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Posted Mar 17, 2022, 6:26 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Lawmakers are preparing for a possible special session to make changes to last year’s historic income tax cut package in a way that would avert a statewide vote on it in November, and to try to reverse a recent law that temporarily eliminates elections elections for political party activists.... Read more»
Posted Mar 2, 2022, 6:55 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
The Arizona House of Representatives on Monday gave preliminary approval to House Bill 2198, in which employers could be forced to fork out a year’s wages as reparations to employees whose religious exemptions from a company’s COVID-19 vaccination policy were denied. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 21, 2021, 3:41 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Frank Pratt, a Republican state representative from Casa Grande, died Tuesday. He was 79 years old. Gov. Doug Ducey ordered that flags be flown at half-staff across Arizona on Wednesday in his honor.... Read more»
Posted Jun 30, 2021, 2:20 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Gov. Doug Ducey was one of just three Western governors that the White House didn’t invite to a meeting on wildfires that the Biden administration convened, despite the particularly nasty fire season that Arizona is currently facing.... Read more»
Posted Jun 23, 2021, 10:28 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
The Senate approved all budget bills, nearly all on 16-14 party-line votes throughout Tuesday and into the early morning hours of Wednesday.... Read more»
Posted Jun 21, 2021, 11:06 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday signed off on $100 million in emergency funding aimed at alleviating the impact of wildfires that have ravaged rural Arizona this month.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 11, 2021, 9:36 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Sen. Paul Boyer - one of the two GOP holdouts blocking the proposed budget and tax cut plan forged by Republican leaders and Gov. Doug Ducey - is working on a compromise plan, while threat from the Telegraph Fire has delayed plans by second holdout David Cook, R-Globe, to put forth his own proposal.... Read more»
Posted Jun 7, 2021, 5:07 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Republicans’ latest effort to force through a budget fell short again as GOP Rep. David Cook continued his opposition over a massive income-tax cut, voting with his Democratic colleagues to sink the plan.... Read more»
Posted Jun 7, 2021, 3:47 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
In the midst of casting the deciding vote against a massive tax cut for wealthy Arizonans that doomed a Republican-led budget proposal Monday, Rep. David Cook got word that his family has been ordered to evacuate their home in Globe due to the approaching Telegraph Fire, which has reached over 56,000 acres. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 7, 2021, 3:29 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona House Republicans’ effort to force through a budget fell short again as GOP Rep. David Cook continued his opposition over a massive income tax cut package, arguing that the small cities in his largely rural district can’t afford the revenue losses they’ll incur from the proposed flat tax. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 7, 2021, 7:20 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
The House of Representatives is back in session and will take another shot at passing a budget, including a massive income tax cut that would replace Arizona’s graduated income tax brackets with a flat 2.5% rate, but it still doesn’t appear to have the unanimous support from Republicans that it needs to pass.... Read more»
Posted May 28, 2021, 7:55 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
The Senate on Thursday abandoned plans to vote on a budget and instead adjourned until June 10 amid a stalemate over a proposed budget deal and the massive income tax cut it includes, a day after the House did the same, though both chambers could return earlier if lawmakers reach a deal.... Read more»
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Posted May 20, 2021, 9:09 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Unemployment benefits will go up while tax rates will go down, especially for the wealthiest Arizonans, under the budget deal forged by Gov. Doug Ducey and legislative Republican leaders, but questions remain about GOP support for the legislation.... Read more»
Posted Mar 8, 2021, 12:27 pm
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill that would end a ban on state agencies and local governments recognizing the validity of consular identification cards. The proposal earned broad bipartisan support, and Ducey said Senate Bill 1420 “enhances public safety by offering a secure, reliable form of identification to be accepted in Arizona.”... Read more»
Posted Feb 25, 2021, 12:32 pm
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives approved on Wednesday a measure to end a 2011 law that prohibits state and local governments from recognizing consular identification cards if biometric verification like fingerprints and retina scans are used.... Read more»