By Caitlin Sievers | AZ Mirror
Arizona’s Democratic governor lifted her month-long bill-signing moratorium on Thursday.
Gov. Katie Hobbs implemented the moratorium April 13, promising not to sign any bills until the Republicans who control the Arizona legislature revealed their budget and engaged her in “good-faith” negotiations on the annual spending plan.
Republicans, who hold the majority in the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate, revealed their budget on April 27, and swiftly voted along party lines to approve it.
The GOP budget fully conformed Arizona’s tax code with the changes made at the federal level through President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and paid for the tax cuts with fund sweeps and cuts to most state agencies.
Hobbs vetoed the Republican budget on May 5, and days later, Republicans in both chambers of the legislature voted to adjourn for most of the remainder of May. The Arizona House of Representatives hasn’t met since then, but the Senate met on May 11 and plans to meet again May 18.
“After a week of good-faith negotiations and productive exchanges on the best path toward a bipartisan and balanced budget, today the Governor’s Office informed Republican budget negotiators that the bill moratorium has been lifted,” Hobbs spokesman Christian Slater told the Arizona Mirror via text message.
