Sen. David Gowan, R-Sierra Vista, submitted his plan late in the session, which avoids public hearings.
PHOENIX -- A state senator from southern Arizona is pushing a last-minute proposal to eliminate the requirement that voters set the salary for legislators.
It also is crafted in a way to pull in Democratic support, and not just because some Democratic lawmakers are likely interested in bringing home bigger paychecks. And there's something else in the proposal: It would give senators four-year terms, though House members would be limited to just two. And it would allow both House and Senate members to serve up to 12 years in the same chamber, up from the current eight.It would be up to voters in November to decide if they want to give up the right to determine how much state lawmakers are paid.
But what Gowan does not say is that the framers of the Arizona Constitution set up what was supposed to be a citizen legislature, where people would come to the Capitol, enact laws and the budget, and then go home to other jobs.
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