The receipts

• SB 1160 (2015) — County motor vehicle fuel taxes. Cosponsored letting counties levy their own motor-fuel taxes on top of the state tax.
• SB 1250 (2017) — County motor fuel taxes. Cosponsored another county fuel-tax bill — more local layers at the pump.
• SB 1316 (2018) — Motor fuel taxes. Cosponsored doubling the state gas tax from 18¢ to 36¢ per gallon.
• SB 1535 (2023) — Transportation; 2023-2024. Vetoed the Legislature’s transportation budget. No pump relief. No gas-tax cut.
• HB 2974 (2025) — Transportation; FY2026. Vetoed the next transportation budget. Drivers still waited.
• HB 4153 (2026) — 2026-2027; transportation. Vetoed the transportation budget a third time. Higher taxes when she writes them. No help when you need it.

• SB 1184 (2023) — Municipal tax exemption; residential leases. Vetoed the bill to stop cities from taxing renters.
• SB 1129 (2024) — Unlawful occupants; property; removal. Vetoed faster removal of unlawful occupants from homes.
• HB 2047 (2026) — Writ of restitution; criminal trespass. Vetoed another property-recovery measure for homeowners.

• SB 1063 (2023) — Food; municipal tax; exemption. Vetoed ending city taxes on groceries.
• SB 1329 (2018) — Digital goods and services; taxation. Cosponsored expanding taxation to digital goods and services.
• SB 1421 (2026) — Undocumented aliens; financial services. Vetoed restrictions on financial services for undocumented aliens.
• HB 2961 / HB 4152 (2025) — Taxation omnibus packages. Vetoed back-to-back taxation budget packages.

• HB 2019 (2024) — Groundwater model; public inspection; challenge. Blocked public inspection/challenge of groundwater models.
• HB 2086 / HB 2103 (2025) — Water improvements; water hauling. Vetoed help for communities hauling water when wells fail.
• HB 2088 / HB 2089 / HB 2031 (2025) — Subsequent AMA reforms. Vetoed multiple rural Active Management Area bills.
• SB 1202 (2026) — Supply and demand; assessment; groundwater. Vetoed groundwater supply-and-demand assessment.

• SB 1027 (2023) — Carfentanil; fentanyl; minors; penalties. Vetoed enhanced penalties when fentanyl harms minors.
• HB 2802 (2023) — Fentanyl sales; manufacture; sentencing; testing. Vetoed tougher sentencing for fentanyl trafficking.
• SB 1725 / SB 1061 (2025) — Fentanyl; nine grams. Vetoed the nine-gram fentanyl threshold — twice across sessions.
• HB 2675 / HB 2469 (2023) — Cartels; border health crisis. Vetoed cartel terror designation and border fentanyl crisis measures.

• SB 1119 (2025) — Residential utilities; consumer office; definition. Vetoed requiring the consumer office to prioritize lowest retail rates.
• HB 2527 (2025) — Corporation commission; electricity; reliability; management. Vetoed electricity reliability management reforms.
• HB 2788 (2025) — Utility; resource plan; commission review. Vetoed utility resource plan review requirements.
• HB 2440 (2023) — Electric energy; power companies; priorities. Vetoed power company priority reforms.

SPECIAL REPORT

• Adams v. Senate (2021) — Race & sex discrimination verdict. As Senate minority leader, Hobbs helped fire Black policy adviser Talonya Adams after Adams complained she was paid less than white male colleagues. Two federal juries found race and sex discrimination/retaliation. Adams later called Hobbs a racist by the Oxford dictionary definition and demanded she resign.
• CROWN Act EO (2023) — Hair discrimination signing. Hobbs invited advocacy groups to her CROWN Act signing — and Rachel Dolezal (now Nkechi Diallo), the white woman who famously pretended to be Black, showed up with the invited crowd.
• Dem Primary (2022) — Refused to debate Marco Lopez. Hobbs skipped the televised Democratic primary debate against Latino former Nogales Mayor Marco Lopez — leaving him alone on the PBS stage.
• SB 1305 (2023) — Race; ethnicity; prohibited instruction. Vetoed the bill banning classroom instruction that an individual is inherently racist/oppressive by race, or that merit and hard work are racist constructs.
• SB 1694 (2025) — Higher education; withholding state monies. Vetoed cutting state funds to universities and community colleges pushing DEI race ideology courses.

Gun-control history

Not a main homepage charge — most of her sponsor-era gun bills never became law. Still useful context: where she stood, plus vetoes that blocked suppressor-rights repeals.

• SB 1347 (2018) — Mental health; injunction; firearm possession. Primary sponsor (bill did not become law).
• SB 1050 (2013) / HB 2711 (2011) — Large / high capacity magazine. Cosponsor (did not become law).
• SB 1348 / SCR 1015 (2018) — Bump-fire devices; firearm background checks. Cosponsor (did not become law).
• SB 1069 (2026) / SB 1014 (2025) / SB 1109 (2023) — Muffling device repeal. Governor vetoes of repeal bills.

Full write-ups: sponsor history and suppressor vetoes.

Blog inventory

24 articles currently published.

• Hobbs Kept the Tax on Your Groceries
• Hobbs Protected Taxes on Renters
• Hobbs Put Her Name on Doubling the Gas Tax
• Hobbs Wanted Taxes on Digital Goods Too
• Banks for Illegal Immigrants? Hobbs Said Keep It.
• Hobbs’ Gun-Control Sponsor History
• Hobbs Kept Arizona’s Suppressor Ban
• Hobbs Vetoed Fentanyl Penalties That Protected Kids
• One Pill. Five Years. Vetoed.
• Nine Grams of Fentanyl — Vetoed Twice
• Hobbs Wouldn’t Call Cartels What They Are
• Hobbs Blocked a Fight for Lower Utility Rates
• Reliability Bills Died on Hobbs’ Desk
• Hobbs Vetoed Looking Under the Hood of Groundwater Models
• When Wells Fail, Hobbs Vetoed the Water Haul
• Rural AMA Bills. Stack of Vetoes.
• Hobbs Made It Harder to Remove Unlawful Occupants
• Hobbs Soft-Pedaled Retail Theft Crackdowns
• Hobbs Vetoed a Ban on Narcotic Injection Sites
• Hobbs Made Parents Pay to Enforce Their Rights
• Veto Queen: 500+ Reasons Arizona Didn’t Get Relief
• Year After Year, Hobbs Vetoed Tax Relief
• Hobbs Vetoed Clearing Homeless Encampments
• Hobbs’ Textbook Racist Record