Economic Development

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday voted to ban noncompete agreements. The ban would prohibit new noncompete agreements for every employee and mandate that companies inform both current and former staff that they won’t be enforcing such agreements. Additionally, businesses will be obligated to revoke existing noncompete agreements for the majority of their employees. Senior […]

With regular committee hearings now wrapped up for the legislative session, the state Legislature returns to the Capitol Wednesday under a one-day-a-week schedule.  The House and Senate will conduct floor sessions to determine the fate of bills that have made their way through the committee process in both chambers, deciding whether to send them to

The House on January 31 passed the Tax Relief For American Families And Workers Act, 357-70. Despite its broad, bipartisan support, the bill to extend and enhance several elements of the tax code, many of which are important to America’s businesses, is stalled in the Senate, prompting a call for action from national business groups like

The state House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on Monday voted to extend the Arizona Commerce Authority for an additional five years, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing legislative efforts to ensure the state’s lead economic development agency can continue its successful efforts to attract jobs to the state. Last month, the same committee approved