Rep. Bob Thorpe is seeking to nearly double lawmakers’ daily allowance and triple their salary.

Public officials can’t use private phones or social media messages to get around public records laws, according to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

Only 24 Arizona legislators managed to both attend work on all of the days they were expected during the 122-day session, and push a button each time there was a vote. Two of those perfect record-holders were Speaker of the House J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler, and Senate President Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler.

David Cantelme told Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Joshua Rogers he believes there's a legal flaw in a challenge to new hurdles erected to voters creating their own laws.

Republican Speaker J.D. Mesnard said he called off the "Thank You to the Legislators" luncheon because it was ill-timed and emotions are still running high at the Capitol.

Lawmakers this year filed 1,247 bills covering topics as diverse as campaign finance reform to protections for wild horses.

Rep. Bob Robson is one of the 32 current lawmakers who won’t be returning to the Capitol in January, more than one-third of the entire Legislature. Some left of their own volition, others, like Robson, lost their re-election bids.

The 2016 election re-shuffled the deck at the Capitol, and when the Legislature reconvenes in January it will be full of new faces.

After tonight’s vote, 17 candidates, most of them incumbents, are all but guaranteed to get re-elected or become lawmakers even before the general election campaign has begun.

Gov. Doug Ducey has finished acting on all the bills lawmakers sent him this year – and the legislative batting averages have been tallied.