Sunday, March 26, 2023

Legislative schedule - week starting 3/26/2023

This *should* be the last week of regular committee consideration of bills, but are ways around that.  No proposal is really dead until the lege adjourns sine die.


Also, I'm not a bookie, but if I was, I'd set the initial over/under at eight.


Eight, as in the number of Republican members of the AZ lege who will aid and abet the violent acts if Cheeto is actually indicted..


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, 3/27 


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House Health & Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  12 bills on the agenda, including strikers for SB1278 and SB1285.  Both could be problematical, but 1278's seems worse - it would usurp some municipal authority.

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

House Military Affairs & Public Safety meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  Eight bills on the agenda, including strikers for SB1068, SB1136, and SB1608.  The striker to 1068 would require trained EMTs to provide medical assistance, and ambulances to transport, police dogs injured in the line of duty.

Senate Elections meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  Four bills on the agenda, all propaganda.

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

Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2.  Four bills on the agenda.


On Tuesday, 3/28 


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House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  Five bills on the agenda; most bad or simply propaganda.

House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  Seven or eight bills on the agenda.  Not all qualify, but many are bad or simply propaganda.  There is a bit of a discrepancy between the posted agenda, which lists seven bills, and the lege's website, which has eight -
















SB1699 is not on the agenda, but if it is considered by the committee, a striker has been offered for it.  The amendment would change the bill into one pertaining to the licensing of anesthesiologist assistants.

House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  Six bills on the agenda; strikers will be offered for two of them.  The striker for SB1104 would remove the ability of the Arizona Corporation Commission to regulate the use of clean energy resources by public service corporations.  Would also add nuclear energy to the list of clean energy resources.

Looks like it was written by a lobbyist for and energy production corporation.


Senate Appropriation meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109.  18 bills on the agenda; some bad and/or propaganda.

Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m.in SHR1.  10 bills on the agenda; some bad and/or propaganda.


On Wednesday, 3/29 


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House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4  Eight bills on the agenda; some bad and/or propaganda.

House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1.  Four bills on the agenda; most about reducing revenue.

Senate Commerce meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1.  Six bills on the agenda, two with strikers (text not available as yet).

Senate Government meets at 9:30 a.m. in SHR2.  11 bills on the agenda, six with strikers (text not available as yet).  From the titles, some of the strikers seem problematical.  Some of the non-striker bills seem like problems, too.

House Government meets at 10 a.m. in HHR3.  11 bills on the agenda, most are propaganda including SCR1023, repealing the protections from legislative pettiness/interference from charter cities with no amendments offered.

House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1.  15 bills on the agenda, including SB1596, a propaganda bill.

House Municipal Oversight & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4.  11 bills on the agenda; all bad.  Most propaganda, one self serving.

House Regulatory Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5.  One bill on the agenda, one that looks bad.

House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3.  Six bills on the agenda.

Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1.  Three bills on the agenda.  One striker will be offered and the text for that isn't available as yet. but given that the other two bills are attacks on public education, don't be surprised if the striker is, too.

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


On Thursday, 3/30 


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Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1.  Six bills on the agenda with one (probably) problematical striker to be offered.  Also on the agenda: HB2502, an anti-choice bill that would state that the requirement for child support begins at the date of a positive pregnancy test.

Senate Natural Resources, Energy and Water meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2.  15 bills on the agenda; some propaganda.  Some of them read like the were written by industry lobbyists.  Two strikers to other bills will be offered, text not available.

House Appropriations Subcommittee on Fiscal Accountability meets at 10:30 a.m. in HHR3.  No bills on the agenda.





















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