Legislative schedule - week starting 4/13/2025

Hurry up and wait time regarding the budget will continue this week, but there will still be some fireworks over developmental disabilities.

Schedules can, and frequently do, change at any moment when the legislature is in session.  So pay attention.

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 become a very bad one. 

On Monday, 4/14 

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Joint Legislative Ad Hoc Committee on Family Court Orders meets at 10 a.m. in SHR1.  On the agenda: no bills, three presentations about, surprisingly enough, orders from family courts. This committee is co-chaired by Mark Finchem and Rachel Keshel, so expect conspiracy theories to abound.

On Tuesday, 4/15 

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House Appropriations meets at 10 a.m.in HHR1.  On the agenda: one bill. HB2945, the Republicans' poison pill-laden bill to fund the parents as paid caregivers program for minors with developmental disabilities.  The bill will be subject to a striker proposed by Assistant Democratic Leader Nancy Gutierrez. I expect to fail for two reasons: 1. It was proposed by a Democratic member; and 2. It's not punitive enough to suit the Rs in the legislature.

Senate Appropriations meets at 10 a.m. in SHR109.  On the agenda: one bill.  SB1734, the Senate's parallel to HB2945.  No proposed striker.

On Wednesday, 4/16 and Thursday, 4/17 - nada.