• Arizona legislators prepare for the 2026 session with 32 prefiled measures • Lawmakers introduced 1,724 bills last year, second most in state history • Increased number of bills is leading to longer legislative sessions

With state legislators already prefiling bills for the upcoming session, Arizona is poised to have more legislation introduced this decade than at any other point in its recorded history.

Lawmakers had prefiled 32 measures through Nov. 26, nearly two weeks after the prefiling period began on Nov. 15. Of those measures, 26 were bills and eight were memorials and resolutions, which are not required to be signed by the governor.

So far, the 2020s have seen about 1,650 bills introduced each regular legislative session, according to session statistic data from the Arizo

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