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Bills that are in committees can be commented on via
Request To Speak. The time period to make your RTS is
from the moment a bill is assigned an Agenda plus five
days before it actually is heard in Committee.
Here is a list of this week’s bills that have been
highlighted in the Citizen Engagement Beyond Voting
(CEBV) Legislature Weekly.
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As Melinda Iyer explained,
these are bills that she feels are the most egregious.
There are 100’s of bills now in various Committees, this
list reflects which bills Melinda thinks are the most likely
to be approved (in a bad way) or at least go further in
the approval process to the next step.
For more information on issues that are near and dear
to your heart, go to single-issue advocacy group pages
such as the Sierra Club, https://www.sierraclub.org/
arizona/2021-legislative-updates.
Important Note: Try to complete your RTS before 6PM
this evening. Last Sunday night the huge influx of users
brought down the system!
HEADS UP! This bill is headed for a vote of the full
Senate so you cannot use RTS but please do contact
your senator, Victoria Steele to Oppose:
SB1452, Expanding ESA vouchers. Backed by dark money
Goldwater Institute, the bill would drain Prop
208 funds out of public education.
OK, here goes for bills in committee the rest of the
week. There’s a lot to cover again this week. So pull up
a chair, take a sip of coffee, and make notes.
Monday, February 15, 2021
1102 – Support – Victoria Steele (D-9) sponsored a bill to
create a 2-year pilot program to build infrastructure to
place electric vehicle charging stations in homes.
1152 – Support – Victoria Steele (D-9) sponsored a bill to
require the AZ Dept of Trans. to develop a Zero
Emission Vehicle Plan and a State Zero Emission Motor
Vehicle Fleet Plan.
1419 – Oppose – Bans the use of photo radar in AZ.
Safety Issue.
1498 – Oppose – Increases the number of county
boards of supervisors based on population. An
expansion in Maricopa County to 9 members. 1613 –
Oppose – An unnecessary conspiracy-theory-driven bill.
USA only equipment, papers, and other supplies. –
sounds ok but it isn’t.
1650 – Support – Raises statewide gas tax by 1 cent
annually for 20 years. Money to go to improving AZ
freeways and major arterial streets.
1713 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Bill – Requires
additional documentation from voters sending in early
ballots.
1714 – Oppose – Over the top requirement for “paid for
by” disclosures on campaign ads.
SCR1025 – Oppose – Call for a Constitutional
Convention for the purpose of creating term limits.
Muddy waters here because lobbyists and staff would
then possess the bulk of the expertise because of a
revolving door of perpetual newbies.
2309 – Oppose – Questionable benefit of this bill is to
intimidate peaceful protestors from assembling by
making current misdemeanors a felony as well as other
nefarious changes to penalties for peaceful protestors.
Monday, February 15, 2021
2310 – Oppose – An attempt to stop cities from
reinvesting police budgets into other forms of
community support such as social services, youth
services, housing, education, healthcare, and other
community resources. 2623 – Support – Prohibits the
use of consumer fireworks between 10 pm and 8 am on
all days.
2702 – Oppose – Sponsored by our favorite guy: Mark
Finchem – Need I say more? This bill blocks private
individuals from selling or giving property to the federal
government without express permission from the
legislature.
2764 – Support – Introduced by Randy Friese (D-9).
Keeps someone who has been sentenced for a felony
or being served an order of protection, from buying
firearms from a licensed dealer without a background
check. 2805- Support – Increases unemployment
compensation to $300 a week beginning in 2022 by
slightly raising the taxable wage base to $8,000. Not so
FUN FACT: AZ pays the second-lowest benefit of` any
state. And the amount has not been raised since 2004.
HCR2026 – Oppose – Repeals a state of emergency
declaration automatically after 14 days unless the
governor calls a special session.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
1456 – Oppose – Adds further roadblocks to keeping
students from receiving age-appropriate and
scientifically accurate sex education. 1717- Oppose –
Provides a way to further dilute the teaching profession.
Mirror bill in the Senate – HB2832.
1044 – Support – Makes any student (must attend high
school in AZ for 2 years), regardless of immigration
status, eligible for in-state tuition. Increases the
educational opportunity for many students.
2005 – Oppose – A far-reaching attempt to reign-in large
companies like Google and Apple by eliminating their
restrictions on the purchase of apps that are not
proprietary to their stores. Weakens the security
safeguards that make Apple software so hard to hack.
2770 – Oppose – Exempts businesses from enforcing
mask mandates. Can you believe it? Here we are on the
cusp of the beginning to free ourselves of this
pandemic by eliminating a procedure that has helped to
put us there!
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
1109 – Oppose -Nullifies the Prop 208 tax increase, and
chains individual income tax rates to state growth so
that they can never increase starting in 2022. What is it
about these legislators who want to almost annihilate
public school funding?
1309 – Oppose – Creates new tax break for facilities that
manufacture zero-sulfur gasoline from natural gas.
Another way to subsidize the fossil fuel industry.
1362 – Oppose – This was on the list last week too.
Allows medical students to refuse to assist with
abortion-related services resulting in making it harder
for women to obtain emergency contraception
protections.
1392 – Oppose – Allows very wealthy business owners
to use business losses in previous years to reduce their
taxes in profitable years.
1482 – Oppose – Would prohibit the ban on abusive and
the widely discredited practice of LGBT “conversion
therapy”, which is regarded by some national health
organizations as based on questionable science. 1486 –
1486 – Support – Legalizes the use of test strips to
detect fentanyl in drugs.
SCR1040 – Asks voters to phase out individual state
income tax over 10 years beginning TY2023.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
1783 – Oppose – Creates a new “small business
taxpayer” category with pre-Prop 208 tax rates.
1787 – Oppose – Slashes unemployment benefits
unless the statewide average unemployment rate is 9%
or higher.
1027 -Oppose – Another attack on the ability for AZ to
fund public education by exempting veterans with
disabilities from paying property taxes.
FUN FACT: AZ gives away more money every year in
tax cuts and credits than it spends leaving the most
basic of services like education underfunded.
2060 – Oppose – Requires students in grades K-4 to
recite the Pledge of Allegiance unless excused by a
parent. Goes against the US Supreme Court ruling in
1943 that public school students may not be
compelled to recite the pledge as a First Amendment
protection.
2215 – Support – Also saw this bill last week.
Appropriates $35Million to the Hopi Tribe for Route
H60.
2308 – Oppose – Makes it harder for Arizonan’s to
practice direct democracy by making it vastly more
difficult to circulate recall petitions.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
2373 – Oppose – Forces anyone who requests or
receives 10 or more voter registration forms to place
their unique identifier on each form.
2378 – Support – Allows ranked-choice voting in
presidential preference primaries with 3 or more
candidates.
2435 – Oppose – Impose a 2-term limit for school board
members. Makes it difficult for willing and experienced
people to serve.
2549 – Oppose – Requires a separate “probable cause
hearing” to be held for every COVID-related civil action,
with the plaintiff bearing the burden of proof.
2569 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Bill that restricts
access to the polls for registered voters by possibly
reducing the number of polling places due to
underfunding, Restricts cities, counties and school
districts from receiving private (grant money) funds to
prepare for or conduct an election.
2570 – Oppose – This bill is a sneaky work around for
businesses to violate an executive order, i.e., having to
close because of AZ Public Health Dept guidelines
written to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
2765 – Support – Requires law-enforcement cases that
involve deadly force to be investigated by a different
agency than the one involved.
2766 – Support – Waives fees for state IDs for people
experiencing homelessness.
2792 – Oppose – Makes it a class 5 felony to send you a
ballot if you didn’t explicitly request one.
2793 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Bill that bans
public employees from registering someone to vote
unless explicitly asked to do so.
2794 – Oppose – Makes modifying any election-related
date in a statute a class 6 felony.
2779- Oppose – Imposes a mandatory 10-year
minimum sentence for fentanyl, heroin, and other
narcotics. it would also create a new crime, “drug
trafficking homicide”.
2811 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Bill making it a
class 6 felony to register someone to vote on election
day.
2827- Oppose – Opposes free-market principles by
banning a government entity or financial institution from
“discriminating” against a weapons manufacture by
refusing to provide them services.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
2840 – Oppose – Allows parents to bypass gun-free
zones at public schools and keep loaded and unlocked
weapons within reach in their cars while dropping off
and picking up children.
FUN FACT: The federal Gun
Free School Zones Act of 1990 effectively makes
nearly every school a gun-free zone.
HCR2015 – Oppose – See SCR1025 Monday above.
HCR2016 – Oppose – Asks voters to approve a change
to the AZ Constitution to require any ballot measure to
get 60% of the vote to pass.
2020- Oppose – Creates the position of lieutenant
governor in AZ.
2023 – Oppose – A non-binding resolution opposing
federal action to regulate state elections (such as HR1,
to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws
to reduce the influence of money in politics, limit
partisan gerrymandering and create new ethics rules for
federal officeholders).
2035 – Oppose – Non-binding resolution opposing DC
statehood on the grounds that it violates the US
Constitution (false).
1028 – Oppose – Requires any initiatives that require tax
increases to be reproved by voters every 5 years.
Undercuts voter-approved laws.
2887 – Oppose – Tax money to religious nonprofits
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
1082 – Support – Improves access to birth control
1539 – Support – Supports kinship care
Thursday, February 18, 2021
1381 – Oppose – Bans ending a pregnancy on the basis
of any disability in the fetus, even one incompatible with
life.
1419 – Oppose – See SB1419 in another committee on
Monday – Oppose in both places.
1459 – Oppose – Restricts the efforts of the Corporation
Commission by subjecting their decisions to a new
administrative review process.
List of bills in House and Senate Rules Committee
Rules meets only to determine whether bills are
constitutional and in proper format. Lawmakers do not
read comments but you can still weigh in on them as
they will be going into regular committees for
discussion. Positions must be entered by 1 PM
Monday.
1104 – Oppose
1106 – Oppose
1118 – Oppose
1127 – Oppose
1241 – Oppose
1252 – Oppose
1328 – Oppose
1333 – Oppose
1353 – Oppose
1377 – Oppose
1406 – Oppose
1408 – Oppose
1433 – Support
1457 – Oppose
1497 – Oppose
1531 – Oppose
1685 – Oppose
1001 – Oppose
1020 – Support
1024 – Oppose
1034 – Oppose
2015 – Support
2064 – Oppose
2098 – Support
2111 – Oppose
2404 – Oppose
2551 – Oppose
2648 – Oppose
2725 – Oppose
2737 – Oppose
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