State Capitol News

A proposed bill from Sen. Steve Kaiser would ban political signs from street corners, medians and other public rights of way.

The bills would make it illegal to sit, lay down or sleep on sidewalks in public rights-of-way, as well as make it illegal to panhandle in certain areas.

The bill wants to prohibit teachers from using a student’s chosen pronouns without first securing a parent’s written permission.

Schools will have to cut $1.4 billion from their budgets if the limit is not lifted in the next few months.

Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman says the state’s schools are facing a potential funding cut of almost $1.4 billion. Arizona’s four-decade-old education spending cap would prevent schools from spending money already allocated by the state Legislature.

The Cocopah Indian Tribe says the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings.

Latino and Native American voters in Arizona are at a disproportionately higher risk of being dropped from the state’s mail-in ballot list. That’s according to a new study examining the fallout from recent changes made to the state’s early voting system used by two-thirds of the electorate.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed legislation to ensure medical licenses issued under his coronavirus executive orders stay valid if he ends the state of emergency.

Gov. Doug Ducey and a top leader in the state Legislature have filled in a key part of a new plan to boost the desert state’s increasingly strained water supply.

An Arizona judge this week declined Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’s request for an order blocking Attorney General Mark Brnovich from prosecuting her if she temporarily shuts down a candidate signature portal for a required update.