If Lauren Kuby Had the Votes
Updated September 22, 2026.
Sen. Lauren Kuby has already put part of the Democratic agenda in writing. Three measures she sponsored or cosponsored would weaken Arizona voters’ control over our presidential electors, undermine crime-free lease protections, and target the constitutional Right to Work guarantee.
Fortunately for Arizona, none of these three measures became law. Each was held in committee. But sponsorship still matters. It shows what Kuby chose to put forward when Republicans had the votes to stop these bills before they reached the governor’s desk.
Lauren Kuby
ARIZONA STATE LEGISLATOR, LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 8
Kuby’s record would affect presidential elections, weaken renter safety protections, and threaten the right of Arizona workers to decide for themselves whether to join or fund a union.
SB 1300 and the National Popular Vote Compact
Kuby cosponsor
The compact would require Arizona to award its presidential electors to the winner of the national popular vote, effective as soon as a critical number of states join the compact. Arizona’s electors could therefore be awarded to a candidate who lost Arizona’s own statewide vote.
This is not a minor election-process bill. It changes whether Arizona’s own presidential choice controls Arizona’s electoral votes. Under the compact, our vote here would no longer guarantee that our electors support the candidate Arizona chose.
SB 1480 and crime-free lease protections
Kuby prime sponsor
The bill would make a crime-free lease provision unenforceable when it allows eviction based on a criminal conviction of the tenant or the tenant’s guest. It would take away an enforcement tool that landlords and housing communities use to keep criminal activity out of rental properties.
Kuby’s bill put convicted tenants and their guests ahead of the neighbors who relied on crime-free lease rules when choosing where to live. Renters should not have to sacrifice safety because the state refuses to let a housing provider enforce its own lease.
SCR 1035 and the repeal of Right to Work
Kuby prime sponsor
Kuby proposed asking voters to repeal Article XXV of the Arizona Constitution. That provision protects workers from being required to join a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment.
Kuby did not merely cast a pro-union vote. She personally sponsored the measure aimed at removing a worker’s right to say no from the Arizona Constitution.
The Question For Arizona Voters
This is the agenda in writing. Kuby introduced or 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.