Walter "Walt" Blackman

Representative Walt Blackman and Senator Shawnna Bolick announced HB 2063 and SB 1032 to appropriate $1.5 million for Arizona’s Department of Corrections Oversight Office, intended to restore independent prison oversight and receive public complaints and tips.

December 17, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: azleg.gov · researched August 20, 2026

Introduced HB 2240 as sole sponsor, a bill on tuition-waiver scholarships at Arizona universities and community colleges for children and spouses of service members and first responders killed or disabled in the line of duty. The House Education Committee recommended passage, and the bill was held before a final House vote.

March 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: dvs.az.gov · researched August 20, 2026

Representative Walt Blackman and Senator Shawnna Bolick announced HB 2063 and SB 1032 to appropriate $1.5 million for Arizona’s Department of Corrections Oversight Office, intended to restore independent prison oversight and receive public complaints and tips.

December 17, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov · researched August 20, 2026

Representative Walt Blackman sponsored HB 2395, HB 2398, and HB 2400, wildfire-mitigation bills that advanced out of the House Land, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee; the official House release says the measures addressed wildfire suppression, contingency planning, and prevention in rural Arizona.

February 4, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov · researched August 20, 2026

Blackman sponsored House Bill 2713, a sentencing-reform measure to let non-violent prison inmates earn earlier release by completing self-improvement and substance-abuse programs. It advanced through the House but was blocked in the Senate; Blackman has pursued the reform since 2019.

March 31, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azmirror.com · researched July 7, 2026

Introduced HB 2240 as sole sponsor, a bill on tuition-waiver scholarships at Arizona universities and community colleges for children and spouses of service members and first responders killed or disabled in the line of duty. The House Education Committee recommended passage, and the bill was held before a final House vote.

March 8, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: dvs.az.gov · researched August 20, 2026

Introduced Arizona House Bill 2245, proposing a state pilot program that would test software for building veterans' disability claims, comparing offices that used it against a control group that did not, with a report due by July 2027. A House committee backed it 6-0 in January 2026, but the Appropriations Committee took no action and the bill did not become law.

March 8, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: dvs.az.gov · researched August 20, 2026

The official Arizona House text for HB 2245 identifies Walter Blackman as the primary sponsor of a veterans-claims pilot program and appropriation for the Department of Veterans’ Services.

January 15, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: azleg.gov · researched August 20, 2026

The official Arizona House text for HB 2240 identifies Walter Blackman as the primary sponsor of the tuition-waiver measure concerning children of veterans and people with disabilities.

January 15, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov · researched August 20, 2026

On 2025-04-21, Arizona House Representatives Walt Blackman and David Marshall sponsored a legislative proclamation honoring the graduating class of 2025, which was read on the House floor.

April 21, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov · researched September 9, 2026