Coconino County Democratic
Here is the contact information for our Legislators:
AZ SENATE:
LD 1 – Mark Finchem 602-926-3631
LD 7 – Wendy Rogers 602-926-3042
LD 6 – Theresa Hatathlie 602-926-5160
President Warren Petersen 602-926-4136
Majority Ldr Janae Shamp 602-926-3499
Minority Ldr Priya Sundareshan 602-926-3437
AZ HOUSE:
LD 1 – Selina Bliss 602-926-4018
LD 1 – Quang Nguyen 602-926-3258
LD 7 – Walt Blackman 602-926-3244
LD 7 – David Marshall 602-926-3579
LD 6 – Mae Peshlakai 602-926-3708
LD 6 – Myron Tsosie 602-926-3157
Speaker Steve Montenegro 602-926-3635
Majority Ldr Michael Carbone 602-926-4038
Minority Ldr Oscar De Los Santos 602-926-4098
E-Mail Contact for Governor Katie Hobbs:
E-Mail Contacts for Governor Hobbs Staff:
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LD 7, 6 and 1 LEGISLATOR SPONSORED BILLS
SB 1278 – OPPOSE – STRIKER – Finchem – Creates a Department and Commission on Natural Resources to oversee acquisition and management of state lands. It would give the state right of first refusal if any private landowner are thinking of selling any of their land to the federal government.
SB 1733 – OPPOSE – Finchem – Would remove the Oil and Gas Commission from the purview of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and exempts helium exploration and production from aquifer protection permits. Both of these are bad ideas.
SB 1017 – SUPPORT – Rogers – Would provide funds to reopen the Pioneer Museum in Flagstaff!
SB 1375 – OPPOSE – Finchem – Would force county recorders to let anyone download voter registration rolls for free. A direct threat to the integrity of our elections.
SB 1593 – OPPOSE – ROGERS – Would allow anyone to sue to invalidate any city or county measures that include an emergency clause. Likely residual MAGA whining over pandemic responses.
BALLOT MEASURES
SCR 1006 – OPPOSE – Would refer a proposed constitutional amendment to the ballot that would remove voter approval requirements for state trust land exchanges. Eliminates important accountability.
SCR 1018 – OPPOSE – (Finchem) Would refer a proposal to the ballot urging the sale or transfer of Bureau of Land Management lands and opposing the 30 by 30 initiative (aims to protect 30 percent of our lands and waters in the US by 2030 to keep us more resilient relative to climate change). This is a short sighted and uninformed resolution.
SCR 1016 – SUPPORT – Would refer a measure to the ballot to rename the Arizona Corporation Commission as the Arizona Public Utility and Corporation Commission. It would likely help more people to understand what this commission does.
HCR 2049 – OPPOSE – Would place a referral on the ballot that basically says that Arizona has no intention of abiding by federal laws??!!
SCR 1020 – OPPOSE (Finchem) – Would refer a constitutional amendment to the ballot to have elections in odd-numbered years for judges and ballot measures. This would mean we would have elections in November every year. It could also result in situations with a single ballot measure on the ballot – thus causing fewer voters to participate and the chance for really awful ballot measures to pass.
SCR 1030 – OPPOSE – Refers to the ballot a measure that would require 95% of votes to be counted within one day of the election. Probably impossible and still to preserve voting integrity.
HCR 2015 – OPPOSE – Would refer to the ballot a measure that allows the legislature to approve federal fund allocations. This would limit the state’s ability to implement important programs such as those funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.
SCR 1028 – OPPOSE – Would place on the ballot a measure that would require school district bond measures to get a 60% supermajority to pass.
SCR 1032 – OPPOSE – A ballot measure to allow the state land trust to provide guaranteed financing for charter schools.
HCR 2053 – SUPPORT – A ballot measure that would end legislative immunity for lawmakers who break traffic laws!
HCR 2055 – OPPOSE – A ballot measure that would ask voters to declare that drug cartels are terrorist organizations. A do-nothing bill, its prime intent seems to be to clutter up the ballot for no good reason.
EDUCATION
HB 2867 – OPPOSE – Would further punish calls for freedom for Palestinians by students. The bill uses a definition of antisemitism that equates any criticism of Israel as being anti-semitic.
HB 2880 – OPPOSE – Would ban “unauthorized encampments” on university and community college campuses. Simply an attempt to restrict student protests.
SB 1097 – OPPOSE – Would require public district schools to be closed on every regular primary and general election days and to allow their gyms to be used as polling places. This should be a local decision.
SB 1226 – OPPOSE – Would require district and charter schools to restrict the student access to the internet or phones during the school day. Such policies should be left to local schools and not made into some top-down legislative action.
SB 1693 – OPPOSE – Would mandate that students who use ESA vouchers to must be allowed to try out for interscholastic activities, such as athletics, at public schools!!
SB 1694 – OPPOSE – Would ban Arizona university from receiving state funds in any fiscal year in which they offer “courses on diversity, equity and inclusion”.
HB 2191 – OPPOSE – Would adjust zoning restrictions to allow churches to build housing on their property. This is an ALEC policy push to enable expanded building of microschools on religious property.
HB 2700 – OPPOSE – Would require state high schools to stress the fact that the Gulf of Mexico has been renamed the Gulf of America!!
HB 2725 – OPPOSE – Would force public schools to notify parents if their child does not recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the time set aside for it each day. How is such a thing monitored? How to make kids feel stigmatized.
HCR 2003 – SUPPORT – Would waive the school spending cap for the next school year (2025 -2026), averting teacher layoffs, program cuts and school closures.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
SB 1079 – SUPPORT – Would provides an appropriation for the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA). This is a significant step in ensuring funding for victim services.
HB 2581 – SUPPORT – Would require law enforcement agencies to implement a tracking system for survivors to monitor the status of their forensic medical exams.
HB 2432 – SUPPORT – Would provide a neutral safe exchange location for parents to exchange their children at every sheriff’s office.
SB 1500 – OPPOSE – Would force DCS to place children with grandparents when removed from parental care, regardless of safety or belief in abuse with those grandparents.
IMMIGRATION
SB 1164 – OPPOSE – Sometimes called the “Evil ICE Act”. Would require local law enforcement to totally comply with all federal law enforcement and ICE agencies in the arrest and incarceration of immigrants.
ENVIRONMENT
HB 2201 & HB 2679 – OPPOSE – Would relieve electric utilities of responsibility for wild fires caused by their infrastructure and would allow them to issue bonds to pay for debt in assets without proper accountability, oversight, or consumer protection, and could shift major costs to future ratepayers.
HB 2059 – OPPOSE – Would prohibit the state or any of its political subdivisions or any employee of the state from enforcing, administering or cooperating or using any resources regarding the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act provisions!!!!
HB 2527 – OPPOSE – Would prohibit the Corporation Commission from authorizing a power plant retirement unless there is a new plant with equal or greater power. This would effectively keep coal plants running longer costing ratepayers more dollars.
HB 2738 – OPPOSE – Would set up a weird kind of retail electric competition and ultimately results in punishing utilities that adopt more renewable energy sources and are serious about carbon reduction.
HB 2774 – OPPOSE – STRIKER – Prohibits counties from regulating the location of small modular nuclear reactors if they are co-located with a large industrial electricity user.
SB 1517 – OPPOSE – Would increase the weight of what is considered an off-highway vehicle from 2,000 pounds to 3,000 pounds. This will result in more harm to land and trails.
HCM 2012 – OPPOSE – This is a continuing measure that asks Congress to exempt Arizona from the Antiquities Act to prevent the protection of lands and historic areas as national monuments.
GOVERNANCE
SB 1150 – OPPOSE – Would remove voter approval of state trust land exchanges conditional upon passage of a constitutional amendment (SCR 1006). The voter approval is a check on these sweetheart deals that harm lands, wildlife, rivers and more.
SB 1546 – SUPPORT – Would require SRP (Salt River Project) to post information to allow people in the SRP territory to find who is representing them on the SRP board.
HB 2342 – OPPOSE – STRIKER – Would expands the prohibitions on regulating crypto.
HB 2814 – OPPOSE – Would require legislative appropriation of block grants and other federal funds for meeting requirements of federal laws. This would likely lead to the legislature sitting on Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act funds.
HB 2863 – SUPPORT – Would prohibit vehicles with trailers and semi-trailers from driving in the HOV lanes.
WATER MANAGEMENT
SB 1236 – OPPOSE – STRIKER – Would allows the storage of storm water to be used for replenishment credits. This gives people credit for water that generally would be recharged anyway. It will likely lead to a net increase in aquifer pumping.
SB 1304 – OPPOSE – Would weaken assured water supply requirements. Would allow developers to claim assured water supply for their construction when it might not really be there.
SB 1393 – OPPOSE – STRIKER – Would facilitate more unsustainable sprawl development by relying on a tenuous construct as to water availability that could be deemed a “house of cards”.
SB 1518 – OPPOSE – Would allow the sale and transfer of irrigated grandfathered water rights in an area already struggling to find enough water to go around. Will result in more groundwater pumping.
SB 1520 – OPPOSE – STRIKER – Would establish some Basin Management areas for some key areas but ignores other critical areas. It sets very low requirements on groundwater pumping reduction. Levels set are way below what is required to stabilize the aquafers affected.
SB 1611 – OPPOSE – Would accommodate development where additional water is no longer physically available. This is designed to apply to those who have a grandfathered ground water pumping permit for irrigation of farmland to take that land out of production and use that water to support development.
HB 2574 – OPPOSE – Would allow counties to approve small land divisions of 6 to 10 lots of 2 acres or more, thus getting around subdivision requirements and assured water supply requirements.
VOTING RIGHTS
SB 1001 – OPPOSE – Would no longer allow people dropping off their mail-in ballot at a polling location without getting in line and showing an ID. It has further provisions that restrict voter access.
SB 1098 – OPPOSE – Also requires an ID to drop off early ballots at polling places or voting centers.
SB 1455 – OPPOSE – Prohibits anyone who is a candidate and has election administration responsibilities from engaging in those activities. This would man that county recorders or the Secretary of State can’t oversee elections while running for office.
SB 1534 – OPPOSE – Would shift the responsibility for drafting the short description and ballot language for a ballot measure from the Secretary of State and Attorney General to the legislature.
SB 1541 – OPPOSE – Would require people to reup being on the active early voting list every 10 years.
SB 1560 – OPPOSE – Would make it easier to reject an application for a referendum.
HB 2005 – OPPOSE – Would allow county recorders to more easily to move voters to inactive status.
HB 2154 – OPPOSE – Would remove the requirement to try and contact a voter to update their address if a ballot notice is returned undeliverable.
HB 2631 – OPPOSE – Would make the legislature approve the Secretary of State’s election procedures manual each year.
HCM 2015 – OPPOSE – Would ask Congress to reform the federal registration forms to require proof of citizenship to register to vote. This sounds similar to the Federal SAVE Act.
CULTURAL
HB 2031 – OPPOSE – Repeals the Arizona Commission for the Arts and the Arts Trust Fund – only state sponsored funding stream for the Arts – SPONSOR Alexander Kolodin
LEGAL EXECUTION
HB 2796 – OPPOSE – REDICULOUS – Would require the Attorney General and all county attorneys to prove that they were unaware of a defendant’s political engagement at the time they filed charges on that person. This would include elected officials, candidates, advocacy groups and PC’s.
TAXATION
SB 1298 – OPPOSE – Would expand Arizona’s existing religious property tax exemption to also exempt religious schools.
PUBLIC SAFETY
HB 2058 – OPPOSE – STRIKER – Would extend Arizona’s “personal belief” vaccination exemption to students at Arizona’s publicly funded universities and community colleges. Student could exempt themselves simply by submitting a signed statement.
LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
SB 1584 – OPPOSE – Would ban public schools from implementing hiring policies based on factors other than “merit” as part of the MAGA attack on diversity, equity and inclusion.
SB 1586 – OPPOSE – Would force health care professionals to pay for medical costs as well as potential damages, pain and suffering, and loss of income costs to anyone who seeks to change their gender transition procedures done as long as 25 years in the past. A clear attempt to harass providers about future liability for gender transitions.
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