Defend Rural Arizona’s Energy and Water Access
Protect the oft-forgotten rural utility consumer and industry from abuse.
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Protect the oft-forgotten rural utility consumer and industry from abuse.
Stop the Green New Deal and other corporate welfare programs.
Oppose favoritism and streamline ACC regulations for small businesses.
Reduce opacity and publicize all stakeholder interactions which affect taxpayers.
Support of a free-market system where the government doesn’t pick winners and losers.
Oppose harmful rate hikes and audit Arizona’s utilities for waste and mismanagement.
David Marshall and Ralph Heap have led a consistent push for affordable, reliable, Arizona-first energy policy. Their work focuses on protecting ratepayers from runaway utility costs, strengthening grid reliability, defending energy independence, and rejecting top-down mandates that raise prices on working families. These bills show how they are advancing practical reforms to keep power dependable, policies sane, and rates as low as possible for everyday Arizonans.
Annual vehicle emissions testing; exemption
Exempts vehicles manufactured in or after model year 2018 from Arizona's annual emissions inspection program. This reduces recurring testing costs and paperwork for newer-vehicle owners.
David Marshall (Cosponsor)
Vehicle emissions; exemption
Updates emissions inspection statutes to apply periodic testing to vehicles manufactured before model year 2018 in covered areas, with related conforming changes. This narrows mandatory testing and lowers compliance burden for many drivers.
David Marshall (Cosponsor)
Energy source; restriction; prohibition
Proposes a constitutional prohibition on state and local governments restricting devices based on their energy source, while preserving generation-source decisions for reliable, affordable utility service. This protects energy choice while maintaining grid-planning authority.
David Marshall (Cosponsor)
Wind farms; construction; policies; procedures
Creates a broader statutory framework for wind and renewable project policy across county, state-land, and related processes. This sets clearer statewide rules for siting and approvals instead of ad hoc decision-making.
David Marshall (Sponsor) Ralph Heap (Cosponsor)
Power; public utilities; UCC; securities
Establishes Arizona's utility securitization framework, including transition-bond financing provisions, and aligns UCC treatment for related utility property interests. This creates a defined legal path for financing utility transition costs.
David Marshall (Cosponsor) Ralph Heap (Cosponsor)
Agricultural operations; energy projects; compensation
Requires businesses constructing solar or wind projects that shrink an agricultural lessee's operation to compensate specified losses, including profits, relocation, and mitigation costs. This protects farm lessees from uncompensated project impacts.
David Marshall (Cosponsor)
Nuclear energy; Palo Verde; support
Formally supports Palo Verde Generating Station and underscores its role in high-output, carbon-free, around-the-clock power for Arizona and the region. This reinforces long-term commitment to reliable nuclear generation.
David Marshall (Cosponsor) Ralph Heap (Cosponsor)
Solar radiation management; prohibition; enforcement
Prohibits intentional in-state release of materials for solar radiation management, bars public funding for those technologies, and authorizes complaint-driven and independent attorney general investigations. This creates a direct statewide enforcement regime on geoengineering activity.
David Marshall (Cosponsor) Ralph Heap (Cosponsor)
School attendance requirements; religious purposes
Clarifies attendance requirements and religious-purpose provisions for school-related obligations. This protects religious liberty while keeping statutory attendance standards clear.
Parents should be trusted to raise their children without government interference, especially when it comes to their faith.Proud to sponsor HB 2266 which strengthens religious freedom in Arizona schools by requiring districts and charter schools to adopt policies that allow… pic.twitter.com/ATd7ENLLnQ
— Representative David Marshall (@DaveMarshallAZ) February 25, 2026
David Marshall (Sponsor)
Public nuisance; renewable energy; exceptions
Adds utility-scale wind and solar farms built on or after the effective date within four miles of residential property to Arizona's public nuisance statute, with statutory exceptions for qualifying projects. This strengthens neighborhood recourse in project siting disputes.
Property owners should not have to worry about industrial energy production popping up right outside their front door.That's why I introduced #HB2267, a bill which will prevent utility scale renewable energy facilities from being built adjacent to our residential neighborhoods. pic.twitter.com/vEU5aj7tKU
— Representative David Marshall (@DaveMarshallAZ) February 17, 2026
David Marshall (Sponsor)
TPT; exemption; utilities; repeal
Adds utility deduction reporting requirements and sets a threshold-based mechanism tied to foregone state revenue for utility TPT deduction treatment. This increases transparency and imposes fiscal guardrails on utility tax preferences.
David Marshall (Sponsor)
Municipal corporations; water supply; rates
Requires municipal providers selling water to another municipality's public to charge rates that are constrained by specified comparators, including rates charged to their own residents. This limits rate disparity in inter-municipal water service.
David Marshall (Sponsor) Ralph Heap (Cosponsor)
Electric utility; reliable energy standard
Requires covered public power entities and electric utilities to ensure at least 85% of relied-on generating capacity is from reliable resources by 2030, with defined capacity and intermittency terms. This hardwires reliability standards into long-range resource planning.
David Marshall (Sponsor) Ralph Heap (Cosponsor)
Board; votes; wind; solar projects
In counties under 500,000 population, requires full board participation and district-based approval conditions before wind/solar permit or zoning approvals can pass. This raises the voting threshold for major project siting decisions.
David Marshall (Cosponsor) Ralph Heap (Sponsor)
Solar devices; sellers; marketers; licensure
Expands contractor-licensing and enforcement statutes to cover solar device sellers/marketers and related conduct under both Title 32 and Title 44 provisions. This strengthens consumer protection and regulatory accountability in the solar sales market.
David Marshall (Cosponsor) Ralph Heap (Sponsor)
Tax reduction fund; renewable energy
Creates a county-administered residential property tax reduction fund tied to qualifying renewable facilities that are deemed to reduce nearby property values. This directs tax relief to affected homeowners near those projects.
David Marshall (Sponsor) Ralph Heap (Cosponsor)
Renewable energy equipment; valuation; depreciation
Revises centrally assessed valuation rules for renewable and storage equipment, including depreciation treatment and differentiated valuation percentages by ownership/power-purchase structure and project timing. This recalibrates property-tax treatment for utility-scale renewable assets.
Arizona taxpayers shouldn't subsidize massive out-of-state wind & solar farms while our families pay the price.HB2918 is our bill to end unfair property tax breaks for new utility-scale renewable energy projects.Currently, these large projects get valued at only 20% of… pic.twitter.com/4QaTLETRr0
— Representative David Marshall (@DaveMarshallAZ) February 23, 2026
David Marshall (Sponsor) Ralph Heap (Cosponsor)
State lands; solar score; maps
Suspends State Land Department use of solar scoring tools and instead requires periodic mining and housing resource scoring maps with stakeholder input and posting requirements. This shifts state-land planning priorities away from one-dimensional solar scoring.
David Marshall (Cosponsor) Ralph Heap (Sponsor)
Large customer energy supply
Authorizes large-customer self-supply through dedicated generation and private lines under defined limits, while explicitly preserving Arizona's non-general retail choice structure. This expands supply options for large loads without creating an open retail-choice program.
Ralph Heap (Sponsor)