Many bills that died during the legislative session are coming back as strikers this week, and I presume, going forward until the lege adjourns sine die.
There's also a lot a sneakiness on committee agendas this week. I expect that to continue until sine die, too.
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, generally at 1 p.m. and the Senate's in Senate Caucus Room 1, generally 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, 3/25
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House Appropriations meets at 1:30 p.m.in HHR1. On the agenda: 12 bills, eight with proposed strikers. Most are attempts to resurrect bills that didn't make it through the legislative process. Lots of propaganda and bad government here, both in the basic bills and the proposed strikers. However, the one looks to be the most interesting is Rep. David Livingston's proposed striker to SCR1010. If passed, coming to a ballot this fall would be his plan to give legislators a pay raise by tying their salaries to the rate of inflation. While this seems sneaky and underhanded and I oppose it for that reason, I am in favor of increasing legislative compensation. I am a firm believer in "you get what you pay for"...and Arizona pays its legislators garbage.
Which explains some of the stinky nuggets that the AZ state legislature produces.
On Tuesday, 3/26
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Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: 10 bills, with two proposed strikers. Some propaganda here but the paean to "sneaky" is Sen, John Kavanagh's proposed striker to HB2270. It has the innocuous-sounding working title of "homeless; fund; audit." But it's much more than that.
Among (many) other things, Kavanagh's proposed amendment would create a crime for someone to "intentionally be present in a drug-free homeless service zone to sell or transfer dangerous drugs or narcotic drugs." A person convicted of such would be ineligible for suspension of sentence, pardon, probation or any early release except under some specified circumstances, and parole doesn't seem to be one of them.
It would also require that all facilities that serve homeless individuals or victims of domestic violence to post sign designating them as "drug-free zones" (guessing that this measure will be supported by Republicans who rail against gun-free zones) and would also require hotels that serve both homeless persons and the general public to post signs that say "THIS BUSINESS IS BEING USED TO HOUSE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS ALONGSIDE THE GENERAL PUBLIC. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT ALL GUESTS KEEP HOTEL DOORS LOCKED, SAFELY STORE THEIR BELONGINGS AND REPORT ANY HEALTH OR SAFETY CONCERNS TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT."
Kavanagh *really* hates the homeless.
Actually, his hotel sign may have some merit, if it has a few words changed and goes up in places in addition to certain hotels.
"THIS BUSINESS CATERS TO LEGISLATORS ALONGSIDE THE GENERAL PUBLIC. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT ALL MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC KEEP DOORS LOCKED, SAFELY STORE THEIR BELONGINGS AND REPORT ANY HEALTH OR SAFETY CONCERNS TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT."
On Thursday, 3/28
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Senate Judiciary meets at 9 a.m.in SHR1. On the agenda: no bills, just one executive nomination to consider.
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