Arizona Republicans are on the attack in 2020. We have heard anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ, anti-voter, and anti-immigrant legislation so far, and now to round out the set– we have anti-union legislation. Today’s featured bad bill is HB2872 proposed by Majority Leader Warren Petersen. It is an anti-union model bill from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). … Read more
While headlines sometimes focus on controversial education bills that draw sharp divisions among both political parties at the Arizona Capitol like the out of state voucher expansion bills or the restrictions on transgender athletic participation, there are several less contentious measures making their way through the legislative process with considerable bipartisan support. One example of … Read more
This is the last week for bills to be heard in committee in their chamber of origin. Expect to see packed committee agendas this week. For those of you who are doing bill tracking and using “Request to Speak” (RTS) to comment on legislation in the Arizona legislature, we could use your help in posting … Read more
Several times during the tax cut debates on Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the House Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Ben Toma and other Republicans repeated the mantra that Arizona has a “budget surplus”. The only reason that we have funds that have not been allocated is because we have had decades of budget cuts and … Read more
Some aspects of the Arizona legislature are highly predictable– like the ideological bills from the left and the right that are proposed to show where members stand on the issues. For the Republicans, attacks on Clean Elections, voting rights, and the Citizens Initiative are perennial favorites. There are multiple bills based upon voter suppression and unnecessary … Read more