[Spiff]

I've spoken to at least one of the committee chairmen who will have to approve the Home School testing bill. I've been assured that the bill will never make it out of her committee and she has assurances that it wouldn't make it out of the other committees too.

I don't know that status of the other bill that would codify the socialistic UN rights of the child into Arizona law - I guess I need to do some checking to make sure that one is dead too.

There was one good bill - HB2168 - which would have required, to only a small extent, CPS to actually follow the law. HB2168 was to make them report actual, criminal child abuse to law enforcement within 24 hours instead of holding it over the parents heads, etc. The infamous and very idiotic "strike everything" monster consumed this beneficial bill and turned it into something about sentencing committees.

You have to daily check the Arizona legislature website to see if a bill you're supporting or opposing has been hit with the "strike everything" and morphed into something completely different. More than once, I've embarassed myself by contacting my representatives asking for their support on a bill that had already been changed. I absolutely HATE the "strike everything" crap that Arizona routinely pulls. It disenfranchises and frustrates the citizens because they never know what bill to support or not. And politicians wonder why they are so hated by the general public...

[hsmomx3]

Yes, I have heard from two House members that said just what you had said about the testing bill. My senator just told me that he thought the "rights" bill was a no go.