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Senate president kills bill raising standards for prosecution in gunfire cases
The president of the state Senate is quashing legislation that would have made it harder to prosecute people for firing off weapons within city limits.
Miles and spending still riding high even as House road trips decrease
Travel-related expenses by the Arizona House decreased sharply in 2016, after the Arizona Capitol Times exposed then-House Speaker David Gowan and some of his close allies for leading an unprecedented increase in the chamber’s travel budget the previous year.
Ducey’s Prop. 301 conundrum: Public school champion or tax buster?
Gov. Doug Ducey wants to be seen as a champion of education, but his quest to infuse more money into schools is running head first into his other major goal: not raise taxes.
Democrats: Bullying incident underscores pattern of sexism in House
Democratic Minority Leader Rebecca Rios of Phoenix suggested that sexist undertones have marked repeated attempts to silence members of her caucus during debates on the House floor and in committee hearings.
Arizona appeals court says Medicaid expansion law is constitutional
The court said the law imposed an assessment that is exempt from the requirement that any act by lawmakers increasing state revenues, such a tax hike, must get a two-thirds vote in the Legislature.
Read Ducey’s lips: Prop 301 tax now a ‘funding program’
Gov. Doug Ducey is finally willing to talk about keeping public schools from falling off a financial cliff after 2020. And it involves a word at which he normally blanches: taxes.
Supreme Court upholds minimum wage law
The Arizona Supreme Court has unanimously ruled against a challenge to a voter-approved hike in the state’s minimum wage.
Brophy McGee mulling ethics complaint against Smith
A veteran state lawmaker could face an ethics probe following comments he made last week in an unsuccessful bid to get colleagues to vote for a controversial bill.
Constitutional issue stymies bill to remove co-ops from ACC regulation
A bill to ease regulations for Arizona’s electric cooperatives stalled after questions about its constitutionality.
Ducey supports extending Prop 301 sales tax
Daniel Scarpinato, the governor’s spokesman, said Gov. Doug Ducey is open to the timing of getting a measure on the ballot and other ideas for altering the tax, including expanding it, based on discussions with the education and business communities.
Ducey determined to pass university bond plan lawmakers dislike
Arizona legislators want to give the state’s three public universities more money, but are loathe to cede the power to spend, as would be the case under Gov. Doug Ducey’s bonding plan.
AZ Supreme Court skeptical of minimum wage challenger arguments
Arizona’s Supreme Court justices spent time March 9 imagining a world in which the state’s voters may never get to pass laws by the ballot again.
