Day laborers who solicit work from passing vehicles would face up to six months in jail if they disrupt the flow of traffic under a measure set to be debated by the Arizona House of Representatives this week.

Just two days before the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Phoenix, the state House of Representatives gave its approval to a measure that would allow gun owners to keep weapons in their cars, even if it is against a private property owner's wishes.

The House will decide today whether to give a preliminary endorsement of a letter to Congress stating Arizona's concern that federal greenhouse gas regulation will hurt the state's economy.

A bill being considered by Arizona legislators is seen as pitting the rights of gun owners against the private property rights of businesses and others.

Uncertainty looms over all non-budget bills in the Legislature, and no one knows when, or if, lawmakers will have time to address issues such as a proposed one-year moratorium on state agency rulemaking.

The biggest differences between the Republican budget proposal released April 27 and a draft leaked to the press a month earlier were two components designed to generate more than $500 million in revenue without raising taxes. And those two ideas have created the biggest backlash against the latest proposal.

A House panel could be considering a proposal to solve next year's $3 billion budget deficit as soon as April 28, a top Republican said.