2020 Legislative Updates

For many of you, I am your representative in the Arizona House.

For all of you, whether or not you live in my district, I am your embedded journalist– your eyes, your ears, and your voice– in the Arizona Legislature.

Below is a complete list of 2020 Legislative updates and videos — all 97 of them. The early updates during session are numbered based upon the days we actually worked. Later updates that were videotaped in Tucson during the COVID adjournment and the interim are dated.

It’s a real walk down memory lane. Many of the bad bills that were killed by COVID19 are being re-introduced in 2021.

2020 Video Updates by Rep. PPH

Video Updates from Week 1 of #AZLeg2020

Jan. 14: On Opening Day of #AZLeg, Right-Wing Ideology & the Peoples’ Response on Display (video)

Jan. 15: Microsoft Wants a Sales Tax Break Because ‘Electricity Is Too Expensive in Arizona’ (video)

Jan. 16: Virginia Dumped the #GOP & Passed the #ERA (video)

Jan. 17: Arizona’s Surprise Billing Law Doesn’t Go Far Enough to Protect Patients (video)

Video Updates from Week 2 of #AZLeg2020

[Monday was MLK Day.]

Jan. 21: Should Prisoners Be Paid Minimum Wage? (video)

Jan. 23: House Republicans Push to Suppress Speech & Change Ethics Rules (video)

Jan. 24: #AZLeg Must Raise 1980 Funding Cap for Schools (video)

Video Updates from Week 3 of #AZLeg2020

Jan. 27: How Should Arizona Pay for Education? Tax the Rich? Or Tax the Poor? (video)

Jan. 29: Build Your Own Border Wall… Seriously? (video)

Jan 31: Tax Cuts R Us… #WhatCouldGoWrong (video)

Jan. 31: HB2269 Creates Process to Give Unused Medicine to the Poor (video)

Bonus Week 3 Updates: Build Your Own Border Wall Bill Dead for Now in #AZLeg (video)
[This is an update from Day 9. As with much bad legislation, this bill rose from the dead as a Zombie Bill and
passed the House on reconsideration on Feb. 6, 2020.]

Video Updates from Week 4 of #AZLeg2020

Feb. 4: What’s on the #AZHouse Ways & Means Agenda? More Tax Cuts! (video)

Feb. 5: If Arizona Is ‘Pro-Life,’ Let’s Look Beyond the Womb (video)

Feb. 5: No on HB2388 & Yes on HB2068: Someone Else’s Religion Should Not Dictate Your Healthcare (Video)

Feb. 9: #HB2388: Big Brother Meets Aunt Lydia (video)

Video Updates from Week 5 of #AZLeg2020

There was so much tax cut action in Ways and Means in Week 5 that there are a couple of extra updates.

Day 16: Arizona Is #50 in Adverse Childhood Experiences: #HB2013 Would Hurt Kids Further (video)

Feb. 12: Tax Cuts R Us: Third Round of Massive Tax Cuts in House Ways & Means (video)

Feb. 12: #AZLeg UPDTAE: 12 Tax Giveaways Pass House W&M Committee in 3 Weeks (video)

Feb. 16: How Can the #1 ‘Pro-Life’ State Be #50 in Child Wellbeing? (video)

Video Updates from Week 6 of #AZLeg2020

Feb. 18: With #HB2872, #AZGOP Uses #ALEC Legislation to Attack Labor Unions (video)

Feb. 18: #AZLeg: Look Beyond Tax Credits & Take Comprehensive Approach to Housing (video)

Feb. 19: #HB2840: Medical Marijuana Patient Choice Bill on Feb 20 HHS Agenda (video)

Feb. 23: Cannabis Reform & Tax Cuts: Highs & Lows in #AZLeg (video)

Video Updates from Week 7 of #AZLeg2020

Feb. 26: Gloves & Hankies: Lessons from the 1918 Flu Pandemic (video)

Feb. 26: #AZHouse #Republican Bills Create Unnecessary Bureaucracy & Regulation (video)

Feb. 29 (Leap Year Bonus): Is $1 Billion in New Tax Giveaways Too Much? (video)

Video Updates from Week 8 of #AZLeg2020

March 3: Tax Giveaways, Gentrification, & Housing in Tucson (video)
This is the text and video of a speech that I gave on gentrification and tax giveaways on Sunday, March 1, 2020.

March 3: COVID-19: Businesses… Please… Encourage Sick Workers to Stay Home (video)

March 6: #HB2706 Targets All Girls who Don’t Match Feminine Ideal (video)

March 7: #HCR2020: Should the Government Be Run by Political Appointees? (video)

Video Updates from Week 9 of #AZLeg2020

March 9: #AZLeg Should Add Coronavirus Prevention & Control to Budget (video)

March 11: More Transparency in Commerce Authority Tax Giveaway Deals Is Needed (video)

March 11: #HCR2045 Limits #Marijuana Research, Adds #MMJ Sales Tax & Spends #MMJ Funds (video)

March 15: #Arizona Steps Up #Coronavirus Response with Emergency Declaration & $55 million (video)

Video Updates from Week 10 of #AZLeg2020

Day 36: Democrats Push for #Coronavirus Crisis Response Plan in Budget (video)

Day 37: #AZHouse OK’s Remote Voting for Members, #AZLeg Remains Open (video)

Day 38: #AZHouse Republicans Push ‘Skinny’ Budget with Little Attention to #Coronavirus (video)

Video Updates from Week 11 of #AZLeg2020

Day 39: #AZ Legislature Passes ‘Skinny’ Budget with #Bipartisan #Coronavirus Plan (video)

After passing the skinny budget and a handful of bills on March 23, 2020, the Arizona Legislature adjourned
until April 13, 2020 due to the novel Coronavirus outbreak.

On May 8, the Senate voted to sine die. As of May 12, 2020, the House is in limbo.

Video Updates: Shelter in Place in Tucson Edition…

March 25: #Coronavirus Resources & Info: Keep Your Distance & Stay Healthy (video)

March 28: Arizona’s Stumbling Response to #Coronavirus Will Cost Lives (video)

March 30: With #AZ #COVID19 Cases Now at 1157: #ItsTime for Statewide #StayAtHome Order (video)

April 1: Parents, How’s It Going? ADE Offers Flexibility to Parents & Students (video)

April 3: #AZLeg, Inquiring Minds What to Know: Are We Done Yet? (video)

April 20: Keep Yourself & Others Safe: Wear a Mask (video)

April 23: Prison & Long-Term Care #COVID19 Data Needed to Judge Virus Spread in #AZ (video)

April 24: If the #AZLeg Opens on May 1, Dems Will Wear Masks (video)

April 25: Computer Models Predict Dire #COVID19 Conditions for #AZ Residents & Prisoners (video)

April 28: Join the LD9 Team for a COVID19 Virtual Town Hall on April 30