Random Musings

This week at the legislature started quietly - everybody knew stuff was happening, but it was all out of public view.  No one knew when the ...

Correction added on 5/15 - during my initial perusal of SB1492, it appeared as if some Medicaid expansion provisions were included in it alr...

Transparency be damned!  Stoke the boilers with textbooks, civil rights, and the state's future!  Keep the railroad running at full spee...

...Due to a busy weekend and lots of stuff going on yesterday (some former Senator from Illinois visited Phoenix, and the lege still didn...

Well, the budget may or may not pass tonight. Update: Change that to will NOT pass tonight. Apparently, they've adjourned until tomorr...

I'm getting too tired for more analyses, so here are links to the other budget bills on Wednesday's Senate Approps agenda - Capital ...

Oh, this one has a couple of real gems... This is from a proposed striker to SB1187 (ALL CAPS INDICATES NEW LANGUAGE) - ARS 15-185, Section...

On Wednesday, the AZ Senate's Appropriations Committee will be considering a number of bills related to a budget proposal. The cynic in ...

A newly-posted agenda for Senate Approps has the committee meeting at 11 a.m. (or upon adjournment of Senate Public Safety) in SHR1 to cons...

On Tuesday morning (or *this* morning as you read this) the House Appropriations Committee will meet to consider the Republican budget prop...

To summarize the rest of the interesting stuff in the AZ legislature's budget reconciliation bills - HB2784 , Tax Reduction Package - Th...

This one, HB2787 , contains a particularly rancid bit of ugliness. The bill includes language that would require anybody who is arrested for...

HB2789 - Health and Welfare Budget Reconciliation Bad – In a curious move, the BRB removes language that defines a 'small' business...

...and the end of this year's legislative session is in sight... Well, it looks like the lege is finally going to pass a budget within t...