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Feb 11, 2025

Lawmaker introduces legislation to counter winning abortion ballot measure

A Tucson lawmaker wants voters to revisit – and at least partly reverse – their decision to enshrine the right to abortion in the Arizona Constitution.

Feb 11, 2025

Republicans move to bypass governor’s veto on election legislation

With Gov. Katie Hobbs signaling opposition to a Republican proposal to speed up election results in Arizona, the measure is on a path for voters to decide. 

death penalty, execution, killings
Feb 11, 2025

Arizona’s next execution set

The state is set to conduct its first execution in two years next month.

Feb 11, 2025

GOP lawmaker wants to cap university president salaries

The head of the Senate Education Committee thinks the salaries of the presidents of state's the three universities is "obscenely high.''

Feb 11, 2025

Lawmaker proposes change to legislative immunity provision

A Prescott Valley legislator wants to ask Arizonans if they are fed up with providing a form of immunity to colleagues who break traffic laws.

Feb 8, 2025

Jay Kaprosy: Technician who loves policy and a good debate

As a lobbyist, Jay Kaprosy realizes that very few people know what he does for a living or what the term actually means.

Feb 7, 2025

Keshel threatens to investigate judge over pending family-court cases

A state representative threatened to investigate a Maricopa County Superior Court judge if they didn’t discuss some of the judge’s recent family court rulings – which judges are prohibited from doing under the state’s judicial conduct rules. 

Feb 7, 2025

Lawmaker proposes renaming Corporation Commission for better awareness

Lawmakers, activists and members of the Arizona Corporation Commission have lamented that voters do not understand the significance of the utility regulation body, but one senator is hoping to correct that by changing the agency’s name. 

fraud, Covid, sentencing
Feb 6, 2025

Nearly $40M theft triggers bills to help state auditor

Arizona lawmakers want to empower state auditors to have better access to financial documents from government agencies that are under audit after a former county treasurer stole nearly $40 million from Santa Cruz County.

Feb 6, 2025

Democrats’ groundwater proposal still awaits committee hearing

Several lawmakers and stakeholders are willing to work with the Governor’s Office and Democrats who introduced new legislation to counter groundwater shortages in rural areas.

Feb 6, 2025

Rental assistance proposed for people facing short-term hardship

Tenants facing eviction or coming up short before the first of the month could see rental assistance from the state under legislation underway in both chambers. 

Feb 6, 2025

GOP bill advances banning AG from charging county supervisors

Republican lawmakers are moving to hobble the ability of the attorney general to force county supervisors to do what courts have said is their job – certify election results.

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