Phoenix, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed 72 bills and vetoed 88 others Friday after Arizona’s Republican-controlled Legislature sent her more than 150 measures in the final days of session.
The vetoes bring Hobbs’s 2026 total to 151 and her overall total since taking office in 2023 to 541, according to News From The States. The late-session bills included proposals on schools, elections, Mexican gray wolves, diversity hiring, and gender-related medical care.
Among the vetoed measures was House Bill 2830, which would have required Arizona schools to teach fetal development while excluding sex education from those lessons. Hobbs said instructional requirements should be left to education experts rather than politicians.
She also vetoed election-related bills, including one requiring ballot paper to include anti-fraud features such as watermarks and holographic foil. Hobbs wrote that she was confident Arizona election officials could run “free and fair elections” without added cost or complexity.
Bills Hobbs signed had bipartisan support, including measures requiring faster reporting of missing children, creating law enforcement wellness programs, and improving child welfare reporting.
Several GOP-backed resolutions will go directly to voters, bypassing the governor’s veto power.
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