This article describes some small changes in Arizona’s program for public funding of candidates for public office. Opponents of public funding gave up their plan to ask voters to defund the program. In return, HB 2779 is likely to pass. It will end the tax credit for taxpayers who give donations to the program. Supporters of the public funding program say the fund doesn’t need that money anyway.

In other Arizona legislative news, on April 4, the Senate defeated HB 2826, which would have told all municipalities that they must hold their elections in even-numbered years. The bill had already passed the House. However, on April 5, the Senate agreed to reconsider the bill.