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 that replaces the entirety of a bill. Those can be introduced at any time and can make a previously harmless bill into a very bad one.
No Rules Committee meetings are scheduled for this week.
On Tuesday, January 17 -
Senate and House Appropriations Joint Committee meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1 to receive Governor Hobbs' budget proposal. No bills on the agenda.
House Education Committee of Reference meets in HHR4 upon the adjournment of the regular House Education Committee. No bills on the agenda.
Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 10:30 a.m. in SHR2. No bills on the agenda.
House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. Four bills on the agenda; seems fairly noncontroversial.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. No bills on the agenda.
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. No bills on the agenda.
Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. Three bills on the agenda. Appears to be fairly noncontroversial.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. Three bills on the agenda. Seems fairly noncontroversial.
On Wednesday, January 18 -
House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. Two bills on the agenda: HB2001, changing the rule making standards for the Arizona Department of Health Services; HB2017, ending the requirement that a deputy or assistant to an Arizona elected official be a resident of Arizona. Pardon my cynicism, but my guess is that this one would benefit a deputy or assistant to a Republican legislator.
House Ways and Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1. Five bills on the agenda; one may be problematical: HB2061, exempting food to be consumed at home from a municipal sales tax. This bill may not actually be problematical, but I would like to know its impact on municipal revenues before supporting it.
Senate Commerce meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. No bills on the agenda.
Senate Government meets at 9:30 a.m. in SHR2. Three bills on the agenda, all from the fetid mind of John Kavanagh, all bad. SB1006 would alter the posting requirement for municipal notices and ordinances; SB1011, regarding regarding municipal elections becoming partisan; and SB1021, mandating that the state's AG must defend all laws passed by the legislature and signed by the governor.
House Ways and Means Committee of Reference meets upon the adjournment the regular House Ways and Means committee in HHR1. No bills on the agenda.
House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. Two bills on the agenda. Seems noncontroversial.
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. Four bills on the agenda, all from John Kavanagh, all bad. Though at least two may have been influenced by Cathi Herrod. SB1001, barring employees or contactors of school districts from referring to a student by their preferred pronoun if said pronoun is for a gender that is different from the student's biological sex; SB1013, expanding conservaspeak "free speech zones" on university and community college campuses; SB1040, requiring public schools to provide single occupancy rest room to people who won't use a multioccupancy rest room designated for their sex; and SB1044, changing requirements for how a student suspended for nonattendance is dealt with.
Senate Military Affairs, Public Safety and Border Security meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. Three bills on the agenda and you may have heard this before, but all are from John Kavanagh, all are bad. SB1022, barring people from selling goods, seeking donations, or begging in traffic medians and criminalizing the same; SB1024, criminalizing homelessness; and SCR1001, a love letter from the legislature expressing support for dealing with violent crime with evidence based strategies. The "not love" part? It cites on Democratic-run cities when it mentions a crime wave.
On Thursday, January 19 -
Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. Four bills on the agenda, three from Kavanagh, one from Anthony Kern, who sued then-State Rep.. Charlene Fernandez because he objected to be termed an "insurrectionist" over his participation in the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
SB1005, all but barring courts from awarding attorney fees to governmental entities who have been sued by parents;SB1009, criminalizing defacing, damaging, or tampering with a "public or private monument, memorial, or statue" (should we just call this one "Kavanagh's Confederate Memorial Protection Act"?); SB1023, criminalizing picketing or demonstrating in front of an individual's residence (all from Kavanagh); and SB1027, increasing penalties for the manufacture of fentanyl or carfentanil and reducing the "threshold" amounts for the same (from Kern)
Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2. No bills on the agenda.
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Budgetary Funding Formulas meets at 9:30 a.m. in HHR4. No bills on the agenda.
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Fiscal Accountability meets at 9:30 a.m. in HHR3. No bills on the agenda.
The Joint Committee of Reference for Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water and House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs meets at 1:30 p.m. in HHR1. No bills on the agenda.
Other events of note:
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club will be publicly blowing their smoke/spreading their largesse on Wednesday.
When they ask "Will that be cash or credit?", they won't be talking about *accepting* payments.
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