Homeschool Day at the Capitol
Registering your Opinion and ALIS Info

Posted February 5, 2010

Request to Speak

The next time you're at the capitol, go to one of the kiosks outside the hearing rooms in the Senate or House of Representatives buildings and register to submit your opinion on any bill pending in the Arizona Legislature. Once you're registered with the Request to Speak system, you can use the internet from home to send in your support for or opposition to a bill. Your opinion will follow the bill as it moves through committee, Caucus, Committee of the Whole, etc. What you have to say becomes part of the official record.

A.L.I.S.

The A.L.I.S. Tracking Web site is an extension of the Arizona State Legislature website. A.L.I.S. Tracking has similar menu items as ALIS Online and will retrieve the same document information. Users who track large numbers of bills will find it more convenient to follow legislation by using A.L.I.S. Tracking. In particular, the personal progress feature allows the user to maintain up to five separate lists of bills. A bill progress report can then be generated against any list. The A.L.I.S. Tracking Web site can be found at the following url: http://alistrack.azleg.gov/ .

A.L.I.S. Inquiry Options:

Sponsor Inquiry – Produces a listing of bills sponsored by a legislator, which includes Prime, Prime Prime, Co-sponsor or an entire listing of all sponsored bills.

Keyword Inquiry – Allows you to locate a bill by a keyword.

Committee Inquiry – Produces a listing of bills that have been assigned to a particular standing committee.

Personal Progress – Allows you to maintain five separate lists of bills and generate a progress report for each bill in the lists. An alert will appear when a bill within your list(s) has been posted to a committee agenda or floor calendar.

Agenda Inquiry – Allows you to view standing committee agendas.

Calendar Inquiry – Allows you to view session calendars for the active calendar day.

Short Title Search – Allows you to search for bills within its short title.

Bill # - Allows you to track a particular bill's legislative progress.