Week #16) Legislature Continues Its One-day-a-week Schedule

April 19, 2024

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Weekly Updates -- across the continuing session...

#16) April 19) Legislature Continues Its One-day-a-week Schedule [5-pg PDF]
- Summary ="Every day is certainly not Earth Day at the Arizona Legislature, where they continue to move along bills to whittle away at protections for air, water, lands, and more. This week, they came back to the Capitol on Wednesday for not quite a full day of work. They passed along a few bills and transmitted some to the Governor -- none of them good. The Senate passed a motion to hear the bill to repeal the 1864 ban on abortion. The House did not. Neither took action. Stay tuned."
#15) April 12) GOP Legislators Backpedal All the Way out the Door [6-pg PDF]
- Summary = "It was an interesting week/day/half-day at the Arizona Legislature. After the Arizona Supreme Court reached back in time to 1864 and sanctioned a Civil War-era complete abortion ban, some in the GOP could not backpedal fast enough. Rather than consider a bill to eliminate the total ban, the majority shut down the session for another week, so stay tuned for next Wednesday..."
#14) April 5) Legislators Press the Pause Button, But There are Still Many Actions to Take [5-pg PDF]
- Summary = "Legislature has finished most bills (70 remain) -- Meeting just once a week for the next month -- Budget talks with Governor -- Our Priority: Stop the 6 worst referrals (as they will clog up ballots with bad policies and bypass the Governor) -- See details"...
#13) March 30) 'Committees are done, but there are plenty of actions to take' [7-pg PDF]
- Summary = "Committees are done, but there are plenty of actions to The committees are done, except for the budget hearings -- whenever those might be -- Rules, and Senate committee confirmation hearings. This means we know the universe of bills remaining. For a lot of the environmental bills, it looks like it will be mostly party line votes and, we hope, a veto by the Governor. Sadly, there are few positive bills moving. Legislators never heard bills to advance environmental justice, bills to limit groundwater pumping, bills to protect rivers and streams, bills to help address climate change, and bills to protect our air and water."
#12) Mar 23) 'Take Action Against Bad Referrals and Legislation!' [8-pg PDF]
- Summary = "Vote No on HCR 2040! Ask your Senator to oppose prohibiting climate action and clean air plans! -- a week full of bad legislation -- lots of last-minute bad strike-everything amendments, such as exemptions from public records law for water deals"
#11) Mar 16) 'Strike that! Strike out! Legislators Strike-everything!' [9-pg PDF]
- Summary = "Bills: 23 Oppose, 0 Support) The Arizona House was back in action this week after a pause when several representatives were out of the country. Both houses will have long committee agendas next week and those agendas are filled with strike-everything amendments, where they totally change the content of a bill and replace it with a new bill, but keep the number -- a confusing practice that does not serve the public and mostly helps to get controversial bills through the process"
#10) Mar 9) 'Some Good and Mostly Bad Bills and Referrals Advance' [7-pg PDF]
- Summary = "Bills: 35 Oppose, 1 Support) The House did little this week (members were in Israel) -- The Senate passed bad public policies, such as a water market to further deplete our aquifers -- They did stop HCR2018, a referral that would prohibit actions to limit vehicle miles traveled"...
#9) Mar 1) 'Speak up on lots of bad policies -- and a few good ones.' [5-pg PDF]
- Summary = "Bills: 9 Oppose, 2 Support) House and Senate moved lots of bills through the floor process -- They neglected to vote down the many godawful water, lands, democracy, and immigration bills -- They advanced lots of referrals, meaning a crowded ballot maybe -- These HCRs and SCRs do not go to the governor, they go to the secretary of state to be placed on the ballot for 2024"...
#8) Feb 23) 'A Billapalooza of Bad Policy at the Legislature' [5-pg PDF]
#7) Feb 17) 'Phew! What a week and crossover week' [5-pg PDF]
#6) Feb 10) 'Long Agendas, Too Many Bills, and So Much Bad Policy' [11-pg PDF]
#5) Feb 3) 'Resignations, Appointments, and More and More Bills!' [8-pg PDF]
#4) Jan 27) 'Worst Water Bills on the Agenda -- and other bad ideas!' [6-pg PDF]
#3) Jan 19) 'Jan 25 is Environmental Day at the Capitol!' [6-pg PDF]
#2) Jan 12) 'State of the State, Budget Proposal, Bad Legislation' [6-pg PDF]
#1) Jan 5) 'A New Year and a New Legislative Session' [4-pg PDF]

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