Legislative schedule - week starting 6/11/2023

Well, the Arizona State Legislature returns from its vacation on Monday, and returns to imperiling civil society.

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 t.o 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, 6/12 

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House Rules meets at 11 a.m. in HHR4.

There will be a large number of floor sessions to consider bills (the green one is a Senate floor calendar, the blue one [OK "bluish" ones] are for the House).  Many bad bills will receive floor consideration.

On Tuesday, 6/13 

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The Joint Legislative Budget Committee meets at 9:30 a.m. in HHR1.  As one of the items on this agenda pertains to a line item transfer for the AZSOS relating to Election Services I expect this meeting to devolve into an election denialism propaganda session.

The Joint Committee on Capital Review meets at 9:45 a.m. or upon the adjournment of the meeting of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in HHR1.  I expect that first meeting to go longer than 15 minutes, so that "upon adjournment" proviso may become relevant.

On Wednesday, 6/14 and Thursday 6/15 - 

Nada for now, but I expect that there will be floor sessions on tap.