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Cheat Sheet Week of March 8, 2021.
We’re theoretically halfway through the legislative session for 2021. There is no set end date to the legislative session. It is “recommended” to last 100 days and the only thing the legislature is constitutionally required to do is pass a budget. There are still a handful of new bills on committee agendas this week.
However, the bills listed below have passed through one chamber and must not pass the full Legislature. Contact your representatives now to let them know how you expect them to vote:
- SB1783 – Stripping tax revenues to circumvent Prop 208
- SB1108 – Stripping tax revenues to circumvent Prop 208
- SB1400 – More money forcing schools to give credit for private lessons and sports clubs – leaving poorer families behind.
- SB1058 – Putting an undue burden on teachers to provide info on materials needed a year in advance for every class, every day. Can we make doing their jobs and harder?
- SB1456 – Limits sex education – removing HIV/AIDS prevention
- SB2840 – Allows loaded guns in locked cars on school grounds for anyone 18+, INCLUDING students.
- SB1362 – Limits distribution of emergency contraception
- SB1531 – Unnecessary burden on petition circulators that will seriously hamper the action to bring voter-approved measures to the ballot box
- SB1593 – Voter Suppression Bill
- SB1713 – Voter Suppression Bill
- SCR1001 – Repeals Ducey’s executive order declaring a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic
- SCR1010 – Asks voters to amend the constitution to require the legislature to go into special session for the duration of any declaration of emergency.
- SCR1019 – Exempts disabled veterans from state property tax resulting in underfunding in nearly every area of the government – especially public education
- SCR1034 – Allows the legislature to amend voter-approved measures with a simple majority if courts find something illegal or unconstitutional in them
OK, now for the new bills that you can use your RTS power to oppose or support.
Monday, March 8, 2021
2310 – OPPOSE – Striker Bill Allows Legislative Council (lawyers) and the Arizona Attorney General to review presidential executive orders for “legality”.
2648 – OPPOSE – Essentially gives religious organizations a “get out of jail free” card for a sweeping array of laws that mostly affect LGBTQ+ and racial minority populations. This is the result of the fallout from The tax exemption Bob Jones University lost in 1983 for racism.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
2241 – SUPPORT – Requires that students are taught about the Holocaust and other genocides at least twice between the 7th as 12th grades.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
1041 – OPPOSE – Increases a specific type of corporate School Tuition Organization tax credit. At the end of the day, this is another attempt to increase school vouchers.
1105 – OPPOSE – Increases the summary printed on ballot measures from 100 to 200 words – bolsters the efforts of groups like Goldwater and the Chamber of Commerce to steer politics in Arizona with their seemingly limitless funds.
1118 – OPPOSE – Increases School Tuition Organization tax credits – think: vouchers. These vouchers already divert $200 million from the general fund every year. That’s money is not going to fund public education!
1237 – SUPPORT – Creates a new right to sue for “fertility fraud”. This is almost too horrendous to speak of but doctors have impregnated women (without their consent or knowledge) with their own sperm.
1485 – OPPOSE – Striker Bill – Stripping voters from the Permanent Early Voting List. Yes, we have already weighed in on this bill in the form of SB1069 but here it is again revived as a striker bill.
2575 – OPPOSE – Bans hospital from denying clergy visitation rights including during a pandemic. Makes no provision for infection control training, fit-tested personal protective equipment, self-quarantine after exposure, or an acknowledgment of risks.
2623 – SUPPORT – Prohibits the use of consumer fireworks between 10 pm and 8 am on all days. Doesn’t this just seem like common sense?
2691- OPPOSE – Striker Bill – Creates a new regulatory program in Arizona for some water bodies that, in the wake of Trump-era deregulation, are no longer federally protected. Supported by the mining industry and developers, opposed by the City of Phoenix and environmental groups.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
2111 – OPPOSE – Declares that any law that “violates the 2nd amendment” to be void in Arizona. So if AR-15’s (and similar automatic rapid fire weapons) are somehow outlawed on the national level, they would still be okay to use in our state!
2318 – SUPPORT – Curtails the use of “Hannah priors”, which allow attorneys to prosecute people facing multiple charges related to one crime as repeat offenders, even if they had clean records before. Ducey vetoed a slightly broader measure in 2019.
2002 – OPPOSE – A nonbinding resolution to support a constitutional amendment limiting the US Supreme Court to nine justices. FUN FACT: Arizona expanded the state Supreme Court from 5 to 7 members during Ducey’s first term and now Republican’s want to try to disalllow this on the national level when it doesn’t serve their purposes.
RTS: Bills in House and Senate Rules Committees
Positions on Monday’s bills must be entered before 9 AM.
1097 – SUPPORT
1104 -OPPOSE
2705 – SUPPORT
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