It may be early in the session, but that won't stop the ideologues in the Arizona legislature.
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, 1/15 - nada. It's a holiday and one that the bigots in the legislature may hate but since no one else will be there, neither will they.
On Tuesday, 1/16
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Senate Transportation, Technology, and Missing Children meets at 9 a.m.in SHR2. On the agenda: Six measures and some presentations.
What isn't on the agenda: anything related to missing children. The committee's chair, Sen. David Farnsworth, postured early this month on missing children.
Evidently, his posturing was meaningless to him.
Lots of red meat for the base, though -
Joint Appropriations (the Appropriation committees from both chambers) meets at 10 a.m. in HHR1 to receive the Governor's budget proposal.
House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: Seven sunset reviews and one bill.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: Six bills, some of which are problematical.
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: Nine bills, most of which read as if they were written by industry lobbyists for the purpose of protecting or even increasing industry profits to the detriment on average Arizonans.
Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. No bills on the agenda; receiving a presentation from JLBC about the state's budget.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: Three presentations and four bills, most of which don't seem problematical.
On Wednesday, 1/17
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House Ways and Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: no bills. This committee will be acting as the Ways & Means Committee of Reference and be conducting some sunset reviews.
House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: four bills. Most seem to be conventionally bad but not pure ideology.
House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: six bills. Some very bad; some less so.
Senate Government Committee of Reference meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: no bills; just sunset reviews.
Senate Government meets at 10 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: four bills; all ideological garbage.
House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: one bill. Doesn't seem to be a problem.
House Regulatory Affairs meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: Nine bills, including some very bad ones. Making a return: the infamous "tamale" bill in the form of HB2042. Rep Alma Hernandez has proposed an amendment to the bill. She's a Democrat, so her proposal may not pass.
House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: four bills. Doesn't seem too bad.
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: one bill. SB1058, requiring schools to add a personal finance course to their curriculum.
Senate Military Affairs, Public Safety and Border Security meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: one bill.
On Thursday, 1/18
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House Appropriations Subcommittee on Budgetary Funding Formulas meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: no bills, but there will be some ideologically-based presentations.
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Fiscal Accountability meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: no bills but there will be a presentation on opioid settlement funds.
House Appropriations Subcommittee on State & Local Resources meets at 9 a.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: no bills, but there will be presentations on the Rs' favorite talking point, border security.
Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: two bills, both very bad. SB1007 would make it a class 5 felony for a public school employee or independent contractor of a public school to refer students to or use any sexually explicit material, while SB1017, exempting Tom Horne's Department of Education from a requirement to use the state attorney general's office for legal services.
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