AZCEC Blog

The 2022 legislative session ended in the early hours of Saturday morning, 166 days after it began. The last week of the session was marked by dramatic swings between cooperation and division, long...

The end of the state fiscal year is less than two weeks away, but the legislature did not make any obvious progress toward a state budget this week. Instead, legislators turned their attention to new...

After weeks of closed-door negotiations, Governor Ducey and Republican legislative leaders have a budget deal – they just don’t have the votes to pass it. While most Republican lawmakers say they...

Behind closed doors this week, Republican legislative leaders continued their efforts to find support from their colleagues for a budget agreement. Their quest for cooperation was hindered by the...

It was a short but dramatic week at the Arizona Capitol. House and Senate floor sessions were dominated by debates about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and gun control bills that never made it...