AZ House Speaker Steve Montenegro Archives

Montenegro Claims Victory after Judge Flips AZ Housing Water Rule

June 10, 2026 4:15 pmJuly 3, 2026 8:10 am

PHOENIX — Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro is claiming vindication after a Maricopa County judge ruled that the state illegally required developers to secure substantially more water than their projects would use before receiving approval to build. Montenegro joined the Home...

Petersen, Montenegro Fight Judge over School Funding Deadline

June 3, 2026 9:20 amJune 18, 2026 10:48 am

PHOENIX — Arizona Republican leaders are asking the state Court of Appeals to block, or at least delay, enforcement of a ruling first issued Aug. 13, 2025, that found the state’s public school capital funding system unconstitutional. Attorneys for Senate President...

Montenegro Frames Pima Election Suit As Test Of Fontes’ Authority

May 21, 2026 2:40 pmJune 5, 2026 4:52 pm

Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro (R-29) is again drawing a hard line against Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D), as a new federal lawsuit challenges whether Fontes’ election manual gives local officials too much power to police speech around polling...

Montenegro, Petersen put Pressure on Hobbs to Accept Budget

May 5, 2026 11:50 amMay 17, 2026 1:08 pm

PHOENIX — The $17.9B Arizona House Republican budget plan is in, shifting the state’s budget stalemate from a petty partisan battle to a public test of whether Gov. Katie Hobbs and GOP legislative leaders can restart talks. The proposal, passed by...

Arizona Budget Talks Devolve into Petty Playground Dispute

April 30, 2026 4:16 pmMay 15, 2026 7:41 am

PHOENIX — Arizona’s latest budget impasse has moved beyond taxes, schools, Medicaid, and agency spending into a more revealing political standoff: whether Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) or House Speaker Steve Montenegro (R-29) should be the one to call first. The...

Court Dismisses David Rose LD30 Ballot Challenge

April 9, 2026 3:51 pmApril 22, 2026 4:09 pm

Republican Legislative District 30 candidate David Rose will remain on the ballot after a court granted his Motion to Dismiss, rejecting an effort by fellow Republican Jennifer Esposito to disqualify him from the race. The ruling ends a high-profile legal challenge...

EXCLUSIVE: Petersen Rails Against Hobbs’ Tax ‘Chaos’

April 2, 2026 12:55 pmApril 15, 2026 8:20 am

PHOENIX — Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen (R-14) urged Arizonans to file their taxes immediately, despite the uncertainty caused by Governor Katie Hobbs’ vetoes of recent tax conformity legislation. With the April 15 deadline approaching, the GOP leader warned that...