CAP-Supported Bills That Became Arizona Law

CAP-SUPPORTED BILLS THAT BECAME ARIZONA LAW Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) promotes and defends the foundational values of life, marriage and family, and religious freedom.

Sanctity of Human Life 21. Requiring abortion clinics to be subject to the Abortion same inspection standards as all other health care institutions (2014) 1. Requiring parental consent for abortion (1996)* 22. Ensuring the Department of Health Services 2. Banning partial-birth abortion (1997)* retains authority to regulate the abortion industry 3. Regulating safety standards in abortion clinics (2015) (1999)* 23. Ensuring women are informed that the abortion 4. Revising parental consent for abortion laws pill may be reversed‡ and prohibiting elective following court decision (2000) abortion coverage on the federal h ealth care 5. Revising abortion clinic safety standards exchange in Arizona (2015) following court decision (2000) 24. Ensuring the abortion industry does not hide or 6. Prohibiting physician assistants from performing withhold potentially life-saving information from surgical abortions (2002) women who have taken the first abortion pill but 7. Banning partial-birth abortion (2009) question or regret their decision (2016) 8. Abortion Consent Act – requiring informed 25. Clarifying the FDA protocol requirement for consent, enhancing parental consent, and medication abortions (2016) expanding rights of conscience protections for 26. Prohibiting research, experimentation, and healthcare workers (2009) trafficking of aborted babies or their body parts 9. Prohibiting all non-doctors from performing (2016) surgical abortions (2009) 27. Protecting taxpayers from facilitating donations 10. Ending taxpayer-funded insurance coverage for to abortion providers (2016) government employees’ abortions (2010) 28. Ensuring that Arizona’s pro-life laws are not 11. Improving abortion reporting requirements circumvented through reciprocity agreements for (2010) medical licenses for doctors (2016) 12. Requiring an ultrasound before an abortion, 29. Empowering Arizona regulators to disqualify banning telemedicine abortions, and improving Medicaid providers that bill for excessive safety standards for abortion clinics (2011) charges, fail to report the sexual assault of a minor, and fail to segregate taxpayer dollars from 13. Ending taxpayer-funded abortion training and abortions (2016) disqualifying abortion providers from charitable tax credit (2011) 30. Preventing Medicaid providers, including abortion providers, from exploiting loopholes in 14. Clarifying that the board of nursing does not have the system to excessively profit off taxpayers authority to allow nurses to perform surgical (2016) abortions (2011) 31. Strengthening Arizona’s law to ensure babies 15. Prohibiting physician assistants from prescribing born alive following an abortion are provided medication abortions (2011) life-saving care (2017) 16. Prohibiting race-selection and sex-selection 32. Requiring the Department of Health Services to abortions (2011) apply for Title X funding, thereby diverting funds 17. Prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks of away from abortion providers (2017) pregnancy*; strengthening informed consent Bioethics requirements; requiring FDA compliance for 33. Banning taxpayer funding of human cloning medication abortions†† (2012) (2005) 18. Denying abortion providers federal tax dollars 34. Promoting umbilical cord blood donations (2006) that pass through the state (2012)* 35. Funding for an adult stem cell research and tissue 19. Disqualifying abortion providers from charitable bank (2007) tax credits (2012) 36. Requiring informed consent for human egg 20. Ensuring that abortion providers must disclose donation and banning the sale of eggs for cloning internal audit results in court proceedings (2013) (2010) * This bill passed the Arizona Legislature but was later overturned in court. ** Lawsuit pending D:\Docs\2018-04- 17\0ada2846524e78f8ad4afd24d543b015.docx *** A resolution is an expression of the Legislature’s opinion or intent and has no legal effect. 37. Banning human cloning, destructive human 60. Eliminating marriage penalty in tax credits embryonic stem cell research, sale of human (2005) embryos, and human-animal hybrids (2010) 61. Funding for marriage education (2005) Patient Care 62. Funding for marriage education (2006) 38. Providing for reinstatement of food/fluid if 63. Funding for marriage education (2007) improperly removed (2008) 64. Establishing a preference for adoption placement 39. Protecting incapacitated patients from having with a married man and woman (2011) food/fluid removed without a court order or written health care directive (2009) 65. Recognizing the Boy Scouts of America and expressing support for its values and policies 40. Clarifying what constitutes assisted suicide under (2013)*** Arizona law (2014) Divorce Reform 41. Protecting patient wishes by ensuring a health care Allowing judge to consider criminal conviction power of attorney, living will, or decision by a 66. of abuse by a spouse when dividing property in a surrogate decision maker takes precedence over a conflicting doctor’s order (2015) divorce (2004) Humanity of Preborn Children 67. Enhancing parenting education class and allowing for additional time to reconcile before 42. Defining “live birth” in vital statistics statutes divorce is finalized (2011) (2004) Parents’ Rights 43. Protecting preborn children from crime through 68. Protecting parents’ rights in Child Protective fetal homicide statutes (2005) Services proceedings (2003) 44. Prohibiting wrongful life/wrongful birth lawsuits Prohibiting schools from requiring students to (2012) 69. receive the HPV vaccine (2007) Promoting Alternatives to Abortion 70. Protecting fundamental rights of parents to direct 45. Funding for alternatives to abortion (2006) education and upbringing of their children (2010) 46. Funding for alternatives to abortion (2007) 71. Protecting parents’ rights in charter schools and 47. Making Choose Life license plates available on requiring permission from parents in all public Service Arizona’s website (2009) schools for audio, video, or electronic material 48. Simplifying the charitable tax credit (2009) that is not age-appropriate (2011) 49. Recognizing the work of pregnancy care centers 72. Prohibiting pharmacists from administering (2011)*** immunizations to minors without parental 50. Requiring school presentations to present consent (2011) childbirth and adoption as preferred options over Sexual Decency and Pornography abortion (2012) 73. Authorizing counties to license and regulate 51. Allowing taxpayers who do not itemize to qualify sexually-oriented businesses (1996) for the state’s charitable tax credit (2013) 74. Strengthening child pornography laws (1996) 52. Doubling the contribution limits for the charitable 75. Funding for obscenity prosecutions (1997) tax credit and creating a separate and distinct tax 76. Protecting children from news rack pornography credit for foster care charities (2016) (1997) 53. Extending deadline to April 15 for charitable tax 77. Closing sex businesses during overnight hours credit donations (2016) (1998)* Marriage and Family 78. Protecting children in public schools/libraries Protecting and Strengthening Marriage from Internet pornography (1999) 54. Prohibiting same-sex “marriage” in statute (1996) 79. Prohibiting state employees from accessing 55. Eliminating marriage tax penalty (1997) Internet pornography at work (2003) 56. Creating covenant marriage (1998) 80. Regulating unsolicited spam e-mail (2003) 57. Revising covenant marriage (1999) 81. Preventing use of film industry tax incentives for 58. Funding community-based marriage classes making pornography (2005) (2000) 82. Regulating the distance between sexually- 59. Expressing support for Congress to pass Marriage oriented businesses and schools, churches (2006) Protection Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 83. Requiring sex offenders to register their online (2005) *** identities in addition to their street * This bill passed the Arizona Legislature but was later overturned in court. ** Lawsuit pending D:\Docs\2018-04- 17\0ada2846524e78f8ad4afd24d543b015.docx *** A resolution is an expression of the Legislature’s opinion or intent and has no legal effect. addresses (2007) 105. Streamlining scholarship tax credit program 84. Prohibiting sexual predators from through withholding tax reduction (2009) misrepresenting their ages on the Internet (2008) 106. Creating new corporate tax credit for donations 85. Removing defense for predators who engage in to provide scholarships for students with special child prostitution (2010) needs to attend private schools chosen by their 86. Strengthening child prostitution laws to allow parents (2009) harsher punishment for predators (2011) 107. Increasing accountability and transparency for 87. Requiring computers in public schools and individual scholarship tax credit (2010) libraries to have online filters (2012) 108. Increasing accountability and transparency for 88. Ensuring that arts funding is not spent on corporate scholarship tax credits (2010) obscenity or material that disgraces the U.S. or 109. Extending deadline to April 15 for individual Arizona flag (2012) scholarship tax credit donations (2010) 89. Strengthening laws against human sex 110. Reporting requirement for equity in university trafficking; establishing an affirmative defense scholarships (2010) for victims charged with prostitution (2014) 111. Establishing Empowerment Scholarship School Choice/Education Accounts for special needs students to use 90. Allowing homeschooled students to participate in toward education expenses (2011) interscholastic activities (1999) 112. Defining a homeschool as a nonpublic school 91. Ensuring homeschooled students are eligible for (2011) Regent Scholarships from state universities 113. Creating a new tax credit designated for children (1999) switching from public to private school (2012) 92. Requiring daily recitation of a portion of the 114. Expanding Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Declaration of Independence in 4th-6th grades for children at failing schools, children of active (2000) duty military, and foster children that have been 93. Providing access to school services for home- adopted (2012) schooled students with special needs (2001) 115. Allowing kindergarteners to participate in the 94. Ensuring homeschooled students are eligible for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program guaranteed admission to state universities (2004) and increasing the funding formula for the program (2013) 95. Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2005) 116. Protecting the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts program from abuse, while ensuring 96. Increasing funding for abstinence until marriage families still have access to the program (2013) education (2006) 117. Strengthening the Empowerment Scholarship 97. Offering a corporate tax credit for donations to Accounts program to operate as the legislature provide scholarships for low-income students intended (2014) (2006) 118. Expanding the Empowerment Scholarship 98. Increasing amount of corporate tax credit for Accounts program to include siblings of current donations to provide scholarships for low-income recipients and children with disabilities (2014) students (2006) 119. Removing unnecessary requirements so that all 99. Providing education and training scholarships for children of active duty or KIA military are older teens who are wards of the state (2006) eligible for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts 100. Creating a postsecondary education (2014) grant program for Arizona residents (2006) 120. Removing burdensome requirements from the 101. Providing grants for foster children to Lexie’s Law school choice program to allow all attend private schools chosen by their parents disabled or displaced children to be eligible (2006)* (2014) 102. Providing grants for children with 121. Expanding the Empowerment Scholarship special needs to attend private schools chosen by Accounts program to include all children living their parents (2006)* on Native American reservations (2015) 103. Funding for abstinence until marriage 122. Expanding the corporate scholarship tax credit education (2007) to S-Corporations (2015) 104. Continuing the corporate scholarship tax credit 123. Enacting reforms in the Empowerment (2009) Scholarship Account program to ensure the * This bill passed the Arizona Legislature but was later overturned in court. ** Lawsuit pending D:\Docs\2018-04- 17\0ada2846524e78f8ad4afd24d543b015.docx *** A resolution is an expression of the Legislature’s opinion or intent and has no legal effect. long-term success of the program (2016) (2012) 124. Allowing students with disabilities to remain in 142. Exempting religiously-affiliated employers from the Empowerment Scholarship Account being forced to provide insurance coverage for program until the age of 22 under certain abortion-inducing drugs or contraception (2012) circumstances (2016) 143. Ensuring university student fees are not used for 125. Expanding the Empowerment Scholarship political campaigns (2013) Account program to include all district and 144. Placing in statute previous state policy to enable charter school students by phasing in eligibility church-run preschools to be exempt from over the next four years (2017) unemployment insurance regulation (2013) 126. Requiring all governmental entities to treat all 145. Exempting churches who rent or lease their Arizona school diplomas and transcripts equally, property from most property taxes (2015) including homeschool diplomas and transcripts Protecting the conscience rights of employers (2017) 146. related to advising about specific health care Gambling services (2016) 127. Raising the minimum age for gambling to 21 147. Protecting free speech and the ability of (2000) organizations to speak out on issues like ballot 128. Placing restrictions on Indian gambling measures and engage in the elections process compacts (2000) (2016) 129. Tightening lottery restrictions (2000) 148. Aligning Arizona’s law governing nonprofit Accountable Government organizations with federal law (2016) 130. Providing easier access to public records (2002) 149. Prohibiting the creation of “free speech zones” 131. Requiring Secretary of State to publicize the on public college campuses and ensuring if a yes/no language that will appear on the ballot in student’s free a timely manner to ensure fairness and speech rights are restricted, the student or the impartiality (2010) Attorney Religious Freedom General can bring a legal claim against the college or university (2016) 132. Allowing government to contract with private 150. Prohibiting work-related discrimination against charities for goods and services without health care providers that exercise their discriminating against religious organizations conscience rights by declining to provide (1999) medical care that could cause or assist in 133. Ensuring equal access to school facilities for causing the death of an individual (2017) middle school students’ religious clubs (2001) 134. Exempting clergy from behavioral health licensing (2003) 135. Providing equal access for religious groups to rental of school facilities (2003) Judicial Reform 136. Recognizing and protecting public school 151. Publishing online biographical information and students’ religious freedoms (2009) constitutional decisions by appellate court judges on the retention election ballot (2011) 137. Prohibiting discrimination against churches in how they use their own property (2010) 152. Requiring online publication of all decisions for appellate court judges on the retention election 138. Recognizing and protecting university students’ ballot (2011) religious liberties and freedom of speech (2011) 153. Granting proponents of a ballot measure legal 139. Exempting churches from being forced to file as standing to defend a proposition in court (2012) political campaigns when they speak out on ballot measures (2011) 154. Preventing additional legal protections for campaign committees that use felons to collect 140. Protecting licensed professionals from having signatures for petitions (2013)† their licenses threatened because of the free exercise of their religious beliefs (2012) 155. Increasing the number of judicial candidates sent to the governor for consideration from three 141. Protecting professors from being denied tenure to five (2013)* because of their political or religious beliefs CAP-SUPPORTED BILLS REFERRED TO THE BALLOT 1. Defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the Arizona Constitution (2008)* * This bill passed the Arizona Legislature but was later overturned in court. ** Lawsuit pending D:\Docs\2018-04- 17\0ada2846524e78f8ad4afd24d543b015.docx *** A resolution is an expression of the Legislature’s opinion or intent and has no legal effect. 2. Reforming judicial selection process by reducing the influence of appointed commissions and the State Bar and eliminating party considerations (2011)

CAP-SUPPORTED BILLS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE BUT VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR 1. Increasing the minimum age for gambling to 21 (1999-Hull) 2. Funding for abstinence until marriage education (2003-Napolitano) 3. Exempting religious organizations from being forced to provide contraception (2003-Napolitano) 4. Requiring informed consent for abortion (2004-Napolitano) 5. Protecting rights of conscience of healthcare workers (2005-Napolitano) 6. Requiring public schools to provide information to parents (2005-Napolitano) 7. Allowing a judge to consider marital misconduct when dividing property in divorce (2005-Napolitano) 8. Providing scholarship grants for low-income students (2005-Napolitano) 9. Offering corporate tax credit for donations for scholarships for low-income students (2005-Napolitano) 1. Offering corporate tax credit for donations for scholarships for low-income students (2006-Napolitano) 2. Streamlining scholarship tax credit program through withholding tax reduction (2006-Napolitano) 3. Amending the corporate scholarship tax credit for tuitions scholarships (2006 -Napolitano) 4. Requiring fetal pain information be given to mothers for abortions past 20 weeks (2006-Napolitano) 5. Requiring notarized parental consent requirement for minor’s abortion (2006-Napolitano) 6. Establishing guidelines for judges in cases where minors seek abortion without parental consent (2006- Napolitano) 7. Ending taxpayer-funded insurance coverage for government employees’ abortions (2006-Napolitano) 8. Banning the sale of human eggs for cloning (2006-Napolitano) 9. Requiring informed consent for human egg donation (2006-Napolitano) 10. Protecting the First Amendment rights of university student organizations (2006-Napolitano) 11. Banning partial-birth abortion (2008-Napolitano) 12. Establishing guidelines for judges in cases where minors seek abortion without parental consent (2008- Napolitano) 13. Expanding current scholarship tax credits and clarifying statutes governing school tuition organizations (2011- Brewer) 14. Protecting professionals from losing their state license for exercising their religious beliefs (2011-Brewer) 15. Expanding individual scholarship tax credit to provide scholarships for low-income students or students with special needs (2011-Brewer) 16. Expanding Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for gifted children (2012-Brewer) 17. Expanding the corporate scholarship tax credit to limited liability companies and S-Corporations (2013- Brewer) 18. Clarifying and updating Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act to strengthen religious liberty protections (2013-Brewer) 19. Clarifying property tax exemptions to ensure churches are protected from being unfairly assessed the tax (2013-Brewer) 20. Strengthening and clarifying the religious freedom protections in Arizona law (2014-Brewer) 21. Exempting churches that rent and do not own their facilities from paying most property taxes (2014-Brewer) 22. Expanding the corporate scholarship tax credit to S-Corporations (2014-Brewer)

* This bill passed the Arizona Legislature but was later overturned in court. ** Lawsuit pending D:\Docs\2018-04- 17\0ada2846524e78f8ad4afd24d543b015.docx *** A resolution is an expression of the Legislature’s opinion or intent and has no legal effect.