Republicans in Legislature sends Hobbs transportation tax plan for Maricopa County; governor to veto
Gov. Katie Hobbs introduces the Phoenix Active Management Area groundwater model on June 1, 2023, in Phoenix. Because the model shows a projected shortfall, the governor has announced the state's water agency will stop approving new developments that rely solely on groundwater.Republican lawmakers on Tuesday sent Gov.
Though the Republican-majority Legislature last year passed a bipartisan bill extending the tax, which was ultimately vetoed by the Republican governor citing high inflation, the election of more farther-right lawmakers to the Legislature in November raised uncertainty about whether history could repeat itself this year.
The Maricopa Association of Governments opposed the GOP plan that wound its way to Hobbs' desk, saying it and the governor had compromised as much as they could. One piece of the plan that complicated its path forward with the Governor's Office was asking Maricopa County residents to vote twice on extending the tax. The two-question approach would ask voters to approve using the vast majority of the tax revenue to fund freeways, arterial streets and public transit like buses, but not light rail. A second question would ask whether the remainder of the half-cent tax should go to support existing light rail.
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