Legislative schedule - week starting 7/31/2023

Well, the AZlege is back this week...sort of.

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, 7/31 

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House Rules meets at 1 p.m. in HHR4.  One bill on the agenda: SB1102.  Currently, it's an appropriation bill for improvements to a highway interchange.  A striker is scheduled to be offered, titled " transportation excise tax; Maricopa county".  This looks to be about allowing a referendum on extending Maricopa County's transportation tax, but since the text of the amendment isn't available as yet, my guess is that a deal hasn't been worked out yet or legislative leadership doesn't have the votes needed to pass one, or both.

In a fit of legislative optimism, the same (presumably amended) bill is slated for COW consideration on Monday (no time listed), where, if it makes it through committee, it will be subject to amendments from the floor.

Of course, if the amended bill doesn't pass, for whatever reason, the rest of the week may become irrelevant.

Speaking of which, for the rest of the week, Tuesday, 8/1 through Thursday, 8/3 -

Nada, though that may change if something passes, so keep an eye on the schedule at the legislature.  Something may pop up on no/very short notice.