Legislative Update
July 2020
The Arizona Legislature has
adjourned Sine Die 54th
Legislature – Second Regular
Session. This means that the current legislative session is done and
all the bills we were working on
are dead.
We have already begun planning
for next session. I have sent out a
link for the legislative agenda survey. We will close the survey on
July 1 in order to get as many
responding to it as possible. Please
encourage all ABATE members to
complete the survey. This will
allow us to know what the membership want to get done legislatively.
Here is the link to the survey:
https://us15.list-manage.com/survey?u=fe18f566660d31574b17318
df&id=344df34105 We did have a good year for
Motorcycle Safety and Awareness
month proclamations in spite of the
COVID-19 shutdown. We were
able to secure 24 cities and towns
to proclaim May as motorcycle
safety and awareness month. We
also added Yavapai County this
year. Our ultimate goal is have all
190 cities and towns and all 15
counties to do this.
We were actively engaged in a
tremendous amount of bills this
session.
On a federal level, we were unable
to lobby on the Hill this year. I
have been in contact with our
Congressional delegation and staff.
I have been able to meet with a few
staff members in person and over
the phone pertaining to some of the
legislative items we are supporting.
We have also begun planning for
Motorcycle Day at the Dome 2021.
We should have a budget and task
list completed by July 1st in case
anyone is interested in helping plan
for 2021. For 2020 we were able to
reduce costs for the event by close
to $1000 overall while still increasing attendance from 3 or 4 years
ago.
The 2020 election cycle will be in
high gear this summer. Our
Legislative Scorecard will be published by July 1 also. Just in time
for the primary’s early ballots.
Ride Free.
Mike InfanzonLegislative Director
