URGENT ACTION ITEM

Dear Arizona Taxpayer,

We are pushing to get the Senate Appropriations Committee to hear the pro-taxpayer Truth in Spending reform bill. Senate Bill 1275, sponsored by Senator Steve Smith (R-Pinal County), would require a special vote if the Legislature wants to increase state spending at a rate that is faster than the rate of growth of state population plus inflation.

TAXPAYER ACTION ITEM

Dear Arizona Taxpayer,

Today in the Senate Government Reform Committee, the majority members voted in favor of four important bills that would reform powerful government-worker unions:

SB 1484 -- Paycheck Protection for Government Employees -- Prohibits government employers from taking money from employee's paychecks for union activities without express annual authorization.

SB 1485 -- Prohibition on Government Collective Bargaining -- Prohibits government employers from engaging in collective bargaining (including "meet and confer") with government unions.

SB 1486 -- Prohibition on Government Union Release Time -- Prohibits government employers from paying employees to do union activities on the taxpayer dime.

SB 1487 -- Prohibition on Withholding of Dues for Government Unions -- Prohibits government employers from withholding any portion of public employee wages to pay for labor organization dues.

A two-page version of AFP-Arizona's 2012 Legislative Agenda, with a 2012 Legislative Scorecard grading rubric, is available here:

http://static.taxcutsforall.com//files/az12agenda02-01-12.pdf

(Updated February 1, 2012)

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For updates on AFP-Arizona's efforts to pass pro-taxpayer, pro-producer and pro-consumer legislation during the legislative session, check in regularly at www.aztaxpayers.org and get on our email alert list by contacting tjenney@afphq.org and giving us your name, city and zip code.

For a report on the 2011 Legislative Session, click here:

http://static.taxcutsforall.com//files/az2011legrep09-30-11.pdf