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School districts, lawmakers clash over teacher pay
Arizona lawmakers, roundly criticized this year over poorly funded public schools, want to make one thing clear: They’re not the ones responsible for giving teachers raises.
Ducey signs bill to allow hemp farming
Don't be surprised if sometime next year you see acres and acres of what appears to be marijuana growing, unfenced, in the desert.
Photo radar ban a bust again, fails to get hearing in 2 Senate committees
Another year, another failed effort in the Legislature to ban red light and speed enforcement cameras statewide.
Most medical marijuana bills go up in smoke; Senate OKs 1
Legislators have introduced a swath of bills aimed at amending the state’s voter-protected Medical Marijuana Act, but getting the necessary votes to pass has proven difficult.
Senate committee passes resolution to repeal state’s minimum wage
A resolution sponsored by Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, would ask voters to undue much of Proposition 206, a citizen-driven initiative that boosted Arizona’s minimum wage from $8.05 to $10 in 2017, $10.50 in 2018 and eventually to $12 by 2020.
Tax-break proposal for veterans fails in Senate vote
The Arizona Senate failed to pass a bill giving certain military veterans a tax break, as the 15-13 vote on Thursday afternoon fell one vote shy of approval.
Medical marijuana consumer-protection bill introduced
Republican Sonny Borrelli said Monday the fact remains that voters did approve legalizing the drug for medical uses in 2010 and more than 150,000 Arizonans have state permission to buy and use it.
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.
House gives hemp farming preliminary approval
Arizona is on the verge of authorizing its farmers to start growing hemp. But how quickly fields of the relative of the better-known marijuana plant will start springing up around the state remains unclear.
House OKs Mohave County billboard measure, sends it back to Senate
The House voted 35-18 on April 20 to open areas of Mohave County to electronic billboards. But not in and around Lake Havasu City. And nowhere near the Hoover Dam.
Senate moves Borrelli billboard bill
Four Democrats joined with most of the Republicans to allow construction of up to 35 of these internally illuminated signs within 60 miles of Laughlin, Nev.
Bill would open part of northern Arizona to electronic billboards
A Lake Havasu City Republican lawmaker wants to open his section of the state to electronic billboards.
