By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror
Republican Legislative leaders agreed to call off plans to adjourn the 2020 legislative session after many of their GOP colleagues objected.
House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, and Senate President Karen Fann, R-Prescott, agreed on Tuesday to adjourn sine die on May 1, with the expectation that they would return sometime before the end of June to deal with a projected budget crisis in a special session.
Doing so would have meant that hundreds of bills sponsored by Republicans would be dead, and they’d have to introduce new versions next year – if they win re-election this fall.
But the sine die announcement caught GOP lawmakers off guard, Republicans in both chambers told Arizona Mirror. And many were unhappy about killing off their bills.
At a meeting of the House Republican caucus on Wednesday morning, Bowers agreed to scrap the sine die plan, Reps. Kevin Payne, R-Peoria, and Jeff Weninger, R-Chandler, told the Mirror.
“We’ve got work to do still. We’ve got a lot of bills out there still,” Payne said.
