🐔 Homeowners associations would have to allow people to keep up to six chickens, not including roosters, in the backyards of single-family homes, and couldn't prohibit pets based on breed, size or weight under a new bill passed by the House Appropriations Committee.
🏘️ A new proposalwould allow cities to require duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and townhomes in historic neighborhoods to meet certain design standards.
A similar bill earlier in the session, which stalled last month, would've explicitly exempted historic neighborhoods from a 2024 "middle housing" law.
🎒 House Republicans gave preliminary approval to a Senate-passed bill to opt Arizona into a federal school voucher-style scholarship program.
⚖️ The House approved legislation to bar people who commit certain crimes against children 15 and younger from having their probation terminated early. The bill now goes back to the Senate for a final vote.
🧓🏻 The state would spend $300,000 to create a virtual training program for dementia care under a bill approved by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
