By Hank Stephenson | Arizona Capitol Times
Of the more than 1,000 bills, resolutions and memorials that have been introduced in the Arizona Legislature thus far in 2017, the majority are already being declared “dead” after having failed to clear the first hurdle: the legislative committee.
February 18 was the deadline for legislative committees, with the exception of the powerful Appropriations committees, to hear bills in their chambers of origin. That means any bill that has not been approved by the committee or committees it was assigned to cannot proceed on the track to becoming law.
