AZ Senate Republicans release long list of priorities for 2024


Arizona Senate Republicans on Thursday introduced the lengthy list of priorities for the upcoming 2024 legislative session, but were light on specifics – particularly how they will overcome potential vetoes from the Democratic governor. 
“We don’t control vetoes, she controls the vetoes,” Senate President Warren Petersen said, sidestepping the fact that Republicans could choose to pass bills that Hobbs is more likely to sign, instead of passing ones that they know she will veto.
During the 2023 session, Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a record 143 bills — all of them Republican bills.

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But Petersen touted the biggest bipartisan accomplishment of the 2023 session: the 2024 budget.
Petersen told reporters that top of mind in 2024 would be inflation relief, public safety and water. The new legislative session starts Jan. 8.
The Republicans’ recently released plan to lower gas prices, as well as its plan to increase teacher pay by $4,000 annually will both play a part in the inflation relief plan, Petersen said. 
While Petersen promised that Republicans have no plans to roll back Arizona’s requirement for new residential developments in urban areas to have a 100-year supply of water, they are aiming to “set the record straight” on the status of water in Arizona. 
“Due to the economically detrimental, factually flawed, and haphazardly announced narrative created by the Governor’s Office about Arizona’s water supply, our state is now in an even more precarious position when it comes to ou …

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