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This is Crossover Week which marks the first bill deadline has passed and many bills both good and bad have gone to their graves. The Appropriations and Rules committees are the only meeting this week so the RTS list is much shorter. However, there are several bills in Rules — most if not all of these bills, have been on the cheat sheet in prior weeks. I still have listed them here in case you didn’t get a chance to comment earlier.
| FUN FACT: In our Arizona Legislature, no bill is dead until the legislative session ends. This gives lawmakers the dubious opportunity to recycle bad ideas via “strike everything amendments.” Another way of looking at these bills is to view them as “zombie” ideas, which replace all language in a bill with new wording. |
Here’s an example of a recent “zombie” bill to PEVL purge. In 2019 Sen. Michele Ugenti-Rita-(R-23) brought forth a bill to strip voters from the Permanent Early Voting List. At that time well more than 1,000 voters signed in against it and it failed 15-15 in the Senate. Thank you RTS! But, here we are in 2021 and again, Ugenti-Rita has resurrected her bill as a “striker.”
On Tuesday, the Senate Appropriations will discuss SB1485. Let’s get more than 1,000 thumbs down to defeat this attempt at voter suppression once again. OPPOSE to preserve PEVL!
OK, onward to this week’s bag of goodies in committee. Once again, please log into RTS as early as you can as the system gets quite a bit of action late in the day on Sunday.
Monday, February 22, 2021
2005 – OPPOSE – Striker bill that would block large companies like Google and Apple from restricting the purchase and download of apps to only their proprietary stores effectively forcing the entire Apple App Store offline, breaking the security safeguards that make Apple software so hard to hack.
2099 – SUPPORT – Extend the committee to study murders of indigenous women and girls, expand the work of the committee to all indigenous peoples, and identify targeted solutions to the problem.
FUN FACT: Arizona has the third-highest number nationwide of missing or murdered indigenous women and girls, and 25% of deaths go unsolved.
2037 – OPPOSE – Ask voters to amend the Arizona Constitution to allow the legislature to regulate a state of emergency. This is a power grab to prevent the mayors of Arizona’s three largest cities from managing a state of emergency on their own.
FUN FACT: Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff have Democratic mayors who were the first in the state to ask for statewide mask mandates.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
1119 – OPPOSE – Striker bill that would allow any member of the AZ legislature to demand that the Attorney General review a presidential executive order to possibly declare it constitutional. Really unproductive and a waste of taxpayer resources.
1325 – OPPOSE – Striker bill that supports the discredited practice of LGBT “conversion therapy” effectively allowing methods such as electric shocks, induced vomiting, or elastic bands to be snapped against the skin to create a negative association with same-sex attraction and more insidious measures. Are we back in the Dark Ages?
1411 – OPPOSE – Striker bill that ties a raise in unemployment compensation if unemployment rises above 6%. Also reduces the current 26-week maximum to under 20.
1485- OPPOSE – Striker bill to strip PEVL voters.
1558 – SUPPORT – Funding for construction on the Ganado School Loop Road. Located in the Navajo Nation Tribe, this road has not been maintained or updated for 28 years. Like so many problems with underserved schools and hospital districts on tribal lands, we need to start fixing what has been ignored for decades.
1593 – OPPOSE – Voter Suppression Alert Makes a host of voting-related changes, none of them good!
1006 – OPPOSE – Striker bill asking voters to change the AZ Constitution to require the legislature to hold a special session after every presidential election to review the results. This is a sneaky way of circumventing the electoral process by giving the legislature sole authority to appoint presidential electors, effectively asking voters to give up their right to select the president.
RTS: Bills in House and Senate Rules Committees
These bills are headed to the floor this week. Contact your lawmakers NOW to support or oppose them. Rules meets only to determine if bills are constitutional and in the proper format It’s an opportunity to support or oppose bills, but don’t spend time on lengthy comments as the lawmakers don’t read them. Positions on Monday’s bills must be entered before 9 AM.
Most of these bills have appeared on the cheat sheet in previous weeks.
1109 – OPPOSE
1175 – OPPOSE
1362 – OPPOSE
1381 – OPPOSE
1392 – OPPOSE
1456 – OPPOSE
1459 – OPPOSE
1486 – SUPPORT
1498 – OPPOSE
1613 – OPPOSE
1713 – OPPOSE
1714 – OPPOSE
1783 – OPPOSE
1793 – OPPOSE
1025 – OPPOSE
1027 – OPPOSE
1044 – SUPPORT
2309 – OPPOSE
2310 – OPPOSE
2549 – OPPOSE
2575 – OPPOSE
2623 – SUPPORT
2691 – OPPOSE
2702 – OPPOSE
2751 – SUPPORT
2764 – SUPPORT
2766 – SUPPORT
2805 – SUPPORT
2827 – OPPOSE
2840 – OPPOSE
2015 – OPPOSE
2020 – OPPOSE
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