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Ignoring a possible lawsuit, a Senate panel voted Tuesday to erect a new hurdle in the path of Planned Parenthood getting Medicaid funds for family planning services.

A bill overhauling the state's campaign finance laws that passed a House panel Tuesday would allow politicians to give campaign contributions to each other, a move critics call the "kingmaker provision."

A bill to keep voters from casting ballots using the names of dead people received preliminary approval Monday in the Arizona Senate even though there was no evidence that type of fraud was occurring in the state.

For the second time in two years, state lawmakers approved legislation designed to trim the ability of cities, towns and counties to regulate plastic bags.

The days for photo radar on state roads may be numbered. With little discussion, the state House voted 32-26 on March 10 to make it illegal for the state or local communities to erect speed cameras on any state highway.

State lawmakers are moving to throw new roadblocks in the path of at least some people who want public records.

Travel records show House Speaker David Gowan didn’t start traveling the state until after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June 2015 left Arizona’s congressional district boundary map in place and set the stage for the 2016 election.

Arizona lawmakers are wading into the hot-button area of international politics with legislation to bar state and local governments from doing business with any firm that won't do business with Israel.

Saying it will maintain election integrity, Gov. Doug Ducey on Wednesday signed legislation to make felons out of those who collect the ballots of others to bring them to the polls.

The Senate approved a massive rewrite of Arizona’s campaign finance laws over Democratic opposition on both the substance of the bill and what they said was a total disregard by the Secretary of State’s Office about their concerns.