Sunday, January 30, 2022

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.

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.



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.

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