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House, Senate GOP leaders bring in budget holdouts
The Legislature may start debating and voting on the FY22 budget as early as Tuesday after striking a deal with Republican holdouts that slows down the implementation of tax cuts and pays off more debt.
GOP House leaders to appease Townsend with bill to organize national convention
As budget negotiations remain stalled, House GOP leaders decided to grant one conservative holdout a late hearing on a bill to organize a national convention to combat federal policies perceived as threatening “constitutional and traditional rights.”
Some lawmakers question need for special session
A bill moratorium and a budget stalemate meant the House and Senate weren’t conducting any real business before Gov. Doug Ducey called a special session – so why call one?
Ducey wants $100M for wildfires
Gov. Doug Ducey is making it official, calling lawmakers into special session to finance the costs of fighting the current crop of wildland fires and the flood mitigation that will have to follow.
ADOT may be illegally charging repealed fee
More than 166,000 Arizona motorists who are now renewing their vehicle registrations are being hit up for a $32 fee that the agency may not legally be entitled to collect.
Bill bans mask mandates in public schools
Republican lawmakers did an about-face on facemasks in schools in the most recent version of the state education budget bill.
Lawmakers can call bluff with slim margin
House Republican leaders bent on passing a flat tax and succeeding with threadbare majorities where past Republican supermajorities had failed hatched a plan last week: put the tax bills up for a vote and embarrass their outspoken holdout into voting for it.
Scaled-down budget possible to break impasse
The Arizona House ended the week seemingly no closer to passing a budget than it had been before, after a single Republican joined with the Democrats on June 7 to kill the two tax cut bills that are the centerpiece of the GOP leadership’s budget proposal.
Ducey open to working with Dems on budget
With Republicans at a stalemate, Gov. Doug Ducey said Wednesday he's willing to work with Democrats to cobble together the votes for a new state budget and tax cut.
House flounders bid to pass tax bills
The tax cuts that are the centerpiece of next year’s proposed budget failed in the House Monday when one Republican joined the Democrats to shoot them down.
Rep. Cook looks out for LD8 cities, towns
We wish to make it perfectly clear to all of our municipal residents: We stand with Representative Cook in protecting our public safety budgets and bringing funding to Pinal County to help mitigate our state’s long term water shortage.
Budget impasse triggers talk of shutdown
If Arizona’s government were ever to shut down, 2021 would be the year.
