Laws, Laws and More Laws
A.R.S. is a collection of all Arizona's state laws. What does the acronym stand for?
What is Arizona Revised Statutes?
State Representatives and Senators are elected to this length of term.
What is 2 years?
Committee chairs and vice-chairs are appointed by this member of legislative leadership.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This is the legislature number AND session that begins January 12, 2025.
What is the 57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session?
The term for maintaining order and respect during legislative proceedings.
Decorum
What the lower case blue language in a bill represents.
What is Session Law?
The length of time a member can serve in a chamber before being term-limited.
What is 8 years (4 consecutive terms)?
This is where a bill must go after it is heard in its assigned committee(s) and before it is heard in caucus.
What is the Rules Committee?
What is a petition signed by two-thirds of the members from both the House and the Senate?
These are the last two people to vote in a roll call vote on a measure in committee.
Who are the vice-chairman and chairman?
The laws that establish the Arizona State Government.
What is the Arizona Constitution?
This term refers to the areas that members of the Arizona House and Senate represent (they are numbered).
What is a legislative district (LD)?
These are the three categories of legislation that can be heard in a committee.
What are a bill, a resolution and a memorial?
This is the term for when the House and Senate convene together in one chamber.
What is a joint session?
These are the three types of amendments that can be offered through the legislative process.
What are committee amendments, floor amendments and strike-everything amendments?
This date marks when bills that do not have an emergency clause or specific enactment date go into law.
What is the General Effective Date?
The number of Electoral College votes Arizona has.
What is 11?
This is the member who "chairs" or leads caucus meetings for the majority
Who is the majority whip? (Rep. Willoughby)
The term for pausing a committee meeting OR floor session AND the term for ending a committee meeting or floor session. (both answers required)
What are recess and adjournment?
This is the difference between a concurrent resolution (HCR/SCR) and a joint resolution (HJR/SJR).
What is the governor's signature is required for a joint resolution?
The only piece of legislation the Legislature is constitutionally obligated to pass.
What is the General Appropriations Act? (the budget)
These three political affiliations represent 35%, 34% and 28% of Arizona voters respectively.
What are the:
Republican Party (35%);
Other/Independent (34%); and
Democratic Party (28%)?
Bonus!
Each team must write down as many current standing House Committees as possible in 90 seconds. The team with the most committees written down will win the points. In the event of a tie, the points will go to the team who named the committee acronyms AND full name (if applicable).
What are:
1) appropriations (APPROP); 2) Commerce (COM); 3) Education (ED); 4) Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections (FMAE); 5) Government (GOV); 6) Health & Human Services (HHS); 7) International Trade (IT); 8) Judiciary (JUD); 9) Land, Agriculture and Rural Affairs (LARA); 10) Natural Resources, Energy and Water (NREW); 11) Public Safety and Law Enforcement (PSLE); 12) Regulatory Oversight (RO); 13) Rules (RULES); 14) Science and Technology (ST); 15) Transportation & Infrastructure (TI); and 16) Ways and Means (WM).
The chamber vested with the responsibility of trying impeachments.
What is the Senate?
These are the number of "aye" votes required in the House and Senate (respectively) to approve an emergency clause in a bill.
What are 40 in the House and 20 in the Senate?