There is only one more week for Senate bills to be heard in House Committees.  Rep. Kirk Adams (District 19) has four of my most important bills assigned to his House Government Committee, and they haven't been scheduled on the agenda yet.  They will be preparing an agenda for next week this Wednesday morning (March 21), so it's important for him to hear from people indicating their desire for him to hear the bills.  If you live in his district, could you please contact Rep. Kirk Adams office by email (kadams@azleg.gov ) and tell him you'd like him to hear the bills listed below?  Please send a separate email for each bill number and be sure to include your name and address.  Put the bill number in the body of the message and in the subject heading.  Tell him you are a constituent in his district.  (They sometimes won't read the email or pass it on to the legislator if there is no address to confirm the writer lives in the district.)  A brief description of the bills follows below.  

Thanks so much!

Senator Karen S. Johnson
kjohnson@azleg.gov 

 

BILLS THAT NEED TO BE SCHEDULED IN THE HOUSE GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE:

SB1152 (REAL ID Act prohibition)  -- this bill prohibits the Arizona Dept. of Motor Vehicles from implementing the federal requirements for the Real ID.  The Real ID is an invasion of privacy.  It collects personal information about everyone and dumps it into a huge national database, making it a pot of gold for identity thieves.  Your personal information, including your social security number, will be accessible by any clerk in any driver's license office in the country, not to mention thousands of other bureaucrats.  Numerous security failures in government data bases due to employees taking computers home, errors in internet protection, and just plain fraud, corruption, and carelessness have already exposed thousands of Americans to privacy violations.  This bill will prohibit the collection of this data by the federal government.

SB1433 (Arizona Statehood Centennial commission) -- this establishes the commission to make plans for the Arizona Statehood Centennial.  Allows for fundraising rather than using taxpayer dollars for the centennial.

SB1623 (Elections; manual audit revisions) -- this bill is nothing more than some technical corrections to a bill that passed last year.  The original bill mandated manual audits of randomly selected precincts as a check against the computerized ballots and to protect against fraud.  After going through one election last Fall, some minor problems arose that need some tweaking.  The technical corrections address that.

SCM1002 (Opposing the North American Union) -- This is a resolution that goes to Congress asking them NOT to implement plans for merging Canada, Mexico and the U.S., plus a request opposing the building of the NAFTA superhighway from Mexico up through Texas to the Kansas City smartport.

SB1300 (Opt of of 'No Child Left Behind' for schools that don't take the federal money) -- There are about 35 schools in Arizona, mostly private schools, that don't accept the federal money but are still subject to following the mandates of "No Child Left Behind."  This bill would allow them to ignore the federal mandates, since they don't take the attached money.