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Golf carts could be allowed along Sun City roads
The Arizona House has passed a bill that would allow residents of the retirement community of Sun City to drive their golf cars on a roadway.
Senate panel OKs bill requiring initiative revotes
A series of voter-approved initiatives passed since 1998 could be sent back to voters for re-authorization under a proposal making its way through the Arizona Legislature that the Republican bill sponsor says will ensure taxpayers have a say in whether spending they authorized is doing what they intended.
New AZ system could alert public to police killers
The Arizona State House has approved a new system similar to Amber Alerts.
Pointing a laser at aircraft could be prosecuted locally
The Arizona House has approved a bill that would allow county attorneys to prosecute people charged with pointing a laser at aircraft.
Panel approves dark money bill, but questions remain
A bill aimed at requiring more disclosure of the anonymous and unlimited campaign funds known as “dark money” received a unanimous vote but not exactly a vote of confidence from a Senate committee.
Bill would make corporate tax credits public
A House committee has approved a bill that would make some tax credits claimed by corporations public information.
Senate bills barring federal law efforts stall
Arizona Senate bills requiring federal agents to register with a local sheriff and barring federal officials from making arrests without the sheriff's permission have stalled over constitutional concerns.
Education committee OKs school voucher-like program
A House committee on Monday approved one of two small expansions of a voucher-like program that allows students to use public funds for a private education.
Voting rights activists burn petitions, swarm House in protest of HB2305 repeal
Voting rights activists are putting lawmakers on the spot and trying to get promises that Republicans won’t do an “end run” around voters by repealing last year’s election reform law before voters have a chance to repeal it themselves.
Bill would OK restitution from a dead convict’s estate
A bill proposed by a Scottsdale lawmaker would keep the convictions and sentences of dead criminal defendants intact and put an end to a long-held legal doctrine in Arizona.
Arizona lawmakers prepare for the apocalypse
If a disaster of Armageddon-like proportions strikes Arizona, state lawmakers want residents to be prepared, and they want the government to dole out advice on the best way to be ready.
AZ conservationists to rally for ‘Environmental Day’
More than 140 people are expected to go green at the Arizona State Capitol. Conservationists and other environmental advocates representing 24 different legislative districts plan to meet with lawmakers Tuesday for Environmental Day.
