Weigh in on Request to Speak by Thursday Morning

Please, find the three bad bills (below) and weigh in on them using the Request to Speak system before they are heard in the Senate Committee on the Judiciary at 9:00 AM on Thursday.

This week, both the House and Senate continued to send bills to the other house, including more anti-democracy bills. A couple of the bad water bills and one relating to the Arizona Corporation Commission remain stalled.

HB2536 corporation commissioners; qualifications (Griffin) seems to be stalled in the House, but we will continue to keep an eye on it. HB2536 requires corporation commissioners to be at least 30 years old and have five years of experience in business, accounting, finance, economics, administrative law, or professional engineering. This would disqualify a lot of people who have been or would be excellent commissioners.

SCR1025 and HCR2014 were retained on the calendar this week. They require proportionate signatures from every legislative district. If you have not already, please ask your Senator to oppose SCR1025 using the petition here. Ask your Representative to oppose HCR2014 by using the petition here

To find your legislators' email addresses and phone numbers, go here.

If you have not signed up for the Request to Speak System, please do! Civic Engagement Beyond Voting (CEBV) will sign you up. To get an account set up, just go to this link.

DIRECTIONS FOR REQUEST TO SPEAK ACTIONS

Sign on to your Request to Speak account, click the blue Request to Speak button, click on New Request in the nav bar (left column), then simply cut and paste the bill number into Search Phrase (for example: HB2253). Push blue Add Request button, weigh in FOR or AGAINST, click No on Do you wish to speak? (in person), leave a short Comment, and click on SUBMIT. For another submission, click on the New Request link in the nav bar on the left and follow the directions above.

Thursday, March 10th Senate Committee on the Judiciary at 9:00 AM  HB2253 asbestos claims; required information; liability (Grantham) makes it more difficult to file a personal injury claim related to asbestos. OPPOSE HB2492 voter registration; verification; citizenship (Hoffman: Blackman, Carter, et al.) requires people who register to vote with a passport, birth certificate, naturalization certificate, or a tribal ID to submit additional documents proving residency. It includes new restrictions for federal-only voters, including that they may not vote by mail. OPPOSE HB2722 strategic actions; public participation (Toma, Majority Leader) expands the scope of laws concerning strategic actions against public participation to mandate the court accept motions to dismiss or quash under specified circumstances. While it seems like this bill defends the citizens' rights to voice their opinion of public policy, this poorly worded bill seems designed to support disruptions of school board meetings, protest mask and vaccine mandates, and to violate municipial policies that may be contrary to state policy (ie.Tucson declaring a climate energency.)  OPPOSE  Freedom of Speech according to HB2722 MORE INFORMATION: Rep. BenToma, who is sponsporing HB2722 (above), also co-sponspored HB 2112.  HB 2112: classroom instruction; race; ethnicity; sex  Prohibition of Specified Instruction: Prohibits allowing instruction in or making part of a course any of the following concepts: i. One race, ethnic group or sex is inherently morally or intellectually superior to another race, ethnic group or sex; ii. An individual, by virtue of their race, ethnicity or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive; iii. An individual should be invidiously discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of their race, ethnicity or sex; iv. An individual's moral character is determined by their race, ethnicity or sex; v. An individual, by virtue of their race, ethnicity or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed by other members of the same race, ethnic group or sex; vi. An individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or psychological distress because of their race, ethnicity or sex.  House Education Committee passes bill to ban instruction that places blame on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex