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Tourism taxing districts could be coming soon Twin bills with bipartisan support to jumpstart Arizona tourism appear dead in the Senate, but they may reappear this year or next as the concept has gained support nationally and here.    SB1101 and HB2161 give cities and towns the power to create tourism marketing authorities, which can levy assessments on hotel rooms.   Although the House version passed the chamber on a 38-20 vote and the Senate version was approved in committee 7-1, neither has advanced since those respective votes. The 2020 versions of the bills also got bipartisan su...

Arizona won’t force women to give birth in cases where a fetus has a genetic abnormality, at least not now, after a state senate from Mesa broke ranks and joined Democrats to defeat the measure. SB 1457 came up one vote short last week as Sen. Tyler Pace sided with all 14 Democrats in refusing to make it a crime for a doctor to terminate a pregnancy knowing it is being sought “because of a genetic abnormality of the child.’’  That same crime, which carried a year in state prison, could also be applied to anyone who assisted – a category that backers acknowledged co...

Capitol Media Services PHOENIX -- Arizona won't force women to give birth in cases where a fetus has a genetic abnormality, at least not now. SB 1457 came up one vote short on Wednesday as Sen. Tyler Pace, R-Mesa, sided with all 14 Democrats in refusing to make it a crime for a doctor to terminate a pregnancy knowing it is being sought "because of a genetic abnormality of the child.'' That same crime, which can carry a year in state prison, could also be applied to anyone who assisted, a category that backers acknowledged could extend from nurses to clerical staff.

Bitterly divided House panel OKs big school voucher bill BOB CHRISTIE, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail PHOENIX (AP) — A bitterly divided Arizona House committee voted Wednesday to advance a massive expansion of the state’s school voucher program just over two years after voters overwhelmingly rejected universal school vouchers. Republicans called the measure already passed by the full Senate a lifeline for 600,000 low-income students who would become entitled to state funding for private school tuition. Minority Democrats argued it would siphon money from already-underfunded public...

March 12, 2021 Share In Arizona, a Republican state senator worried aloud that his party’s proposed voter identification requirements might be too “cumbersome.” But he voted for the bill anyway. In Iowa, the state’s Republican elections chief put out a carefully worded statement that didn’t say whether he backs his own party’s legislation making it more difficult to vote early. And in Georgia, Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan left the room as Senate Republicans approved a bill to block early voting for all but the GOP’s most reliable voting bloc. Duncan instead watched M...