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Representative Powell, explaining a no vote, said the bill \"holds people responsible for somebody else's decision\" and that legislators should not remove individual accountability. \"We cannot take that responsibility away from that person,\" Powell said, adding that while there should be accountability for actions that contribute to a death, the bill as written held people accountable for another person's independent choices.

Following floor explanations the clerk recorded the vote as 26 ayes and 33 nays and announced the bill failed on third reading. The transcript shows members offering moral and philosophical rationales for their votes; the debate focused on whether the proposed expansion of culpability was appropriate under the law.

The clerk recorded the House action and the bill did not pass on third reading.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","06/18/2025 - House Floor Session","oneSentenceSummary","Senate Bill 16 21, which would have amended Arizona law relating to drug offenses, failed in the House after members expressed concern about holding people responsible for another person’s independent choice. The measure failed 26-33 following floor explanations of votes.","taxTitle","2025 Legislature Arizona, Arizona","taxId",78572,"location","Arizona","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6190494,"House approves bill limiting employees' access to courts by expanding arbitration; critics say it favors employers",91,1515000,1606000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5049027-b6b75fefd97616e43a46baac7a5b9b98&start=1515&end=1606","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5049027-b6b75fefd97616e43a46baac7a5b9b98/thumbnail_1515000.jpg","/articles/6190494/Arizona/House-approves-bill-limiting-employees-access-to-courts-by-expanding-arbitration-critics-say-it-favors-employers","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6190494-c0a33b0a7e599cb4016bcbfdc0d4d9f4/orig.mp4?Expires=1771176340&Signature=NSgjnztHWIublfFqYu5L-wtqLVZkW0cNvGRNe8EDfO3jdefKcWZ6pXuF7iSRJAbV8ZjBCo2fHbRQGdsmiv2gTEtopkMplFYF0h4c1Vl0kKLkg12jZInP~a00l0aReUuPX0VYdaTE4-HrmGkbQCfdXNnYWxNOeJE6M6t8MeC~b9sJpJOgLeXInJA8uLMUO1tDA0y~jQPtJ0~UutR9tLTf90gNZFOKq~reifGHVLeNo5USNj52FeZzh3EGerEcx6OyV3phxgcVn6viGJlBCIwsjbPeXqUjJ8-YYdX-tYsuQQn5mCey323fA4mB4SSmXjT3PiFK0yNgMWLDKWR95KGCBA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Arizona House on June 17 passed Senate Bill 15 14, which amends Title 23 regarding employment relationships and—according to opponents on the floor—would make arbitration the primary pathway for many workplace disputes. The final recorded vote was 34 ayes, 25 nays and 1 not voting.

Critics argued arbitration disadvantages employees by imposing fees and giving repeat business to arbitrators who handle employer cases. \"Arbitration costs employees more money, and gives employer power over the worker,\" Representative Aguilar said in explaining a no vote. \"This is literally just protecting working class people from being able to file a grievance with their employer. This would force employees to have to pay fees to file a grievance with their employer.\"

Supporters did not make extended floor remarks captured in the transcript; the clerk recorded the passage of the bill and instructed the clerk to convey it to the Senate.

The debate focused on how mandatory or favored arbitration affects workers' access to remedies and on broader concerns about worker protections and costs. The recorded explanations on the floor show partisan disagreement: Aguilar argued the bill is \"an anti-worker veil in the state of Arizona,\" while others supported the measure as a matter of statutory change to employment dispute resolution.

The clerk recorded the final vote and the House ordered the bill conveyed to the Senate for further action or processing.","The House passed Senate Bill 15 14, a bill revising employment dispute rules to favor arbitration, amid floor explanations that the law will increase costs for workers and shift dispute resolution power toward employers. The bill passed 34-25-1.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6190500,"House reconsiders and passes bill critics say could allow campaign contribution rollovers",296,703000,999000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5049027-b6b75fefd97616e43a46baac7a5b9b98&start=703&end=999","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5049027-b6b75fefd97616e43a46baac7a5b9b98/thumbnail_703000.jpg","/articles/6190500/Arizona/House-reconsiders-and-passes-bill-critics-say-could-allow-campaign-contribution-rollovers","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6190500-3d34bac78980648491f68106edad4d2c/orig.mp4?Expires=1771176340&Signature=GGNTw0JG65rCIDqv-jpwlsu7~iOhFdwERbBOIAq8te1xqX931nf1V6f7FMq~RgqWXV1Q2sh3M25SQdDsLw36QyY6Ugc2HPtMA81OuCqjHlhyn6wrdRV0nrMla9~93PrlMF3C8r-kRiFUUpwW7bOdFQdSGJ4UedUhSAgk0rVYpFKMR6kkGVbhTTGJ0OspisAtpqxGAeu2xztQm6ZFJCXZMOKTLvjjJWmK~69aJ7CUuN59XLH9CPLIBBqms6PguS5VNqlvPLGpZAXeuEwhinccPWy1ABGEFDkFw8BC~tucLxZpkNfAv~fuofz3WeEBB8y78AfSl3V4zDFVM8Ul28GCQg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Arizona House on June 17 voted to reconsider its prior action and then passed Senate Bill 11 29 on reconsideration, 31-25-4, forwarding the bill to the Senate.

Majority Leader Carbone moved the House to reconsider its May 7 action and place Senate Bill 11 29 back on third reading. The motion carried and, following debate, the House recorded a final vote of 31 ayes, 25 nays and 4 not voting.

Opponents on the floor warned the bill would create a loophole around Arizona's campaign finance limits. \"This bill is written to allow folks to make an end run around our state's campaign finance laws,\" Representative Collin said, arguing that municipal committees could take contributions above legislative limits and later roll them into state campaigns. \"If you allow that money to be rolled over into a legislative campaign ... you allow somebody to open up a municipal committee, take contributions in excess of the limit, and then roll them over to the legislative campaign, circumventing our state's campaign finance laws,\" Collin said.

Supporters did not offer extended debate on the floor beyond moving the reconsideration and adopting committee recommendations; the clerk recorded that the House had passed the bill on reconsideration and instructed the clerk to convey it to the Senate.

The measure's critics framed the vote as a change that could affect how campaign money is collected and transferred between municipal and legislative committees. The House journal entry records the motion to reconsider by Representative Carbone and the recorded passage on reconsideration; the transcript shows Representative Collin explaining his no vote but does not include an extended defense of the bill text on the floor.","The Arizona House voted to reconsider and then passed Senate Bill 11 29 on June 17 after floor debate warning the measure could allow municipal committees to funnel funds into legislative campaigns, a move opponents said would circumvent contribution limits.",{"_33":101,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":102,"_41":103,"_43":104,"_45":105,"_47":106,"_49":107,"_51":108,"_53":109,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":110,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":111,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6190504,"House approves measure that can remove school board members after receivership; lawmakers split",891,2404000,3295000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5049027-b6b75fefd97616e43a46baac7a5b9b98&start=2404&end=3295","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5049027-b6b75fefd97616e43a46baac7a5b9b98/thumbnail_2404000.jpg","/articles/6190504/Arizona/House-approves-measure-that-can-remove-school-board-members-after-receivership-lawmakers-split","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6190504-d79e815c0f55eba73452b7d764418989/orig.mp4?Expires=1771176340&Signature=YZKd-BMtoaJZERHwMruwouTDLHTcLP~-p30-0RZ4aY8xSLX6ktlNTfRGDBpMszBC7Rw3qaZbmYUonLzYGvaspbcZ~52-fidrw5sCITqjVDbA4q2ZBaG4ADNWJsz~xfee8okc3d9i8MWmisd-AD4-4qYPNzotExkyPgVnlyxqiG4zyF8fu6M9C9NuPgZXxMmNl9AlDgXSOcQGypLa4~x5Ik3VwH9l9FOQCmFqYL7Sd7e0M04hjORcyxSr53mevQ46GmScd5eyuAE~CMOGaizZRnSMs-pqH~d8AcevL0Otc2jaex05vUPKF3dT1xSdSbwqOzxgvwXLkz4sGvBiCekShQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Arizona House of Representatives on June 17 approved House Bill 2610, a measure that creates a pathway to remove or bar governing board members when a school district enters receivership, passing the bill 39-20-1 and sending it to the governor.

Supporters said the bill is designed to hold school board members accountable for financial mismanagement and to prevent future failures that put students at risk. \"If you do not notify the department of education ... and the district goes into receivership, you're fired,\" Representative Gress said, describing the bill as a way to \"clean up a lot of problems.\" He also criticized what he described as a \"predatory\" $25,000,000 loan made involving Tolleson Union High School District and said the loan carried a balloon payment he said would leave Isaac Elementary facing roughly $18,000,000 due in four years.

The bill matters because it changes the consequences for elected local officials and could lead to the removal of school board members following state receivership actions. Opponents argued the Legislature would be overreaching into locally elected authority and warned of direct harms to students and staff if the law is applied retroactively.

Representative Gutierrez said the bill is \"overreaching\" and that \"it is not up to the legislature to force a governing board member or members ... to resign,\" stressing that school board members are publicly elected and that removal decisions historically involve county boards of supervisors. Representative Aguilar, who voted no, argued the bill's retroactivity could force schools to close and cost local jobs, saying \"when you're introducing a bill that will hurt a school district and leave kids with no school to go to, I think there's a serious problem there.\"

Other members navigated between criticism of local mismanagement and concern over state power. Representative Livingston, a former school board member, said mismanagement exists and supported accountability, while Representative Potts argued for keeping democratic choice intact, calling the bill a \"reaction, not a remedy.\" Representative Cruz warned against \"trampling on local control\" and voted no.

On procedure, Representative Gress moved that the House concur in the Senate amendments to House Bill 2610. After debate and explanations of vote, the clerk recorded a final tally of 39 ayes, 20 nays and 1 not voting. The journal entry notes the bill passed on final reading and the clerk was instructed to convey it to the governor.

The debate highlighted several substantive questions left for implementation: whether the measure applies retroactively to Dec. 31 (a point raised by opponents), how state and county officeholders share responsibility for oversight, and what safeguards (if any) the bill includes for due process before removal. The transcript records members pressing on local budget oversight and prior audits, but the bill text and any implementing rules will determine how removals and related processes operate.

With the passage, House Bill 2610 moves to the governor for consideration; the transcript records the House directing the clerk to convey the bill to the governor.","The Arizona House passed House Bill 2610 on final reading after extended debate about local control, accountability for Isaac Elementary School District, and potential harm to students if the bill is applied retroactively. The measure drew sharply divided votes and competing views about state intervention and local elections.","actionData","errors"]

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