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Legislature poised to shield lottery winners names
The Arizona Senate has given initial approval to a bill allowing lottery winners to keep their anonymity. Monday's voice vote leaves the legislation one vote away from final legislative passage.
Capitol Quotes: March 15, 2013
This week's most outstanding quips, gibes and utterances.
Print v. online: Public notice bill sparks debate
A bill to remove the requirement that cities and counties publish public notices in a newspaper – and instead allow them to publish the notice only on the municipality’s website – was voted down in the House on Wednesday. But the battle over is far from over.
Carter’s Medicaid hearing moved to Appropriations
The Legislature’s first public hearing on Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion plan is moving from the friendly confines of Rep. Heather Carter’s House Health Committee to more hostile territory.
AZ House delays bill on newspaper public notices
Republicans and Democrats in the Arizona House of Representatives are forming a rare alliance aimed at protecting small newspapers and government transparency.
AZ House passes bill barring student association fee use for politics
Student groups won't be able to use student fees collected by universities to support political causes under a bill passed by the Arizona House.
House passes new plan to deal with corrupt police departments
The House passed a new version on March 6 of a bill stimulated by corruption in Colorado City.
Brewer pitches compromise in sales tax simplification plan
The outlines of a potential compromise between municipalities and supporters of a bill that seeks to simplify the state’s sales tax system emerged this month, a few days after the governor’s office pitched the idea to mayors.
Arizona House approves changes to “Resign to Run” law
The Arizona House of Representatives has passed a bill making it easier for elected officials to launch campaigns for another office without triggering the state's "Resign to Run" law.
Governor’s Office: If no Medicaid expansion, what’s your plan?
Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion plan has no shortage of critics, but for those opponents, the Ninth Floor wants to know the answer to one question — what’s the alternative?
Mayo, Scottsdale hospitals concerned about impact of Medicaid expansion
When Gov. Jan Brewer announced her plan to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, one of the few hospitals in Arizona to object was the Mayo Clinic.
House approves changes to ASRS system
The House approved a measure that would repeal automatic benefit increases for new state employees, and change benefits for surviving family members of deceased Arizona state employees.
