No new bills will be heard in committees, so there will be no Request to Speak this week. For a lot of the bad environmental bills, it looks like it will be mostly party line votes and hopefully, 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.
Key concerns at this point in the session are measures that bypass the Governor and go directly to the ballot. There are several of those outstanding, including HCR2032 voting centers; precinct voting (Jones: B Parker, Smith, et al.). It would put a measure on the 2024 ballot that prohibits boards of supervisors from establishing voting centers to accommodate additional voting for a specific election as needed. It also eliminates no-excuse mail-in voting, limiting a method of voting used by 80% of Arizonans. If approved, this would result in lower voter turnout.
HCR2058 legislative districts; population; census; citizenship (Heap: Chaplik, Gillette, et al) would put a measure on the 2024 ballot to require a state census that the Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) must use to determine legislative districts based on citizenship population. This is a direct attack on the IRC and would subvert US census data to dilute and attack communities.
Please call your senator and ask them to vote no on HCR2032 and HCR2058!
You can find numbers for senators here.
You can find numbers for senators here.
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GOP wants to scrap Arizona early voting. The plan is 1 vote away from the November ballot
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