PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers continue to hammer together a $16.1 billion state budget, but the state attorney general is threatening to sue over the use of some opioid settlement funds.
Their budget deal calls for $115 million in money from the opioid settlement to go instead to the Department of Corrections – a move Attorney General Kris Mayes says is illegal. She said she would sue if the Legislature moves forward with the plan, saying that it could put all of the $1.14 billion in opioid money “in legal jeopardy.”
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