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UPDATES
It's hard to characterize what is going on at the state legislature right now. Violence, intimidation, discrimination, and deliberate spreading of the virus is par for the course. Qanon lies are blasted out and applauded while representatives of reality based views talking of human rights are silenced. Award winning books are banned as parents demand total mind control over their children. People under criminal investigation for insurrection, people whose Facebook and twitter feeds have been suspended for spreading continual and deadly lies, are making policy in Az while they fly their insurrection flag in the House.
This is Orwell personified. If you haven't, read It Can't Happen Here, a book by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935 about how fascism can take over American. It is taking over Arizona and everyone of of us has to fight back.
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THE STEPS:
The person to contact to get the bill on the floor for voting or not is the President of the Senate or Speaker of the House depending on which chamber it is in.
When the bill gets to the floor, the person to contact is your own Senator or Representative.
Once a bill passes both houses, the person to contact is the governor.
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Senate President
Karen Fann
kfann@azleg.gov
602.926.5874
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Speaker of the House
Rusty Bowers
rbowers@azleg.gov
602.926.3128
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Of course you will want to have the email and phone numbers of your own legislative district Senator and two Representatives. If you don't know, go to this web site:
https://www.azleg.gov/findmylegislator/
If a bill gets to Governor Ducey's desk, his contact is:
https://azgovernor.gov/engage/form/contact-governor-ducey
602.542.4331
If the links don't work, copy and paste directly into your browser.
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Special Notes
The Legislative Committee of Central Phoenix Inez Casiano NOW chapter is always happy to have new members. You don't need any special skills, we'll teach you all you need to know! If you are interested or curious, please contact: postdlpost@aol.com |
Upcoming dates & deadlines:
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DEADLINES
Senate:
1/31 - Bill Introduction deadline
2/18 - Last day to hear Senate bills in Senate
3/25 - Last day to hear House bills in Senate
4/15 - Last day for conference Committees
4/19 - 100th day of session
House:
2/7 - Bill Introduction deadline
2/18 - Last day to hear House bills in House
3/25 - Last day to hear Senate bills in House
4/15 - Last day for conference committees
4/19 - 100th day of session
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ACTION ALERT
Featured Items
The ERA became the 28th Amendment on January 27. The ERA Task Force AZ had a celebration, President Biden made a pronouncement, The DOJ stated that the memo submitted under the #45 was incorrect, and The House of Representatives submitted a resolution "Affirming the ERA as the 28th Amendment" resolution.
Please contact your Congressional representative, and ask them to co-sponsor this resolution. Ask them to sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSec96dOenNlA53uoyd4G5gbO2nfPWSG9u1s8SJSxAxHjOFC_g/viewform
It is past time that AZ joined the equality states by ratifying the ERA. House Representative Pamela Powers Hannley has introduced HCM2005 to eliminate the inapplicable time line and HCR2021 for AZ to ratify the national ERA. Tell your representatives to support both. Senator Steele introduced SCR 1039 for AZ to ratify the ERA on January 27 in honor of it becoming the 28th Amendment that day.
Like every other responsible group, ERA Task Force is meeting virtually. Check out our website and facebook page for contacts and information. If you want to keep up on what the ERA Task Force is doing, sign up on our action alert list. We also need your donations to keep up our work. It's your equality after all. ERAtaskforceaz.com
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ACTION ALERT – 3, January 29, 2022
If you are registered on Request to Speak (RTS), use that to notify the entire committee about the specific bill. If you are not registered on RTS, get registered by “Request to Speak,” or many other groups including League of Women Voters and Civic Engagement Beyond Voting. The state legislative website has a manual on how to DIY too.
If you prefer to send an email to the legislators who are members of that committee, all legislative emails are first initial lastname@azleg.gov. I have put the name of the chair, vice chair, and members of the committee in the “action” section so you can take that action.
You don't have to do everything, but you can do one thing. The most important actions to take are on HB2507, HB2595, and SB1164.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK?
HOUSE
NUMBER |
SPONSOR |
TITLE |
CONTENT |
ACTION |
HR2004 |
Blackman |
Border wall, repurpose construction material. OPPOSE |
Send money to AZ so we can build wall |
Do Pass 8-7 on party lines |
HB2010 |
Kavanagh |
First responder flags, HOA- OPPOSE if not amended to exclude religious iconography |
HOA flags can include Maltese cross that is religious, need amendment that cannot use religious iconography |
Do Pass 7-6 on party lines |
HB2033 |
Blackman |
Repeal juvenile monetary sanctions:
SUPPORT |
Not make parents pay, monetary assessment can be satisfied through community restitution, cannot use failure to pay as reason to continue supervision, or when destroying records, |
Do Pass 10-0 |
HB2043 |
Nguyen |
Employer liability, COVID - OPPOSE |
If deny religious exemptions, employer liable for harm from vaccine, $500,000 minimum!! |
Do Pass 6-4 on party lines |
HB2081 |
Kavanagh |
Law Enforcement (LE) redactions |
Redact any identifiable person who was not subject of LE but leaving anything to LE is problematic |
Do Pass 8-6 |
HB2119 |
Kaiser |
Civil rights restoration, requirements, process,
SUPPORT, but not return of guns |
Automatic restoration, notice of option, completion of probation can get gun rights back, do have to pay restitution, |
Do Pass 10-0 |
HB2161 |
Kaiser |
Parental rights, school, educational records |
Parental access to health portal, could put children in danger. |
Do Pass 6-4 |
HB2237 |
Hoffman |
Same day registration prohibited
OPPOSE |
Is a class 6 felony, voter suppression |
Do Pass 7-6 on party lines |
HB2238 |
Hoffman |
Ballot drop boxes, prohibition
OPPOSE |
May not use an unmonitored drop box. Amendment allows a drop box inside a polling place or inside a recorders office. |
Do Pass as amended 7-6 on party lines. |
HB2243 |
Hoffman |
Voter registration, state residency, cancellation – requires redesign and reprinting form for what is already completely obvious. OPPOSE |
Requires a statement on the registration form that if permanently moves to another state, voter registration in this one will be cancelled |
Do Pass 706, along party lines |
HB2251 |
Finchem |
Lasers, assault, LE, penalty
OPPOSE aimed at protesters |
Makes aggravated assault if use laser pointer or anything that emits laser – like everything! Including low power ones. |
Do Pass 6-3 |
HB2349 |
Payne |
Disciplinary appeal, LE
SUPPORT |
Removes requirement that 2 officers have rank and says they shall not be supervisory and shall be from different departments. |
Do Pass 14-1, DeGrazia voted against. |
HB2439 |
Pingerelli |
School library books, parental review
OPPOSE |
Each district must have procedures to give parents access to schools library and catalog, AND get a list of what their child has borrowed from the library, amendment apply to charter schools. |
Do Pass as Amended, 6-4, on party lines, |
HB2495 |
Hoffman |
Schools, explicit sexual materials, prohibition
OPPOSE |
Cannot refer children to or use any sexually explicit material, amendment says can exempt classical literature, early American literature, a book required to obtain college credit, still need parent’s permission, if don’t get, give alternative assignment |
Do Pass as amended – 6-4 along party lines, |
SENATE
NUMBER |
SPONSOR |
NAME |
CONTENT |
ACTION |
SCR1011 |
Mesnard |
Property tax exemptions –
OPPOSE |
Expands, would go to voters, all household goods, legislature can exempt tax exempt orgs. Will be churches and the rich. |
Do Pass 7-3, Bowie voted with Republicans |
SM1001 |
Leach |
Financial institutions, burdensome reporting OPPOSE |
To Congress. Get rid of that pesky reporting |
6-4 on party lines |
SB1008 |
Ugenti-Rita |
Elections, recount margin –
OPPOSE
Solving a problem that does not exist. Increasing costs and time to announce winner. Allowing more opportunity for shenanigans. |
Current law requires a recount when the difference is less than one-tenth of one percent. This would change it to one-half of one percent – meaning many more races would have to be recounted. Current law outlines a number of votes difference for different positions and how many votes are cast. |
Passed 4-3 on party lines |
SB1009 |
Ugenti-Rita |
State of emergency, executive powers OPPOSE |
Repeal, limit to 30 days. |
Passed -4-3, party lines |
SB1010 |
Ugenti-Rita |
School districts, protesting, partisan elections OPPOSE |
Peaceful protesting on school grounds after school hours fine, no need for permit, use a partisan primary for board elections |
FAILED 4-4 Pace joined the Democrats to kill it |
SB1012 |
Townsend |
Federal voters, registration data base, report –OPPOSE |
Provide access to voter data base by anyone the legislature says (like the now cyber ninjas), report its finding, county recorders file annual reports of those who used federal ballot (in order to target them), and how many had citizenship. |
Passed 4-2 |
SB1013 |
Townsend |
SOS federal form –OPPOSE |
SOS to ask feds to include on federal form a proof of citizenship .Attack on immigrants |
Passed 4-2 |
SB1050 |
Townsend |
Definition of neglected children |
Definition is changed from “unreasonable” risk of harm to “substantial” risk of harm. – pros and cons. |
Do Pass, 7-1, Quezada voted no |
SB1054 |
Townsend |
Election equipment security, legislative review OPPOSE fixing a problem that does not exist, increasing expenses. |
Detailed review of security ever 2 years and report to legislature, amendment changed to all counties not just big ones |
Do Pass amended 4-2 |
SB1119 |
Borrelli |
Electronic ballot images public record. OPPOSE |
On line digital to be searchable, are public records, and want to have unique ballot to tie to you. Violates secret elections. |
Do Pass 4-3 along party lines |
SB1120 |
Borrelli |
Ballot fraud counter measures, paper, ink – requirements for paper made so to make as difficult as possible and more costly, OPPOSE |
Making more costly and time consuming with more opportunity for shenanigans. |
Do Pass 4-3, along party lines
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SB1125 |
Rogers |
Firearms and equipment, regulation |
As long as you can lawfully possess it, no one can regulate firearms at all, including semi-automatic, pump actions, if used by law enforcement or armed forces, everyone needs one, configured with nearly anything. |
Do Pass 5-3, along party lines |
SB1133 |
Rogers |
City, town, school district cannot have all mail in ballots - OPPOSE |
Interference with other jurisdiction. |
Do Pass 4-3 along party lines |
SB1215 |
Steele |
Missing and murdered indigenous women.
SUPPORT |
Study committee to reduce and end violence and find missing people |
Do Pass 8-0 |
SB1236 |
Livingston |
Consumer loan, finance charges- OPPOSE |
Increased regulation floor from $10 to $50K, and $3 to $10K – sets limits on % - so if less money borrowed i.e. to the poor, they can charge extortionate rates. |
Do Pass 5-4 on party lines |
WHAT’S HAPPENING NEXT WEEK?
HOUSE
NUMBER |
SPONSOR |
TITLE |
CONTENT |
ACTION |
HCR2005 |
Cook |
Article V, term limits
OPPOSE |
Gives ability to re-write constitution which is not a good idea right now. |
Government & Elections House 9:00 a.m., 2/2. Chair Kavanaugh, vice Hoffman, Bolding, Burges, Fillmore, Carroll, Hernandez A, Jermaine, Ligouri, Martinez, Payne, Sierra, Solorio. |
HB2021 |
Nguyen |
Drug offenses, homicide, sentencing OPPOSE |
Murder for accidental overdose, won’t help addicts, will make worse, eliminates causation for murder and mens rea, too high penalty, fill prisons
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House Judiciary, 2/2, 9:00 a.m. HHR 4, Chair Blackman, Vice Parker, Carter, DeGrazia, Finchem, Hernandez M, Mathis, Nguyen, Pawlik, Pingerelli |
HB 2023 |
Finchem |
Electronic ballot images, public record OPPOSE |
Same issue of ballots being public records to be searched willy nilly. |
House Appropriations 2/2, House Appropriations: Butler, Chavez, Cobb (Chair), Griffin, Hoffman, Kaiser (vice) Kavanagh, Longdon, Nguyen, Osborne, Schwiebert, Sierra, Udall. |
HB 2025 |
Udall |
Classroom visitation.
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Charter school has to have visitation policies for parents. Schools already do. Attack on education. |
House Education 2/1, 2:00 p.m. HHR4, chair Udall, Vice Pingerelli, Diaz, Fillmore, Hernandez D, John, Nguyen, Pawlik, Schwiebert, Tsosie,
FAILED 5-5 the previous week. Up again. |
HB2100 |
Cobb |
Health information orgs, confidentiality, data
OPPOSE |
Would allow nonprofit health institutions (Planned Parenthood?) to receive, use, and DISCLOSE confidential information no matter why or for whom it’s being held. |
House Health and Human Services 1/31, House Health and Human Services: Butler, Chaplik, Hernandez A, Kaiser (vice), Osborne (chair), Pingerelli, Powers Hannley, Shah, Wilmeth. |
HB2107 |
Biasiucci |
Emergency powers, business closure, repeal
OPPOSE |
Repeals right of mayors to close businesses in pandemic |
House Military Affairs 1/31, 2:00 p.m., Chair Payne, vice Nguyen, Andrade, Blackman, Burges, Fillmore, Finchem, Hernandez F, Hernandez M, Jermaine, Kavanaugh, Martinez, Quinonez, Solorio, Tsosie |
HB2159 |
Kavanagh |
Law Enforcement – polygraph et al
OPPOSE |
Prohibits state employees from donating for abortion, cannot order LE to take polygraph, limits ability to order LE to physical, mental or behavior exam, can have someone present, |
House Military Affairs 1/31, see above |
HB2166 |
Kaiser |
TPT, use tax, exemption, firearms
OPPOSE |
Firearm sales exempt, not tampons |
House Ways and Means 2/2, Barton (vice), Bolick (chair), Cano, Cobb, Diaz, Dunn, Epstein, Grantham, Powers Hannley, Shah |
HB2236 |
Hoffman |
Voter registration, request required in writing- OPPOSE |
Voter suppression |
House Government and Elections 2/2, see above |
HB2241 |
Hoffman |
Early ballot drop off, ID - OPPOSE |
Voter suppression |
House Government and Elections 2/2, see above |
HB2254 |
Graham |
Officers bill of rights, pre-emption. OPPOSE |
Gives LE even more protection from accountability. |
House Military Affairs 1/31, see above |
HB2309 |
Jermaine |
Detained juveniles, advisements, notification
SUPPORT |
Must advise them of rights and notify parents |
House Judiciary 2/2, see above |
HB2316 |
Kavanagh |
Misconduct involving weapons, public places OPPOSE |
Eliminates a large number of places to which the law does not apply to prohibit a weapon like public event if secured, any place with a license, education institution, hospitals, vehicle or craft, private property or business |
House Government & Elections 2/2, see above |
HB2317 |
Kavanagh |
Appropriation, border fence
OPPOSE |
Anti- immigrant and violation of national and international law. |
House Military Affairs 1/31, see above
House Appropriations 2/2, see above |
HB2358 |
Biasciucci+ |
Sexual assault survivors right
SUPPORT |
ACESDV & Alliance for Safety & Justice bill for survivors. |
House Judiciary 2/2, see above |
HB2379 |
Bolick |
Elections procedures manual, statutory conflict
OPPOSE |
Voter suppression |
House Government & Elections 2/2, see above |
HB2413 |
Parker |
Preemptory challenges, OPPOSE |
Reinstates preemptory challenges after Supreme Court abolished them because of discrimination. |
House Judiciary 2/2, see above |
HB2414 |
Parker |
Misconduct involving weapons, school grounds, gun loaded is just fine. OPPOSE |
No one needs to ask about why a loaded gun on a school campus is not a good idea. |
House Judiciary 2/2, see above |
HB2453 |
Carter |
Govt. entities, mask requirement, prohibition
OPPOSE |
Anti-science and harmful to health |
House Government & Elections 2/2, see above |
HB2469 |
Carroll |
Early ballots, polling places, tabulation
OPPOSE |
Voter Suppression |
Government and Elections 2/2, see above |
HB2493 |
Hoffman |
Election integrity fund
OPPOSE |
Voter Suppression – meaning the opposite of what it says. |
House Government and Elections 2/2, see above |
HB2494 |
Hoffman |
Election registration events, posting
OPPOSE |
Voter Suppression |
House Government and Elections 2/2, see above |
HB2498 |
Hoffman |
Vaccine requirements COVID prohibition
OPPOSE |
Anti-science and harmful to health |
House Government & Elections 2/2, see above |
HB2507 |
Toma |
Religious services, essential services – prohibiting any regulation of so-called religious people or so-called religious places of any kind.
OPPOSE |
Enshrining Christian nationalism (not a religious group but solely based on power, prominent on January 6) as the highest priority with rights over everyone else. Extremely dangerous. |
House Judiciary 2/2, see above |
HB2536 |
Griffin |
Qualifications for Corp Com
OPPOSE |
Making it harder to run so that only the bought and paid for politicians could do it. |
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water 2/1 |
HB2540 |
Carter |
Undesignated felony, drug offenses, probation
OPPOSE |
ACLU opposes |
House Judiciary 2/2, see above |
HB2595 |
Parker |
Change of judge, grounds, decision cannot look at merits. OPPOSE |
A simple allegation that a judge is biased will suffice to have that judge removed – with no proof and no hearing on the merits. They are angry they lost all the election and fraudit lawsuits so want to be able to get their own judges next time. Very dangerous. |
House Judiciary see above 2/2 |
SENATE
NUMBER |
SPONSOR |
NAME |
CONTENT |
ACTION |
SCR1005 |
Townsend |
Federal ballot voters ID
OPPOSE |
To go to voters to show ID to prove citizenship, if used federal form, cannot get ballot without showing citizenship |
Senate Government 1/31 & 2/3, 2:00 p.m., Chair Townsend, Vice Borrelli, Gonzales, Hatathlie, Mesnard, Petersen, Quezada |
SB1036 |
Rogers |
Schools, flags, display, civil penalty
OPPOSE |
Adds $1,000 penalty, note - parochial schools exempt, attack on teachers |
Senate Education 2/1, 2:00 pm, Chair Boyer, Vice Shope, Barto, Gonzales, Gray, Hatathlie, Marsh, Pace, |
SB1048 |
Petersen |
Emergency powers, business closure, repeal OPPOSE |
Anti-science and harmful to health. |
Senate Government 1/31, see above |
SB1049 |
Townsend |
Parents bill of rights, violations
OPPOSE |
Class 2 misdemeanor, parent can sue school, attack on education. |
Senate Judiciary, 2/3, 9 a.m., SHR1, Chair Petersen, Vice Rogers, Barto, Borelli, Contreras, Leach, Quezada, Hamilton |
SB1056 |
Townsend |
Misplaced ballots, misdemeanor – if you misplace any ballot, it’s a class 2 misdemeanor, and the voter can sue the entity. OPPOSE |
With millions of ballots, it’s inevitable some will be lost. If voter can sue, no one want to work there. Election suppression. |
Senate Government 1/31 & 2/3, see above |
SB1094 |
Mesnard |
Petition signatures legibility and read it aloud to every signer. OPPOSE |
Some peoples’ signatures are never readable e.g. doctors. To read a petition aloud to every signer is insane. Voter suppression. |
Senate Government 1/31 & 2/3, see above |
SB1120 |
Borrelli |
Ballot fraud counter measures, paper, ink – requirements for paper made so to make as difficult as possible and more costly, OPPOSE |
Making more costly and time consuming with more opportunity for shenanigans. |
Senate Appropriations 2/1, Alston, Borrelli, Bowie, Grantham, Kerr, Leach (vice) Livingston, Otondo, Teran, Townsend. |
SB1164 |
Barto |
Abortion, gestational age, limit OPPOSE |
No abortion after 15 weeks unless emergency |
Senate Judiciary 2/3, see above |
SB1211 |
Barto |
School materials, posting OPPOSE |
Attacks on education. Schools already make materials available. This is to make more onerous. |
Senate Education 2/1, see above |
SB1216 |
Steele |
PO’s duration
SUPPORT |
Length of a protection order. |
Senate Judiciary 2/3, see above |
SB1250 |
Gowan |
BDS public universities, OPPOSE |
Includes universities and community colleges in anti-BDS law. Attack on free speech. |
Senate Finance 2/2, 9:30 a.m., Livingston Chair, Vice Leach, Alston, Bowie, Boyer, Mesnard, Petersen, Stahl Hamilton, Steele, Ugenti-Rita |
SB1251 |
Gowan |
Armed robbery, classification OPPOSE |
Adds “takes possession of or attempts to take possession of a deadly weapon.” So if you tried to take a gun away from someone, you have now committed armed robbery. |
Senate Judiciary 2/3, see above |
SB1252 |
Gowan |
Justification, physical, deadly force
OPPOSE |
Creates an objective definition – “when needed”, defense but also keeps “if believes” will harm. Creates “imperfect self-defense”. If you are outraged at an assault on a third person, you can attack – i.e. take law into your own hands. For law enforcement, it limits it to when a suspect or escapee, has committed or is attempting to commit a felony with a weapon. That would be good but it’s already the law (sans the weapon) and they don’t follow it. In a home, if person believes the other person broke in to assault or kidnap – well just say that then and get away with it. But it extends to firearm “or other weapon” which could be anything. |
Senate Judiciary 2/3, see above |
SB1260 |
Mesnard |
Early voting, moving, notice
OPPOSE |
Voter suppression, we already have laws about moving. Solution in search of a problem. |
Senate Government 1/31 & 2/3, see above |
SB1272 |
Pace w/Rios + |
AHCCCS, post-partum care, eligibility, appropriations. SUPPORT |
w/i a year of birth can get assistance. |
Senate Appropriations, 2/1. See above. |
SB1285 |
Ugenti-Rita |
Elections manual, legislative council
OPPOSE |
Gives legislature more power to supervise elections – the ones they might get elected or not into. Solution in search of a problem. |
Senate Government 1/31 & 2/3, see above |
SB1332 |
Petersen |
Public establishment, terrorism, definition OPPOSE |
Says a private educational institution is a public institution – camels nose in tent. |
Senate Judiciary, 2/3 |
SB1494 |
Mesnard |
COVID vaccine, unemployment insurance OPPOSE |
If you leave employment because you are required to have a COVID shot and you won’t, you can still get UI. AND the employer is not charged but the taxpayer – us – if it’s required by law. |
Senate Commerce, 2/2, 2 p.m. Chair Mesnard, Vice Ugenti-Rita, Borrelli, Bowie, Gabaldon, Hatathlie, Livingston, Pace, Teran
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