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CAP-SUPPORTED BILLS THAT BECAME ARIZONA LAW
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Sanctity of Human Life
Abortion
1.                 Requiring parental consent for abortion (1996) *
2.                 Banning partial-birth abortion (1997) *
3.                 Regulating safety standards in abortion clinics (1999) *
4.                 Revising parental consent for abortion laws following court decision  (2000)
5.                 Revising abortion clinic safety standards following court decision (2000) **
6.                 Prohibiting physician assistants from performing surgical abortions (2002)
7.                 Banning partial-birth abortion (2009)
8.                 Abortion Consent Act – requiring informed consent, enhancing parental consent, and expanding rights of conscience protections for healthcare workers (2009) **
9.                 Prohibiting all non-doctors from performing surgical abortions (2009) **
10.             Ending taxpayer-funded insurance coverage for government employees’ abortions (2010)
11.             Improving abortion reporting requirements (2010)
12.             Requiring an ultrasound before an abortion, banning telemedicine abortions, and improving safety standards for abortion clinics (2011)
13.             Ending taxpayer-funded abortion training and disqualifying abortion providers from charitable tax credit (2011)
14.             Clarifying that the board of nursing does not have authority to allow nurses to perform surgical abortions  (2011)
15.             Prohibiting physician assistants from prescribing medication abortions (2011)
16.             Prohibiting race-selection and sex-selection abortions (2011)
Bioethics
17.             Banning taxpayer funding of human cloning (2005)
18.             Promoting umbilical cord blood donations (2006)
19.             Funding for an adult stem cell research and tissue bank (2007)
20.             Requiring informed consent for human egg donation and banning the sale of eggs for cloning (2010)
21.             Banning human cloning, destructive human embryonic stem cell research, sale of human embryos, and human-animal hybrids (2010)
Patient Care
22.             Providing for reinstatement of food/fluid if improperly removed (2008)
23.                            Protecting incapacitated patients from having food/fluid removed without a court order or written health care directive (2009)
Humanity of Preborn Children
24.             Defining “live birth” in vital statistics statutes (2004)
25.             Protecting preborn children from crime through fetal homicide statutes (2005)
Promoting Alternatives to Abortion
26.             Funding for alternatives to abortion (2006)
27.             Funding for alternatives to abortion (2007)
28.             Making Choose Life license plates available on Service Arizona’s website (2009)
29.             Simplifying the charitable tax credit (2009)
30.             Recognizing the work of pregnancy care centers (2011) ***
 
Marriage and Family
Protecting and Strengthening Marriage
31.             Prohibiting same-sex “marriage” in statute (1996)
32.             Eliminating marriage tax penalty (1997)
33.             Creating covenant marriage (1998)
34.             Revising covenant marriage (1999)
35.             Funding community-based marriage classes (2000)
36.             Expressing support for Congress to pass Marriage Protection Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (2005) ***
37.             Eliminating marriage penalty in tax credits (2005)
38.             Funding for marriage education (2005)
39.             Funding for marriage education (2006)
40.             Funding for marriage education (2007)
41.             Establishing a preference for adoption placement with a married man and woman (2011)
Divorce Reform
42.             Allowing judge to consider criminal conviction of abuse by a spouse when dividing property in a divorce (2004)
43.             Enhancing parenting education class and allowing for additional time to reconcile before divorce is finalized (2011)
Parents’ Rights
44.             Protecting parents’ rights in Child Protective Services proceedings (2003)
45.             Prohibiting schools from requiring students to receive the HPV vaccine (2007)
46.             Protecting fundamental rights of parents to direct education and upbringing of their children (2010)
47.             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)
48.             Prohibiting pharmacists from administering immunizations to minors without parental consent (2011)
Sexual Decency and Pornography
49.             Authorizing counties to license and regulate sexually-oriented businesses (1996)
50.             Strengthening child pornography laws (1996)
51.             Funding for obscenity prosecutions (1997)
52.             Protecting children from news rack pornography (1997)
53.             Closing sex businesses during overnight hours (1998) **
54.             Protecting children in public schools/libraries from Internet pornography (1999)
55.             Prohibiting state employees from accessing Internet pornography at work (2003)
56.             Regulating unsolicited spam e-mail (2003)
57.             Preventing use of film industry tax incentives for making pornography (2005)
58.             Regulating the distance between sexually-oriented businesses and schools, churches (2006)
59.             Requiring sex offenders to register their online identities in addition to their street addresses (2007)
60.             Prohibiting sexual predators from misrepresenting their ages on the Internet (2008)
61.             Removing defense for predators who engage in child prostitution (2010)
62.             Strengthening child prostitution laws to allow harsher punishment for predators (2011)
School Choice/Education
63.             Allowing homeschooled students to participate in interscholastic activities (1999)
64.             Ensuring homeschooled students are eligible for Regent Scholarships from state universities (1999)
65.             Requiring daily recitation of a portion of the Declaration of Independence in 4th-6th grades (2000)
66.             Providing access to school services for home-schooled students with special needs (2001)
67.             Ensuring homeschooled students are eligible for guaranteed admission to state universities (2004)
68.             Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2005)
69.             Increasing funding for abstinence until marriage education (2006)
70.             Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2007)
71.             Offering a corporate tax credit for donations to provide scholarships for low-income students (2006)
72.             Increasing amount of corporate tax credit for donations to provide scholarships for low-income students (2006)
73.             Providing education and training scholarships for older teens who are wards of the state (2006)
74.             Creating a postsecondary education grant program for Arizona residents (2006)
75.             Providing grants for foster children to attend private schools chosen by their parents (2006) *
76.             Providing grants for children with special needs to attend private schools chosen by their parents (2006) *
77.             Continuing the corporate scholarship tax credit (2009)
78.             Streamlining scholarship tax credit program through withholding tax reduction (2009)
79.             Creating new corporate tax credit for donations to provide scholarships  for students with special needs to attend private schools chosen by their parents (2009)
80.             Increasing accountability and transparency for individual scholarship tax credit (2010)
81.             Increasing accountability and transparency for corporate scholarship tax credits (2010)
82.             Extending deadline to April 15 for individual scholarship tax credit donations (2010)
83.             Reporting requirement for equity in university scholarships (2010)
84.             Establishing Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for special needs students to use toward education expenses (2011)
85.             Defining a homeschool as a nonpublic school (2011)
Gambling
86.             Raising the minimum age for gambling to 21 (2000)
87.             Placing restrictions on Indian gambling compacts (2000)
88.             Tightening lottery restrictions (2000)
Accountable Government
89.             Providing easier access to public records (2002)
90.             Requiring Secretary of State to publicize the yes/no language that will appear on the ballot in a timely manner to ensure fairness and impartiality (2010)
Judicial Reform
91.             Publishing online biographical information and constitutional decisions by appellate court judges on the retention election ballot (2011)
92.             Requiring online publication of all decisions for appellate court judges on the retention election ballot (2011)
 
Religious Liberty
93.             Allowing government to contract with private charities for goods and services without discriminating against religious organizations (1999)
94.             Exempting clergy from behavioral health licensing (2003)
95.             Providing equal access for religious groups to rental of school facilities (2003)
96.             Ensuring equal access to school facilities for middle school students’ religious clubs (2001)
97.             Recognizing and protecting public school students’ religious liberties (2009)
98.             Prohibiting discrimination against churches in how they use their own property (2010)
99.             Recognizing and protecting university students’ religious liberties and freedom of speech (2011)
100.        Exempting churches from being forced to file as political campaigns when they speak out on ballot measures (2011)

*    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.

CAP-SUPPORTED BILLS REFERRED TO THE BALLOT

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

 

CAP-SUPPORTED BILLS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE
VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR

1.                 Increasing the minimum age for gambling to 21 (1999-Hull)
2.                 Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2003-Napolitano)
3.                 Exempting religious organizations from being forced to provide contraception (2003-Napolitano)
4.                 Requiring informed consent for abortion (2004-Napolitano)
5.                 Protecting rights of conscience of healthcare workers (2005-Napolitano)
6.                 Requiring public schools to provide information to parents (2005-Napolitano)
7.                 Allowing a judge to consider marital misconduct when dividing property in divorce (2005-Napolitano)
8.                 Providing scholarship grants for low-income students (2005-Napolitano)
9.                 Offering corporate tax credit for donations for scholarships for low-income students (2005-Napolitano)
10.              Offering corporate tax credit for donations for scholarships for low-income students (2006-Napolitano)
11.              Streamlining scholarship tax credit program through withholding tax reduction (2006-Napolitano)
12.              Amending the corporate scholarship tax credit for tuitions scholarships (2006 -Napolitano)
13.              Requiring fetal pain information be given to mothers for abortions past 20 weeks (2006-Napolitano)
14.              Requiring notarized parental consent requirement for minor’s abortion (2006-Napolitano)
15.              Establishing guidelines for judges in cases where minors seek abortion without parental consent (2006-Napolitano)
16.              Ending taxpayer-funded insurance coverage for government employees’ abortions (2006-Napolitano)
17.              Banning the sale of human eggs for cloning (2006-Napolitano)
18.              Requiring informed consent for human egg donation (2006-Napolitano)
19.              Protecting the First Amendment rights of university student organizations (2006-Napolitano)
20.              Banning partial-birth abortion (2008-Napolitano)
21.              Establishing guidelines for judges in cases where minors seek abortion without parental consent (2008-Napolitano)
22.              Expanding current scholarship tax credits and clarifying statutes governing school tuition organizations (2011-Brewer)
23.              Protecting professionals from losing their state license for exercising their religious beliefs (2011-Brewer)
24.              Expanding individual scholarship tax credit to provide scholarships for low-income students or students with special needs (2011-Brewer)

 

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