto power over school district boundary changes. Also on the agenda: reconsideration of HB2025, mostly about requiring school districts to create policies and procedures for parental classroom visits. The measure failed on a 5-5 tie the first time it was considered.

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. 6 bills on the agenda, including HB2536, putting into state law some new qualifications for membership on the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 10 bills on the agenda, including SB1120, mandating that the paper that ballots are printed on meet some very specific standards.

Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 10 bills on the agenda, including SB1036, creating a $1000 civil penalty for school districts for each violation of the requirement to display U.S. flags and the U.S. Constitution/Bill of Rights in each classroom (as appropriate), and a same subject strike everything amendment to SB1211, requiring schools to post course materials on their websites, before the materials are used and establishing a complaint process regarding the same.

On Wednesday, 2/2 -

House Judiciary meets at 8 a.m. in HHR4. 17 bills on the agenda; many bad ones.

House Government and Elections meets at 9 a.m in HHR1. 19 bills on the agenda, most bad.

House Ways and Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. 5 bills on the agenda, including HB2375, mandating that revenue sharing monies that the state shares with municipalities shall be used only for public safety services, and HB2166, exempting guns and gun safety equipment from sales tax. The fiscal note for the measure is here.

Senate Finance meets at 9 a.m.in SHR109. 10 bills on the agenda, a couple of them are "sneaky bad."

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 8:30 a.m. in SHR1. 13 bills on the agenda.

House Appropriations meets at 1:30 or upon recess of the floor session in HHR1. 10 bills on the agenda, including HB2317, appropriating $150million for the construction of a border fence.

House Transportation meets at 2 p.m.in HHR3. 10 bills on the agenda.

Senate Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. 7 bills on the agenda.

Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. 5 bills on the agenda.

On Thursday, 2/3 -

Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. 10 bills on the agenda; a couple seem bad, but ALIS is down, so I can't look them up.

Senate Government meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. This may not be accurate - the published agenda has the same bills on it as the one on Monday, 1/31; also, the meeting is scheduled for SHR1, which would conflict with the meeting of Senate Judiciary.

On Thursday, 2/3 at 9:30 a.m., the House Appropriations Subcommittee On Education will meet, in HHR3.

On Thursday, 2/3 at 9:30 a.m., the House Appropriations Subcommittee On Government will meet, in HHR1.

On Thursday, 2/3 at 9:30 a.m., the House Appropriations Subcommittee On Health will meet, in HHR5.