If Janeen Connolly Had the Votes
Updated September 22, 2026.
Rep. Janeen Connolly has already put part of the Democratic agenda in writing. Three measures she cosponsored would remove protections for girls’ and women’s sports, bypass parents in major decisions involving minors, and block citizenship-status checks before Arizona professional licenses are issued.
Fortunately for Arizona, none of these three measures became law. Each was held in committee. But sponsorship still matters. It shows what Connolly chose to support when Republicans had the votes to stop these bills before they reached the governor’s desk.
Janeen Connolly
ARIZONA STATE LEGISLATOR, LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 8
Connolly’s record would weaken protections for female athletes, reduce parental authority, and block eligibility checks for state professional licenses.
HB 2392 and the repeal of protections for women’s sports
Connolly cosponsor
The bill would repeal Arizona’s requirement that school and college athletic teams be designated according to biological sex. Repeal would remove the state rule reserving female teams for biological females.
Connolly backed eliminating a protection written specifically for female athletics. Arizona voters should ask why inclusion requires taking away rules meant to keep girls’ and women’s competition fair.
HB 2646 and the “Children’s Bill of Rights”
Connolly cosponsor
The bill would declare minors competent to consent confidentially to contraception, pregnancy-related care, treatment for sexually transmitted infections, substance-use treatment, and mental-health care. That authority would apply without, and even against, parental consent. The bill would also give a child the right to enroll in public school with in-person instruction notwithstanding a parent’s authority over education.
Connolly backed a bill that would place the judgment of a child, a provider, or a government institution above the judgment of a parent. It would cut mothers and fathers out of decisions involving pregnancy, contraception, mental health, substance use, and schooling.
HB 2465 and professional-license verification
Connolly cosponsor
The bill would prohibit state and local licensing agencies from requiring proof of citizenship or immigration status for professional and business licenses. Agencies would have to accept a federal taxpayer-identification number instead of a Social Security number.
A license is a government assurance that someone has met Arizona’s legal requirements. Connolly supported forbidding the state from checking a basic eligibility question before issuing that credential.
The Question For Arizona Voters
This is the agenda in writing. Connolly joined these proposals while Republicans controlled the Arizona Legislature and could stop them in committee.
If Democratic control changed that balance, voters should ask whether these ideas would come back and what would stop them from becoming law.
Method note. This article describes introduced bill text from the Fifty-seventh Legislature, Second Regular Session. All three measures were held in committee. “Sponsored” identifies a prime sponsor. “Cosponsored” identifies a legislator who joined the measure. Links above lead to the introduced text and the official Arizona Legislature status page.