Sneaky strike-everything amendments reword approved bills and other bad bills prohibit environmental actions @ AZ Legislature

Strike-everything sneaks in new bills

This week there are several strike-everything amendments. (Basically, a strike-everything is a bizarre rule in the state legislature that allows replacing all of the text of a bill that has gone through committee with completely new - and often unrelated - text.) This means you may need to change a previous RTS comment to reflect the new bill.

This week the Senate continued to advance many bad policies, including HCR2040, which passed along party lines.

HCR2040 public monies; prohibited expenditures (Smith: Biasiucci, Carbone, et al.) would place a measure on the 2024 ballot to prohibit the state or any political subdivision, including universities, to do anything to help reduce global temperatures, have a climate action plan, participate in anything related to reducing meat consumption, etc. It wraps this up with a bow related to prohibiting "furthering Marxist ideologies."
 
Tell your senator to vote no on HCR2040! You can find their phone number here.

Request to Speak on the following bills before they are heard in their respective committees.

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Monday, March 18th

Senate Transportation, Technology, and Missing Children Committee at 2:00 PM 

• HCR2049 ballot measures; challenges (Carter) will have a strike-everything amendment on freedom to move would put on the 2024 ballot a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit limits on vehicle miles travelled or having any fee based on vehicle miles traveled. The latter is one of the ways to fund roads as gas taxes continue to dwindle. Limiting traffic can improve our air quality is part of the clean air plans. OPPOSE

Senate Finance and Commerce Committee at 2:00PM

• HB2734 affordable housing; parking requirements; prohibition (now: public hearings; voting) (Ortiz: Biasiucci, Peña) will have a strike-everything amendment to limit public hearings on zoning ordinances. OPPOSE

Wednesday, March 20th

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at 2:00 PM 

• SB1052 all-terrain vehicles; definition (Carroll: Farnsworth, Cook) increases the allowable weight for all-terrain vehicles from 2500 to 3000. Heavier vehicles do more damage and kick up more dust in unpaved areas. OPPOSE

House Municipal Oversight and Elections Committee at 2:00 PM
Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here.

• SCR1041 ballot measures; challenges (Mesnard) refers a measure that allows challenges to proposed ballot measures by any person and earlier in the process -even before the election. Just another way to keep citizens' initiatives from getting on the ballot.  OPPOSE

Thursday, March 21st

NOTE: There are a bunch of strike everything amendments that haven't been posted yet, Please check back later in the week.