Committee moves bill to scrap sales tax on food
A bill that would cut municipal taxes on food got initial approval from the House Ways and Means committee on Wednesday.
Bill to cover more cancers for firefighters gets OK from Senate panel
Carter’s bill seeks to build on work the Legislature did in 2017, with a law that listed several types of cancers, heart diseases and respiratory illnesses as illnesses that could be presumed to have been caused by fighting fires.
Brewer unveils sales tax bill
Gov. Jan Brewer today announced her plans for simplifying Arizona’s complicated sales tax system, which followed recommendations from a task force on eliminating the multiple jurisdictions and layers of bureaucracy that businesses face in paying transaction privilege taxes.
Senate hires House analyst as rules attorney
The Senate has hired a House staffer to become the chamber’s new rules attorney.