As I predicted last week, there are far fewer bills under consideration in committee this week.
Read bills carefully - bills that look (relatively) harmless may contain a VERY bad provision in them that may be easy to miss.
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 b, ad (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, 2/23
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The chambers' respective Rules committees, House (1 p.m.) and Senate (8:45 a.m.), will meet to consider proposals approved by other committees.
House Appropriations meets at 10 a.m. in HHR1. On the agenda: 13 measures. One of which is a poison pill. HB2229 proposes to give $3 million to the Arizona Department of Health to funnel to anti-choice "pregnancy resource centers." There are other bad bills on this agenda (and some OK ones, too). The are a few strikers on the agenda, for HB2211, HB2872, and HCR2007.
On Tuesday, 2/24
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Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology meets at 8 a.m. in SHR109. On the agenda: 27 bills. Includes strikers for SB1138, SB1267, SB1826, and SB1827. The strikers for 1138 and 1267 are "interesting", to say the least. The one for SB1138 seeks to reduce funding for the Citizens' Clean Elections Commission while the one for SB1267 seeks to eliminate minimum wage for people with disabilities.
On Wednesday, 2/25 and Thursday, 2/26 - Nada.
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