Legislative Lowdown For Jan 2025 | by Rick Dalton

Legislative Lowdown – by Rick Dalton

Close the Border

Republican Arizona Congressmen Andy Biggs (R-AZ-1), Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ-08), and Eli Crane (R-AZ-05) have co-sponsored the first bill by freshman lawmaker, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX-26), the REMAIN in Mexico Act. If enacted, it would cement the first-term immigration policy championed by President-elect Donald Trump. They were joined by 77 other Republicans co-sponsoring the bill.

According to Gill, the “Remain in Mexico” policy, officially known as the migrant protection protocols, was first implemented by the Trump administration in January 2019. This set of policies allowed federal authorities to return non-Mexican asylum-seeking illegal immigrants to Mexico to await immigration proceedings.

What is a Woman?  Arizona state representative Lisa Fink has introduced a bill (HB2062) to Define sex based terms, and to protect women and girls. It is working its way through the legislature.

Provisions

1. Requires any policy, rule, program or law prohibiting sex discrimination to also prohibit

the unfair treatment of a similarly situated member of the opposite sex. (Sec. 1)

2. Allows Arizona and its political subdivisions to provide for separate, single-sex

environments. (Sec. 1)

3. Specifies that single-sex environments include athletics, living facilities, locker rooms,

bathrooms, domestic violence shelters and sexual assault crisis centers. (Sec. 1)

4. Instructs this state and its political subdivisions, including public schools and public

school districts, that collect vital sex related statistics, to identify each natural person as

either male or female. (Sec. 1)

5. Specifies that this measure does not require the collection of data regarding sex unless

otherwise required by law or prevent the collection of additional data points other than

biological sex. (Sec. 1)

6. Defines, for the purposes of the Arizona Revised Statutes and any administrative rules,

regulations and public policies adopted by the state or its political subdivisions, boy,

equal, father, female, girl, male, man, mother and sex. (Sec. 1).

7. Contains a legislative purpose statement and a severability clause. (Sec. 2, 3)

8. Entitles this act as the Arizona Sex-based Terms Act. (Sec. 4)

National Legislation

– US HJRes 28 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices. — Last action: Jan 22, 2025, House: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

– US HR 7 No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025 — Last action: Jan 22, 2025, House: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

– US HR 21 Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act — Last action: Jan 24, 2025, Senate: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.