Capitol roundup: Hobbs signs bills on teacher tuition and post-divorce agreements

💍 Establish laws for enforcement of post-divorce agreements for dividing property and other interests.

🎓 Double the amount of time, from two to four academic years and four to eight semesters, that community college students can get free tuition for the Arizona Teachers Academy.

🚨 Require sex offenders who get name changes to register under both their old and new names.

Hobbs also got her record-breaking veto stamp out this week, nixing legislation to:

🏫 Require public school districts and the Arizona Department of Education to post contracts for superintendents and other top administrators online.

• In her veto letter, Hobbs said Arizona has a robust school choice system and the bill doesn't provide the same transparency for other types of schools.

📚 Bar public school libraries from using government funds to pay professional associations dedicated to promoting or supporting libraries, librarians or information services.

At the Legislature this week:

🎒 GOP lawmakers sent Hobbs a bill to opt Arizona into the new federal school choice scholarship tax credit program, similar in many ways to the state's Empowerment Scholarship Accounts.

• Hobbs declined to comment to reporters Thursday about whether she'd sign it.

👀 The Senate gave final approval to legislation to make encouraging minors to kill themselves a felony manslaughter offense if the minor dies by suicide.

• The bill now goes to Hobbs.

✡️ A bill aimed at preventing antisemitism in schools, which Hobbs vetoed last year over what some view as a controversial definition of antisemitism, received preliminary approval from the Senate.

🧊 The Senate passed legislation excluding "single-user public or semi-public cold plunges" from state environmental regulations for public pools.