Divorce Reform

• Allowing judge to consider criminal conviction of abuse by a spouse when dividing property in a divorce (2004)
• Enhancing parenting education class and allowing for additional time to reconcile before divorce is finalized (2011)

Parents’ Rights

• Protecting parents’ rights in Child Protective Services proceedings (2003)
• Prohibiting schools from requiring students to receive the HPV vaccine (2007)
• Protecting fundamental rights of parents to direct education and upbringing of their children (2010)
• Protecting parents’ rights in charter schools and requiring permission from parents in all public schools for audio, video, or electronic material that is not age-appropriate (2011)
• Prohibiting pharmacists from administering immunizations to minors without parental consent (2011)
• Awarding in vitro embryos disputed in divorce proceedings to spouse that intends to bring them to birth (2018)
• Shortening the time period to find forever homes for babies in the foster care system (2018)
• Requiring parental notification before a do-not-resuscitate order is placed on minor’s medical chart (2019)
• Ensuring parental access to their child’s educational and medical records and requiring parental notification prior to giving students surveys at school (2022)

Sexual Decency and Pornography

• Authorizing counties to license and regulate sexually-oriented businesses (1996)
• Strengthening child pornography laws (1996)
• Funding for obscenity prosecutions (1997)
• Protecting children from news rack pornography (1997)
• Closing sex businesses during overnight hours (1998)
• Protecting children in public schools/libraries from internet pornography (1999)
• Prohibiting state employees from accessing internet pornography at work (2003)
• Regulating unsolicited spam e-mail (2003)
• Preventing use of film industry tax incentives for making pornography (2005)
• Regulating the distance between sexually-oriented businesses and schools, churches (2006)
• Requiring sex offenders to register their online identities in addition to their street addresses (2007)
• Prohibiting sexual predators from misrepresenting their ages on the internet (2008)
• Removing defense for predators who engage in child prostitution (2010)
• Strengthening child prostitution laws to allow harsher punishment for predators (2011)
• Requiring computers in public schools and libraries to have online filters (2012)
• Ensuring that arts funding is not spent on obscenity or material that disgraces the U.S. or Arizona flag (2012)
• Strengthening laws against human sex trafficking; establishing an affirmative defense for victims charged with prostitution (2014)
• Declaring pornography a public health crisis in Arizona (2019) ***
• Prohibiting males from competing on female school sports teams (2022)
• Prohibiting gender-related surgeries on minors (2022)

School Choice/Education

• Allowing homeschooled students to participate in interscholastic activities (1999)
• Ensuring homeschooled students are eligible for Regent Scholarships from state universities (1999)
• Requiring daily recitation of a portion of the Declaration of Independence in 4th-6th grades (2000)
• Providing access to school services for home-schooled students with special needs (2001)
• Ensuring homeschooled students are eligible for guaranteed admission to state universities (2004)
• Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2005)
• Increasing funding for abstinence until marriage education (2006)
• Offering a corporate tax credit for donations to provide scholarships for low-income students (2006)
• Increasing amount of corporate tax credit for donations to provide scholarships for low-income students (2006)
• Providing education and training scholarships for older teens who are wards of the state (2006)
• Creating a postsecondary education grant program for Arizona residents (2006)
• Providing grants for foster children to attend private schools chosen by their parents (2006) *
• Providing grants for children with special needs to attend private schools chosen by their parents (2006) *
• Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2007)
• Continuing the corporate scholarship tax credit (2009)
• Streamlining scholarship tax credit program through withholding tax reduction (2009)
• Creating new corporate tax credit for donations to provide scholarships for students with special needs to attend private schools chosen by their parents (2009)
• Increasing accountability and transparency for individual scholarship tax credit (2010)
• Increasing accountability and transparency for corporate scholarship tax credits (2010)
• Extending deadline to April 15 for individual scholarship tax credit donations (2010)
• Reporting requirement for equity in university scholarships (2010)
• Establishing Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for special needs students to use toward education expenses (2011)
• Defining a homeschool as a nonpublic school (2011)
• Creating a new tax credit designated for children switching from public to private school (2012)
• Expanding Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for children at failing schools, children of active duty military, and foster children that have been adopted (2012)
• Allowing kindergarteners to participate in the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program and increasing the funding formula for the program (2013)
• Protecting the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program from abuse, while ensuring families still have access to the program (2013)
• Strengthening the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program to operate as the legislature intended (2014)
• Expanding the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program to include siblings of current recipients and children with disabilities (2014)
• Removing unnecessary requirements so that all children of active duty or KIA military are eligible for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (2014)
• Removing burdensome requirements from the Lexie’s Law school choice program to allow all disabled or displaced children to be eligible (2014)
• Expanding the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program to include all children living on Native American reservations (2015)
• Expanding the corporate scholarship tax credit to S-Corporations (2015)
• Enacting reforms in the Empowerment Scholarship Account program to ensure the long-term success of the program (2016)
• Allowing students with disabilities to remain in the Empowerment Scholarship Account program until the age of 22 under certain circumstances (2016)
• Requiring all governmental entities to treat all Arizona school diplomas and transcripts equally, including homeschool diplomas and transcripts (2017)
• Prohibiting school districts from withdrawing a property for sale or lease solely because a charter or private school is the highest bidder (2018)
• Treating private schools the same as charter schools in zoning acreage requirements (2018)
• Allowing homeschool students to receive college credit when enrolled in a dual enrollment course (2018)
• Adding K-12 private school tuition as qualified expense for the 529 education savings plan (2019)
• Updating law on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts to provide greater transparency, education, and administration, and meeting the needs of children living on the reservation and attending schools within two miles of the state border (2020)
• Requiring Arizona Department of Education and school districts to post parental rights handbook on websites (2020)
• Prohibiting sex education from being taught before fifth grade and requiring parents to opt-in to sexuality related instruction in any class, as well as being given advanced access to the material (2021)
• Expanding those students eligible for Student Tuition Organization (STO) scholarships and increasing caps (2021)
• Increasing “Lexi’s Law” funding for families with special needs children (2021)
• Easing the public school attendance requirement for students qualifying for an Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) (2021)
• Expanding eligibility for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts to all Arizona students (2022)

Gambling

• Raising the minimum age for gambling to 21 (2000)
• Placing restrictions on Indian gambling compacts (2000)
• Tightening lottery restrictions (2000)

• Allowing government to contract with private charities for goods and services without discriminating against religious organizations (1999)
• Ensuring equal access to school facilities for middle school students’ religious clubs (2001)
• Exempting clergy from behavioral health licensing (2003)
• Providing equal access for religious groups to rental of school facilities (2003)
• Recognizing and protecting public school students’ religious liberties (2009)
• Prohibiting discrimination against churches in how they use their own property (2010)
• Recognizing and protecting university students’ religious liberties and freedom of speech (2011)
• Exempting churches from being forced to file as political campaigns when they speak out on ballot measures (2011)
• Protecting licensed professionals from having their licenses threatened because of the free exercise of their religious beliefs (2012)
• Protecting professors from being denied tenure because of their political or religious beliefs (2012)
• Exempting religiously-affiliated employers from being forced to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs or contraception (2012)
• Ensuring university student fees are not used for political campaigns (2013)
• Placing in statute previous state policy to enable church-run preschools to be exempt from unemployment insurance regulation (2013)
• Exempting churches who rent or lease their property from most property taxes (2015)
• Protecting the conscience rights of employers related to advising about specific health care services (2016)
• Protecting free speech and the ability of organizations to speak out on issues like ballot measures and engage in the elections process (2016)
• Aligning Arizona’s law governing nonprofit organizations with federal law (2016)
• Prohibiting the creation of “free speech zones” on public college campuses and ensuring if a student’s free speech rights are restricted, the student or the Attorney General can bring a legal claim against the college or university (2016)
• Prohibiting work-related discrimination against health care providers that exercise their conscience rights by declining to provide medical care that could cause or assist in causing the death of an individual (2017)
• Strengthening free speech and religious freedom in Arizona’s public universities and community colleges (2018)
• Clarifying that public universities and colleges may not restrict student speech, unless restrictions are constitutional (2019)
• Requiring a hospital to facilitate an in-person visit by clergy for religious purposes, if the hospital allows in-person visitation of any kind (2021)
• Requiring nursing homes and the like to facilitate an in-person visit by clergy for religious purposes if the hospital allows in-person visitation of any kind (2022)
• Deeming religious organizations essential during a public emergency (2022)
• Prohibiting discrimination against religious adoption and foster agencies and families (2022)

* This bill passed the Arizona Legislature but was later overturned in court.
** Lawsuit pending
*** A resolution is an expression of the Legislature’s opinion or intent and has no legal effect.

• Publishing online biographical information and constitutional decisions by appellate court judges on the retention election ballot (2011)
• Requiring online publication of all decisions for appellate court judges on the retention election ballot (2011)
• Granting proponents of a ballot measure legal standing to defend a proposition in court (2012)
• Preventing additional legal protections for campaign committees that use felons to collect signatures for petitions (2013) †
• Increasing the number of judicial candidates sent to the governor for consideration from three to five (2013) *

• Defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the Arizona Constitution (2008) – PASSED *
• Reforming judicial selection process by reducing the influence of appointed commissions and the State Bar and eliminating party considerations (2011)

*    This bill passed but was later overturned in court.

• Expanding the Empowerment Scholarship Account program to include all district and charter school students by phasing in eligibility over the next four years (2017)

• Increasing the minimum age for gambling to 21 (1999-Hull)
• Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2003-Napolitano)
• Exempting religious organizations from being forced to provide contraception (2003-Napolitano)
• Requiring informed consent for abortion (2004-Napolitano)
• Protecting rights of conscience of healthcare workers (2005-Napolitano)
• Requiring public schools to provide information to parents (2005-Napolitano)
• Allowing a judge to consider marital misconduct when dividing property in divorce (2005-Napolitano)
• Providing scholarship grants for low-income students (2005-Napolitano)
• Offering corporate tax credit for donations for scholarships for low-income students (2005-Napolitano)
• Offering corporate tax credit for donations for scholarships for low-income students (2006-Napolitano)
• Streamlining scholarship tax credit program through withholding tax reduction (2006-Napolitano)
• Amending the corporate scholarship tax credit for tuitions scholarships (2006-Napolitano)
• Requiring fetal pain information be given to mothers for abortions past 20 weeks (2006-Napolitano)
• Requiring notarized parental consent requirement for minor’s abortion (2006-Napolitano)
• Establishing guidelines for judges in cases where minors seek abortion without parental consent (2006-Napolitano)
• Ending taxpayer-funded insurance coverage for government employees’ abortions (2006-Napolitano)
• Banning the sale of human eggs for cloning (2006-Napolitano)
• Requiring informed consent for human egg donation (2006-Napolitano)
• Protecting the First Amendment rights of university student organizations (2006-Napolitano)
• Banning partial-birth abortion (2008-Napolitano)
• Establishing guidelines for judges in cases where minors seek abortion without parental consent (2008-Napolitano)
• Expanding current scholarship tax credits and clarifying statutes governing school tuition organizations (2011-Brewer)
• Protecting professionals from losing their state license for exercising their religious beliefs (2011-Brewer)
• Expanding individual scholarship tax credit to provide scholarships for low-income students or students with special needs (2011-Brewer)
• Expanding Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for gifted children (2012-Brewer)
• Expanding the corporate scholarship tax credit to limited liability companies and S-Corporations (2013-Brewer)
• Clarifying and updating Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act to strengthen religious liberty protections (2013-Brewer)
• Clarifying property tax exemptions to ensure churches are protected from being unfairly assessed the tax (2013-Brewer)
• Strengthening and clarifying the religious freedom protections in Arizona law (2014-Brewer)
• Exempting churches that rent and do not own their facilities from paying most property taxes (2014-Brewer)
• Expanding the corporate scholarship tax credit to S-Corporations (2014-Brewer)
• Adding parental consent opt-in requirement for HIV-education, prohibiting sex education prior to fifth grade, other changes (2021-Ducey)++
• Requiring written parental consent for school personnel to call a student by a name or pronoun contrary to their biological sex. Protects the conscience rights of school personnel by prohibiting government from forcing them to use counter pronouns (2023 – Hobbs)
• Ensuring taxpayer money is not used to fund drag shows targeting minors (2023 – Hobbs)
• Prohibiting cabaret performances, including drag shows on public property in view of children (2023 – Hobbs)
• Applying Arizona’s adult businesses statutes to drag shows (2023 – Hobbs)
• Requiring biologically sex-specific restrooms and locker rooms on public school campuses and requiring school provide accommodations for students unwilling or unable to comply (2023 – Hobbs)
• Simplifying the two individual scholarship tax credit programs (2023 – Hobbs)
• Prohibiting public schools and state agencies from teaching critical race theory (2023- Hobbs)
• Requiring healthcare professionals to provide medically appropriate and reasonable care to all babies born alive, regardless of their prognosis (2023 – Hobbs)
• Increasing the penalty for those convicted of domestic violence against a pregnant woman (2023 – Hobbs) 
• Encouraging prenatal care and providing treatment for pregnant women addicted to drugs (2023 – Hobbs) 
• Requiring content filters be turned on for devices purchased by minors to restrict access to 18+ content (2024 – Hobbs)
• Ensuring equality of medical insurance coverage for individuals seeking treatments for the purpose of detransitioning (2024 – Hobbs)
• Protecting the right of a parent to access their minor child’s electronic medical records (2024 – Hobbs)
• Preventing a biological male from entering/sharing public school showers with biological girls, and requiring the schools to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals who do not wish to use the space designated for their biological sex (2024 – Hobbs)
• Adding children placed in foster care to the list of children exempt from the 90-day waiting period for STO approval (2024 – Hobbs)
• Adding terms for the purpose of defining biological sex in Arizona statutory law (2024 – Hobbs)