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2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
2025 LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The Democratic Caucus worked hard with the Governor’s office to fight for the successes below.
Our work is not over and much more needs to be done. Below you will find what we were able to accomplish in the 2025 legislative session.
Higher Education & Work Force Development
Talent is equally distributed throughout our communities, but opportunity is not. That makes education the great equalizer, and the key to growing a 21st-century economy.
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NO CUTS​
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$34M Expands Promise Program
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$24M SPEED Bonds (ongoing)
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$9M Teachers Academy
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$1.5M Dual Enrollment
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$6M Community College Adult Education
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$3M Community College Promise Program
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$1.5M Community College Nurse Education Investment
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$2M Adult Workforce Diploma
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$2M Continuing High School Workforce Training
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$1.2M Rural Development Council for rural economic development
Childcare
Quality childcare is economic development. It helps people stay in the workforce and advance toward higher-paying jobs while better preparing children for school in a safe, nurturing environment.
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$45M DES Childcare Assistance to cut waitlist by 50% and add 20% quality enhancement rate​
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$3M DES Childcare Program to provide afterschool and summer care for youth ages 5-12 from working-class families
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$100k State Employee Childcare Study
K–12 Education & the Arts
Democrats held the line for public school students and educators.
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$37M Opportunity Weight
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$29M Additional Assistance
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$3.8M School Meals
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AEL waived for two years
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$191M School Building Renewal Grants
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$3.4M 9th Grade On-Track Student Success Program
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$2M Arizona Arts Commission
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$500K Automated External Defibrillators
Public Safety, Drug Interdiction & Border Security
Strengthens public safety and supports coordinated and strategic efforts to stop Arizona’s fentanyl epidemic.
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NO $$ for interior border enforcement, deportations, or ICE cooperation
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$5M Stopping Arizona’s Fentanyl Epidemic
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$10M County Re-entry Services from Opioid Settlement Fund
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$3M Combating drug trafficking
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15% pay increase for firefighters
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5% pay increase for law enforcement officials
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$3M Erroneous Conviction Pilot
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$800K Attorney General to prosecute crimes against vulnerable adults
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$300K Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
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$800K 911 Call for emergencies
Water & Environment
Keeping our eye on the horizon with sustainable investments to deliver water for generations.
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$30M Wildfire suppression
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$9M Water quality programs
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$3M Colorado River Litigation
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$2M Toxic mining and Smelter Clean Up
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$2M Agriculture and Water Innovation Program
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$1M State Parks Heritage Fund
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$700K Dept of Water Resources
Health & Human Services
Keeping our eye on the horizon with sustainable investments to deliver water for generations.
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100% full funding of AHCCS; $300K expanding to speech & swallow therapy & cochlear implants
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100% funding to the Division on Developmental Disabilities
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Expands Tribal healthcare for traditional healing services
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$7M Area Agencies on Aging (services and housing)
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$6.4M DCS Foster Care Services
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$4M Graduate Medical Ed
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$3M Legal Aid
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$2M Double Up Food Bucks
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$750K for the Alzheimer’s disease & dementia state plan
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$5 DES Adult Protective Services
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Expands SUN Bucks for food insecurity
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$500K Certified Reg Nurse Anesthetist Preceptor Grants
Housing & Homelessness
Democrats delivered meaningful wins for Arizonans facing housing insecurity and homelessness.
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$15.5M DES Homelessness Services
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$900K State Historic Preservation Office backfill with OF
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$5M federal monies to Arizona’s Home Mortgage Assistance Program to ensure homeownership is accessible to all Arizonans
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$2M direct support and social services for homeless veterans
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Eviction Prevention Funding
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