House set to begin votes on bills Tuesday
The Arizona House of Representatives is set to hear potentially dozens of bills this week -- including a measure to shield businesses from legal liability if a patron or employee gets COVID-19 -- even as the Senate sits recessed, poised to finalize last week’s adjournment motion and end the session.
House resumes work, pushes liability bill
Republican lawmakers are moving to make it harder for someone who contracts COVID-19 to sue the business where they believe they were infected or a company that made a device... […]
Ousted lawmaker accused of child molestation seeks top law enforcement spot in Yavapai County
Embattled former Rep. David Stringer, who was forced to resign last year over criminal charges that he sexually molested children in Baltimore in 1983 were reported, has filed to run for the Yavapai County Attorney’s Office.
House Code of Conduct should include funds for time-out chairs
Name calling. Bullying. Making faces. Walking out of a room mid-conversation. Refusal to listen. Playground behavior among 10 year olds? No. This is what happened daily during the 54th Legislature First Regular Session.
We deserve the full Mueller report, but our leaders aren’t fighting for it
Full access to the Mueller report – or lack of such – will impact a generation of young Americans. Therefore we need all of our elected officials to speak out in favor of the release of the Mueller report, so that we know they are listening to us, the voters, and we can trust them to advocate for us.
Democrats kill bill to fund school supplies
Democrats and the Arizona Education Association said the proposal, which would have given each teacher in the state $200 to spend on school supplies, was not enough money and not a permanent solution to the state’s funding crisis.
Republicans sidestep expulsion vote of Rep. Stringer, ethics committee to probe allegations
House Republicans today bypassed a motion to expel Rep. David Stringer in favor of an ethics investigation of recent allegations against their colleague.
Explosive news report intensifies calls for Stringer’s censure, expulsion
Rep. David Stringer faces renewed calls for his censure, and perhaps expulsion, following a report that he was charged with multiple sex offenses more than two decades ago.
The Breakdown: Session is coming
We’re just one week away from opening day, and already we’re off to an interesting start.
Judge rejects Don Shooter’s effort to get documents from sexual harassment investigation
Former state Rep. Don Shooter has no legal right to the notes and interviews of investigators whose report led his colleagues to eject him from the House of Representatives.
Raquel Terán: One citizen’s road to the Legislature
You probably know Raquel Terán’s name by now. But she’s more than a name on a frivolous lawsuit.
Facing slim majority, House Republicans beef up key committees
House Republicans have stacked the legislative system in their favor even now when Democrats hold nearly half the seats in the chamber.