Arizona Law Archives - Page 9 of 32

Renters Targeted By New Arizona Water Law

AZ Central: When the Legislature passed a law in 2010 attempting to forbid cities from collecting delinquent water bills from landlords with four or fewer rental units, several cities found ways to still hold landlords accountable.

Those cities were Glendale, El Mirage and Avondale.

So the Arizona Association of Realtors, the lobbyists behind the bill, went back to the Legislature in the past session and got House Bill 2193 passed.

Tom Farley, CEO and lobbyist for the Realtors association, said the new legislation, which mostly holds whoever lives on the property responsible for water bills, was necessary because some cities did “an end run” around the 2010 legislation.

State Lawmakers Consider Unusual Bills

Arizona Republic: The Arizona Legislature this year got a lot of national media attention for some of its legislation, but it wasn’t the only state lawmaking body to propose some unusual measures.

New Arizona Legislation Aims to Loosen Gun Laws

Arizona Republic: “gun-rights advocates hope to push Arizona to the top of the list by passing a ‘Firearms Omnibus’ bill that would make Arizona the second state in the nation to require universities and communities to allow guns on campus and one of 10 that permit guns inside public government buildings such as the state Capitol.”

Superintendent of Arizona Schools Says Tucson Unified School District Violates Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Law

Arizona Republic: “State schools Superintendent Tom Horne says the Tucson Unified School District is violating a new state law intended to quash its ethnic-studies program, a breach he believes can only be remedied by doing away with Mexican-American studies. . . .He said his findings show the program he has long sought to eliminate runs afoul of the law’s requirement that classes cannot be ‘designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group’.”

Arizona’s Greenhouse-gas Rules to be Enforced by the EPA

Arizona Republic: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will directly enforce new greenhouse-gas rules in parts of Arizona after the state refused to submit its own program for controlling the pollutants. The new rules, which take effect today, add greenhouse gases to the list of pollutants covered under air-quality permits and will eventually require the largest polluters, mainly industrial operations, to reduce emissions.”