Priorities That Put People First

• Protect Arizona’s Colorado River water. I will support strong negotiations over the Colorado River’s future, responsible conservation, and policies that protect Arizona’s fair share of this critical water supply.
• Expand water conservation. I will support practical conservation programs for cities, businesses, agriculture, and residents that reduce unnecessary water use while protecting Arizona’s economy and quality of life.
• Protect and replenish groundwater. I will support stronger groundwater management, increased aquifer recharge, and policies that ensure we are not pumping groundwater faster than it can be replenished.
• Give local communities the ability to protect their groundwater. I propose a statewide groundwater cap option that would allow a county or municipality to impose an annual groundwater withdrawal cap on a data center facility as a condition of a development agreement or permit.
• Require new data centers to offset their groundwater use. New data centers should not use potable groundwater for cooling unless the operator demonstrates to the Arizona Department of Water Resources that it has secured a renewable water supply sufficient to offset its groundwater withdrawals on a gallon-for-gallon basis over the life of the facility. That water supply must be genuinely available and not already dedicated to another customer or purpose.
• Make new development prove it has a sustainable water supply. Arizona should not continue approving growth without ensuring that adequate, reliable water is available for the people who will live and work there.
• Expand water recycling and reuse. We should make greater use of advanced water treatment and wastewater recycling, including potable reuse where it can be demonstrated to be safe, reliable, and cost-effective.
• Capture and recharge stormwater. Rather than allowing valuable rainwater and stormwater to run off or evaporate, Arizona should expand projects that capture stormwater and use it to replenish our aquifers.
• Invest in agricultural water efficiency. Arizona farmers and ranchers are essential to our economy and food supply. I will support investments that help agriculture conserve water, improve irrigation efficiency, and maintain productive farmland.
• Develop responsible new water supplies. Arizona should continue evaluating projects such as desalination, brackish groundwater treatment, groundwater recovery, and other augmentation projects. These projects should be evaluated based on sound science, environmental impacts, long-term reliability, and cost to Arizona taxpayers and water users.
• Invest in rural water infrastructure. Rural communities should not be left behind. I will support funding for wells, pipelines, storage, treatment, conservation, recharge, and other infrastructure that helps rural Arizona secure reliable water supplies.
• Support tribal water rights and water settlements. Arizona should continue working with tribal nations to resolve water-rights claims fairly and support the infrastructure necessary to make those settlements work.
• Strengthen water infrastructure. We need to continue investing in aging water and wastewater systems, treatment facilities, storage, conservation projects, and other infrastructure that makes every drop go further.
• Protect the reliability of our electric grid. Before a utility interconnects a new data center load, I propose requiring a Grid Capacity Certificate from the Arizona Corporation Commission confirming that the interconnection can be served without degrading reliability for existing residential and small business customers in that service area. The determination should be based on a cluster load impact study that evaluates the cumulative effect of large new loads.
• Make large new energy users pay their fair share. I support a cost-causer-pays approach in which incremental infrastructure costs created specifically by a large customer, such as a data center, are recovered from that customer rather than spread across the general ratepayer base.
• Require long-term commitments from major new loads. Data centers receiving major utility infrastructure investments should be subject to a minimum bill regardless of actual usage and a contract of at least ten years. Early termination fees should be sufficient to cover the customer's remaining share of infrastructure investments made specifically to serve that load.
• Require customers to fund dedicated infrastructure. When transmission lines, substations, generation capacity, or other infrastructure are built specifically to serve a large customer's new load, that customer should be responsible for the associated incremental costs rather than shifting those costs onto ordinary ratepayers.
• Protect residential and small business customers during emergencies. Large industrial and data center customers should be required to participate in demand-response or curtailment programs that allow utilities to reduce their load during system emergencies before residential or small business customers are asked to bear the burden of service reductions.
• Make water and energy planning work together. Arizona's water and electric systems are interconnected. Large developments that consume significant amounts of both water and electricity should be evaluated for their cumulative impact on local resources and infrastructure before they are approved.
• Use science and data to guide water policy. Arizona's water decisions should be based on the best available hydrology, climate science, groundwater data, and long-term projections rather than short-term political interests.
• Plan for a hotter and drier future. Water policy must account for drought, declining reservoir levels, groundwater depletion, population growth, and the changing conditions Arizona is already experiencing.

• Raise teacher salaries. I propose increasing teacher salaries so that Arizona can recruit and keep the qualified, experienced educators our children deserve.
• Fill every classroom with a qualified teacher. I propose providing incentives to fill the more than 4,200 teaching positions currently covered by long term substitutes and temporary staff, as well as the 1,400 positions that remain completely unfilled.
• Increase per pupil spending. Arizona ranks 49th among the 50 states in per student spending. I propose increasing Arizona's per pupil spending to New York's level over the next five years.
• Return ESAs to their original purpose. I propose we limit Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) exclusively to Arizona students with disabilities who qualify for special education or related services, while eliminating universal ESA eligibility.
• Give every student access to a school counselor. I propose requiring each school district to work toward a student to counselor ratio of 250 to 1, the American School Counselor Association's recommended standard since 1965, over the next five years.
• I propose we repeal or substantially revise the restrictions on school materials enacted through HB 2439 and HB 2495, including the provisions currently codified in A.R.S. §15-120.03, as well as codify protections against book bans in school districts and public libraries.
• Provide medically accurate, age appropriate health education. I propose requiring medically accurate, age appropriate instruction from kindergarten through 12th grade on anatomy, reproduction, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, consent, abuse, and how and to whom to report abuse. I also propose repealing Arizona Administrative Code R7-2-303 and amending A.R.S. §§ 15-102, 15-711, and 15-716 to replace the statewide opt-in requirement with an opt-out option and to remove the prohibition on instruction before fifth grade.
• I propose that every public school student be provided with free, nutritious breakfast and lunch made primarily from locally sourced Arizona ingredients, while strengthening Arizona’s existing restrictions on ultraprocessed foods in schools.

• I propose an any willing provider requirement in which an insurer (insurance company) must accept any state-licensed provider who agrees to the insurer’s standard participation terms, modeled after Kentucky law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Kentucky Association of Health Plans versus Miller (2003), including a requirement that insurers publicly post and contemporaneously update provider reimbursement rates.
• I propose reform to claims payment timing and recoupment, so that the clean claim payment deadline in ARS 20-3102 be shortened from 30 days to 10 days with interest penalties for late payment, reduce insurer recoupment of previously paid claims from one year to 30 days except in cases of fraud, and require insurers to provide written justification and appeal opportunity before recoupment.
• I propose establishment of a Prescription Drug Affordability Board with authority to review drug prices and set upper payment limits for state-regulated plans and AHCCCS, modeled after programs already in use in Colorado, Maryland, Oregon, and Maine.
• I propose we increase minors' access to care by codifying a minor’s ability to consent to contraceptive services and outpatient mental health treatment without parental consent from the age of 12.
• I propose insurers be required to cover fertility treatment, medications, medical supplies, fertility preservation services, storage of eggs, sperm, and embryos in all plans.
• I propose insurers be required to cover hearing, vision, and dental services in all plans.
• I propose that we require insurers to meet defined call answer time and live agent availability standards, enforceable by the Arizona Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions through market conduct-exams and provider and public reporting.
• I propose we require insurers provide coverage parity for telephonic medical or mental health services, and close telehealth loopholes by prohibiting insurers from requiring providers to deliver in-person care as a condition of network participation, prohibiting insurers from reducing a provider’s reimbursement rate if they do not provide in-person services, and prohibiting insurers from paying providers a higher rate, bonus, or additional compensation for in-person care.
• I propose further privacy protection by codifying that insurers may not require full progress or psychotherapy notes as a condition of paying a claim or for any other reason. Insurer requests are limited to the minimum necessary personal health information to adjudicate the claim.
• I propose a ban on prior authorization entirely for inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment, modeled directly on Illinois’s Healthcare Protection Act and its 2025 extension. For all other services, require a ‘Gold Card Exemption’ for any provider with a prior authorization approval rate of 90% or higher over six months, exempting that provider from prior authorization for that service going forward. This proposed six-month standard is informed by the Texas Gold Card model.
• I propose hospital and insurer price transparency requiring the launch of a statewide hospital price comparison tool (like Nevada’s Hospital Price Finder.)
• I propose hospital price growth caps. Research on Rhode Island’s broader health-care affordability standards found that the program was associated with a 2.7% reduction in total health spending growth.
• I propose expanding and strengthening Arizona's pharmacist test-and-treat authority, including allowing pharmacists to order and interpret tests waived by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (a federal program ensuring that patient test results are accurate, reliable, and timely), such as rapid strep and flu tests, pregnancy tests, and blood glucose meters, as well as initiate treatment for additional specified conditions.

• I propose monies deposited into the Heritage Fund under existing statute shall be used exclusively for land conservation, state park capital improvement and maintenance, wildlife habitat protection, and public trail development and maintenance. It may not be transferred, swept, or redirected to the general fund or any other purpose by any subsequent legislative act absent the same three-fourths vote and purpose-furthering requirement applicable to constitutionally protected voter initiatives.
• I propose expanding the State Land Department's use of conservation leases under existing law, prioritizing parcels identified by Game and Fish as high value habitat or by State Parks as connecting existing trail systems. Since leases are sold at fair market value, our schools and other trust beneficiaries continue to receive full revenue, and I would fund the leases through dedicated conservation dollars.
• I propose the Arizona Department of Transportation, in consultation with Arizona Game and Fish, shall identify priority wildlife movement corridors that intersect state highways, using existing Game and Fish habitat connectivity data. A new highway construction or major reconstruction project intersecting a priority corridor shall include a wildlife crossing structure, such as an overpass, underpass, or fencing system directing animals to a safe crossing point.
• I propose the Legislature appropriate funding to a Trail Connectivity Fund, administered jointly by Arizona State Parks and the State Land Department to acquire easements or conservation leases connecting fragmented segments of Arizona’s state trail system, including the Arizona Trail.
• I propose the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality shall adopt vehicle emissions standards for new vehicles registered at least as stringent as the most current California Air Resources Board standards.
• I propose the Legislature appropriate funding to a Dust Mitigation Grant Program, administered by Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), to help counties and municipalities in nonattainment areas pave unpaved roads, stabilize disturbed soil at construction and demo sites, and monitor particulate hot spots. A nonattainment area is a geographic region that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has officially designated as failing to meet federal National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for one or more pollutants most commonly ground-level ozone or particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10).

• I propose the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) shall house individuals under 25 years of age separately from individuals over that age, absent documented safety reasons, ADCRR shall classify individuals by offense severity and criminal history, shall house lower-level offenders separately from those with a current or prior high-severity offense classification, and every housing unit shall provide private shower facilities and sleeping arrangements designed to protect individual safety.
• I propose ADCRR and each county jail system shall employ at minimum one licensed professional mental health counselor for every 40 incarcerated individuals and that each counselor’s caseload shall not exceed 40 incarcerated individuals. Each counselor must hold full licensure as a professional counselor, clinical social worker, or equivalent credential recognized by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners (AZBBHE) and must have competency in substance abuse treatment and trauma treatment as a condition of employment. Every incarcerated individual shall receive a minimum of one individual therapy session, 45 to 60 minutes in length, per week with an assigned licensed clinician, addressing the individual’s specific treatment needs.
• I propose ADCRR establish a voluntary restorative justice program allowing an incarcerated individual to engage in a structured amends process with a willing victim or victim surrogate, facilitated by a trained restorative justice practitioner.
• I propose every facility shall provide mandatory programming at minimum one hour weekly addressing racial reconciliation and disengagement from gang affiliation.
• I propose every incarcerated individual shall participate in at least two hours of weekly group counseling addressing at minimum: emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness, drawing on established Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) frameworks. Group curriculum shall additionally cover at minimum two hours weekly of financial literacy, budgeting, banking, credit, and tax-filing obligations, job market preparation, resume building, and interview skills.
• I propose every incarcerated individual who has not completed a high school equivalency credential shall be enrolled in a GED prep program, and literacy instruction shall be available for any individual who cannot read or write at a functional level.
• I propose strengthening and expanding the Independent Correctional Oversight Office, including giving it authority to conduct regular and unannounced inspections of every state and county correctional facility for contraband, including drugs and drug paraphernalia, as well as compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
• I propose requiring the Arizona Department of Corrections to have a licensed professional counselor on staff at every facility from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., dedicated solely to correctional officers and jail staff and separate from any counselor serving inmates, available for staff to book individual consultations, given that correctional officers experience PTSD at rates between 19 and 34 percent, compared to roughly 6.8 percent in the general population, and face a suicide rate estimated at seven times the general population rate. This staff only counselor would also provide critical incident debriefing and coping support for staff following violent or traumatic incidents on the job, and would regularly present coping strategies and mental health information at staff meetings for all personnel, consistent with the trauma informed staff training and education the National Commission on Correctional Health Care's 2026 standards already call for.

• I propose restricting personalized social media feeds and nighttime notifications for minors modeled after New York’s SAFE for Kids Act and that Arizona mirror New York’s Child Data Protection Act restricting data collection, sale, and targeted advertising directed at minors.
• I propose every Arizonan, not just kids, have a clearly visible option to turn off personalized algorithmic recommendations and choose a non-profiled feed, such as a chronological feed, without the platform switching the user back without consent. This proposal is modeled in part on Article 38 of the European Union’s Digital Services Act.
• I propose every Arizonan have the right to tell a company to stop selling their data, with one signal instead of fighting it account by account and that companies must honor the universal opt-out signal, such as the Global Privacy Control, transmitted through consumer’s browser or device without requiring separate account by account requests.

• I propose we require every business, nonprofit, and contractor operating in Arizona to publicly disclose all employee and contractor compensation.
• I propose a business entering into a contract with the State of Arizona shall remain neutral regarding any union organizing effort among its employees performing work under contract.
• I propose all state, county, and municipal employees, excluding law enforcement and firefighting personnel already covered by a separate statute, have the right to form, join, and participate in labor organizations of their own choosing and to engage in collective bargaining through representatives of their own choosing regarding wages, hours, and terms of employment.
• I propose if an employer holds a meeting or communication primarily concerning the employer’s views on religious, political, or labor organization matters, including decision to join or support union organization, that employer must permit an employee to decline to attend or leave without penalty and must provide notice of the right at the time the meeting or communication is announced.
• I propose artificial intelligence surveillance protections, including: 1) a written advanced notice requirement of 30 days before an employer may implement electronic monitoring or an automated decision system, 2) prohibited methods - emotion recognition system, gait recognition to infer condition, pregnancy, or disability, 3) prohibition of collecting a biometric identifier without the worker’s prior written consent, 4) prohibiting monitoring of a worker’s personal device or account, and 5) prohibition of monitoring a worker during unpaid break time or outside scheduled working hours.

• I propose an increase to the state sales/transaction privilege tax by 0.5 percentage point.
• I propose a luxury/high-end consumption tax imposing an additional 5% tax on the portion of qualifying luxury purchases above specified thresholds: vehicles, boats, or private aircraft over $100k, and jewelry, watches, or purses over $25k.
• I propose an additional 5% tax on corporate taxable income above $5 million.
• I propose increasing Arizona’s minimum corporate tax for corporations operating in Arizona with more than $500,000 in annual gross revenue.
• I propose taxing all Arizona commercial sportsbook operators at a flat 51 percent rate on their revenue, regardless of size, matching the rate New York currently charges commercial mobile sportsbook operators. This goes further than Governor Hobbs' fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, which called for a tiered structure raising the rate to 45 percent only for operators averaging more than 75 million dollars a month in revenue, while leaving smaller operators at the current 10 percent online and 8 percent retail rates. Tribal gaming operators would continue to operate under their existing tribal state gaming compacts, consistent with how New York's law does not apply its 51 percent commercial rate to that state's tribal gaming facilities.
• I propose replacing Arizona's flat income tax with a graduated tax system, returning to the structure Arizona used before 2021. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has estimated that fully reversing the flat tax could generate approximately 2.6 billion dollars a year in additional state revenue.
• I propose limiting Arizona's property tax exemption for religious organizations to property used or held primarily for religious worship only, reversing Senate Bill 1298, which expanded the exemption to also cover property used for education, housing, and other religious related activities. This would return the exemption to the standard Arizona Revised Statutes Section 42-11109 used before that expansion, and I would also require regular audits of existing exemptions to confirm the property claiming the exemption is genuinely used for worship and not for commercial purposes, rental income, or held vacant for future use.
• I propose raising Arizona's severance tax on metalliferous mining, currently set at 2.5 percent of the value of extracted minerals such as copper under Arizona Revised Statutes Section 42-5202, to 3 percent.
• I propose closing Arizona's sales tax exemptions and corporate tax loopholes, including exemptions currently applied to purchases such as private jet timeshares and fine art, along with other sales tax exemptions that have been enacted for large corporations over time.

• I propose a state constitutional amendment establishing that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the State of Arizona on account of sex, race, or ethnicity, covering healthcare, reproductive care, employment, compensation, education, and property rights, enforceable through Arizona courts. I would pursue this both through renewed legislative ratification of the federal Equal Rights Amendment, which Arizona's Legislature has repeatedly blocked from a floor vote since 2019, and through a citizen initiative placing the amendment directly before Arizona voters, following the same path voters used to add reproductive rights protections to the Arizona Constitution through Proposition 139 in 2024.
• I propose strengthening and expanding the Arizona Civil Rights Act to explicitly prohibit any business or corporation operating in Arizona from discriminating on the basis of sex, race, or ethnicity in employment, compensation, healthcare access, and other covered areas, ensuring that the equal treatment standard established by the constitutional amendment applies to private employers and companies, not just government action.
• I propose creating a state paid family and medical leave insurance program, since Arizona currently only guarantees paid sick time through Proposition 206 and offers no dedicated paid leave for childbirth, adoption, or caring for a seriously ill family member, building on Senate Bill 1464, which was introduced to establish such a program with up to 26 weeks of paid leave in qualifying circumstances.
• I propose requiring Arizona employers to disclose salary ranges to job applicants and prohibiting employers from asking about or relying on a candidate's salary history during hiring, closing gaps in Arizona's current Equal Pay Law that allow past pay disparities to follow workers from job to job.
• I propose establishing a state Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, since Arizona currently has no state law requiring private employers to provide pregnancy accommodations or breastfeeding breaks, giving Arizona workers a state enforceable right alongside existing federal protections.
• I propose extending Arizona's unpaid domestic violence leave protections, currently required only for employers with 50 or more employees, to smaller employers as well, so survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking at any workplace have job protected time to attend legal proceedings or seek a protective order.
• I propose enacting a standalone Arizona hate crime statute, since Arizona currently has no specific hate crime law and only allows bias to be considered as a sentencing factor for an existing crime rather than as a distinct offense.
• I propose requiring statewide data collection on the race and ethnicity of individuals stopped by Arizona peace officers during motor vehicle stops, building on Senate Bill 1564, so patterns of racial disparity in policing can be documented and addressed with actual evidence rather than anecdote.

• I propose two things regarding Arizona's Missing Middle Housing law, codified at Arizona Revised Statutes Section 9-462.13. First, I would block House Bill 2375, a bill currently in the Legislature that would let cities exempt their historic districts from the law. The law as passed requires larger cities to allow duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and townhomes on lots within one mile of their downtown cores, and House Bill 2375 would let cities carve out exceptions to that requirement, which in Phoenix alone would remove 38 percent of the area currently covered. Second, I would go further than the current law and expand middle housing to entire cities, not just the one mile downtown zone, following the example of Flagstaff and Tucson, which chose to allow duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and townhomes citywide rather than limiting the policy to a small downtown area. Together, these two steps would keep the existing law fully intact and then build on it, so more neighborhoods across each city share in solving the housing shortage instead of concentrating new housing in just one small area.
• I propose restoring Arizona's state Low Income Housing Tax Credit to its full original scope. This tax credit helped make affordable housing projects financially possible for developers, but it expired at the end of 2025, and the only replacement currently moving through the Legislature, House Bill 2804, would apply only to rural Arizona. I would bring back the full statewide version so affordable housing projects in both rural and urban areas have the financial support needed to get built.
• I propose creating a state investment fund that pairs money for building affordable and workforce housing with money for upgrading local water and sewer systems. In many growing parts of Maricopa and Yuma counties, land may be available and zoning may even allow new housing, but the water and sewer infrastructure was built for a smaller population decades ago and cannot support new homes without upgrades. This proposal is modeled on a Montana law, House Bill 819, that funded both housing construction and water and sewer improvements together, and it connects directly to my water security platform by making sure infrastructure capacity does not quietly block new housing from being built.
• I propose turning Arizona's current rental assistance pilot program, House Bill 2682, into a permanent, better funded statewide program. That bill currently helps a limited number of families who fall behind on rent avoid eviction, but housing advocates have said the funding covers only a small fraction of the need. I would expand this into an ongoing program so more Arizona families facing a temporary financial hardship can stay in their homes instead of being evicted.
• I propose expanding permanent supportive housing for people experiencing chronic homelessness, including older veterans. Permanent supportive housing combines a stable place to live with services such as healthcare and case management, and it has been one of the most effective tools nationally for reducing homelessness among veterans over the past decade. I would help Arizona counties access and match the federal funding already available for this purpose through the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act and Department of Veterans Affairs housing programs, so more of that federal money reaches Arizona communities.
• I propose requiring that cities and counties receiving state money to address homelessness also show they are removing local barriers to building more housing. Spending money on shelters and services without allowing more housing to be built treats the symptoms of the housing shortage without addressing what is causing it. This approach follows a requirement California now uses, and it would ensure that Arizona's homelessness funding goes hand in hand with real progress on housing supply, rather than being spent while local zoning rules continue making the shortage worse.
• I propose limiting the number of single family homes, condominiums, and townhouses that a corporation or business operating in Arizona can own, and requiring that any such property stay listed on the open market for at least one year before a corporation can buy it. Large investors buying up homes can make it harder for individual families to compete for a limited supply of houses, particularly starter homes. This builds on House Bill 2325, a bill currently in the Arizona Legislature that would cap institutional investor ownership at 50 single family homes statewide and block investor bids during a home's first 60 days on the market. My proposal would go further, with a full one year waiting period before a corporation could purchase a residential property.

• Require or incentivize large employers to provide child care benefits or contribute to a shared child care fund, so that corporate Arizona steps up for its workforce.
• Create tax incentives for businesses that offer on-site child care or subsidize employee child care costs, putting the private sector to work for working families.
• Eliminate zoning restrictions that prevent child care facilities from opening in the neighborhoods where families actually live and work.
• Demand that Arizona fully utilize its Child Care and Development Block Grant allocation. Our state has left federal child care dollars on the table for too long while families go without.

• I will work to protect every remaining dollar scheduled to widen I-10 between SR 85 and Citrus Road, oppose any further deferral, and press for regular public progress reports from ADOT so residents can see exactly where the project stands. More than 140,000 vehicles travel this stretch each day, a nearly 40% increase in just two years, and between 2021 and 2025, 1,145 crashes were reported between Citrus Road and Verrado Way. A solution has already been designed: a High Occupancy Vehicle travel lane, a concrete median barrier and median lighting, and a widened westbound I-10 bridge over Citrus Road. The funding history, however, has been a cycle of promises and delays. The FY 2023 budget appropriated $64,200,000 from the State Highway Fund, but the FY 2025 budget deferred $108,000,000 in accumulated highway funding, including FY 2023 appropriations, to FY 2027 and FY 2028. Meanwhile, construction costs rose, and the total project cost is now estimated at $146 million. Earlier this year, a proposed budget from Governor Hobbs' office would have deferred the $27 million allocated for the first phase of construction to an unknown date. The enacted FY 2027 budget ultimately kept $30,000,000 in FY 2027 and $76,000,000 in FY 2028 for the widening.
• I will work to keep state commitments to Buckeye's connecting corridors on schedule and to coordinate state funding with city and regional partners so that construction phases align and residents face fewer years of disruption. At the I-10 and Jackrabbit Trail interchange, ADOT is reconstructing the existing interchange, adding traffic signals, and widening Jackrabbit Trail to three lanes in each direction, with construction scheduled to begin in early August 2026 and take approximately two years. State Route 30, a new freeway planned in the southwest valley crossing Buckeye, Goodyear, Avondale and Phoenix, is slated to begin construction in summer 2027 and end in summer 2030.
• I will advocate for a predictable, formula-based share of state transportation dollars for rural counties, so that rural road safety does not depend on which lawmakers win a slice of a given year's budget negotiations. Rural roads carry farm products, school buses, and emergency vehicles, and they deserve the same attention as metro freeways. Recent state budgets have included projects such as $33,300,000 to improve U.S. Route 95 between Wellton Mohawk Canal Road and Aberdeen Road, and $1,300,000 for Yuma County's bridge replacement project on Somerton Avenue between West County 10th Street and West County 11th Street.
• I will fight to restore the rural water supply funds, to place statutory protections on the Long Term Water Augmentation Fund so it cannot be used as a budget reserve, and to prioritize projects that serve both agricultural and municipal users.
• I will push for public, location-level progress reports on broadband construction in LD25 and for the state to pursue every eligible dollar of its full allocation. Telehealth, remote work, online school, and modern farming all depend on a reliable internet connection. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the executive branch's principal voice on telecommunications and internet policy, approved Arizona's final plan to bring fiber technology to 118,170 locations at a deployment cost of $446,123,359, out of $993,112,231 in total BEAD funding allocated to the state, with construction anticipated to begin in early 2026. As someone who has run a telehealth practice for years, I know how much a strong connection matters.
• I will support state cost-share funding that helps local flood control districts win federal grants, and I will ask that new development approvals account for existing drainage plans. Desert communities flood, and rapid development changes how water moves across the land. The Flood Control District's Sun Valley drainage plan alone covers approximately 183 square miles in Buckeye and unincorporated Maricopa County, bounded generally by Gates Road on the north, the White Tank Mountains on the east, Interstate 10 on the south, and the Hassayampa River on the west. The District's capital budget for new structures and major repairs varies from year to year and depends on the availability of funds, grants, and cost share, while the Arizona Department of Water Resources leads on floodplain management and dam safety.

Making It Safer to Report

• Create a statewide anonymous sexual assault reporting portal allowing survivors to report without triggering an automatic investigation, giving them full control over if and when law enforcement becomes involved.
• Establish third party reporting options at universities, hospitals, and community organizations where an advocate can file a report on a survivor's behalf without the survivor being identified.
• Mandate that all Arizona law enforcement agencies and universities offer anonymous or confidential reporting pathways as an alternative to formal reporting, and that survivors are informed of these options at every point of contact.
• Create a Jane Doe evidence preservation system allowing survivors to have a rape kit completed and evidence preserved anonymously without committing to a formal report, keeping their options open without forcing an immediate decision.
• Ensure anonymous reports can still be used to identify patterns of behavior by repeat perpetrators without exposing the survivor's identity.
• Prohibit Arizona law enforcement from automatically converting an anonymous report into a formal investigation without the survivor's explicit consent.

Protecting Survivors from Being Put on Trial

• Strengthen and modernize Arizona's rape shield law to explicitly prohibit the introduction of a survivor's sexual history, clothing, alcohol or drug use, or prior relationship with the accused as evidence of consent or wrongdoing in both criminal and civil proceedings.
• Extend rape shield protections to civil lawsuits, as currently Arizona's shield law applies primarily in criminal proceedings, leaving survivors vulnerable when they pursue civil accountability.
• Create explicit anti retaliation protections making it a civil violation for any person, institution, or organization to take adverse action against someone for reporting sexual assault in good faith.
• Protect survivors from bad faith counter suits by strengthening Arizona's anti SLAPP statute to cover retaliatory legal actions arising from sexual assault reports, allowing survivors to have such suits dismissed quickly and recover attorney's fees.
• Prohibit a survivor's social media and digital communications from being subpoenaed or used as evidence without a high evidentiary threshold and judicial review.
• Prohibit cross examination tactics designed to humiliate or discredit survivors rather than challenge specific factual claims.
• Prohibit charging survivors with false reporting unless there is clear and convincing evidence of deliberate fabrication, as the actual rate of confirmed false reports is approximately 5%, yet the threat of being charged deters countless survivors from coming forward.
• Mandate trauma informed training for all Arizona judges, attorneys, and law enforcement handling sexual assault cases, including understanding why survivors may have inconsistent memories, delayed reporting, or continued contact with their abuser.
• Require that survivors be informed of all their rights in writing at the first point of contact with law enforcement, universities, or medical providers.

University & Institutional Accountability

• Require Arizona public universities and community colleges to publicly report all sexual assault allegations, investigations, and disciplinary outcomes in a standardized format beyond minimal federal Title IX requirements.
• Mandate that institutional disciplinary outcomes for sexual assault cannot consist solely of essays, workshops, or written assignments when credible evidence of assault exists.
• Create civil liability for Arizona institutions that demonstrably fail to respond appropriately to credible sexual assault allegations.
• Require an independent third party review process for how Arizona universities handle sexual assault cases.
• Require Greek organizations at Arizona public universities to adopt binding conduct codes with real enforcement mechanisms as a condition of operating on campus.

Closing Legal Gaps

• Review and strengthen Arizona's definition of consent to ensure that incapacitation due to alcohol or drugs, regardless of whether the victim voluntarily consumed them, cannot be used as a legal shield by perpetrators.
• Establish clear statutory authority and guidance for Arizona prosecutors to pursue criminal charges even when a civil lawsuit is the primary vehicle for a survivor seeking accountability.
• Strengthen evidence preservation requirements so that delayed criminal investigations are not hampered by lost or destroyed evidence.