This a relatively simple week, so far as this post is concerned. The deadline for bill consideration by committees has passed. Most bills are dead, with one rather large caveat/exception - the chambers' respective Appropriations committees can still meet and consider bills and amendments to bills, so no idea is really dead yet.
On that note, many bills and/or amendments cover more than one topic.
The other thing I've been reminded about is that I shouldn't trust the summaries written legislative staff. In the summary for a striker to SB1102, the "overview" section doesn't even begin cover everything that the proposal would do. The "provisions" section does, but many people, including me, generally don't read summaries beyond the beginnings, especially if they plan to read the entire bill.
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, 4/3
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House Appropriations meets at 10 a.m. in HHR1. 17 bills on the agenda, nine with strikers attached. Lots of which cover more than one topic including the one for SB1102 which is 40 pages long and adds to the power of legislative leadership and Republican donors. There's a certain synchronicity to the striker for SB1457, though. It relates to both firefighters and fireworks. Still not the same topic, though.
Senate Transportation and Technology meets at 2 p.m.in SHR2. No bills on the agenda; presentations only.
On Tuesday,4/4
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House Rules meets at 9:45 a.m.in HHR4. 45 bills on the agenda. Many are propaganda/garbage. As the Rules Committees are little more than rubber stamps for chamber leadership, I generally don't cover them, but this may be a reader's last opportunity to weigh in on a bad bill.
Senate Appropriations meets at 1 p.m. in SHR109. 18 bills on the agenda, one striker. The striker is to HB2623, it's from Sen. John Kavanagh, and it reads like it was written by an industry lobbyist.
Senate Health and Human Services meet at 2 p.m. in SHR1. Presentation only; no bills on the agenda.
On Wednesday, 4/5 - Nada scheduled.
On Thursday, 4/6
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House Appropriation Subcommittee on Fiscal Accountability meets at 10:30 in HHR3. Presentations only; no bills on the agenda.
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