Sometimes I think the 90 state senators and representatives we send to the State Capitol have too much time on their hands judging by some of the bills they introduce each year. The second session of the 48th Legislature doesn’t officially start until Jan. 14, but before New Year’s Eve there were already 81 bills that had been "pre-filed," And that didn’t count the dozen memorials or resolutions in the hopper.

What is on lawmakers minds already? For starters, by my count, 14 of the bills either had to do with making technical corrections or fixing laws that conflicted with recently passed legislation. In other words, fixing some of their own screw-ups.

Then there are these others that caught me eye:

• A bill to define when high occupancy lanes (HOV) are restricted to vehicles containing two or more people. My question is when are we in Tucson going to get an HOV lane? Or better yet, a roadway that needs one.

• Under the category "don’t irritate a lawmaker," Sen. Jim Waring, R-Phoenix, has put in a bill for a mobile phone users’ bill of rights that would require companies to provide a written notice outlining such things as contract length, termination fees, start-up costs, taxes, surcharges and a coverage map. No contract could be longer than 12 months. Further, customers must be given 30 days notice of any changes to their plan and given the opportunity to opt with early termination fee if the change is adverse to customers. This one could get heated.

• In a similar vein, I wonder who Rep. Jonathon Paton, R-Tucson, knows who was on one of two airline flights last year from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. Paton says he wants a bill of rights requiring airlines to provide food, water and clean toilets on a plane stuck on the runways at either Tucson International or Sky Harbor for more than three hours. Last year was bad for delays but according to U.S. Department of Transportation data, Paton’s criteria would only have come into play twice through Oct. 31 last year. Both happened at Sky Harbor the afternoon of March 22 when a US Airways flight to Portland, Ore., and a Continental Airlines flight to Newark each took off three hours, six minutes after leaving their gates. The data shows weather was a factor in both delays. It was stormy in Phoenix that afternoon. There were no data showing planes landing at either airport took that long to get to a gate. The only other instances of delays happened during the summer storm season when some flights destined for Phoenix were diverted by summer storms to Tucson where they landed and couldn’t get to gates because they were all being used. And none of them lasted more than three hours. In other words, this sounds like a headline grabbing ploy from a representative who wants to be a state senator.

• The best bill so far, though, may be one in which Rep. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, has signed on as a co-sponsor that would prohibit any lawmaker from introducing more than 10 bills in any session of the Legislature.