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By Reagan Priest | Arizona Capitol Times
Lawmakers, activists and members of the Arizona Corporation Commission have lamented that voters do not understand the significance of the utility regulation body, but one senator is hoping to correct that by changing the agency’s name.
Sen. Lauren Kuby, D-Tempe, who ran for the Corporation Commission in 2022, said she often had to explain to voters what the commission was and what it does. Those conversations inspired her to introduce a concurrent resolution that would allow voters to change the body’s name to “Public Utility and Corporation Commission.”
“I ran for Corporation Commission in 2022 and when I would talk about my race, I would say, ‘This is the most important office that no one has ever heard of,’” Kuby said. “It really is the fourth branch of government, and the title of it does not really describe what it does.”
