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The House chambers have felt a little emptier this year.  A noticeable number of members have been absent forcing leadership at times to appoint new members to committees to replace absentee.   On January 18, for example, 10 House members and ...

House Speaker Rusty Bowers is entering his last year leading the chamber. And it’s not shaping up to be an easy one for the Mesa Republican, who is term-limited in his current job.  Gov. Doug Ducey has outlined an ambitious ...

House Minority Leader Reginald Bolding thinks this year’s session could be a lot like last year’s. The Laveen Democrat discussed the upcoming session in a recent interview with the Arizona Capitol Times. While he said he thinks there are some ...

Republican lawmakers who met December 13 to discuss allegations of voter fraud in Pima County during the 2020 presidential election provided a glimpse at what some of the policy battles in next year’s legislative session could look like. 

Supporters and opponents of legal abortion are bracing themselves for a court ruling next year that could give Arizona lawmakers far more power to regulate or ban abortion. 

Pima County supervisors voted Tuesday to fill the county’s two vacant House seats. 

The House will start 2022 with nine new members who were appointed to fill spots that opened due to a slew of resignations after the 2021 session. And that means new faces will be heading a couple of powerful committees. 

Since the Legislature adjourned sine die on June 30, six new House members have been appointed to fill the seats of members who resigned or, in one case, died. And three seats are still vacant. 

Rep. Walt Blackman will be the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, whose purview will expand to include criminal justice reform bills as well. 

Arizona lawmakers next year will be wrestling with what to do in the shadow of a worsening shortage in one of this state’s most vital water supplies.