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.

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.

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).