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By Deb Bonjouklian.
This is your Request to Speak (RTS) “Cheat Sheet” for the week of February 1st, 2021.
Bills that are in committees of the state Legislature can be commented on via Request To Speak. The time period to make your RTS is from the moment a bill is assigned to an Agenda plus five days before it actually is heard in Committee.
February 1st is the deadline for new bills to be introduced in the Senate. Next Monday, February 8th is the deadline for bills introduced in the House.
Below 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 Democrats should reject or support. Sign up for her weekly report at http://bit.ly/3asm28T
Gun Safety Bills
Give a THUMBS UP to the following bills:
HB2448 – Requires a 3-day waiting period for firearm purchases
HB2582 – Safe gun storage bill
HB2583 – Provides a process to remove guns from domestic abusers
Monday, February 1, 2021
1003 – Oppose – Limit ballot curing.
1068 – Oppose – Curtail Secretary of State’s elections-based rulemaking process.
1358 – Oppose – Restrict voter registration drives
1358 – Oppose – Restrict voter registration drives
1240 – Oppose – Increase the time and energy to sort ballots
1020 – Oppose – Restrict county recorders from determining polling places
1010 – Oppose – Recount of votes ok if you have the money to pay
1069 – Oppose – Attack on PEVL – Purge over 100,000 names, and remove “permanent” from the name
1260 – Oppose – Increase ballot descriptions to 200 words
2098 – Support – Schools required to submit missing child reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
1331 – Oppose – Exempt income from military pensions from state income tax
1376 – Support – Requires health education to include a mental health component
1452 – Oppose – Expand ESA and “backpack funding”
2125 – Support – PreK-4 students suspended or expelled only if engaged in dangerous conduct (weapons, drugs, health or safety) on school grounds
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
1108 – Oppose – Cuts property taxes that fund public schools
1260 – Oppose – Exempts disabled veterans from state property taxes, contingent on voter approval of SCR1019 (same language)
1273 – Oppose – Expand the use of school tuition organizations tax credit vouchers
1019 – Oppose – See 1260
2215 – Support – $35 Million to Hopi for the repair of Route H60
2228 – Support – Allot $900,000 to repair Ganado School Loop Road in Northeastern Arizona
2261 – Support – Reforms for incarcerated women
2365 – Oppose – Vehicles in the left lane must not go below the speed limit
2366 – Oppose – Increases the criminal speeding threshold from 85 to 90
2395 – Support – Makes it illegal to park such that a vehicle blocks the sidewalk
2737 – Oppose – Negatively affects the authority of the Arizona Corporation Committee
Thursday – February 4th, 2021
1381 – Oppose – Ban on abortion
1382 – Oppose – Redefine firearms and ammunition stores as “essential businesses”
1457 – Oppose – Abortion rules:
-Make it a class 3 felony to terminate a genetically abnormal fetus
-Allow sperm donor and his parents, to sue for damages if an abortion occurs
-Abortion remains must be buried or cremated
-Ban abortion-inducing drugs via “courier, delivery or mail”
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