Friday is the deadline for bills to receive a committee hearing in their originating chamber* so there are some very long committee agendas this week and there's a very rare Friday committee hearing on the schedule.
* = Except for the Appropriations Committees of the respective chambers and for a couple of other exceptions, but those necessitate some serious hoop jumping by the sponsor.
In other words, there are many bad bills on agendas this week - I can't even begin to cover them all here, I suggest reading all agendas, or at least those covering an area of interest.
Two committees are scheduled to meet twice, but the agenda for the second meeting is the same as for the first, with one exception. That's been noted below.
Because there are so many committee agendas at the lege this week, this post will be done in two parts. Part one (this one) will cover Monday and Tuesday while part two will cover Wednesday and Thursday (and Friday).
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 Wednesday, 2/14
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House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: 24 bills. Lots of propaganda here. Some of is anti-immigrant, some is anti-labor, some is anti-United Nations (and anti-municipalities and counties...and anti-efforts to address climate change...etc.)
House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: 15 bills. There's a proposed striker for HB2727 from Rep, Quang Nguyen that would expand the legal definition of sexual exploitation of a minor. This one, even if passed and signed into law, may run into First Amendment issues.
House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: Eight bills, most bad, but not all are propaganda.
Senate Government meets at 9 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: 15 bills. There are proposed strikers for SB1120. SB1170, and SB1292 (text unavailable for all of them) that may be problematical. 1292's striker is listed as a "same subject" striker, but underlying bill is about dividing Maricopa County into many counties...and is sponsored and cosponsored by a rogues' gallery of election deniers. Aside from those, there's still a lot of propaganda on this agenda.
House Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: nine bills
House Regulatory Affair meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: 10 bills, including HCR2052, a proposal to amend the state's constitution to insert the legislature into all agency rulemaking, giving them the authority to approve or disapprove all rules.
House Transportation & Infrastructure meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: 11 bills, including HB2866, setting the price to register an EV at $135. The price for a standard vehicle is $8,
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: 41 bills. Whew! It took a while just to count them; considering them will take longer. A mix of good bills and bills that are pure propaganda. Good - SB1353, requiring the production of cost estimate for fund school vouchers for each year. Bad - SB1040, proposing to create an exemption for students from paying student activity fees if they don't like them state their reason is based on conscience or religion.
Senate Military Affairs, Public Safety and Border Security meets at 2 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: 19 bills, including SCR1035, a proposal to amend the state's constitution to specifically state that LEOs (actually, the term the measure uses is "certified peace officer") doesn't have to resign from public employment in order to seek a salaried elected office.
On Thursday, 2/15
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Senate Judiciary meets at 8 a.m.in SHR1. On the agenda: 27 bills, including proposed strikers for two bills (language unavailable). Much of this agenda, but not all of it, is pure propaganda.
House Appropriation Subcommittee on Budgetary Funding Formulas meets at 9 a.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: no bills, just some presentations.
House Appropriation Subcommittee on Fiscal Accountability meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: no bills, just some presentations.
House Appropriation Subcommittee on State & Local Resources meets at 9 a.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: no bills, just some presentations.
Senate Natural Resources, Energy and water meets at 9 a.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: 20 bills, including SB1430, a proposal requiring that wind farms be located be located more than six miles from the nearest property unless that property is owned by the same entity/person that owns the property where the wind farm is located.
Senate Transportation, Technology and Missing Children meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: 29 bills. Similar to Monday's agenda; the bill that is on Thursday's agenda is SB1216, but isn't on Monday's, which has a striker proposed for it (text not available).
Senate Elections meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: 25 bills. Mostly propaganda or Republican wish list bills. Includes SCR1036 and SCR1043, a proposed amendment to the state's constitution targeting Tucson's election system (1043 would also bar ranked choice voting in AZ), and SCR1023, a proposed amendment to the state's constitution that would move all municipal elections to November.
On Friday, 2/16
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Senate Government meets at 10 a.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: same as Wednesday's agenda.
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