It’s fair to say that the 2023 Legislative Session was like no other in Arizona history. A record number of bills were vetoed, yet a bipartisan budget was passed relatively quickly. Here’s a PowerPoint that briefly summarizes the session along with links to the actual bills themselves.
You’ll see there were actually several good bills that passed including some important gains in the budget like a big infusion into the Housing Trust Fund and some funding to set up Teaching Health Centers to build more primary care residency slots in rural and underserved areas.
The bills that were harmful to public health were vetoed, but a couple of new ballot measures will be on the 2024 ballot that would be harmful -especially the referendum that would limit public health emergencies to just 30 days unless the legislature renews it in additional monthly increments (governors can’t veto legislative ballot referrals).
There were also many missed opportunities to improve public health and government accountability – good bills that either died in committee, failed on the floor, or were amended at the 11th hour to neuter them.
Here’s where you can See the Slide Deck summarizing those bills.
View Our Webinar Summarizing the 2023 Legislative Session
https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/
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