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Texter in fender bender with senator after he proposes texting ban
“A funny thing happened on the way home last night,” Sen. Bob Worsley said of the fender bender he got into roughly an hour after helping pass a ban on... […]
Arizona texting ban inches closer to passage
But supporters of the ban, who have come up pretty much empty-handed for decades, are having to agree to some limits to try to push the bill to the finish line and get it signed into law.
Car registration fee boost proposed to end raid on road cash
Republican lawmakers are proposing an increase in vehicle license fees to end years of raids on dedicated local highway funding that paid for highway patrol operations.
Legislature passes opioids package
State lawmakers voted late Thursday to adopt changes in laws on opioids despite what some said are flaws and concerns by others that the plan won't do much of anything to deal with the drug abuse epidemic.
Senate panel says emergency witnesses who don’t dial 9-11 deserve jail
The next time you see someone in distress and pull out your phone to record it rather than calling 911, you could risk going to jail.
Bob Worsley: Letting go of the wheel in a ‘really fancy golf cart’
Arizona has become the testing ground for driverless-car technology, as companies like Waymo, Uber and Lyft flock to the Valley of the Sun to test drive autonomous cars. Sen. Bob Worsley, a proponent of opening Arizona’s borders to these new technologies, has also embraced it in his own daily life.
Sen. Bob Worsley: Negotiator or naïve?
Considered a moderate Republican by Arizona’s conservative standards, Sen. Bob Worsley occupies a position that makes him invaluable to both political parties at the Capitol. For Democrats, the Mesa Republican... […]
Snake shot bill dies in a tie in Senate
A letter from a Tucson retiree who used to be a California investigator proved instrumental in killing legislation that would have allowed people to fire off small-caliber "snake shot'' in city limits.
Sen. Bob Worsley: Goldwater Institute negotiated voucher deal in bad faith
The architect of the universal voucher plan approved Thursday is already looking to undermine the key provision of the compromise that secured the votes for the program’s expansion.
Bill to help fund highway patrol doomed despite Senate’s support
Senate Democrats and three Republicans approved a contentious bill that would eliminate the need for an annual sweep of funds meant to help repair the state’s roads, but it was all for naught.
Senator holding swing vote in voucher expansion leaning toward ‘no’
The state senator with the deciding vote on a bill that would give all Arizona students access to a program that allows public money to pay for private schooling wants “rock solid caps” on its enrollment.
Culling the herd: A majority of bills already have failed
Of the more than 1,000 bills, resolutions and memorials that have been introduced in the Arizona Legislature thus far in 2017, the majority are already being declared “dead."
