HB2469

THE CONTEXT: DHS aims to promote, protect and improve the health and wellness of individuals and communities in Arizona. The agency strives to set the standard for personal and community health through direct care, science, public policy and leadership.

WHAT THE BILL DID: The final vetoed version would declares it is the public policy of Arizona to protect the state from drug cartels that threaten the public safety, health or general welfare of its people, deems that the federal government's failure to secure Arizona's border to protect it from an unlawful invasion is dangerous and unprecedented, and require Arizona laws to be interpreted and construed to protect its sovereign authority against any unlawful invasion at its border with Mexico.

WHY IT MATTERED: The practical reason for this bill was to define Arizona's border and immigration rule for sovereign authority more clearly. It would declares it is the public policy of Arizona to protect the state from drug cartels that threaten the public safety, health or general welfare of its people, and would also deems that the federal government's failure to secure Arizona's border to protect it from an unlawful invasion is dangerous and unprecedented, rather than leave the current rule unchanged.