Lydia Hernandez

Introduced HB4112 to require school-board governance and financial training every two years and disqualify members who fail to complete required training.

February 10, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2823 to prohibit minimum-occupancy guarantees in private-prison contracts and pay only for inmates actually housed.

January 22, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Introduced HB2889 to require annual risk-based state-funded private-school voucher audits, a financial transparency portal and additional school financial reporting.

June 27, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2493 to subject state-funded private-school voucher providers to financial and academic-performance audits.

June 27, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2662 to require assessments, school qualifications and audits for empowerment scholarship accounts, the state-funded private-school voucher program.

February 13, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2764 to require quarterly reports on state-funded private-school voucher recipients, expenses and compliance.

February 13, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2661 to require charter-school classroom-spending profiles and reporting.

February 13, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2789 to establish school-board education or experience qualifications and professional-development requirements.

February 9, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2656 to require comparison of public and private incarceration costs and services.

February 7, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2291 to require school superintendent qualifications to be set at a public meeting and require a valid fingerprint-clearance card.

January 18, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2607 to require charter schools to publish and update available enrollment capacity monthly.

February 11, 2014Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Voted for HB2458, adding audits and fraud-prevention requirements to empowerment scholarship accounts, the state-funded private-school voucher program.

April 30, 2013Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azmemory.azlibrary.gov

Co-sponsored HB2133 to subject private-prison contractors’ records to public-records requirements.

January 23, 2013Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2128 to require service and cost comparisons between public and private prisons.

January 23, 2013Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2132 to require an Auditor General special audit of state monitoring of private prisons.

January 22, 2013Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azleg.gov

Moved and voted to approve the board’s argument supporting continuation of Cartwright’s permission to spend 15% above the state maintenance and operations budget limit, which funds kindergarten, class-size reduction and instructional materials.

June 10, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Moved and voted for a 180-day, five-day instructional calendar with longer school days, estimated to cost $2–5 million; approved teacher and related-service-provider salary increases; and approved a $1,508,850 student-laptop replacement purchase.

March 18, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Moved and voted to switch employee medical benefits to the Arizona School Boards Association Insurance Trust, with a projected $11 million annual cost ceiling compared with approximately $11.5 million in current spending and a $15.5 million estimate to retain the previous plan.

March 18, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Moved and voted to award Savvas Learning the K–8 English language arts curriculum contract, with a seven-year capital budget ceiling of $4.6 million.

February 18, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HB4084 to extend state indigent-defense funding to counsel in eviction cases.

February 16, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2823 to prohibit minimum-occupancy guarantees in private-prison contracts and pay only for inmates actually housed.

January 22, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2685 to allocate $5 million from opioid-settlement monies for K–12 mental-health telehealth providers.

January 20, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2682 to create a rental-assistance program with a $5 million appropriation.

January 20, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Voted to approve a $104.88 million operating budget, approximately $4 million below the prior budget because of enrollment decline.

June 25, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HB2881 to establish grants of $150 per ninth-grade student for high-school programs supporting graduation progress.

February 24, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2816 to provide $122,300,300 in general-fund spending and $402,981,400 in Medicaid spending authority for developmental-disability services.

February 11, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2620 to require firearm dealers to verify concealed-weapon permits through a secure state portal, bar collection of purchaser identifiers beyond permit-status checks, and appropriate $300,000 for the portal.

January 28, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2383 to appropriate $8 million for applied research centers in medical, energy, water and other technologies.

January 27, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2476 to appropriate $100 million to the water-conservation grant fund.

January 27, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2593 to allow eligible children with disabilities to enter preschool programs before their third birthday.

January 27, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2495 to count full-day kindergarten students fully in school-funding formulas.

January 27, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2379 to appropriate $5 million for home and community-based senior services and $5 million for senior housing assistance.

January 23, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2213 to appropriate $3.8 million for free school lunches for income-eligible children.

January 21, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2872 to appropriate $830,000 for the Arizona perinatal psychiatry access line.

February 6, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1695 to expand funding for community-college dual enrollment.

February 5, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2743 to appropriate $400,000 to the address-confidentiality program fund.

February 5, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2757 to appropriate $10 million over three years for the Arizona Holocaust Education Center.

February 5, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2724 to appropriate $10 million over three years for in-school recess and after-school programs.

February 1, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2694 to appropriate $1,836,500 for the Kin Dah Lichii Chapter Head Start building.

January 30, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2696 to appropriate $3,565,500 for the Blue Gap fueling center and convenience store.

January 30, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2697 to appropriate $600,000 for Ganado senior-center and veterans-building pavement and $1.7 million for an SR264 turning lane.

January 30, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2693 to appropriate funds for Navajo roads, drainage and Round Rock trading-post redevelopment.

January 30, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2692 to appropriate $340,000 for the Ganado waterline project.

January 29, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2602 to appropriate $10 million for San Carlos Apache College remedial education.

January 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2601 to appropriate $10 million for Tohono O’odham Community College remedial education.

January 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Voted to adopt K–8 science curriculum costing $5,182,712.82 over seven years and approve annual Quaver music curriculum costing $40,200.

September 28, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Co-sponsored HB2658 to appropriate $250,000 and one staff position for a school agricultural program.

February 13, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2743 to appropriate $40 million for Arizona Promise for Dreamers college scholarships.

February 13, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2733 to appropriate $14.6 million and 156 staff positions for Adult Protective Services.

February 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2681 to expand child-care assistance eligibility and provide a new appropriation whose amount was unspecified.

February 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2668 to appropriate $20 million to the Arizona arts trust fund.

February 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2685 to appropriate $30 million for child-care assistance.

February 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2765 to appropriate $5 million to identify, contain and treat contamination by persistent industrial chemicals known as PFAS in water sources.

February 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2697 to appropriate $110,000 for business-services staff raises and a business-process study in the secretary of state’s office.

February 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2696 to appropriate $1,037,600 for the secretary of state’s security staff, office infrastructure and information-security officer.

February 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2686 to appropriate $1 million for falls-prevention programs.

February 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2679 to appropriate $30 million for grants to pay medical debt.

February 7, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2657 to appropriate $7 million for housing assistance for people age 60 and older.

February 7, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2611 to fund a twelve-month trauma-informed training program; the introduced appropriation amount was unspecified.

February 7, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2734 to establish rights for homeless residents, eviction diversion, and $496 million for affordable housing, transitional housing, rental assistance and eviction prevention.

February 7, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2660 to appropriate $6.1 million for family-planning services for low-income residents.

February 7, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2654 to add $1 million in ongoing funding for services for older people who are blind.

February 7, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2716 to fund mental-health treatment for minors regardless of insurance; the introduced appropriation amount was unspecified.

February 7, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2605 to create an international transportation and trade authority and appropriate $200,000 for its establishment.

February 6, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2160 to establish a funded scholarship academy for school psychologists, social workers and counselors; the introduced appropriation amount was unspecified.

January 23, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2238 to appropriate $106 million for free K–12 school breakfasts and lunches.

January 23, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2159 to appropriate $3 million for professional-development personnel supporting school districts with less-experienced teachers.

January 23, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCR2015 to refer repeal of the school-district statewide school-spending cap to voters.

January 19, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2294 to repeal the school-district statewide school-spending cap.

January 19, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Voted to call a November 2022 election for a permission to spend 15% above the state maintenance and operations budget limit and approve the board’s supporting argument.

June 9, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for the consent agenda authorizing Project 2020 Series B school borrowing and refinancing of existing school debt.

February 10, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to restructure Justine Spitalny as a K–8 school focused on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics and approved the consent agenda containing Project 2020 Series A school borrowing, repayable with interest.

February 11, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Moved and voted for the Desert Sands Middle School improvement plan, including teacher development, assessment-based intervention and tutoring; also voted for the allocation of teacher and school funding under the #RedforEd program.

June 13, 2018Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Seconded and voted for school-safety grants supporting police officers assigned to schools and a juvenile-crime reduction program with evening classes for suspended students.

August 13, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for SB1001 and SB1002, creating the Department of Child Safety and funding the new child-protection agency.

May 29, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azmemory.azlibrary.gov

Co-sponsored HB2682 to restore full formula funding for regional career and technical school districts and revise campus funding rules.

February 12, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2616 to appropriate $32 million for teacher professional-development stipends and release time, plus $3 million for 30 Department of Education positions supporting that training.

February 12, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2610 to appropriate an additional $3.2 million to increase foster-care placement rates.

February 12, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2584 to appropriate $250,000 for health-insurance enrollment assistance for seriously mentally ill residents.

February 12, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2601 to create a tribal dual-enrollment program fund and deposit $500,000 in lottery money annually to support college courses for high-school students.

February 11, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2624 to appropriate $500,000 to purchase the Yarnell Hill memorial state-park site.

February 11, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2532 to appropriate $15,623,200 from the general fund and $54,451,600 from the children’s health insurance program fund for children’s health coverage.

February 5, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2543 to appropriate $250,000 for school mental-health and safety training.

February 3, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Voted against SB1159, a $100,000 appropriation for legal representation of legislators in specified civil cases.

January 30, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: azhouse.gov

Co-sponsored HB2428 to appropriate $500,000 for grants supporting intensive reading instruction for struggling readers.

January 30, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2490 to appropriate $250,000 for adolescent mental-health first-aid training for adults who work with youth.

January 28, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2228 to appropriate $80.5 million to eliminate the child-care assistance waiting list and cover eligible low-income families.

January 22, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1098 to establish an Arizona office of film and media and appropriate $612,500 for it.

January 21, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Voted for the 2013 special-session budget package, including state appropriations, K–12 school funding changes and Medicaid expansion.

June 13, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azmemory.azlibrary.gov

Voted against SB1363, which expanded empowerment scholarship eligibility to incoming kindergarten students and increased account funding.

June 4, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: azmemory.azlibrary.gov

Co-sponsored HB2620 to allocate $50 million from the budget stabilization fund for school instructional equipment, materials and implementation of statewide academic standards.

February 12, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2435 to increase the funding adjustment for a 200-day school calendar from 5% to 8%.

January 22, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1057 to raise Arizona Medicaid reimbursement for ambulance services to a percentage of the authorized ambulance rate.

January 16, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Registered support as a Valley Interfaith Project representative for HB2629, proposing an additional $50 million for services for seriously mentally ill residents.

March 20, 2001Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2977 to prohibit law-enforcement face coverings during specified public duties, with safety exceptions.

June 13, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Introduced HB4111 to require body cameras during immigration-enforcement contacts, with privacy rules and consequences for missing or tampered footage.

February 10, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Introduced HB4110 to require mental-illness and de-escalation training for county detention and state prison staff.

February 10, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Introduced HB4109 to require school violence and weapon reporting, parental notification, weapon confiscation and criminal penalties for school officials who violate those duties.

February 10, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Introduced HB2865 to prohibit firearm possession after specified domestic-violence offenses or a protective order entered after notice and an opportunity to participate.

January 22, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2677 to increase penalties for unlawful imprisonment in a place of worship.

January 20, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2370 to require schools using weapons-detection systems to implement safety administration procedures.

January 20, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2747 to require firearm permits and firearms-safety training for specified weapon possession.

February 10, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCR2034 to refer private firearm-transfer background-check requirements to voters.

January 29, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2620 to require firearm dealers to verify concealed-weapon permits through a secure state portal, bar collection of purchaser identifiers beyond permit-status checks, and appropriate $300,000 for the portal.

January 28, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2211 to create severe-threat protection orders that temporarily restrict firearm access.

January 28, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2214 to penalize failure to secure weapons from minors.

January 28, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2619 to prohibit specified assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, with registration requirements and exceptions.

January 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2621 to require background checks through licensed dealers for specified private firearm transfers.

January 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2756 to require firearm transfers from people subject to specified domestic-violence protective orders and restrict firearm possession following specified violent offenses.

February 8, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2874 to create a felony for using a deadly weapon to instigate threatening or harassing conduct.

February 8, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2479 to strengthen procedures for reporting and responding to missing, abducted or runaway children.

January 17, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2420 to prohibit physical punishment in schools.

January 17, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Seconded and voted for school-safety grants supporting police officers assigned to schools and a juvenile-crime reduction program with evening classes for suspended students.

August 13, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HB2376 to prohibit texting while driving.

February 11, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2557 to require hands-on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instruction in seventh or eighth grade.

February 11, 2013Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2130 to restrict private prisons from housing specified higher-risk inmates.

January 23, 2013Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2127 to require certification of private-prison security officers.

January 23, 2013Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2477 to require safety evidence and state approval for photo-radar systems on state highways.

January 23, 2013Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2977 to prohibit law-enforcement face coverings during specified public duties, with safety exceptions.

June 13, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB4084 to extend state indigent-defense funding to counsel in eviction cases.

February 16, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Introduced HB4111 to require body cameras during immigration-enforcement contacts, with privacy rules and consequences for missing or tampered footage.

February 10, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Introduced HB4110 to require mental-illness and de-escalation training for county detention and state prison staff.

February 10, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2976 to establish due-process safeguards for administrative actions affecting elected justices of the peace.

February 4, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Introduced HB2866 to provide jury trials in landlord-tenant disputes.

January 28, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2922 to exempt homeowners who refuse to open a door to a police officer from the criminal-investigation obstruction statute.

January 27, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2674 to let courts dismiss remaining nonfinancial sentence conditions after a convicted defendant dies, while retaining the conviction and financial obligations.

January 22, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2673 to establish mental-illness screening, diagnosis and treatment requirements for prisoners in the introduced bill.

January 22, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2823 to prohibit minimum-occupancy guarantees in private-prison contracts and pay only for inmates actually housed.

January 22, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2681 to expand appeal protections for classified employees dismissed under a merit system.

January 21, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2458 to require specified medical treatment and protections for pregnant prisoners.

January 28, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2459 to prohibit cross-gender strip searches and require records and witnesses for specified cross-gender pat searches of prisoners.

January 28, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2744 to provide notice and participation rights to guardians and authorized agents in court cases ordering mental-health treatment without consent.

February 8, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2837 to permit removal of eligible housing-case records.

February 8, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1713 to expand restoration of voting rights after criminal convictions.

February 6, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1712 to increase compensation for inmate labor.

February 6, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1711 to prohibit inmate-phone contracts that pay the corrections department commissions or revenue above reasonable operating costs.

February 6, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2759 to require colleges to withhold recognition and access to funds from student organizations supporting designated foreign terrorist organizations.

February 5, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2617 to expand restoration of civil and firearm rights following juvenile-court findings.

January 23, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2308 to limit occupational-license disqualifications based on criminal history.

January 17, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Voted for SB1234, which would prohibit photo-radar traffic enforcement. The governor vetoed the bill.

May 15, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azhouse.gov

Co-sponsored HB2713 to establish sexual-assault survivors’ rights to advocates, confidential communications and evidence information.

February 9, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2734 to establish rights for homeless residents, eviction diversion, and $496 million for affordable housing, transitional housing, rental assistance and eviction prevention.

February 7, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2656 to require comparison of public and private incarceration costs and services.

February 7, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCR2035 to refer abolition of the death penalty to voters.

February 6, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2568 to protect equal public access for homeless residents and establish safeguards against criminalization based on housing status.

February 6, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2369 to prohibit employment agreements that bar disclosure of workplace sexual harassment or assault.

January 25, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Seconded and voted for an immigration safety resolution protecting students’ learning environment and privacy regardless of immigration status and directing review of school search and interrogation policy.

August 22, 2019Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HB2671 to allow prevailing plaintiffs to recover legal costs in cases involving unauthorized immigration-law practice.

February 17, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2609 to give parents a state-board review process for unlawful charter-school enrollment denials.

February 11, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2624 to require a foreclosure mediation program for owner-occupied homes before foreclosure could proceed.

February 13, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2126 to strengthen state regulation of private prisons.

January 23, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2130 to restrict private prisons from housing specified higher-risk inmates.

January 23, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2127 to require certification of private-prison security officers.

January 23, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2129 to prohibit specified prisoner transfers to private prisons.

January 23, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2133 to subject private-prison contractors’ records to public-records requirements.

January 23, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2128 to require service and cost comparisons between public and private prisons.

January 23, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2132 to require an Auditor General special audit of state monitoring of private prisons.

January 22, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: azleg.gov

Moved and voted to approve the board’s argument supporting continuation of Cartwright’s permission to spend 15% above the state maintenance and operations budget limit, which funds kindergarten, class-size reduction and instructional materials.

June 10, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Moved and voted for a 180-day, five-day instructional calendar with longer school days, estimated to cost $2–5 million; approved teacher and related-service-provider salary increases; and approved a $1,508,850 student-laptop replacement purchase.

March 18, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Moved and voted to award Savvas Learning the K–8 English language arts curriculum contract, with a seven-year capital budget ceiling of $4.6 million.

February 18, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Introduced HB4112 to require school-board governance and financial training every two years and disqualify members who fail to complete required training.

February 10, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Seconded and voted to return Cartwright schools to a traditional five-day instructional calendar.

January 14, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Introduced HB2889 to require annual risk-based state-funded private-school voucher audits, a financial transparency portal and additional school financial reporting.

June 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2493 to subject state-funded private-school voucher providers to financial and academic-performance audits.

June 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2881 to establish grants of $150 per ninth-grade student for high-school programs supporting graduation progress.

February 24, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2593 to allow eligible children with disabilities to enter preschool programs before their third birthday.

January 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2585 to expand open-enrollment opportunities for students living on tribal land.

January 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2495 to count full-day kindergarten students fully in school-funding formulas.

January 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2213 to appropriate $3.8 million for free school lunches for income-eligible children.

January 21, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1695 to expand funding for community-college dual enrollment.

February 5, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2757 to appropriate $10 million over three years for the Arizona Holocaust Education Center.

February 5, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2724 to appropriate $10 million over three years for in-school recess and after-school programs.

February 1, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2694 to appropriate $1,836,500 for the Kin Dah Lichii Chapter Head Start building.

January 30, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2602 to appropriate $10 million for San Carlos Apache College remedial education.

January 23, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2601 to appropriate $10 million for Tohono O’odham Community College remedial education.

January 23, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2420 to prohibit physical punishment in schools.

January 17, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Voted to adopt K–8 science curriculum costing $5,182,712.82 over seven years and approve annual Quaver music curriculum costing $40,200.

September 28, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HB2662 to require assessments, school qualifications and audits for empowerment scholarship accounts, the state-funded private-school voucher program.

February 13, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2764 to require quarterly reports on state-funded private-school voucher recipients, expenses and compliance.

February 13, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2658 to appropriate $250,000 and one staff position for a school agricultural program.

February 13, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2743 to appropriate $40 million for Arizona Promise for Dreamers college scholarships.

February 13, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2661 to require charter-school classroom-spending profiles and reporting.

February 13, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2789 to establish school-board education or experience qualifications and professional-development requirements.

February 9, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2361 to expand social-studies standards to include the history and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.

January 26, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCR2026 to allow alternative English-language instruction programs for English learners.

January 26, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2160 to establish a funded scholarship academy for school psychologists, social workers and counselors; the introduced appropriation amount was unspecified.

January 23, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2238 to appropriate $106 million for free K–12 school breakfasts and lunches.

January 23, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2159 to appropriate $3 million for professional-development personnel supporting school districts with less-experienced teachers.

January 23, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCR2015 to refer repeal of the school-district statewide school-spending cap to voters.

January 19, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2294 to repeal the school-district statewide school-spending cap.

January 19, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2291 to require school superintendent qualifications to be set at a public meeting and require a valid fingerprint-clearance card.

January 18, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Voted to call a November 2022 election for a permission to spend 15% above the state maintenance and operations budget limit and approve the board’s supporting argument.

June 9, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Voted to restructure Justine Spitalny as a K–8 school focused on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics and approved the consent agenda containing Project 2020 Series A school borrowing, repayable with interest.

February 11, 2021Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Moved and voted for the Desert Sands Middle School improvement plan, including teacher development, assessment-based intervention and tutoring; also voted for the allocation of teacher and school funding under the #RedforEd program.

June 13, 2018Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Moved and voted to reopen Byron A. Barry Elementary as Byron A. Barry Preschool.

May 25, 2016Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Seconded and voted for school-safety grants supporting police officers assigned to schools and a juvenile-crime reduction program with evening classes for suspended students.

August 13, 2014Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HB2682 to restore full formula funding for regional career and technical school districts and revise campus funding rules.

February 12, 2014Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2616 to appropriate $32 million for teacher professional-development stipends and release time, plus $3 million for 30 Department of Education positions supporting that training.

February 12, 2014Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2607 to require charter schools to publish and update available enrollment capacity monthly.

February 11, 2014Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2601 to create a tribal dual-enrollment program fund and deposit $500,000 in lottery money annually to support college courses for high-school students.

February 11, 2014Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2609 to give parents a state-board review process for unlawful charter-school enrollment denials.

February 11, 2014Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2544 to require teacher preparation programs to include Arizona’s college and career ready standards.

February 3, 2014Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2428 to appropriate $500,000 for grants supporting intensive reading instruction for struggling readers.

January 30, 2014Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2478 to increase public-school extracurricular-activity tax-credit limits and extend contribution timing.

January 28, 2014Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Seconded and voted for adoption of supplemental K–8 mathematics curriculum.

July 3, 2013Supports Public Education Quality

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Voted for the 2013 special-session budget package, including state appropriations, K–12 school funding changes and Medicaid expansion.

June 13, 2013Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azmemory.azlibrary.gov

Voted for HB2458, adding audits and fraud-prevention requirements to empowerment scholarship accounts, the state-funded private-school voucher program.

April 30, 2013Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azmemory.azlibrary.gov

Co-sponsored HB2637 to establish a pilot exemption from requirements to teach English learners chiefly in English for qualified schools.

February 12, 2013Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2650 to repeal statutory restrictions on school ethnic-studies courses.

February 12, 2013Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2620 to allocate $50 million from the budget stabilization fund for school instructional equipment, materials and implementation of statewide academic standards.

February 12, 2013Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2557 to require hands-on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instruction in seventh or eighth grade.

February 11, 2013Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2563 to require teacher preparation programs to include statewide academic standards.

February 11, 2013Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2435 to increase the funding adjustment for a 200-day school calendar from 5% to 8%.

January 22, 2013Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB4111 to require body cameras during immigration-enforcement contacts, with privacy rules and consequences for missing or tampered footage.

February 10, 2026Supports Data Privacy

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2620 to require firearm dealers to verify concealed-weapon permits through a secure state portal, bar collection of purchaser identifiers beyond permit-status checks, and appropriate $300,000 for the portal.

January 28, 2025Supports Data Privacy

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2837 to permit removal of eligible housing-case records.

February 8, 2024Supports Data Privacy

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2743 to appropriate $400,000 to the address-confidentiality program fund.

February 5, 2024Supports Data Privacy

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2767 to protect legislators’ personally identifiable information from public disclosure.

February 9, 2023Supports Data Privacy

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2713 to establish sexual-assault survivors’ rights to advocates, confidential communications and evidence information.

February 9, 2023Supports Data Privacy

Source: azleg.gov

Seconded and voted for an immigration safety resolution protecting students’ learning environment and privacy regardless of immigration status and directing review of school search and interrogation policy.

August 22, 2019Supports Data Privacy

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HB2890 to require reasonable accommodations for pregnant employees.

February 12, 2025Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2496 to remove citizenship-status restrictions from specified occupational licensing requirements.

January 29, 2025Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2593 to allow eligible children with disabilities to enter preschool programs before their third birthday.

January 27, 2025Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2585 to expand open-enrollment opportunities for students living on tribal land.

January 27, 2025Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2869 to permit removal of unlawful discriminatory restrictions in property deeds from property records.

February 8, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1713 to expand restoration of voting rights after criminal convictions.

February 6, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1714 to establish state protections for tribal children and families in child-custody proceedings.

February 6, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2423 to establish automatic voter registration.

January 22, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2422 to allow same-day voter registration for specified elections.

January 17, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2734 to establish rights for homeless residents, eviction diversion, and $496 million for affordable housing, transitional housing, rental assistance and eviction prevention.

February 7, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2568 to protect equal public access for homeless residents and establish safeguards against criminalization based on housing status.

February 6, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2604 to make driver licenses available independently of citizenship or immigration status while marking licenses that cannot serve as federal identification or voting identification.

February 6, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2369 to prohibit employment agreements that bar disclosure of workplace sexual harassment or assault.

January 25, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Seconded and voted for an immigration safety resolution protecting students’ learning environment and privacy regardless of immigration status and directing review of school search and interrogation policy.

August 22, 2019Supports Civil Rights

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HCR2016 to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

February 12, 2014Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SCR1012 to support equal marriage rights and recognition of same-sex marriages in Arizona.

February 4, 2014Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCM2006 to urge Congress to extend the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment.

January 28, 2014Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2650 to repeal statutory restrictions on school ethnic-studies courses.

February 12, 2013Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2625 to repeal the legal-presence requirement for a driver license.

February 12, 2013Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2436 to add a multiracial category to government ethnicity surveys.

January 30, 2013Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2191 to require the Department of Education to notify schools that resident children may enroll regardless of immigration status.

January 23, 2013Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2032 to accept federal employment-authorization documents as proof of authorized presence for driver licenses.

January 15, 2013Supports Civil Rights

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2694 to appropriate $1,836,500 for the Kin Dah Lichii Chapter Head Start building.

January 30, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2696 to appropriate $3,565,500 for the Blue Gap fueling center and convenience store.

January 30, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2697 to appropriate $600,000 for Ganado senior-center and veterans-building pavement and $1.7 million for an SR264 turning lane.

January 30, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2693 to appropriate funds for Navajo roads, drainage and Round Rock trading-post redevelopment.

January 30, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2692 to appropriate $340,000 for the Ganado waterline project.

January 29, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2605 to create an international transportation and trade authority and appropriate $200,000 for its establishment.

February 6, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: azleg.gov

Voted for the consent agenda authorizing Project 2020 Series B school borrowing and refinancing of existing school debt.

February 10, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Voted to restructure Justine Spitalny as a K–8 school focused on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics and approved the consent agenda containing Project 2020 Series A school borrowing, repayable with interest.

February 11, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HB2624 to appropriate $500,000 to purchase the Yarnell Hill memorial state-park site.

February 11, 2014Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: azleg.gov

Endorsed Republican Warren Petersen for Arizona attorney general.

September 18, 2026

Source: azfreenews.com

The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed a judgment favoring Hernandez, her daughter and Cartwright. It held that their shared household barred simultaneous service on the same school board and remanded for unresolved constitutional and other defenses.

July 29, 2026

Source: coa1.azcourts.gov

Received the Greater Phoenix Chamber PAC’s endorsement for the 2026 Arizona House primary.

May 27, 2026

Source: phoenixchamber.com

Introduced HB4114 to establish school-board education, experience or training qualifications and let sitting members complete their terms.

February 10, 2026

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2671 to revise treatment of juvenile chronic felony offenders.

January 22, 2026

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCR2043 to request a convention for a constitutional amendment setting congressional term limits.

January 20, 2026

Source: apps.azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2885 to revise state-funded private-school voucher school qualifications, distributions and authorized expenditures.

June 27, 2025

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2744 to establish a legal right to contraception and protect voluntary informed consent for sterilization.

June 27, 2025

Source: azleg.gov

Voted against SB1735, the fiscal 2025–2026 state budget appropriations bill.

June 26, 2025

Source: azhouse.gov

Moved and voted to appoint Steve Watson as acting superintendent on a temporary at-will contract while Ema Jauregui was on leave.

January 23, 2025

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Co-sponsored HB2462 to exclude financial hardship alone from the definition of child neglect.

January 21, 2025

Source: azleg.gov

Moved and voted to place Superintendent Ema Jauregui on paid administrative leave pending investigation.

January 15, 2025

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Moved and voted for her election as Cartwright board president and nominated Rosa Cantu as vice president.

January 9, 2025

Source: go.boarddocs.com

Received the Greater Phoenix Chamber PAC’s endorsement for the 2024 Arizona House general election.

September 4, 2024

Source: phoenixchamber.com

Submitted a letter urging regulators to approve the Capital One–Discover merger, citing access to credit and financial services for underserved Latino communities.

July 24, 2024

Source: federalreserve.gov

Voted for HB2897, the fiscal 2024–2025 state budget appropriations bill.

June 15, 2024

Source: azhouse.gov

Voted for HB2677, repealing Arizona’s 1864 abortion prohibition.

April 24, 2024

Source: azhouse.gov

Co-sponsored HB2619 to revise bail and release procedures and requirements.

January 23, 2024

Source: azleg.gov

Voted for SB1720, the fiscal 2023–2024 state budget appropriations bill.

May 10, 2023

Source: azhouse.gov

Co-sponsored HB2682 to prohibit lobbyists and their principals from providing campaign contributions during regular legislative sessions.

February 7, 2023

Source: azleg.gov

Was elected co-chair of the Arizona Latino Legislative Caucus for the 56th Legislature and its chair for 2023.

February 1, 2023

Source: azhousedemocrats.com

Co-sponsored HB2085 to prohibit rental-housing discrimination based on a tenant’s lawful source of income or rent assistance.

January 23, 2023

Source: azleg.gov

The Mexican American School Boards Association barred her from its events until at least 2020 in a March 26 letter following its 2018 conference. Hernandez disputed the misconduct allegations and said the action was retaliation for reporting an assault.

March 26, 2018

Source: phoenixnewtimes.com

Received independent electoral support from Stand for Children Arizona, which reported $5,400 and $8,424 in expenditures supporting her on August 5 and August 9, 2016.

August 9, 2016

Source: storageccec.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net

Voted against the House version of HB2703, the fiscal 2014–2015 state budget.

March 27, 2014

Source: azhouse.gov

Co-sponsored HB2655 to require immigration-detainer records and reporting from law-enforcement agencies.

February 17, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2570 to require condominium owner approval for specified changes to condominium fees.

February 12, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2571 to expand repayment to victims for economic losses caused by criminal damage.

February 11, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2608 to restrict where new charter schools could be located.

February 11, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2569 to apply federal military borrower protections to vehicle-title lending.

February 11, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCR2029 to oppose designation of Wupatki National Monument as wilderness.

February 11, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored SB1326 to establish a state-parks donation fund.

February 4, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2525 to redirect $3 million annually from the existing job-training fund to vocational rehabilitation, which provides employment services for people with disabilities.

January 30, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCR2026 to urge Congress to reverse the Citizens United campaign-finance decision.

January 28, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2486 to place Child Protective Services workers in government employment protections.

January 28, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2202 to establish nutrition standards and calorie disclosures for food sold or served by state agencies and on state property.

January 22, 2014

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2622 to increase civil penalties for violations of real-estate regulation.

February 13, 2013

Source: azleg.gov

Introduced HB2623 to make employer violations of employee payday requirements a class 3 misdemeanor instead of a petty offense.

February 13, 2013

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HCM2004 to urge the federal government to locate a veterans home on tribal land.

February 5, 2013

Source: azleg.gov

Co-sponsored HB2190 to let students use school identification for food-handler certification in school activities.

January 23, 2013

Source: azleg.gov

Phoenix Union issued a trespass letter barring her from district campuses without written permission after a campus confrontation. Hernandez denied wrongdoing. The district retracted its identification of her daughter as the person with a boxcutter; it did not identify Hernandez as carrying it.

November 25, 2025

Source: azfamily.com