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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.
Hobbs orders hiring freeze, wants agencies to propose spending cuts
Gov. Katie Hobbs has ordered what is essentially a hiring freeze for new state employees and instructed her department heads to send her a plan this week to cut $1.2 billion in spending out of their current and coming year budgets.
Abortion outlawed, political conflict continues
A pre-statehood ban on nearly all abortions will stand, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today.
Budget negotiations heat up as Legislature slows down
Three months into the Arizona Legislature's annual session, lawmakers are ready to take some time off and go to a work schedule many would love to have -- just one day a week.
GOP lawmakers pushing leaders to put border legislation on ballot
Not content with all the social and political issues they already are putting to voters in November, a majority of House Republicans want a special hearing to add one more: enacting a Texas-style border enforcement law here.
After Hobbs’ veto, other housing bills are moving
While Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bipartisan housing measure this week, several other housing bills that she said she supports are moving through the Legislature.
Voters to decide whether child sex traffickers get life in prison
Ignoring pleas from Democrats that victims could be caught up in harsh sentencing, Republican lawmakers on Monday sent a measure to the November ballot that if passed by voters in November would require those convicted of sex trafficking minors to spend life in prison with no chance of ever being released.
Senator pushes for regulation of sober living homes
Cheers and applause echoed through the Senate on Tuesday when Sen. Theresa Hatathlie, D-Tuba City, saw her first bill pass out of the chamber.
GOP lawmakers to return vetoed border bill to Hobbs
Refusing to take "no'' for an answer, Republican legislators are going to resend the same border law enforcement bill back to Gov. Katie Hobbs that she vetoed just a week ago.
2 nonprofits lose bid to hide donors during political campaigns
A judge has rebuffed yet another attempt by two special interest groups to hide the names of their donors from the public despite a 2022 voter-approved law requiring their publication.
