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Home City: Payson Occupation: Retired, City of Safford Accounting & Materials Management Member Since: 2011 |
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Born in Safford, Arizona, Representative Barton is a fifth generation native of rural eastern Arizona. In 1871, her great-great grandfather established the first crossing on the Colorado River. In 1880, the family settled in Lee Valley near Greer in the White Mountains. Allen F. Smithson, her maternal great-great grandfather rests in the Lebanon cemetery just west of the familys historic homestead in Artesia where Representative Barton spent her early years.
In the late 1980s, she began her career in public service with the City of Safford. During the end of her tenure with the City of Safford, Rep. Barton led a group of employees in writing the City of Saffords Vision Statement. It was subsequently adopted by the City Council. By the mid-1990s, public events drew her into political activism and she became an elected officer of People for the West, a land rights group. Representative Barton is a veteran of the Sage-Brush Rebellion that swept the Western Lands States from the 1970s into the 1990s. Political experience: Graduate, Western Legislative Academy; AZ director, Women in Government; Region III director, AZ Federation of Republican Women; 2009 graduate, Dodie Londen Excellence in Public Service Series; 2008 delegate to the AZ State Republican Convention; precinct committeewoman; president, Graham County Republican Women; legislative chairwoman, Graham County Republican Woman; secretary, People for the West, Graham County Chapter; secretary, Legislative District 8 (Cochise & Graham Counties). |
Bill Number | Sponsor Type | Short/NOW Title |
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HB2024 | C | sovereign authority; federal actions (NOW: immigration laws; attorney fees) |
HB2040 | C | county boundary change; study committee |
HB2041 | C | newspapers; public notice publication |
HB2057 | P | repeal; JTED funding reductions |
HB2072 | P | firearms; university; college; campus |
HB2073 | P | unmanned aircraft systems; unlawful use |
HB2133 | P | TPT; exemption; aerial applicators |
HB2145 | C | historic federal highway; special plates |
HB2191 | C | real estate; fund; prosecutor (NOW: employee scheduling; preemption) |
HB2201 | C | sovereign authority; commandeering; prohibition; exception |
HB2203 | C | schools; partisan instruction prohibited |
HB2220 | C | firearms; state preemption; independent contractors |
HB2224 | C | private firearm transactions; prohibited encumbrances |
HB2326 | P | agricultural feed; sales; tax exemption |
HB2329 | P* | appropriation; veterans' services; veterans' home. |
HB2330 | P* | crimes against livestock; poultry; animals |
HB2331 | P* | small water systems fund; appropriation |
HB2332 | P* | property tax levy; community colleges |
HB2333 | P* | board of technical registration; exemptions |
HB2334 | P* | unemployment insurance; technical correction |
HB2335 | P* | technical correction; electromagnetic pulse preparedness |
HB2336 | P* | technical correction; action to restrain |
HB2340 | P | wild horses; management; prohibition |
HB2351 | C | elected official; contempt; jury trial |
HB2366 | C | automated traffic safety devices |
HB2368 | P | county contributions; hospitalization; medical; repeal |
HB2369 | P | forfeiture; criminal conviction; procedures; remedies |
HB2388 | C | qualified disability expenses; eligible individuals |
HB2446 | P | prohibited weapon; definition; exclusions (NOW: prohibited weapon; exclusions; definition) |
HB2447 | P | business entities; database; posting; requirements |
HB2455 | P | wildfire suppression; joint study committee |
HB2457 | C | compact; balanced budget; convention |
HB2465 | C | G&F; in-lieu fee; trust fund |
HB2468 | C | internet crimes against children; appropriation |
HB2482 | C | empowerment scholarships; expansion; phase-in. |
HB2499 | P* | truth in taxation; detailed notice |
HB2508 | P | JTED funding reductions; repeal. |
HB2517 | C | businesses; professions; regulation restrictions |
HB2526 | C | animal control; mandatory impound periods |
HB2547 | P | universities; in-state tuition; AmeriCorps. |
HB2549 | P | public construction piping materials; prohibition |
HB2552 | P | delegation of powers; parent; custodian |
HB2585 | P | national monuments; justification; litigation |
HB2617 | P | Israel; boycotts; contracts; investments |
HB2622 | P* | water; improvement districts; tax limit |
HB2642 | P* | JTED restoration and reforms. |
HB2644 | P* | transfer of public lands; compact |
HCM2005 | C | veterans' homes; tribal lands |
HCM2009 | P | urging Congress; American Legion; membership |
HCR2023 | C | proposition 105; legislative authority |
HCR2024 | C | ballot measures; controlled substance; supermajority |
HCR2027 | P | national wear red day |
HCR2029 | C | Article V; natural born citizen |
HCR2030 | P* | bond elections; technical correction |
HCR2037 | P | early childhood literacy; school monies |
HCR2041 | P | human trafficking awareness month (NOW: corporation commission; distributed energy resources) |
HCR2044 | P | school monies; early childhood literacy |
HCR2047 | P | initiatives; referendums; signature requirements; counties |
HCR2048 | P | death resolution; Honorable Jack Brown |
HCR2049 | C | state education board; membership; superintendents |
HR2004 | P | death resolution; Laura Knaperek |
SB1114 | P | appropriation; veterans' services; veterans' home |
SB1143 | C | internet crimes against children; appropriation. |
SB1242 | P | attorney general; initiation of action |
SB1257 | C | misconduct involving weapons; public places |
SB1258 | P | JTED funding reductions; repeal |
SB1279 | C | empowerment scholarships; expansion; phase-in |
SB1363 | P | insurance coverage; telemedicine |
SB1417 | P | distributed energy generation systems |
SB1428 | C | PSPRS modifications |
SB1474 | P | human fetus; embryo; prohibited actions |
SB1490 | P | transportation funding; task force |
SCR1021 | C | death resolution; Samuel L. Polito |
SCR1022 | C | death resolution; Honorable Tony West |
SCR1023 | P | Honorable Tony West; death resolution |