A monthly members-only column by Alan Dulaney
All of the bills that could be introduced in this session of the Arizona Legislature have been dropped. Bills that received a hearing are still alive; however, any bills that were never heard in their assigned committee before the February 17 deadline are considered dead. Of course, some bills are resurrected later during the session as “strikers,” with the original language totally replaced by new verbiage, usually lifted whole-cloth from a previous, now dead bill. Most bills died, of course, because the established powers lobbied hard against those that they perceived as a threat. The dead bills (those that never received a hearing) have been removed.
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