Do your homework on RTA Next

RTA Next pays for wildlife crossing like this one over Oracle Road 

How should someone who cares about the environment vote on Props. 418 and 419? It is a complicated issue. WMG has joined Living Streets Alliance in advocating that we vote "No" because they want more budgeted for complete streets (green infrastructure, and safe infrastructure for bike riders, pedestrians, and transit riders.) But all of that is included in the proposed RTA Next road widening projects. There is also money for safety features like HAWKs. If this is passed they will finally add more buses and much needed bus routes. If it doesn't pass, the 10 million dollar shortfall will mean that we will lose many of the routes we already have. How is that sustainable? They are assuming the people of Tucson would approve another budget with more money for these things. But if the responses on Nextdoor are any indication, that is highly unlikely. This is a "car town." Most people's priority is streets and getting those damn potholes fixed. The RTA Next budget includes money to repave the arterial and connector streets. If this doesn't pass - no one will get what they want.

Today Dan and I attended a meeting with the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection. That environmental organization has advocated for years for RTA to pay for desperately needed wildlife crossings of I-10 at Avra Valley Road and Cienega Creek (like the successful wildlife crossing over Oracle Road.) This is important because the genetic diversity of wildlife is diminished when they are isolated by these traffic barriers, leading to population decreases of a number of species - especially bighorn sheep.

Mule deer safely cross over Oracle Road

https://www.sonorandesert.org/2026/01/13/a-vote-for-props-418-419-is-a-vote-for-wildlife-linkages

Map of priority biological resources of the Sonoran Desert conservation plan: 

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RTA Next is definitely not perfect - everyone can find something to dislike in it. But something is better than nothing.

Check it out yourself:

https://rtanext.com/wp-content/docs/next/RTA-Next-Plan-Final-Approved-8-25-2025.pdf
More information:

RTA Next vote explained: What Props 418 and 419 mean for Pima County

Ballots are arriving this week for Propositions 418 and 419 — collectively known as RTA Next — asking voters to extend the half-cent sales tax for another two decades.

Urge AZ Legislators to Save our Solar and Water

HB2267 makes residential solar illegal

Whew!  We have narrowed it down to 31 Request to Speak actions this week. So many bad bills that make transitioning to clean energy more difficult; while other bills allow installation of fossil fuel and nuclear generators without environmental certification. There are even some to force through data centers. One bill would make our residential solar installation illegal! Gail Griffin has so many destructive water bills that she had to schedule two meetings of the House Natural Resources, Energy, & Water Committee this week. You will also find bills to make it harder to vote and that hurt wildlife. 

The bright side is that one of the 31 bills is one we recommend supporting (Look out for SB1488).

Please do what you can. You might want to do the ones that start on Wednesday in a second shift.

Sign into the Request to Speak system: https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon If you haven't signed up for the system, you can find the form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdjBMoAJrjHD57GGegmdUCKAowcr93K4vQA6a7_AjyElBtrQ/viewform Directions on how to navigate the system: https://desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2018/03/request-to-speak-time.html r Monday, February 9th Senate Federalism Committee at 1:30 P.M.  Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. SB1281 federal government; land acquisition; consent  (Farnsworth) requires that the governor and legislature approve any sale or transfer of private land to the federal government. This is a measure to block acquisitions to protect lands around the headwaters of rivers and springs, inholdings, and to otherwise protect blocks of public lands or areas with special habitat or cultural resources. It also would interfere with private property rights and is unconstitutional on several levels. OPPOSE Senate Military Affairs and Border Security at 1:30 P.M. Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here. SB1520 agencies; immigration; data sharing (Rogers: Finchem) mandates that the state and any state agency must share data requested by the U.S. government relating to unauthorized noncitizens, undocumented immigrants, and visa overstays. OPPOSE House Land, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Committee at 2:00 P.M.  Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2100 small land subdivision; requirements (Griffin) allows for skirting subdivision requirements and thus avoids requirements for assured water supply. OPPOSE HB2159 Mexican wolves; landowner permits; rules (Diaz)  would allow the killing of Mexican gray wolves by landowners in Arizona. The bill would authorize private individuals, through permits issued by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, to kill wolves on private and/or public lands. In some cases, the Game and Fish Department would be required to issue those permits at the direction of the Arizona Game and Fish Commission. This bill is contrary to the Endangered Species Act which protects the Mexican gray wolf as a listed species. OPPOSE HB2497 right to hunt; fish; harvest (Way) undermines Arizona Game and Fish authority relative to wildlife regulation by asserting the Arizona Legislature has exclusive authority over regulation of wildlife and says they "may" delegate it to Game and Fish. They have already delegated it via Title 17, so are they trying to pull it back. Hunting is a privilege, not a right. OPPOSE HB2787 federal nullification; Mexican wolf; reintroduction (Diaz) prohibits the state from administering, enforcing, or cooperating or spending any money on Mexican gray wolf reintroduction and recovery. This is another short-sighted bill to hinder wolf recovery. OPPOSE Tuesday, February 3rd   Senate Natural Resource Committee at 1:30 PM Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here. SB1488 appropriation; coal-impacted workforce; study (Hatathlie: Diaz, Epstein, et al) establishes a coal-impacted communities study committee and appropriates $600,000 to the Office of Economic Opportunity to conduct a workforce development study on the communities in Coconino County impacted by the closure of the Navajo Generating Station. SUPPORT House Natural Resources, Energy, & Water Committee at 2:00 PM Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2027 physical availability; review; designated providers (Griffin) prohibits the ADWR from using the Pinal AMA method of calculating the physical availability of groundwater to a municipality in the Phoenix AMA that has an assured water supply designation. It requires the ADWR Director to review the physical availability of groundwater and stored water of each municipality in the Phoenix AMA with an assured water supply designation. This is an attempt to stop enforcement of the Groundwater Management Act and to create more loopholes, the last thing we need. OPPOSE  HB2028 DWR; application; administrative completeness (Griffin) makes licenses from ADWR appealable agency actions, allowing an opportunity for developers and others to sue earlier in the process before a decision is final. It would create even more chaos relative to our water. OPPOSE HB2031 grandfathered right; Willcox AMA; extension (Griffin) extends through the end of the year the amount of time someone has to file for grandfather rights. This AMA has been around for two years -- that should be plenty of time. OPPOSE HB2094 assured water supply; certificate; model (Griffin) requires the ADWR to review the merits of an application for a certificate of assured water supply in the Phoenix active management area (AMA) and issue a new determination within 15 days if certain criteria are met, including if the application was submitted on or after January 26, 2021, and on or before May 31, 2023. The bill also directs use of long-term storage credits, which may be "paper water" that's not physically available to the site of the application. For Salt River and Lower Hassayampa, the bill directs ADWR to approve the application using outdated groundwater models that have recently been updated. This bill promotes unsustainable water use. OPPOSE HB2095 assured water supply; well depth (Griffin) weakens the definition of physically available relative to depth to water as part of an assured water supply determination for a subdivision. Another way to get around the assured water supply. OPPOSE HB2102 domestic water improvement districts; hauling (Griffin) allows an improvement district to be established in a subsequent AMA in order to pump groundwater for water hauling. This weakens the protections for these AMAs. OPPOSE HB2933 groundwater transportation fee; counties; fund (Biasiucci: Griffin) deposits fees in the general fund of counties where groundwater is being hauled out of the county. The problem is, you can't drink money. OPPOSE HB2934 Harquahala; groundwater transportation fee (Biasiucci: Griffin) is like 2933, except for the Harquahala INA. OPPOSE  HB2986 department of environmental quality; program (Griffin) is the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality omnibus bill that is mostly clean-up relating to lead acid battery fee collection, pushes the date out on conditional enactment for air quality state implementation plan revisions, and removes funding for recycling of used oil. It weakens environmental protections.OPPOSE  Wednesday, February 11th Environmental Day at the Capitol 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM House Judiciary Committee at 9:00 AM  Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2136 civil terrorism; disorderly conduct; subversion (Way) attempts to define things like disorderly conduct (that might happen at a rally) as civil terrorism which is treated like a felony. OPPOSE HB2862 unlawful masking; violation (Nguyen) makes it a crime to wear a mask for the purpose of concealing your identity in a public gathering. This is overly broad which means you couldn't even wear a covid mask. This is probably unconstitutional. OPPOSE  Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee at 1:30 PM Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. SB1568 early ballots; registration signatures; curing (Hoffman) requires that people submit a new signature every five years in order for their early ballot to be counted. OPPOSE Thursday, February 12th House Artificial Intelligence Committee at 9:00 AM  Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2456 small modular reactors; zoning; co-location (Wilmeth) prohibits counties from doing anything to restrict or regulate small modular nuclear reactors if they are co-located with large energy users like data centers. OPPOSE HB2457 public utilities; plant construction; colocation (Wilmeth) loosens requirements for siting power plants as long as they are co-located with large electricity users. OPPOSE   House Natural Resources, Energy, & Water Committee at 12:30 PM Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2267 public nuisance; renewable energy; exceptions (Marshall) declares any renewable energy project to be a public nuisance, unless it was permitted before the amendment was approved, it has a certificate of environmental compliance, or it is a non-exporting rooftop installation. (Note that this would make residential solar installations connected to the grid - as most are - illegal.) It further requires the attorney general to take action in superior court to prevent any of these projects from being completed (which will make the AG's office very busy) and will essentially kill any solar or wind development in Arizona.  OPPOSE HB2425 auditor general; state lands; audit (Griffin) mandates a special audit of the State Land Department relative to solar leases, land sales initiated by the Commissioner, etc. Why not mining or grazing leases or other commercial leases? This is just targeting certain activities. OPPOSE HB2755 state land use; highest; best (Griffin: Blackman) says if there is a conflict between mining and another use the Commissioner has to assume that mining is the highest and best use. OPPOSE HB2781 decommissioning; solar energy; standards; fund (Carter N) places special requirements on solar energy generation, unlike fossil fuels, and requires a decommissioning plan for solar which would include a decommissioning bond. This is intended to be another barrier for solar. OPPOSE HB2913 county land commissioner; state lands (Biasiucci: Carter P, Diaz, et al) adds a land commissioner for each county. Why are they creating more government relative to state trust lands? This was not requested by the counties. This is also throwing our tax money away. OPPOSE HB2943 state land oversight board; establishment (Marshall: Heap) establishes an elected state land oversight board, but focuses it on things like looking at allegations related to the Business Bill of Rights. It seems like one more way for the mining, livestock, and development interests to exert pressure on the State Land Department. OPPOSE HB2956 state trust lands; public auction (Martinez) says people who lease state trust lands can buy them unless they have a solar or wind lease. This is clearly discriminatory toward solar, but also likely violates the constitution. OPPOSE HB2975 state lands; solar score; maps (Heap: Marshall) says the state land department cannot use solar score maps or other similar types of evaluation of state trust lands. OPPOSE HB2985 CAP water; state land; allocation (Griffin) says the State Land Department has to develop a process for distribution of its allocation of CAP water to state lands to be sold or leased which will promote development. OPPOSE   HB4009 data centers; state lands; map (Weninger) requires the state land department to identify the highest and best places for data centers in consultation with the computer data center industry.  OPPOSE

Howl against data centers, bad energy policy and legislative overreach (and to protect this little guy)

Howling against harmful bills 

This week's actions include a number of bills related to bad energy policies and data centers. There are also bills that try to limit the power of the Attorney General to protect our resources and health. There is a bill that limits actions to reintroduce the Mexican Grey Wolf. Please weigh in on these harmful bills before they are heard in their respective committees.

Sign into the Request to Speak system: https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon If you haven't signed up for the system, you can find the form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdjBMoAJrjHD57GGegmdUCKAowcr93K4vQA6a7_AjyElBtrQ/viewform Directions on how to navigate the system: https://desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2018/03/request-to-speak-time.html On the bright side, the Sierra Club is hosting some learning opportunities to prepare you for Environmental Day at the Capitol. Don't forget to sign up! February 5th at 6PM - Extreme Heat and Policy -- watch here.    February 6th at 6PM - Bills, Bills, Bills! - Learn a bit more about a few of the bills we will be lobbying on - watch here.  and here.  Environmental Day at the Capitol on Wednesday, February 11th, 8:30am - 2:00pm. This is your opportunity to express your concerns with your legislators or be there to support other advocates. The Sierra Club has simple online training and one-sheets on bills they promote. This rewarding event is a great way to meet other like-minded people who also care about the environment. Transportation and lunch is provided. Be sure to register now - especially if you want a ride on the bus (as the bus fills up quickly).  https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=701Po000019vMfuIAE Monday, February 2nd House Land, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Committee at 2:00 P.M.  Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2167 attorney general; nuisance action; damages (Diaz) makes the Attorney General liable for damages to anyone injured in a public nuisance action filed by the Attorney General. This is an attempt to shut down Attorney General actions to protect our state's waters and health. OPPOSE HB2168 public nuisance action; consent requirement (Diaz) requires the Attorney General to obtain consent from the Board of Supervisors before bringing a public nuisance action. Again, this is an attempt to prevent the AG from acting to protect our health and water. OPPOSE HB2169 attorney general; nuisance action; defamation (Diaz) says the Attorney General is liable for defamation if the AG brings an action relating to public nuisance that is found to have no "reasonable" basis. Again, this is part of an effort to shut down actions by the AG to protect public resources. OPPOSE Tuesday, February 3rd   Senate Natural Resource Committee at 1:30 PM Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here. SB1202 supply and demand; assessment; groundwater (Shope) requires the Arizona Department of Water Resources to include more specific data in the supply and demand assessments, but much of the data requested is not available currently and this bill does not provide funding to gather the additional data. OPPOSE SB1280 public monies; Mexican wolf; prohibition (Farnsworth) prohibits the Arizona Game and Fish Commission from transporting Mexican gray wolf puppies into Arizona or from spending any money for transporting them. This could affect much needed introduction of wolf families with important genetic diversity. OPPOSE  House Natural Resources, Energy, & Water Committee at 2:00 PM  Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2145 petition; waiver; fuel formulations (Griffin) allows the Senate President or Speaker of the House to petition to allow for alternative fuel formulations. This bypasses the environmental experts who should be making these decisions. OPPOSE HB2331 electric service providers; energy reliability (Marshall: Heap) has a strike-everything amendment that requires that 85% of generation for retail customers come from "reliable" sources. The wording of this bill effectively says 85% of generation capacity would have to be from fossil fuels. This also appears to infringe on the constitutional authority of the Arizona Corporation Commission as it affects rate making. OPPOSE HB2389 replacement units; certificates; environmental compatibility (Martinez) allows a utility to build a power plant to replace an existing plant on the same site without getting a new certificate of environmental compatibility. This bypasses environmental review of new power plants which could potentially be more polluting than the plants they replace since the process only looks at the rated power generation of the replacement and not the type of generator. OPPOSE HB2400 motor fuel tax holiday (Willoughby: Biasiucci) provides for a fuel tax holiday in certain nonattainment areas over the summer. This makes no sense as it is what helps maintain the roads. Besides, our gas tax is pretty low and has not gone up in decades. OPPOSE HB2494 certificate; environmental compatibility; zoning; exemption (Taylor: Carbone, Griffin) says a county can't prevent, restrict, or regulate the use or occupation of land for construction of both thermal and nonthermal electric generating units if the owner has received a certificate of environmental compatibility. This process appears to bypass state and county environmental quality reviews.  OPPOSE HB2696 commerce authority; gas; prices; prioritization (Willoughby) requires the Commerce Authority to use all available resources to reduce gas prices in Arizona. How about incentivizing sustainable transportation options? OPPOSE HB2795 small modular reactors; zoning; approval (Carbone) preempts county government from preventing, restricting, or in any way regulating the siting of small modular nuclear reactors if the reactors have gotten federal approvals. This is unwise and flies in the face of efforts to ensure that local communities are not disproportionately and negatively impacted by siting of these plants. OPPOSE Wednesday, February 4th Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Committee at 9:00 A.M. Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. SB1241 municipalities; counties; private permitting providers (Bolick) It allows a property owner to use a private permitting provider thus bypassing city or county review. OPPOSE Thursday, February 5th   House Artificial Intelligence Committee at 9:00 AM Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2452 comprehensive plans; data centers; nuclear (Wilmeth) among other things, this bill requires counties to include land designations for data centers and small modular nuclear reactors in their comprehensive plans. OPPOSE

How to Advocate for Water & Other Request to Speak actions

This week is dedicated to WATER!  We discussed How to Advocate for Water at the AZ Legislature during Sustainable Tucson's Water Committee meeting - including information on current water laws (AMAs) and upcoming bills.

The Sierra Club hosted an online meeting - Learn About Arizona Water. Watch the slide presentation here. 

This week we have several bills that relate to water including four we support. One bill (HB2641) that prohibits the use of firefighting foams with PFAS (like the ones that poisoned Tucson's water) was actually sponsored by Dems! And HB2185 prohibits HOAs from requiring reseeding and watering lawns during a drought. 

Please weigh in on the Request to Speak app while they are in their respective committees. 

Sign into the Request to Speak system: https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

If you haven't signed up for the system, you can find the form here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdjBMoAJrjHD57GGegmdUCKAowcr93K4vQA6a7_AjyElBtrQ/viewform

Directions on how to navigate the system:
https://desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2018/03/request-to-speak-time.html

This week the Sierra Club legislative report recommended that we oppose the following bills that prop up cryptocurrency because crypto requires huge power and water inputs - similar to data centers. Please use the Request to Speak app to oppose them before they are heard in committee at 1:30pm Monday. 

https://unu.edu/press-release/un-study-reveals-hidden-environmental-impacts-bitcoin-carbon-not-only-harmful-product

The Sierra Club report also asked us to oppose the bills propping up the beef industry that is one of the worst drivers of climate change. Weigh in before these bills are heard at 2pm on Monday. 

Monday, January 26th

Senate Finance Committee at 1:30 P.M. 
Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here.

• SB1042 public monies; investment; virtual currency (Rogers) allows the state to invest up to 10 percent of the public monies under its control in virtual currency holdings. OPPOSE
• SB1043 state agencies; payments; cryptocurrency (Rogers) authorizes a state agency to enter into an agreement with a cryptocurrency service provider to accept cryptocurrency as a payment method. OPPOSE
• SB1044 property tax; exemption; virtual currency (Rogers) conditional on approval of the measure below, would exempt virtual currency from property tax. Who does this tax exemption serve? The crypto bros? Certainly not us.  OPPOSE
• SCR1003 property tax; exemption; virtual currency (Rogers) refers a measure to the ballot that if approved would exempt virtual currency from property tax. This doesn't even make sense.  OPPOSE

House Land, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Committee at 2:00 P.M. 
Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here.

• Sunset Review of the Arizona Beef Council
  
  
• HB2155 Arizona beef council; continuation (Diaz) continues the Beef Council until 2034. Do we really need a state entity that is promoting more beef consumption to the detriment of our water, lands, and the climate? OPPOSE
• HB2156 livestock compensation fund; appropriation (Diaz) appropriates $250,000 for the livestock compensation fund for payment to the livestock industry for wolves eating livestock, etc. The people on this board have huge conflicts of interest, so we are inclined not to support this. Besides, we have limited general fund dollars in this budget year and they are seeking to have wolves removed from the Endangered Species list. OPPOSE
• HB2162 game and fish commission; membership (Diaz) requires that one member of the Arizona Game and Fish Commission be a rancher. Ranchers already have undue influence on the Game and Fish Commission and also have huge conflicts as they advocate for the killing of various animals -- wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, and more. OPPOSE
• HB2791 cell-cultured protein; sale; prohibition (Diaz) prohibits the sale of cell-cultured protein for human consumption. Why would you prohibit something that has less of a harmful impact on the environment and on animals? And whatever happened to consumer choice and free markets? OPPOSE 

House Public Safety and Law Enforcement Committee at 2:00 P.M.
Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here.

• HB2641 PFAS; firefighting foam; prohibition (Ligouri: Biasucci, Fink, et al) bans the use of firefighting foam with PFAS in it. PFAS are known as "forever chemicals" that cause serious health issues. Limiting them in firefighting foam is an important public health issue for firefighters and will help limit contamination of lands and waters. SUPPORT 

Tuesday, January 27th
 

Senate Natural Resource Committee at 1:30 PM 
Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here.

• SB1041 appropriation; Arizona trail fund (Rogers) appropriates $500,000 from the general fund for the Arizona Trail. SUPPORT
• SB1197 subsequent AMAs; groundwater portability (Dunn) allows those who have Irrigation Grandfathered Rights (IGFR) in subsequent active management areas -- currently Douglas, Willcox, and Ranegras Plain (the new AMA) -- to sell, transfer, or lease the IGFR. This allows landowners who have these rights to transfer them away from the land they are associated with -- that is not currently allowed. Our concern is that this will actually increase groundwater pumping as lands that are no longer irrigated would be replaced by other irrigated lands. Really weakens AMA protections.  OPPOSE
• SB1198 Arizona beef council; continuation (Dunn) continues this entity to promote beef here and around the world until 2034. (Same as the House bill HB2155 above)  OPPOSE
• SCM1004 clean air act; EPA powers (Carroll: Angius, Gowan, et al) denies that the climate is changing due to greenhouse gas emissions and says EPA does not have the authority to regulate them. It asks Congress to limit EPA authority relative to regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. OPPOSE 

House Natural Resources, Energy, & Water Committee at 2:00 PM 
Members of the public may attend in person or access a livestream of the meeting here.

• Presentation: Arizona Department of Water Resources, ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke
• HB2055 brackish groundwater recovery program (Griffin: Lopez)  establishes a fund for a brackish groundwater study (brackish groundwater is water that is not usable due to high concentrations of salts and minerals). While groundwater pumping is always a concern, this project appears to have sufficient guardrails to prevent over-pumping and environmental degradation from brine disposal. Increasing regional water supplies makes a lot more sense than outsourcing water from external sources, like the Missouri River or the Gulf of California. SUPPORT
• HB2056 appropriation; brackish groundwater; feasibility study (Griffin: Lopez) appropriates $100,000 for the pilot program established in HB2055. SUPPORT
• HB2185 homeowners' associations; lawns; drought (Willoughby) prohibits homeowners associations from requiring the overseeding or watering of lawns during a drought year. SUPPORT
• HB2328 municipal corporations; water supply; rates (Marshall: Heap) limits city water companies from charging residents who live outside the boundaries of the city a higher rate for water than residents living within the city boundaries. This is squarely targeted at the City of Tucson for charging those in the county more. Serving urban sprawl costs a lot more, so it is not unreasonable to charge more. OPPOSE
• HB2758 McMullen Valley; eligible entities; groundwater (Griffin: Blackman) allows the state, any political subdivisions of the state, and private water companies to engage in the interbasin transfer of groundwater from the McMullen Valley in La Paz County to elsewhere in La Paz County or to an active management area. This further facilitates creating these sacrifice zones for groundwater pumping. They are allowing a decline of up to 10 feet a year in the depth to groundwater. That's a lot. The aquifer will be drained in no time! OPPOSE
• HB2798 appropriation; Arizona geological survey; study (Carbone) appropriates an unidentified amount of money from the general fund to the Arizona Geological Survey to conduct a study of all minerals and metals, including thorium, that are needed for new generation nuclear reactors. Mining companies have plenty of money, we do not need to be subsidizing yet another activity for them. OPPOSE

Wednesday, January 28th

House Federalism, Military Affairs, and Elections Committee at 2:00 PM
Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here.

• HCR2016 voting centers; precinct voting (Keshel: Carter P, Chaplik, et al) prohibits the Board of Supervisors from authorizing the use of voting centers, removes language allowing a County Recorder to establish on-site early voting locations, and limits the size of election precincts to a maximum of 2,500 registered voters. All of these will hinder and not help people voting early.  OPPOSE