Sunday, March 05, 2023

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/5/2023

This week mark a return to "normal" - most legislative committees will be considering propaganda bills, though a couple of agendas will be pure propaganda.

The only difference is that now the bills the will be considering started off in the other chamber.


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 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. 




On Monday, March 6 


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House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  Five bills on the agenda, including SB1600, an anti-choice proposal.

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

House Military Affairs and Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  Three bills on the agenda, including SB1024, John Kavanagh's proposal to prohibit habitation structures in public rights-of-way and SB1234 (from Wendy Rogers, but Kavanagh is a cosponsor), a proposal to bar the use of photo radar.

Senate Elections meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  Six bills on the agenda.  It may not be the utter slanderous shitshow that the last meeting of Senate Elections was, but this agenda is 100% propaganda.

Senate Finance meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  10 or 11 bills on the agenda, including HB2472, a scheme/proposal from Steve Montenegro to bar the state from requiring banks or financial institution to use use a "social credit score" when evaluating a potential loan recipient's creditworthiness.

Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2.  Three bills on the agenda.  Seems light on propaganda.


On Tuesday, March 7 


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House Commerce meets at 2 p.m.in HHR3.  Two bills and two presentations on the agenda.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  Five bills and two presentations on the agenda,; lots of conservative/anti-public education propaganda in both.  One striker to SB1564 to allow private school students to participate in public school interscholastic activities.

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  Two bills on the agenda.

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

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m.  Three bills on the agenda, including some anti-vaxxer propaganda.


On Wednesday, March 8 


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House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3.  Five bills on the agenda, including John Kavanagh's proposal to protect Confederate flags from HOAs.

House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4.  10 bills on the agenda, including multiple examples of pro-gun propaganda

House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1.  Nine bills on the agenda, including a couple of proposals to reduce General Fund revenue.

Senate Commerce meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1.  10 bills on the agenda.

Senate Government meets at 9:30 a.m. in SHR2.  Six bills on the agenda, including HB2394, a piece of pro-gun and anti-federal government propaganda.

House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m.in HHR1.  Four bills on the agenda, including one very bad bill.

House Municipal Oversight & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  13 bills on the agenda, all bad.

House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  Three bills on the agenda, including one that seeks to reduce municipal revenue.

Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  Five bills and two propaganda presentations on the agenda.

Senate Military Affairs, Public Safety & Border Security meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2.  Five bills on the agenda.


On Thursday, March 9 


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Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1.  Seven bills on the agenda, including some propaganda.

Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 9:30 a.m.in SHR2, including a couple of transmission line proposals from Gail Griffin that read like they were written by an industry lobbyist.

House Appropriations Subcommittee on Budgetary Funding Formulas meets at 10:30 a.m. in HHR4.  No bills and one presentation on the agenda.


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