Center for Arizona Policy: Protecting the Family | Preserving Our Future

• Requiring parental consent for abortion (1996)
• Banning partial-birth abortion (1997) * 
• Regulating safety standards in abortion clinics (1999) * 
• Revising parental consent for abortion laws following court decision (2000) 
• Revising abortion clinic safety standards following court decision (2000) ** 
• Prohibiting physician assistants from performing surgical abortions (2002) 
• Banning partial-birth abortion (2009)
• Abortion Consent Act – requiring informed consent, enhancing parental consent, and expanding rights of conscience protections for healthcare workers (2009) **
• Prohibiting all non-doctors from performing surgical abortions (2009) **
• Ending taxpayer-funded insurance coverage for government employees’ abortions (2010)
• Improving abortion reporting requirements (2010)
• Requiring an ultrasound before an abortion, banning telemedicine abortions, and improving safety standards for abortion clinics (2011)
• Ending taxpayer-funded abortion training and disqualifying abortion providers from charitable tax credit (2011)
• Clarifying that the board of nursing does not have authority to allow nurses to perform surgical abortions (2011)
• Prohibiting physician assistants from prescribing medication abortions (2011)
• Prohibiting race-selection and sex-selection abortions (2011)
• Prohibiting abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy; strengthening informed consent requirements; requiring FDA compliance for medication abortions (2012)
• Denying abortion providers federal tax dollars that pass through the state (2012)
• Disqualifying abortion providers from charitable tax credits (2012)

• Prohibiting same-sex “marriage” in statute (1996)
• Eliminating marriage tax penalty (1997)
• Creating covenant marriage (1998)
• Revising covenant marriage (1999)
• Funding community-based marriage classes (2000)
• Expressing support for Congress to pass Marriage Protection Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (2005) ***
• Eliminating marriage penalty in tax credits (2005)
• Funding for marriage education (2005)
• Funding for marriage education (2006)
• Funding for marriage education (2007)
• Establishing a preference for adoption placement with a married man and woman (2011)

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)

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)

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)
• Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2007)
• 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) *
• 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)

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)
• Exempting clergy from behavioral health licensing (2003)
• Providing equal access for religious groups to rental of school facilities (2003)
• Ensuring equal access to school facilities for middle school students’ religious clubs (2001)
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)