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)
• Awarding in vitro embryos disputed in divorce proceedings to spouse that intends to bring them to birth (2018)
• Shortening the time period to find forever homes for babies in the foster care system (2018)
• Requiring parental notification before a do-not-resuscitate order is placed on minor’s medical chart (2019)

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)
• Strengthening laws against human sex trafficking; establishing an affirmative defense for victims charged with prostitution (2014)
• Declaring pornography a public health crisis in Arizona (2019) ***

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)
• 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) *
• Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2007)
• 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)
• Allowing kindergarteners to participate in the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program and increasing the funding formula for the program (2013)
• Protecting the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program from abuse, while ensuring families still have access to the program (2013)
• Strengthening the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program to operate as the legislature intended (2014)
• Expanding the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program to include siblings of current recipients and children with disabilities (2014)
• Removing unnecessary requirements so that all children of active duty or KIA military are eligible for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (2014)
• Removing burdensome requirements from the Lexie’s Law school choice program to allow all disabled or displaced children to be eligible (2014)
• Expanding the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program to include all children living on Native American reservations (2015)
• Expanding the corporate scholarship tax credit to S-Corporations (2015)
• Enacting reforms in the Empowerment Scholarship Account program to ensure the long-term success of the program (2016)
• Allowing students with disabilities to remain in the Empowerment Scholarship Account program until the age of 22 under certain circumstances (2016)
• Requiring all governmental entities to treat all Arizona school diplomas and transcripts equally, including homeschool diplomas and transcripts (2017)
• Prohibiting school districts from withdrawing a property for sale or lease solely because a charter or private school is the highest bidder (2018)
• Treating private schools the same as charter schools in zoning acreage requirements (2018)
• Allowing homeschool students to receive college credit when enrolled in a dual enrollment course (2018)
• Adding K-12 private school tuition as qualified expense for the 529 education savings plan (2019)

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)
• Ensuring equal access to school facilities for middle school students’ religious clubs (2001)
• Exempting clergy from behavioral health licensing (2003)
• Providing equal access for religious groups to rental of school facilities (2003)
• 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)
• Ensuring university student fees are not used for political campaigns (2013)
• Placing in statute previous state policy to enable church-run preschools to be exempt from unemployment insurance regulation (2013)
• Exempting churches who rent or lease their property from most property taxes (2015)
• Protecting the conscience rights of employers related to advising about specific health care services (2016)
• Protecting free speech and the ability of organizations to speak out on issues like ballot measures and engage in the elections process (2016)
• Aligning Arizona’s law governing nonprofit organizations with federal law (2016)
• Prohibiting the creation of “free speech zones” on public college campuses and ensuring if a student’s free speech rights are restricted, the student or the Attorney General can bring a legal claim against the college or university (2016)
• Prohibiting work-related discrimination against health care providers that exercise their conscience rights by declining to provide medical care that could cause or assist in causing the death of an individual (2017)
• Strengthening free speech and religious freedom in Arizona’s public universities and community colleges (2018)
• Clarifying that public universities and colleges may not restrict student speech, unless restrictions are constitutional (2019)

* 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.

• 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)
• Preventing additional legal protections for campaign committees that use felons to collect signatures for petitions (2013) †
• Increasing the number of judicial candidates sent to the governor for consideration from three to five (2013) *

• 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)

*    This bill passed but was later overturned in court.

• Expanding the Empowerment Scholarship Account program to include all district and charter school students by phasing in eligibility over the next four years (2017)

• 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)
• Expanding the corporate scholarship tax credit to limited liability companies and S-Corporations (2013-Brewer)
• Clarifying and updating Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act to strengthen religious liberty protections (2013-Brewer)
• Clarifying property tax exemptions to ensure churches are protected from being unfairly assessed the tax (2013-Brewer)
• Strengthening and clarifying the religious freedom protections in Arizona law (2014-Brewer)
• Exempting churches that rent and do not own their facilities from paying most property taxes (2014-Brewer)
• Expanding the corporate scholarship tax credit to S-Corporations (2014-Brewer)