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Cade’s Law HB2665 Advances after Adopting Floor Amendment

February 11, 2026 3:56 pm

PHOENIX – House lawmakers advanced House Bill HB2665 on Monday after adopting a floor-style verbal amendment aimed at tightening the bill’s wording and addressing concerns that its original draft created an ambiguous new path to manslaughter liability based on “directed...

Detransitioner Chloe Cole Testifies on Fink Bill HB2085

February 2, 2026 1:33 pmFebruary 3, 2026 2:39 pm

PHOENIX—Renowned de-transitioner and anti- “gender-affirming-care” advocate Chloe Cole spoke at an Arizona House of Representatives hearing on House Bill HB2085 on Thursday, January 22, 2026. By her count, Cole has been to at least 40 states to speak on gender...

Fink Asks AZ to Match New Fed Infant Hep B Vaccine GLs

December 15, 2025 8:22 amDecember 31, 2025 1:29 pm

State Representative Lisa Fink (R-27) is calling on the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) to revise its guidance on newborn hepatitis B vaccinations following a recent change adopted by federal health advisors. In a press release, Fink urged ADHS to...

Shamp Proposes AZ Ban on Drinking Water Fluoride

December 12, 2025 9:14 amDecember 26, 2025 8:09 am

Former Senate Majority Leader Janae Shamp, a registered nurse with extensive hands-on healthcare experience, is introducing Senate Bill SB1019, which bans the continued use of fluoride in Arizona’s public water systems. Senator Shamp describes the bill as a “direct strike...

Rivero Reacts to LTC Patient Threats from Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’

November 4, 2025 9:27 amNovember 17, 2025 12:57 pm

Long-term healthcare patients are facing an impending crisis due to the price locks created by Joe Biden’s signature legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act. In a textbook example of the law of unintended consequences, the very protections that Biden intended to...

Gillette Identifies HR1’s Medicaid Changes as Corrections, not Cuts

October 10, 2025 2:32 pmOctober 23, 2025 5:16 pm

H.R.1’s Budget Cuts Could Squeeze Arizona Medicaid, Stir Political Fallout By Steve Kirwan, EditorPhoenix, Ariz. — October 10, 2025 Arizona officials are warning that the federal government’s new budget law, H.R.1—a.k.a. the “One Big, Beautiful Bill”—could deal a financial blow...

Werner to Chair Senate Oversight for $2.8B Medicaid Fraud

October 1, 2025 10:16 amOctober 10, 2025 2:34 pm

Arizona State Senator Carine Werner (R-4), chair of the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services, is leading a Senate oversight investigation into the recently uncovered fraud in the state’s Medicaid program. A preliminary report revealed that the state had...