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Marriages and families should be strengthened by public policy, not attacked or weakened.
Strong families are at the foundation of a thriving state and nation. The family plays an essential role in our culture. A government that promotes liberty and affirms individual responsibility should pass legislation that builds up families and values traditional marriage. Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) works with elected officials at all levels of government in Arizona to make our state the best place to raise a family.
Much of the national discussion about marriage and the family revolves around so-called same-sex “marriage.”
Those seeking to redefine marriage often attempt to end the discussion by calling names and using terms like “equality” and “no hate.” Yet this debate is not about equality or hate, it’s about the importance of a timeless institution and restoring it to its rightful place in our society.
CAP-Supported Marriage & Family Laws
- Allowing homeschooled students to participate in interscholastic activities.
Passed in 1999. - Allowing judge to consider criminal conviction of abuse by a spouse when dividing property in a divorce.
Passed in 2004. - Authorizing counties to license and regulate sexually-oriented businesses.
Passed in 1996. - Continuing the corporate scholarship tax credit.
Passed in 2009. - Creating a new tax credit designated for children switching from public to private schools.
Passed in 2012. - Creating a postsecondary education grant program for Arizona residents.
Passed in 2006. - Creating covenant marriage.
Passed in 1998. - Creating new corporate tax credit for donations to provide scholarships for students with special needs to attend private schools chosen by their parents.
Passed in 2009. - Defining a homeschool as a nonpublic school.
Passed in 2011. - Eliminating marriage penalty in tax credits.
Passed in 2005. - Eliminating marriage tax penalty.
Passed in 1997. - Enhancing parenting education class and allowing for additional time to reconcile before divorce is finalized.
Passed in 2011. - Ensuring homeschooled students are eligible for guaranteed admission to state universities.
Passed in 2004. - Ensuring homeschooled students are eligible for Regent Scholarships from state universities.
Passed in 1999. - Ensuring that arts funding is not spent on obscenity or material that disgraces the U.S. or Arizona flag.
Passed in 2012. - Establishing a preference for adoption placement with a married man and woman.
Passed in 2011. - Establishing Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for special needs students to use toward education expenses.
Passed in 2011. - Expanding Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for children at failing schools, children of active duty military, and foster children that have been adopted.
Passed in 2012. - Expressing support for Congress to pass Marriage Protection Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Passed in 2005. - Extending deadline to April 15 for individual scholarship tax credit donations.
Passed in 2010. - Funding community-based marriage classes.
Passed in 2000. - Funding for abstinence until marriage education.
Passed in 2005. - Funding for abstinence until marriage education.
Passed in 2007. - Funding for marriage education.
Passed in 2005. - Funding for marriage education.
Passed in 2006. - Funding for marriage education.
Passed in 2007. - Funding for obscenity prosecutions.
Passed in 1997. - Granting proponents of a ballot measure legal standing to defend a proposition in court.
Passed in 2012. - Increasing accountability and transparency for corporate scholarship tax credits.
Passed in 2010. - Increasing accountability and transparency for individual scholarship tax credit.
Passed in 2010. - Increasing amount of corporate tax credit for donations to provide scholarships for low-income students.
Passed in 2006. - Increasing funding for abstinence until marriage education.
Passed in 2006. - Offering a corporate tax credit for donations to provide scholarships for low-income students.
Passed in 2006. - Placing restrictions on Indian gambling compacts.
Passed in 2000. - Preventing use of film industry tax incentives for making pornography.
Passed in 2005. - Prohibiting pharmacists from administering immunizations to minors without parental consent.
Passed in 2011. - Prohibiting same-sex "marriage" in statute.
Passed in 1996.
- Prohibiting schools from requiring students to receive the HPV vaccine.
Passed in 2007. - Prohibiting sexual predators from misrepresenting their ages on the Internet.
Passed in 2008. - Prohibiting state employees from accessing Internet pornography at work.
Passed in 2003. - Protecting children from news rack pornography.
Passed in 1997. - Protecting children in public schools/libraries from Internet pornography.
Passed in 1999. - Protecting fundamental rights of parents to direct education and upbringing of their children.
Passed in 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.
Passed in 2011. - Protecting parents' rights in Child Protective Services proceedings.
Passed in 2003. - Providing access to school services for home-schooled students with special needs.
Passed in 2001. - Providing easier access to public records.
Passed in 2002. - Providing education and training scholarships for older teens who are wards of the state.
Passed in 2006.
- Providing grants for children with special needs to attend private schools chosen by their parents.
Passed in 2006. - Providing grants for foster children to attend private schools chosen by their parents.
Passed in 2006. - Publishing online biographical information and constitutional decisions by appellate court judges on the retention election ballot.
Passed in 2011. - Raising the minimum age for gambling to 21.
Passed in 2000. - Regulating the distance between sexually-oriented businesses and schools, churches.
Passed in 2006. - Regulating unsolicited spam e-mail.
Passed in 2003. - Removing defense for predators who engage in child prostitution.
Passed in 2010. - Reporting requirement for equity in university scholarships.
Passed in 2010. - Requiring computers in public schools and libraries to have online filters.
Passed in 2012. - Requiring daily recitation of a portion of the Declaration of Independence in 4th-6th grades.
Passed in 2000. - Requiring online publication of all decisions for appellate court judges on the retention election ballot.
Passed in 2011. - 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.
Passed in 2010. - Requiring sex offenders to register their online identities in addition to their street addresses.
Passed in 2007. - Revising covenant marriage.
Passed in 1999. - Streamlining scholarship tax credit program through withholding tax reduction.
Passed in 2009. - Strengthening child pornography laws.
Passed in 1996. - Strengthening child prostitution laws to allow harsher punishment for predators.
Passed in 2011. - Tightening lottery restrictions.
Passed in 2000.
