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Voters around state could decide how Tucson elects …

3/11/2024
PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers are moving to allow voters around the state to decide — and possibly overrule — how Tucson elects members of its city council.

Hobbs vetoes bill proposing solar, wind power …

6/19/2023
PHOENIX — Calling it a potential barrier to renewable energy, Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed legislation Monday which would have imposed new requirements on solar and wind generating plants.

Hobbs vetoes four bills targeting 'drag' shows, …

6/16/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed four bills Thursday designed to target “drag” shows and performers.

Senate bill to make automatic individual income tax …

6/12/2023
PHOENIX — The state House refused Monday to requiring that individual income tax rates be cut automatic any time the state runs a surplus.

Hobbs vetoes handful of measures

6/5/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill its sponsor says was aimed at preventing the filming of sex acts on public property, calling it little more than “a thinly veiled effort to ban books.”

Hobbs vetoes six more measures, including guns on …

5/16/2023
PHOENIX — Arizonans won’t be able to bring their guns legally onto college campuses, at least not this year. Gov. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday vetoed legislation crafted by Rep. Rachel Jones, R-Tucson, to bar public universities or colleges from adopting any rules that prohibit someone with a permit to carry a concealed weapon from bringing it onto campus.

Arizona Senate votes to remove Secretary of State from …

4/4/2023
PHOENIX — The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate voted Tuesday to require that the state’s top election official not participate in overseeing elections in which he or she is on the ballot — leaving the proposal one vote away from heading to Democratic governor and former secretary of state Katie Hobbs’ desk.

State lawmakers moving to require election equipment …

3/21/2023
PHOENIX — Insisting that a “made in USA” label means more security, state lawmakers are moving to require that all election equipment be built only with domestic components and assembled in this country.

Republican senators approve measures to outlaw 'drag …

3/16/2023
PHOENIX — Over the objections of Democrats, all 16 Republican state senators approved two measures Thursday that proponents say are designed to outlaw “drag shows” that can be seen by children — even as neither measure actually uses those words.

Amendment to end home rule in Arizona cities defeated

2/28/2023
PHOENIX — A bid to kill home rule in 19 cities was defeated Tuesday when two Republican senators who represent some of those areas refused to go along.

Arizona lawmakers looking to strip 19 cities of 'home …

2/24/2023
PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers are moving to strip 19 cities of their right to home rule simply to help get Republicans elected to the Tucson city council.