Arizona Legislature

Arizona lawmakers want to ask voters again to pare back their right to craft their own laws or change the constitution, continuing a series of proposed changes to citizens' rights to bypass the Legislature that have seen mixed results in recent elections.The Republican-controlled House on Wednesday advanced a measure that would require backers of voter initiatives to collect signatures from all 15 counties in order to put a measure on the ballot.

A federal appeals court concluded there is evidence Arizona legislators acted with discriminatory intent when they approved some 2022 laws requiring proof of citizenship.

On a 6-1 margin, the Senate Committee on Public Safety this past week voted to make it a traffic violation for a anyone to operate a vehicle in Arizona with an animal on the driver's lap.

Backed by elected officials from rural areas, Democratic lawmakers unveiled what they hope will be a plan to finally provide some protections against their groundwater drying up.

Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature have reached a deal on a pared-down state budget after lengthy talks with Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and were working Tuesday to brief their members with an eye on potentially voting on the spending plan in the coming days.

Border security legislation stalled Tuesday, at least temporarily, amid concerns by one senator about some of its provisions.

House Democrats lost their privilege Tuesday of using meeting rooms after they conducted a "drag story hour,'' what Speaker Ben Toma called "radical activism to promote dangerously perverse ideology.''

Gov. Katie Hobbs has given up on her demand to curb a program that allows any parent already sending their child to private or parochial schools to now get the bill picked up by taxpayers.

A Tucson Democratic lawmaker is asking that an ethics complaint filed against her by three Republican lawmakers be dismissed.

Three first-term Republican lawmakers filed a complaint Monday accusing Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton of violating House ethics rules with her admitted action of hiding Bibles.