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Paul Boyer in 2019. One day after all Republicans in the Arizona Senate voted to pass a controversial school voucher bill, a handful of those same Republicans voted to halt the bill in its tracks. Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita (R-Scottsdale) gave no explanation why she made the motion to request that representatives send SB 1452 back to the Senate from the House— when a bill is first approved in one chamber, it’s transmitted to the other. To Sen. Kelly Townsend, the intent was clear: Ugenti-Rita was retaliating against fellow Republican Paul Boyer, the sponsor of the voucher bill. Boyer was t...

PHOENIX (AP) — Voters would be asked to allow Arizona residents enrolled in a federal...

Paul Boyer is Arizona's most powerful senator (and maybe its most endangered?) Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic © Arizona Legislature State Sen. Paul Boyer, R-Phoenix He is the only thing that stands these days between the Arizona Legislature and full-on, flat-out crazy. Now his Republican colleagues are making him pay for it. Sen. Paul Boyer, the last moderate Republican standing in the Legislature, is living in the woodshed these days. This isn’t his first trip. That would have been two years ago, when he and then-Sen. Heather Carter withheld their votes on the state ...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate on Monday narrowly approved a major expansion of the...

At Monday’s meeting of the Arizona House Health and Human Services Committee, members heard testimony in favor of a bill that would add spina bifida to the list of developmental disabilities. Concerns emerged regarding unclarified details of the bill and its potentially hefty price tag.     House Bill 2540’s sponsor, Rep. Jennifer Longdon, says spina bifida leads to harmful developmental delays. Including spina bifida on the list of developmental disabilities would make individuals with spina bifida eligible for crucial medical support, she said. Currently, children with spina bifida st...