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By Deb Bonjouklian; LD9 RTS Coordinator.
Request to Speak “Cheat Sheet” Week of February 8th, 2021
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.
| Sign Up for Request to Speak Sign up for Request to Speak at http://bit.ly/3oWYH4n By filling out this form, you allow Civic Engagement Beyond Voting to create an account for you at the Arizona Legislature to use the Request to Speak (RTS) system. This will allow you to make your voice heard by supporting or opposing legislation while it’s being heard in committees. For more information about Request to Speak, how to sign up, or participate, contact Deb at [email protected] |
Tomorrow, February 8th is the deadline for bills introduced in the House. Here is a list of this week’s bills that have been highlighted in the Citizen Engagement Beyond Voting (CEBV) Legislature Weekly. 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.
This week’ s activity is greater than last week so get a cup of coffee/glass of wine and settle in for a long read.
Monday, February 8, 2021
1009 – Support – Introduced by our own Victoria Steele (D-9). Make all
state motor vehicles electric by 2022.
1104 – Oppose – Requires itemized lists of contributions from outside AZ
for every political campaign.
1106 – Oppose – Making it a class 6 felony for registering someone to vote
in AZ who has “no intent to remain” in the state. FUN FACT: Class 6
felony convictions can carry up a 2-year prison sentence.
1127 – Oppose – Relaxes laws surrounding speeding. I.E., $15 fine for
driving 75 mph in a 65 mph zone
1497 – Oppose – Repeals the requirement of a 2/3 majority in the
legislature for passage and 3/4 vote to override a governor’s veto, of any
legislation that would provide a net increase in state revenues.
1531 – Oppose – Requires petition circulators to read aloud the description
on initiatives and referendums.
1005 – Oppose – Amend AZ Constitution to add legislative representatives
by creating legislative districts into 3 geographically separate sections with
one representative each.
SCR1034 – Oppose- Ask voters to allow a simple majority vote to voter-approved measures if there is a question about legality or constitutionality.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
1118 – Oppose – Increases ESA voucher amounts.
1246 – Oppose – Imposes a 2-year term limit for school board members.
133 – Oppose – Prohibits and could penalize cities from reducing their
annual police budgets by any amount.
1387 – Support – Continues supplemental child care assistance for parents
returning to school.
1683 – Oppose- Appropriates $10M per year from the state general fund to
give an $80/month grant for transportation to charter or open enrollment
district schools.
1685 – Oppose – Bans attendance boundaries for district schools. End
result: this fast tracks segregation and white flight.
SCR1001 – Oppose – Repeals Governor executive order privileges.
1020 – Support – Ask voters to repeal the mandate that students be taught
only in English.
2063 – Oppose – Forces teachers to retain or fail a student. End result:
affects funding and classroom sizes.
2151 – Support – Introduced by our own Randall Friese. Invest $9M over
the next 3 years to give certificated teachers a 75% discount on tuition at
AZ universities in exchange for a commitment to teach at least 4 years in
AZ.
2418 – Support – Establish a modest funding weight for gifted students.
2737 – Oppose – Allows any lawmaker to order Arizona’s Attorney General
to investigate the Arizona Corporation Commission. End result: Strips the
Commission of some of its most fundamental powers.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
1334 – Oppose – Dangerous bill to legalize “multiple tube aerial device”
fireworks. FUN FACT: Author of the bill, David Gowan (R-14) works for TNT
Fireworks and their lobbyist wrote the bill.
1362 – Oppose – Allows medical students to refuse to assist with abortion
related services resulting in making it harder for women to obtain
emergency contraception protections.
SCR1024 – Oppose – See HB1497
2111- Oppose – Makes any laws that “violate the second amendment” to
be null and void.
2308 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Alert! Requires county recorders to
use the postal services National Change of Address System to cancel
registrations that have changed counties.
2358 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Alert! Increases the burden to
circulate recall petitions. Impedes direct democracy
2373 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Alert! Requires a unique identifier on
voter registration forms of anyone requesting 10 or more forms.
2378 – Support – Allows “ranked choice” voting in presidential preference
primaries with 3 or more candidates.
2404 – Oppose – Uses $3M in taxpayer money over 2 years on a statewide
anti-abortion program. This “crisis pregnancy center” concept would be
specifically barred from presenting parents with all of their options.
2436 – Support – Make gasoline taxes tied to inflation starting July 2022.
FUN FACT: AZ gas tax was last increased in 1991.
2437 – Support – Increases taxes on registration of electric, hybrid and
alternative fuel vehicles to fund road maintenance and repair.
2485 – Oppose – Attack on the right to peaceful protest by making it a
class 6 felony offense for “violent or disorderly assembly” of 6 or more
people. This could mean people peacefully walking in a march or other
gathering while obstructing traffic, to be eligible for a 2-year prison
sentence.
2551- Oppose – Allows guns, whose owners have a concealed weapons
permit, into places/events that ask them to be turned over for storage
while attending an event.
2569 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Alert! Prohibits the private funding
(think grants) of elections and voter registration.
2570 – Oppose – Bans state agencies, cities, and counties from revoking
the business license of a business that is in violation of health department
guidelines.
2589 – Support – Requires children under 2 years old to ride in a rear-facing child restraint unless they are a certain size.
2648 – Oppose – Protects the tax-free status of religious organizations.
FUN FACT: This has Christian Conservatives nervous because Bob Jones
University lost its tax-free status in 1983 because of its policies around
racism.
2725 – Oppose – Requires state documents to identify people as either
male or female.
2765- Support – Requires “deadly force” cases to be investigated by a
different agency than the one involved.
2792 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Alert! Bill makes it a class 5 felony to
send out ballots unless the voter made a specific request.
2793 – Oppose – Voter Suppression Alert! Bans public employees from
registering someone to vote unless they are specifically asked.
HCR2016 – Oppose – Asks voters to approve an AZ Constitutional change
that requires 60% of the vote to pass any ballot measure.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
1328 – Oppose – See HB2111
1377 – Oppose – Exempts businesses from COVID related liability.
1382 – Oppose – Bans ending a pregnancy if a fetus has any disability even
one incompatible with life.
List of bills in House and Senate Rules Committee
Rules meets only to determine whether bills are constitutional and in
the 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.
1068 – Oppose
1105 – Oppose
1108 – Oppose
1175 – Oppose – See mirror bill HB2248 this week
1240 – Oppose
1251 – Oppose – See mirror bill HB2404 this week
1260 – Oppose
1273 – Oppose
1331 – Oppose
1358 – Oppose
1376 – Support
1382 – Oppose
1019 – Oppose
2125 – Oppose
2248 – Oppose
2261 – Support
2381 – Support
2365 – Oppose
2366 – Oppose
2395 – Support
No bills in Committee on Fridays.
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