By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic
A proposal that would have given cities and towns more tools to combat nuisance vacation-rental homes, a controversial subject in the state the past five years, was defeated by lawmakers at the Arizona Capitol.
Senate Bill 1379, sponsored by Sen. J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler, failed in a landslide 17-43 vote in the House on Thursday. Nine Republicans and eight Democrats voted for the bill, but many lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said it didn’t go far enough.
In 2016, lawmakers passed and Gov. Doug Ducey signed a measure that prohibited cities and towns from enacting additional regulation on vacation rentals offered by companies such as Airbnb and Vrbo.
