Hobbs Vetoes 88 Arizona Bills After Late Legislative Push
Hobbs said the bills conflicted with her policy priorities and brought her veto total this session to nearly 150.
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CAIR-Arizona Welcomes Governor’s Veto of Anti-Muslim Hate Bill
The Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Arizona), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed Governor Katie Hobbs’ veto of legislation targeting so-called “Sharia law,” saying the measure was rooted in anti-Muslim misinformation and would have further stigmatized Arizona’s Muslim community. SEE: Busy veto pen: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs nixes 88 bills CAIR-Arizona had previousl…
Hobbs Vetoes 88 Arizona Bills After Late Legislative Push
Phoenix, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed 72 bills and vetoed 88 others Friday after Arizona’s Republican-controlled Legislature sent her more than 150 measures in the final days of session. The vetoes bring Hobbs’s 2026 total to 151 and her overall total since taking office in 2023 to 541, according to News From The States. The late-session bills included proposals on schools, elections, Mexican gray wolves, diversity hiring, and gender-related …
Katie Hobbs adds 88 vetoes to her record, rejecting GOP bills on schools, wolves and elections
Gov. Katie Hobbs in January 2025. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0Arizona’s Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs on Friday signed 72 pieces of legislation and vetoed another 88. Her signatures and vetoes came after a busy final week for the Republican-controlled state legislature, in which they voted on and sent her more than 150 bills. Many of those bills, which supported a far-right agenda, were passed along party lines in marathon vot…
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