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Wrap Up with Warren Petersen
The Arizona Capitol Times sat down with Senate President Warren Petersen to reflect on the session, the two-day effort to pass the budget and the big issues going to the ballot in November.
Legislative leaders forced to testify in transgender lawsuit
The state's top two Republican lawmakers have been ordered to answer questions, under oath, about why they voted to ban transgender girls from participating in girls' sports.
Hobbs appeals ruling in sidestepping Senate confirmation
In a special action filed in the Arizona Court of Appeals June 18, Gov. Katie Hobbs Hobbs challenged a Superior Court ruling that deemed her appointment of executive deputy directors in lieu of sending nominees through the Senate confirmation committee to be illegal.
Dems, union willing to wait until 2025 for school funding
The deadline to renew Proposition 123 is looming and there is no consensus between Republicans and Democrats on how much funding schools should receive and how it should be allocated.
Biden administration responds to state lawmakers’ suit over national monument
State lawmakers have no legal right to try to invalidate the designation of nearly a million acres of federal land near the Grand Canyon as a national monument, the Biden administration is telling a federal judge.
Trial over school funding begins Tuesday
But Arizona schools are finally going to get their day in court – well, more like a month – in their bid to convince a judge the state is not living up to its constitutional obligation to adequately fund education.
Hobbs signs bipartisan housing bills
Gov. Katie Hobbs signed two housing bills Tuesday that supporters say will increase affordable housing options for Arizona residents.
Texas inspired border measure gets initial approval
A Senate committee approved a ballot referral on Wednesday that would allow local police to arrest people who enter the country illegally – despite concerns from Democrats that the move would allow for racial profiling.
Speaker, Senate president seek to void Proposition 211
The Arizona Court of Appeals heard arguments over whether Proposition. 211, the voter measure requiring heightened campaign media spending donor disclosure, infringes on separation of powers by granting rulemaking and enforcement authority to the Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission.
Here’s what is delaying the end of the legislative session
The failure of state lawmakers to wrap up their business by now is going to hit them in the pockets – some harder than others.
Senator banned from using chamber’s broadcast room
A state senator who complained about Democrats hosting a "drag story hour'' has lost his privileges to use Senate broadcast facilities after he used them to do an interview with a talk show host who denies the Holocaust.
Personal stories, jabs at GOP disunity color passage of abortion ban repeal
Just three weeks after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled to uphold a pre-statehood law that put a near-total ban on abortion, the Senate passed a bill to repeal it on Wednesday.
