Katie Hobbs

Hobbs' medical-debt initiative reported eliminating $642 million in debt for more than 485,000 Arizonans.

December 22, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed a contract launching Affordable Arizona, making up to $30 million available to purchase and cancel qualifying residents' medical debt.

March 4, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed SB 1611 creating a voluntary Ag-to-Urban groundwater conservation program that converts high-water irrigated land to lower-water development.

June 30, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed an executive order directing Arizona's occupational-safety division to establish a task force and draft workplace heat-safety guidelines.

May 22, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed SB 1081, SB 1181, and SB 1242 to promote renewable and recycled water use, protect groundwater, and support conservation infrastructure.

June 19, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Ordered termination of one Fondomonte state-land lease and nonrenewal of three others, ending the Saudi-owned farm's leases for groundwater-intensive alfalfa production on state land.

October 2, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched August 18, 2026

Hobbs declared a heat state of emergency, opened state cooling centers, and signed an order coordinating a statewide extreme-heat response plan.

August 11, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed an executive order prohibiting executive-branch employees from using or disclosing nonpublic government information to profit in prediction markets.

July 9, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Issued Executive Order 2023-06 establishing an Independent Prison Oversight Commission to review Arizona prison safety, healthcare, staffing, rehabilitation, and family access.

January 25, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched August 18, 2026

Launched the Arizona Capacity and Efficiency initiative to consolidate and modernize state operations with a stated goal of saving up to $100 million.

March 10, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched August 18, 2026

Launched the Arizona Capacity and Efficiency initiative to consolidate and modernize state operations with a stated goal of saving up to $100 million.

March 10, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched August 18, 2026

Hobbs signed Executive Order 2025-01 creating Operation Desert Guardian, a joint task force for border-security operations in Arizona's four border counties.

February 25, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs' Task Force SAFE deployed National Guard personnel at ports of entry and helped seize more than six million fentanyl pills and 1,400 pounds of other illicit drugs by November 2024.

November 18, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Issued Executive Order 2023-06 establishing an Independent Prison Oversight Commission to review Arizona prison safety, healthcare, staffing, rehabilitation, and family access.

January 25, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched August 18, 2026

Hobbs signed HB 2720 establishing statewide accessory-dwelling-unit rules and HB 2721 allowing middle housing in central areas and large developments.

May 21, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Launched the $13 million Arizona Is Home program offering down-payment assistance and mortgage interest-rate relief to qualifying first-time homebuyers.

April 12, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched August 18, 2026

Hobbs vetoed a Republican budget package that she said cut healthcare, nutrition assistance, child services, wildfire response, water protection, and border security.

May 5, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs vetoed two House Republican budget packages that she said cut public safety, healthcare, childcare, veterans services, and small-business tax relief.

June 25, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Launched the $13 million Arizona Is Home program offering down-payment assistance and mortgage interest-rate relief to qualifying first-time homebuyers.

April 12, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched August 18, 2026

Established a paid-parental-leave program providing eligible Arizona state employees up to 12 weeks of paid leave after birth, adoption, or foster placement, and expanded family sick-leave use.

September 7, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: doa.az.gov · researched August 18, 2026

Hobbs signed executive orders requiring robust in-person school-facility inspections at least every five years and creating a council to update minimum facility guidelines.

June 30, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed an executive order expanding access to free and affordable contraception for state employees and directing AHCCCS to assess broader access.

May 20, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed HB 2677, repealing Arizona's 1864 near-total abortion ban.

May 2, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed an executive order centralizing abortion-related prosecutions in the Attorney General's Office and limiting state assistance with out-of-state abortion investigations and extraditions.

June 23, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed the bipartisan Arizona First budget with a $1.4 billion tax cut for working families, a three-year data-center tax-credit moratorium, and investments in border security, healthcare, public safety, education, and water.

June 13, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed Executive Order 2025-15 directing state tax forms to reflect a higher standard deduction and prospective deductions for tips, overtime, car-loan interest, and seniors.

November 20, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Issued three executive orders authorizing paid civic-duty leave for state employee poll workers, making state buildings available as polling locations, and requiring agencies to provide voter-registration assistance.

November 2, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched August 18, 2026

Hobbs signed executive orders adding medically necessary gender-affirming surgery to the state employee health plan and barring state support for conversion therapy for minors.

June 27, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies and new state contracts from discriminating based on hair texture and protective hairstyles associated with race.

March 17, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Issued Executive Order 2023-05 creating an independent review of Arizona's death-penalty procedures, drug and chemical procurement, execution staffing, and media access.

January 20, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched August 18, 2026

A federal jury found that the Arizona Senate retaliated against Talonya Adams after she complained to decision-makers including Hobbs about sex-based pay disparity; the district court denied the Senate's motion to overturn that finding.

November 10, 2021Opposes Civil Rights

Source: govinfo.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs imposed a moratorium on most bill signings and announced she would veto bills until legislative leaders publicly produced and negotiated a budget, while exempting two public-safety bills.

April 13, 2026

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Hobbs signed a bipartisan state budget funding housing, public education, tribal communities, healthcare, roads, bridges, and broadband.

May 11, 2023

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

Governor Hobbs vetoed a Republican budget package, saying it failed to address housing, public education, and household costs.

February 16, 2023

Source: azgovernor.gov · researched July 13, 2026

As Arizona Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs certified the state's 2020 general-election results alongside the governor, attorney general, and chief justice.

November 30, 2020

Source: cbsnews.com · researched July 13, 2026