Request to Speak to Protect Our Right to Vote

Please weigh in on the following voting and transportation bills while they are still in committee. 

NOTE: There is one strike-everything (S/E) amendment. These are amendments that eliminate the original bill and replace it with a brand new one. It is very confusing to the public and generally does not serve the public interest.

Sign into the Request to Speak here: 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

If you don't have much time, I recommend you weigh in on these two bills: 

• HB2814 noncustodial federal monies; appropriation that would require legislative appropriation of block grants and other federal funds for meeting requirements of federal laws and rules. This would include some Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act dollars, for example. The legislature would likely sit on them and further hinder implementation.OPPOSE

• HCM2012 antiquities act; exception (Griffin: Biasiucci, Diaz, et al.) asks Congress to exempt Arizona from the Antiquities Act to prevent protection of lands and historic areas as national monuments. Our most recent National Monument is the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument and Grand Canyon National Park. They want to reverse it because they want to mine for uranium there. OPPOSE
  

If you haven't weighed in on the environmental bills being heard on Tuesday, you can find them here:

https://desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2025/02/request-to-speak-on-bills-that-weaken.html

Wednesday, February 20th
 

House Government Committee at 8:00 AM

• HCR2049 sovereign authority (Powell: Biasiucci, Blackman, et al) basically says Arizona has no intention of abiding by federal laws. OPPOSE

Senate Public Safety Committee at 1:30 PM

• SB1517 off-highway vehicles; weight (Dunn) increases the weight of what is considered an off-highway vehicle from 2,500 to 3,500 pounds. This will result in more harm to land and trails as these heavier vehicles do more damage and kick up more dust. OPPOSE

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

• SB1001 early ballots; identification; tabulation (Mesnard) would no longer allow people to just drop off their early ballots at polling places, but instead would require them to get in line and show ID. It also limits on-site early voting and no longer allows early ballots to be dropped off at county recorders on Election Day. OPPOSE
• SB1098 early ballot drop off; identification (Hoffman: Chaplik, Hendrix, et al.) requires ID for dropping off early ballots at polling places or voting centers. This is unnecessary as a signature is fine for mailed ballots, why not when you drop them off? OPPOSE
• SB1455 election officials; oversight; candidates (Farnsworth) prohibits anyone who is a candidate and has election administration responsibilities from engaging in those activities. This would preclude the secretary of state from overseeing the elections and running for office. Likewise with county recorders. It seems like it would not be workable. OPPOSE
• SB1541 early voting list; ten years (Carroll) requires people to reup being on the active early voting list every ten years. Why? If you are on it and are voting, that should be enough. They keep looking for ways to kick people off what used to be a permanent early voting list. OPPOSE
• SB1560 referendums; strict compliance (Leach) makes it easier to reject an application for a referendum (a bill that is referred to the ballot). That includes hard fought for citizens' initiatives. OPPOSE
• SCR1030 general elections; required tally (Mesnard) refers a proposed constitutional amendment to require that 95 percent of votes be counted within one day of the election. This puts speed over accuracy and ignores that there might be issues that would delay the count. OPPOSE

House Appropriations Committee at 2:00 PM

• HB2814 noncustodial federal monies; appropriation (Fink: Livingston, Way) would require legislative appropriation of block grants and other federal funds for meeting requirements of federal laws and rules. This would include some Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act dollars, for example. The legislature would likely sit on them and further hinder implementation. OPPOSE
• HCR2015 federal funds; legislative approval (Fink) refers a measure to the ballot to amend the constitution to allow the legislature to approve appropriation and expenditure of federal dollars. This would limit the state's ability to implement important programs such as those funded through the Inflation Reduction Act. OPPOSE

House Federalism, Military Affairs, & Elections Committee at 2:00 PM.

• HB2154 early voting list; undeliverable ballots (Keshel: Fink, Gillette, et al) removes the requirement to try and contact the voter to update their address if the ballot notice for early voting is returned undeliverable. Why? So more people get removed from the list. OPPOSE
• HB2631 election procedures manual; legislative approval (Kolodin) would have the chairs of the elections committees in the House and Senate approve the election procedures manual. This would further politicize this manual which really should just be to have an orderly election. OPPOSE
• HB2914 registration; signatures; audits; ballots; procedures (Gillette) Requires nomination petitions for presidential candidates to be filed 75 days before the election and have to be signed by 3% of registered voters in the state. This would have made it impossible for Kamala Harris to appear on the ballot here. It is unnecessary. OPPOSE
• HCM2012 antiquities act; exception (Griffin: Biasiucci, Diaz, et al.) asks Congress to exempt Arizona from the Antiquities Act to prevent protection of lands and historic areas as national monuments. Our most recent National Monument is the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument and Grand Canyon National Park. They want to reverse it because they want to mine for uranium there. OPPOSE
• HCM2013 equal access; justice; act; repeal (Griffin) includes a lot of provisions that are inaccurate about this act, including that it is extensively abused by environmental groups. It asks Congress to amend the act to limit access to the legal system for redress. OPPOSE
• HCM2015 proof of citizenship; voter registration (Kolodin: Carter P, Gillette)This memorial asks Congress to get rid of the Federal election-only status that is allowed by Federal law. They want to change Federal law to require voters in Federal elections to meet state requirements rather than Federal requirements. OPPOSE

House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee at 2:00 PM 

• HB2234 Interstate 11; environmental; engineering; study (Martinez: Carter P, Gress) directs the Arizona Department of Transportation to conduct the Tier 2 engineering study for I-11. This freeway would cause great harm by fragmenting habitat and opening up more areas for development. OPPOSE.
• HB2863 trailers; HOV lanes; prohibition (Carter N) prohibits vehicles with trailers and semi-trailers from driving in the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. This could help limit the backup on the HOV lanes. SUPPORT
• HB2887 alternative fuel vehicles; HOV lanes (Volk) allows for an alternative fuel vehicle to get a sticker which allows them to drive in the HOV lane. SUPPORT

Push back on bad bills for our environment, water & voting rights

Here we go. The Arizona legislature is off and running proposing a lot of really bad bills that make it more difficult to protect the environment, conserve water, or even vote. Please, weigh in on these bills on the Request to Speak app.   https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon You can weigh in on these bills anytime while they are still in committee. Since there are so many bills you might want to do the ones earlier in the week first and then do the ones that are being heard later in the week. For example, go ahead and weigh in on SB1068 before it is heard on Monday at 2pm and the bills being heard Tuesday. Or prioritize the ones that are most important to you. (For me that would be water bills. See my NOTE below.)   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 NOTE: From her comments at previous committee meetings, it is clear that Griffin is trying to tie the hands of the ADWR who are just trying to do their job (for example monitoring how much groundwater there is in certain areas.) Developers need to demonstrate a 100 year water supply. Being a realtor, Griffin is always trying to lower that standard.  As you may be aware, Arizona's water laws are really lax. Rural areas are suffering from over-pumping for new development and industrial farms - leaving no water for small family farms and even causing sinkholes in the Wilcox area. New Active Management Areas (AMAs) were enacted to protect Wilcox and Douglas. Griffin has several bills that weaken or even end the AMAs. The Sierra Club also discourages augmentation (bringing water from other locations) because of the environmental impact and the creation of sacrifice zones (hurting the people who live on that land.) I personally agree with them and prefer conservation efforts.  If you would like to learn more about AMAs you can watch this Sierra Club presentation:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cviFTa-nSE Coming up this Week at the Arizona Legislature... Monday, January 27th Senate Federalism Committee at 2:00 PM  Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. Presentation • State and Federal Lands, Danny Martinez SB1068 federal government; land acquisition; consent (Finchem: Angius) requires that the governor and legislature approve any sale or transfer of private land to the federal government. This is ridiculous and has been introduced many times and vetoed many times by both Republican and Democratic governors. OPPOSE Tuesday, January 28th Senate Natural Resources Committee at 2:00 PM Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. Presentation • Overview of Central Arizona Project, Brenda Burman, General Manager, Central Arizona Project SB1115 demand calculator; rules; conservation code (Dunn) requires the Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) to adopt rules to update ADWR's project demand calculator every five years. This is the spreadsheet used by developers when they apply for a certificate of assured water supply.  The language is very vague. But it appears to be a bill to force ADWR to adopt the Homebuilders' calculations. OPPOSE SB1116 groundwater model; receipt; written findings (Dunn) requires the Director of ADWR to provide notification of receipt within five days and a written response within 60 days to applicants who submit alternative groundwater models. Again, this is a bill for the developers who cannot seem to believe there is not enough water for them to keep sprawling on. OPPOSE SB1119 residential utilities; consumer office; definition (Dunn) defines "represents the interests of" as advocating for the safest and most reliable utility service achievable at the lowest retail electric rate possible. This is a giveaway to the fossil fuel industry. OPPOSE SB1128 air quality; causation; state boundaries (Carroll: Dunn, Kavanagh, et al) While we don't disagree that the attorney general should be allowed to sue any entity outside Arizona when their emissions result in damages to Arizona's air quality, we do disagree with the bill requiring that the Director of ADEQ consider the best interests of taxpayers, transmission of emissions from outside of Arizona, and effects of solar radiation and any associated heat increases when revising a state implementation. This is contrary to the Clean Air Act, which requires the focus to be on public health, not all of these outside factors. OPPOSE SB1134 ADWR; application; review; time frames (Shope) establishes licensing time frames for ADWR to make determinations for applications for new or modified certificates, designations or analyses of assured water supply. These licensing time frames will rush the necessary analysis for these certificates and designations. OPPOSE House Natural Resources, Energy, and Water Committee at 2:00 PM Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2084 domestic water improvement districts; hauling (Griffin: Diaz, Hendrix, et al) allows for formation of a domestic water improvement district for purposes of hauling water. Sadly, they focus on providing for water hauling rather than protecting groundwater so they don't have to haul it. OPPOSE HB2086 water improvements program; water hauling (Griffin: Diaz, Hendrix, et al) allows for water improvement grants to be used for water hauling and storage. OPPOSE HB2088 subsequent AMA; director; removal (Griffin: Diaz, Hendrix, et al) authorizes the director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources to remove designation of a subsequent active management area. Currently, that would just apply to Douglas and Willcox. There is no need for this and once these areas are established the groundwater protections should stay in place. OPPOSE HB2089 subsequent AMA; voters; removal (Griffin: Diaz, Hendrix, et al) allows for removal of a subsequent active management area by the voters ten years after it is established. OPPOSE HB2202 subsequent AMA; previously nonirrigated land (Griffin) allows for previously unirrigated lands to be irrigated, thus increasing groundwater pumping in these active management areas. OPPOSE HB2203 historical water use;  subsequent AMA (Griffin) allows acreage to be irrigated in a subsequent active management area that was irrigated at any time in the last ten years rather than the last five years. It is retroactive so it would apply to the Douglas AMA and would be extremely difficult to prove, plus would likely result in more groundwater pumping.  It is widening the window to pump more groundwater and making it retroactive. (It's more like 13 years.) OPPOSE HB2549 appropriation; subsequent AMA; assistance grants (Diaz: Griffin) appropriates an undetermined amount of money to those in subsequent active management areas for attorneys and such, thus picking the taxpayers' pockets to fund lawsuits to challenge groundwater protections. OPPOSE HB2551 grandfathered right; Willcox AMA; extension (Diaz: Carter P, Griffin) extends the amount of time someone has to file an application for a certificate of grandfathered right with the Department of Water Resources. This was already proposed in the last session, so they've already had sufficient time. OPPOSE HB2570 temporary non-expansion area (Griffin) allows for establishment of temporary non-expansion areas that would limit new irrigated agriculture, but that would expire after ten years. There is also a high bar for even establishing them. We don't need temporary measures that create the illusion that we are really doing something to address the serious groundwater issues we have. OPPOSE  House Regulatory Oversight Committee at 2:00 PM Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2056 geoengineering; prohibition (Fink) is a bit over the top relative to how it approaches concerns about geoengineering and seems to go down the conspiracy theory road. We wish they would focus on the climate manipulation that is actually happening -- all the carbon, methane, and other greenhouse gases that are being put into the atmosphere. OPPOSE Wednesday, January 29th   House Government Committee at 9:00 AM Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. HB2099 governor; attorney general; duties; immigration (Martinez: Biasiucci, Carbone, et al.) requires the governor and attorney general to cooperate with the federal government on immigration issues, read deportations. OPPOSE HB2319 private property; design; regulations; prohibition (Gillette: Carbone, Hendrix, et al) significantly limits cities' ability to adopt regulations that affect individually owned single family lots. The language is overly broad and could undermine protections for the larger community putting property rights above all else. OPPOSE Senate Government Committee at 9:00 AM SB1092 vehicle mileage; tracking; tax; prohibitions (Hoffman: Chaplik, Hendrix, et al) prohibits limits on vehicle miles traveled or any travel reduction program, contrary to air quality requirements. OPPOSE SB1093 government investments; products; fiduciaries; plans (Hoffman: Hendrix, Keshel) prohibits the state treasurer from considering any social factors in state investments. OPPOSE SB1094 business; discrimination prohibition; social criteria (Hoffman: Keshel) prohibits banks, insurance companies, and credit reporting agencies from considering any social or environmental factors. OPPOSE SCR1004 prohibit tax; monitoring; vehicle mileage (Hoffman: Chaplik, Keshel) refers the provisions of SB1092 to the ballot. OPPOSE House Federalism, Military Affairs, & Elections Committee at 2:00 PM HB2004 voter registration cards; mailing limitation (Gillette) limits county recorders from mailing voter registration cards to people out of state. OPPOSE HB2673 early ballots; deadlines; foreign money (Kolodin: Montenegro) makes it easier to remove people from the active early voting list. OPPOSE HCR2013 early ballots; deadlines; foreign money (Kolodin: Biasiucci, Blackman, et al) refers the provisions of HB2673 to the ballot. OPPOSE House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at 2:00 PM HB2234 Interstate 11; environmental; engineering; study (Martinez: Carter P, Gress) directs the Arizona Department of Transportation to conduct the Tier 2 engineering study for I-11. This freeway would cause great harm by fragmenting habitat and opening up more areas for development. OPPOSE Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee at 2:00 PM SB1052 voter registration; temporary absence (Rogers: Gillette) takes away US citizens' eligibility to vote if they have never resided in the US. It makes no sense that they keep further restricting who can vote. OPPOSE Senate Public Safety Committee at 2:00 PM SB1086 transportation system performance; ADOT (Hoffman: Keshel) de-emphasizes congestion management and promotes mobility as a performance standard and includes specific provisions for how these and other factors are considered. It prohibits ADOT from considering or adopting a motor vehicle travel mile reduction target or any other demand management policy or project to reduce traffic. This is short-sighted and harmful and should be rejected. OPPOSE

Request to Speak actions for week of March 2nd... and one last chance to contact your legislators on bad energy bill (HCR 2050)

Environmental actions on the ballot?! 

If you have been keeping up with our Request to Speak actions, you should have already weighed in on most of the bills that are now being heard in the other house. So, our list is shorter this week. (See RTS actions below). If you haven’t, you can find previous RTS actions on the Desktop Activist Tucson website and still weigh in on them.  

This week I have included some bad voting bills because it makes it difficult to advocate for the environment if we can’t vote.

Unfortunately, HCR 2050 made it through committee and awaits a Third Read vote in the house. If it passes it will put this horrific bill on the ballot. Governor Hobbs won't be able to veto it!  If you haven't already, please, reach out to your legislators using the Sierra Club’s petition (link below).

 

HCR2050 energy source; restriction; prohibition (Griffin: Biasiucci, Bliss, et al) would put on the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit a city, town, county or any other political subdivision of the state from restricting the manufacture, use or sale of a device based on the energy source that is either used to power the device or consumed by the device. Device is not defined, but this is clearly intended to preclude any limits on fossil fuels, including gas. This will make it harder to protect our air, our water, our health, and our communities.
 

Take action against HCR2050 here.

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

Sign onto the RTS app:
https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

Review RTS directions:
https://desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2018/03/request-to-speak-time.html

Monday, March 4th

Senate Elections Committee at 2:00 PM

• HB2404 voter registration cards; mailing limitation (Gillette: Biasiucci, Bliss, et al) prohibits the county recorder from providing an initial or updated voter registration card to a person whose mailing address is outside of Arizona except for active military members and those for whom there is no Arizona mail address. This would exclude students. OPPOSE
• HB2482 voter registration changes; text notice  (Parker B) requires county recorders to notify people either via text or in writing if they make any changes to their voting records and provide them with information on how they can check their record and make any changes needed. This is a good transparency measure and a service to voters. SUPPORT
• HB2852 voter registrations; organizations; prohibition (Heap: Chaplik, Gillette, et al) prohibits the  state and any city, town, county or political subdivision from participating as a member of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). The state can’t provide information to ERIC (a trusted non-profit organization that makes sure people don’t register to vote in more than one state). Instead, they must hire a third-party contractor. OPPOSE

Senate Finance and Commerce Committee at 2:00PM

• HB2007 subdivided lands; civil penalties (Griffin) says a civil penalty for a subdivider or agent who engages in unlawful practice with respect to the sale or lease of subdivided lands applies to each lot where a violation occurs rather than all of the lots combined. This is positive because it increases the penalty for unscrupulous developers. SUPPORT

House Municipal Affairs and Public Safety at 2:00 PM

• SCR1042 support; Texas; southern border (Bolick: Bennett, Borrelli, et al) supports Texas's unlawful and harmful activities along its border with Mexico that have resulted in the deaths of immigrants. OPPOSE

Bills that perpetrate election fraud myth & make it harder to vote

Please, weigh in on the bills that waste money and resources to perpetuate the myth of election fraud or make it more difficult to vote. 

Sign on to the Request to Speak system before the bills are heard in committee. 

https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

See bills and committee times below.

Monday, March 20th

Senate Committee on Elections at 2:00 PM

• HB2319 elections; rule of construction (Kolodin: Bliss, Carter, et al.) says the Legislature finds that public confidence in elections is best maintained by maximizing transparency and providing a rule of construction for interpreting statute relating to the conduct of elections. It says that court decisions do not have precedent relative to elections. Can you really do that? OPPOSE
• HB2415 active early voting lists; removal (Biasiucci: Bliss, Carbone, et al.) removes voters from the active early voting list if they do not vote in one election cycle. This would result in purging a lot of voters from the list. OPPOSE
• HB2552 voting; elections; tally; prohibition (Smith: Biasiucci, Bliss, et al.) prohibits ranked choice voting for the state, cities, counties, etc. OPPOSE
• HB2591 elections; early ballot drop boxes (Griffin) says early ballot drop boxes can only be used Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and to include a camera or video recorder. This is unnecessary and will limit opportunities for voting. OPPOSE
• HB2613 voting equipment; requirements; origin (Montenegro) prohibits the Secretary of State from certifying a voting machine unless 100 percent of the machine's components are from the United States. This would mean they use no voting machines. OPPOSE
• HCR2033 primary elections; eligible candidates (Smith: Chaplik, Heap, etc.) refers to the ballot a measure that says a Legislature-enacted direct primary election law supersedes any contrary or inconsistent provision of any charter, law, ordinance, rule, resolution or policy of any city. This is to preempt local election provisions. OPPOSE

Wednesday, March 22nd

House Committee on Municipal Oversight and Elections at 2:00 PM

• SB1095 early ballot envelope; notice (Carroll: Gowan: Livingston) requires an early ballot envelope to include a statement that says the election will be delayed if you return your ballot after the Friday before the election, which could discourage people returning early ballots. OPPOSE 
• SB1143 voting registrations; ballot requests; source (Hoffman: Farnsworth, Kern, et al.) limits distribution of early voting requests among other things. OPPOSE
• SB1144 electronic ballot adjudication; prohibition (Hoffman: Farnsworth, Kern, et al.) prohibits the electronic adjudication of ballots. OPPOSE
• SB1170 ballot drop boxes; prohibition (NOW: ballot drop boxes; requirements; appropriation) (Hoffman: Borrelli, Farnsworth, et al.) prohibits unmonitored drop boxes. OPPOSE
• SB1175 registrations; observers; counting procedures; verification (Kavanagh) expands access to precinct registers and information from voter registration forms and outlines procedures for a hand count audit if a political party provides an insufficient number of board workers to conduct the hand count audit. OPPOSE
• SB1471 ballot tabulation; hand count comparison (Kavanagh) essentially will require Maricopa and Pima counties to recount a sampling of ballots from four precincts for the 2022 election with the ultimate objective of determining how much it would cost to recount all the ballots for the 2022 election. This is not improving voting accuracy; it is just trying to perpetuate the myth of the “stolen” 2022 election into the 2024 election cycle. This is a waste of money. This violates state law about how to handle ballots.  OPPOSE
• SB1595 early ballots; identification; tabulation (Mesnard: Bennett, Carroll, et al.) requires voters to present valid identification after an election for a ballot that was delivered by a voter's agents or a voter who does not provide sufficient identification. OPPOSE
• SB1597 early ballot on-site tabulation; requirement (Mesnard) requires larger counties to provide voters early ballot onsite tabulation by the 2024 election. This will increase the burden on already overburdened elections workers. OPPOSE

Request to Speak on More Bills that Make It Hard to Vote - 2/4/2023

At the Arizona state legislature this week there are several bills (again!) that make it more difficult to vote. Please, sign onto the Request to Speak system and weigh in while they are still in committee.

If you have a RTS account sign in here:  https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

 

 

NOTE: Three bills from last week’s Request to Speak action have moved on to another committee. If you have already weighed in on them your response is still in the system, so there is no need to do that again.  If you haven’t, it is even more important that you weigh in now since those bills have moved even closer to a vote on the floor.  I will indicate the repeat bills in red.

There were also several bad water bills and good recreation bills being heard this week. You can find them here.

At the Arizona state legislature this week there are several bills (again!) that make it more difficult to vote. Please, sign onto the Request to Speak system and weigh in while they are still in committee.

If you have a RTS account sign in here:  https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

 

 

NOTE: Three bills from last week’s Request to Speak action have moved on to another committee. If you have already weighed in on them your response is still in the system, so there is no need to do that again.  If you haven’t, it is even more important that you weigh in now since those bills have moved even closer to a vote on the floor.  I will indicate the repeat bills in red.

Directions for navigating the Request to Speak system here:  

At the Arizona state legislature this week there are several bills (again!) that make it more difficult to vote. Please, sign onto the Request to Speak system and weigh in while they are still in committee.

If you have a RTS account sign in here:  https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

 

 

NOTE: Three bills from last week’s Request to Speak action have moved on to another committee. If you have already weighed in on them your response is still in the system, so there is no need to do that again.  If you haven’t, it is even more important that you weigh in now since those bills have moved even closer to a vote on the floor.  I will indicate the repeat bills in red.

There were also several bad water bills and good recreation bills being heard this week. You can find them here.

At the Arizona state legislature this week there are several bills (again!) that make it more difficult to vote. Please, sign onto the Request to Speak system and weigh in while they are still in committee.

If you have a RTS account sign in here:  https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

 

At the Arizona state legislature this week there are several bills (again!) that make it more difficult to vote. Please, sign onto the Request to Speak system and weigh in while they are still in committee.

If you have a RTS account sign in here:  https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

 

 

NOTE: Three bills from last week’s Request to Speak action have moved on to another committee. If you have already weighed in on them your response is still in the system, so there is no need to do that again.  If you haven’t, it is even more important that you weigh in now since those bills have moved even closer to a vote on the floor.  I will indicate the repeat bills in red.

There were also several bad water bills and good recreation bills being heard this week. You can find them here.

At the Arizona state legislature this week there are several bills (again!) that make it more difficult to vote. Please, sign onto the Request to Speak system and weigh in while they are still in committee.

If you have a RTS account sign in here:  https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

 

 

NOTE: Three bills from last week’s Request to Speak action have moved on to another committee. If you have already weighed in on them your response is still in the system, so there is no need to do that again.  If you haven’t, it is even more important that you weigh in now since those bills have moved even closer to a vote on the floor.  I will indicate the repeat bills in red.

There were also several bad water bills and good recreation bills being heard this week. You can find them here.

At the Arizona state legislature this week there are several bills (again!) that make it more difficult to vote. Please, sign onto the Request to Speak system and weigh in while they are still in committee.

If you have a RTS account sign in here:  https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

 

 

NOTE: Three bills from last week’s Request to Speak action have moved on to another committee. If you have already weighed in on them your response is still in the system, so there is no need to do that again.  If you haven’t, it is even more important that you weigh in now since those bills have moved even closer to a vote on the floor.  I will indicate the repeat bills in red.

There were also several bad water bills and good recreation bills being heard this week. You can find them here.

If you have a RTS account sign in here:  https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

 

Directions for navigating the Request to Speak system here:

If you have a RTS account sign in here:  https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

 

Directions for navigating the Request to Speak system here:

At the Arizona state legislature this week there are several bills (again!) that make it more difficult to vote. Please, sign onto the Request to Speak system and weigh in while they are still in committee

If you have a RTS account sign in here: https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon 

Directions for navigating the Request to Speak system here:

http://desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2018/03/request-to-speak-time.html

Helpful hint: Copy the bill number (ex. HB2505) and paste it into the SEARCH PHRASE box. 

 

NOTE: Three bills from last week’s Request to Speak action have moved on to another committee. If you have already weighed in on them your response is still in the system, so there is no need to do that again.  If you haven’t, it is even more important that you weigh in now since those bills have moved even closer to a vote on the floor.  I will indicate the repeat bills in red.

There were also several bad water bills and good recreation bills being heard this week. You can find them here.

 

NOTE: Three bills from last week’s Request to Speak action have moved on to another committee. If you have already weighed in on them your response is still in the system, so there is no need to do that again. If you haven’t, it is even more important that you weigh in now since those bills have moved even closer to a vote on the floor. I will indicate the repeat bills in red. (Two of those bills were posted after I weighed in on RTS last week, so I weighed in this week.) There were also several bad water bills and good recreation bills being heard this week. You can find them here: Monday, February 6th Senate Committee on Elections at 2:00 PM Members of the public may access a livestream of the meeting here. SB1140 elections; voting centers prohibited (Hoffman: Borrelli, Farnsworth, et al.) prohibits counties from using voting centers -- they can only use polling places in the districts. OPPOSE SB1141 early ballot drop off; identification (Hoffman: Borrelli, Farnsworth, et al.) requires voter identification to just drop off an early ballot. This is unnecessary and will result in additional disenfranchisement. OPPOSE SB1143 voting registrations; ballot requests; source (Hoffman: Borrelli, Farnsworth, et al.) prohibits anything other than the official early ballot request forms, limiting grassroots efforts to get people signed up for early voting. OPPOSE SB1144 electronic ballot adjudication; prohibition (Hoffman: Borrelli, Farnsworth, et al.) prohibits electronic adjudication of ballots and requires creation of a duplicate ballot if the ballot has been damaged. This seems unnecessarily burdensome. OPPOSE SB1170 ballot drop boxes; prohibition (Hoffman: Borrelli, Farnsworth, et al.) prohibits the use of unmonitored drop boxes for voting, thus making early voting more inconvenient for those who prefer not to use the mail. OPPOSE  SB1213 legislative council; procedures manual (Kern: Kolodin) substitutes legislative council for the secretary of state relative to the elections procedures manual. OPPOSE SB1265 voting; elections; tally; prohibition (Kern: Mesnard, Rogers, et al.) prohibits ranked choice voting. OPPOSE Senate Transportation and Technology at 2:00 PM SB1122 transportation tax; election; Maricopa county (Farnsworth: Cook) directs Maricopa County to hold an election for the sales tax for transportation and prescribes how much it will be and what it will be used for, including that 80% will go to freeways. OPPOSE SB1312 vehicle mileage; tracking; tax; prohibitions (Hoffman) prohibits the state or any political subdivisions from developing land use or transportation plans that include vehicle miles traveled reductions, prohibits VMT tracking, and prohibits any per mile fees. This last item is being looked at as an alternative to the gas tax. This bill also runs counter to state implementation plans for reducing pollution. OPPOSE Wednesday, February 8th House Committee on Government at 9:00 AM . HCM2007 state immigration enforcement; urging Congress (Griffin: Carroll) asks Congress to pass a bill to allow states to bypass federal border and immigration policies. OPPOSE House Committee on Municipal Oversight & Elections at 2:00 PM HB2231 early absentee voting; limitations; conflicts (Harris: Heap, Jones, et al.) makes early voting into absentee voting and only allows someone to vote early under certain conditions. This would decrease voting significantly. OPPOSE HB2415 active early voting lists; removal (Biasiucci: Bliss, Carbone) removes voters from the active early voting list if they fail to vote early in one election cycle, instead of two. This will result in a significant purge of this list and in fewer people voting. OPPOSE HCR2033 primary elections; eligible candidates (Smith: Chaplik, Heap, et al.) refers to the ballot a constitutional amendment that says each political party can nominate just the number of offices available and any others would go on the next general election. It would preclude ranked choice voting. OPPOSE