Most bills being proposed by the Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature are filled with bile.
Sometimes they try to be subtle and sneaky about it.
Sometimes they're less subtle.
Sometimes they multitask.
The proposals being considered by committees this week run the gamut.
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, 1/20
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Nada.
On Tuesday, 1/21
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Joint Committee on Capital Review meets at 9:30 in SHR109. On the agenda: no bills, and all items under consideration are part of a consent agenda a will be voted on as a group/one item.
House Appropriations and Senate Appropriations jointly meet at 10 a.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: no bills. They'll be receiving Governor Hobbs' budget proposal.
Senate Natural Resources meets at 1:30 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: one bill, and one presentation. Seems harmless.
House Commerce meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: four insurance-related measure that I don't understand well enough to comment on.
House Education meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: four bills. They don't seem tooooo bad (but someone who knows more about this stuff should look at them), but it's still early in the session -- the anti-public schools, anti-books, and anti-teacher stuff is coming.
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water meets at 2 p.m. in HHR3. On the agenda: three presentations and two measures.
Senate Appropriations meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: one presentation and three bills.
On Wednesday, 1/22
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House Government meets at 9 a.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: eight bills, including some very bad ones. HB2051 would require the governor to appear before the legislature as a supplicant an answer questions posed by legislators; HB2062 seeks to put some anti-trans language into state law. Not only that, there's a sneaky bad clause in the bill.
I can't make this stuff up.
2062 will be subject to a striker that is the polar opposite of bad, but it's proposed by a Democratic member (Rep, Betty Villegas) so I expect it to fail on a party line vote. If they even consider it - it isn't even listed on the agenda.
HB2099 would direct the governor and state AG to aid and abet embrace the hate that Cheeto has for immigrants (except the ones he marries); HB2113 seeks to allow Confederate/MAGA flags to be flown on public property.
House International Trade meets at 9 a.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: no bills, two presentations.
House Judiciary meets at 9 a.m. in HHR4, On the agenda: four bills, HB2022, a guns in schools bill that was passed by House Education on 7-5 vote and HB2043, which seeks to narrow the definition of "harassment" by requiring that the harasser *intend* the harass the victim. It's proposed by Rep. Alexander Kolodin, a practicing attorney, and I expect that one or more have charged with harassment.
House Ways & Means meets at 9 a.m.in HHR3. On the agenda: one bill.
Senate Health and Human Services meets at 9 a.m. is SHR2. On the agenda: one industry presentation and two bills.
Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency meets at 9 a.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: five bills, including SB1037, John Kavanagh's scheme to financially hamstring boards regulating health care and SB1071, another of Kavanagh's schemes, to impose state-level eligibility disclosure requirements on federal SNAP and TANF programs.
House Appropriation meets at 2 p.m. in HHR1, On the agenda: two bills.
House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections meets at 2 p.m. in HHR4. On the agenda: eight measures, all bad, except for one. Maybe..
House Science & Technology meets at 2 p.m. in HHR5. On the agenda: no bills.
Senate Education meets at 2 p.m. in SHR1. On the agenda: two bills and two presentations, one from Tom Horne and one from the ED of the State Board of Education.
Senate Public Safety Committee of Reference meets at 2 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: no bills, just an audit review of a Transportation Excise Tax in Gila County.
Senate Public Safety meets at 2:10 p.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: five bills, including SB1060, adding a secrecy provision to administrative investigations of law enforcement officers.
On Thursday, 1/23
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Senate Judiciary & Elections Committee of Reference meets at 10:15 a.m. in SHR2. On the agenda: no bills, two sunset reviews.
No agenda lists any effort to address the financial boondoggle that is the ESA/school voucher scam program.
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