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Arizona lawmakers debate GOP budget-balancing plan

PHOENIX—Arizona lawmakers on Thursday started debating majority Republicans' budget-balancing plan that includes spending cuts, a proposed sales tax increase and diversions of money from voter-mandated spending. The House and Senate started debating ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, Boston Globe,  11 Mar 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Jan Brewer,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Daniel Patterson

Juvenile corrections cost-cutting plan to be postponed

Republican legislators said Wednesday they're changing their budget-balancing plan to at least temporarily shelve a controversial proposal that would close the state Juvenile Corrections Department and shift its responsibilities to counties. The change, ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, AZ Central.com,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Jan Brewer

Arizona budget-balancing plan has 2 more ballot measures

Arizona legislators already have sent one major budget-balancing step to a public vote by scheduling a May 18 special election on a temporary sales tax increase. Now, new provisions of a plan released Monday by Republican legislative leaders would put ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, AZ Central.com,  8 Mar 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Ariz. Senate revives texting-while-driving bill

The state Senate gave preliminary approval Thursday to a bill that would outlaw text messaging while driving and hit offenders with a minimum fine of $50. Two days after SB 1344, authored by Sen. Al Melvin, R-Tucson, foundered in the Senate Committee ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, AZ Central.com,  4 Mar 2010

Arizona budget contingency plan still undecided

Republican legislative leaders say a what-if contingency plan to balance the next state budget if voters reject a proposed sales tax increase remains a work in progress. Majority Republicans had hoped to win enough support for their plan to allow ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, AZ Central.com,  3 Mar 2010

Bill to tighten expert-testimony standards in civil cases advances

State court judges would have a tighter screen to use when deciding expert testimony that juries hear in civil cases under a bill approved 20-8 by the Arizona Senate, sending the measure to the House. The measure is backed by hospital companies, ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, AZ Central.com,  1 Mar 2010

Arizonans weigh in on proposed sales-tax increase

More than 100 Arizonans submitted pro or con arguments for Arizona's May 18 special election on a proposed sales tax increase to help close the state's budget shortfall. The arguments will be published in the pamphlet mailed to voter households. Gov. ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, AZ Central.com,  26 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Jan Brewer

Ariz. House backs married preference on adoptions

The state's adoption statute now declares that any adult resident, whether married or unmarried, is eligible to adopt. The bill would add a directive that state officials give "primary consideration" to adoption placement with married couples and may ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, AZ Central.com,  23 Feb 2010

Ariz. lawmakers say budget to include what-if plan

Arizona voters will know the impact of their decision when they cast ballots in a May 18 special election on a proposed temporary sales tax increase to help balance the next state budget, Republican legislative leaders said Monday. The leaders said ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, AZ Central.com,  22 Feb 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Jan Brewer,  Bob Burns

Arizona legislation would lengthen divorce wait time

Social conservatives say Arizona should stand up for marriage by making it take longer to untie the knot. A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill to triple to 180 days the state's current 60-day period that courts must wait before considering ...

From PAUL DAVENPORT, AZ Central.com,  17 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Linda Gray

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