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Arizona House Speaker Proposes to Ban Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Discrimination
By Corinne Murdock | Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R-Mesa) is advancing a bill to expand anti-discrimination laws to cover gender identity and sexual orientation: HB2802. The bill has yet to be assigned to a committee. The 23-page bill...
Arizona Law Could Get Tougher On Those Engaged In Human Smuggling Transportation
By Terri Jo Neff | Prosecutors in Arizona’s border counties have long complained of having no consequential option for charging people who engage in transportation of undocumented non-U.S. citizens (UNCs), but that could substantially change if...
House Committees Pass Bill Increasing Foster Care Stipend For Extended Family
By Corinne Murdock | Both the House Health and Human Services Committee and the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill to ensure that Arizona’s kinship families, extended families caring for children that would otherwise face placement in...
Parental Right to Decide Child Masking Passes House Committee
By Corinne Murdock | On Wednesday, the House Government and Elections Committee narrowly approved a bill from State Representative Joseph Chaplik (R-Scottsdale) prohibiting government entities or schools from requiring minors to wear a mask without...
UPDATED: LGBTQ Lobbyist Offers Her Newly-Trans Child As Reason To Oppose Outlawing Child Transition Procedures
By Corinne Murdock | A Senate bill to prohibit health care professionals from providing or referring gender transition procedures to children, the Arizona’s Children Deserve Help Not Harm Act, inspired a wide variety of testimony during Wednesday’s...
Democratic NFL Chaplain to Arizona Senate: School Choice Is Today’s Civil Rights Movement
NFL Alumni Association chaplain and Phoenix-based pastor Drew Anderson addressed the Senate Education Committee in favor of a bill to expand Arizona’s school choice system, SB1657, calling school choice the “civil rights movement of our era” and...
Mom Running For State Superintendent First to Qualify For Clean Elections Funding
By Corinne Murdock | Shiry Sapir, a mother of three who decided to run for public office after enduring the current state of K-12 schools in Arizona, became the first Clean Elections candidate for this year. Sapir’s filing stands as one of the...
Three Republican Legislators Push For Testing Requirements to Access School Choice
By Corinne Murdock | Certain House Republicans have decided to shift from the defensive to the offensive concerning their opposition to school choice as proposed by the rest of their party. Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate and...
Senate Government Committee Approves Slew of Election Integrity Bills
By Corinne Murdock | A total of seven out of election integrity bills considered by the Arizona Senate Government Committee on Monday were passed; due to time constraints, an additional six bills were held for later discussion. The committee passed...
AG Asserts Ducey Has Authority To Protect Arizona From Cartel Invasion
By Terri Jo Neff | The State of Arizona is getting no support from the White House against an ongoing invasion by Mexican cartels, which gives Gov. Doug Ducey the authority to deploy the Arizona National Guard in self-defense, according to a legal...
Schweikert Signs Bipartisan Letter Supporting Extension Of Telehealth Services
By Terri Jo Neff | With telehealth services growing in popularity and necessity during the pandemic, U.S. Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) has signed a letter with several members of Congress calling on House and Senate leadership to include an...
Wards Argue Patients’ Medical Privacy Could Be Breached If Phone Data Is Disclosed To House Select Committee
By Terri Jo Neff | A federal judge has been asked to award damages to the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party and her husband for fighting a Congressional subpoena which seeks detailed data from four phone numbers assigned to the couple’s...
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