Pop Quiz! What just became law?

The laws have landed ... Free speech has a price ... And we're sorry Sheriff Joe is $38 richer.

Friday was the general effective date in Arizona — meaning all kinds of laws are now in effect.

During the legislative session, Gov. Katie Hobbs signed over 250 bills. And for the past couple of weeks, we have been bringing you updates on some bills that could affect you.

Now it’s time to see how well you paid attention to our “Laws Landing” section.

If you get all of them right, send us an email to claim your Arizona Agenda sticker.

Expensive speech: Conservative attorneys and activists are leaning on the Charlie Kirk murder to justify hiding the names of big-time donors to political campaigns, and the Arizona Supreme Court — led by six Republican appointees and a single Gov. Katie Hobbs appointee who recused herself on this case¹ — seems poised to listen to them and overturn Arizona’s anti-dark money law, the Republic’s Taylor Seely writes. The case was up for oral arguments earlier this month, which we wrote about here.

Global-scale flooding: Several people were killed around Globe, where this weekend’s rains caused flash floods that forced people to escape to their rooftops and take other desperate measures, our own Nicole writes for the New York Times(!) after spending the weekend stringing in Globe. Hobbs has declared a state of emergency for Gila County and authorized the deployment of the National Guard to assist in the recovery efforts.

“I deal with many disasters and this is the worst I’ve ever seen,” Globe Mayor Al Gameros, said, alluding to his 30-year career with the city fire department.

Slow and steady: Democrats are anxiously waiting for Democratic U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva to officially get sworn in to Congress, considering her vote could be the one that tips the release of the Epstein files, the Republic’s Laura Gersony writes. Democrats are accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of delaying the swearing in for political reasons, but county and state officials haven’t even canvassed the election yet, and members of Congress are rarely sworn in until that happens — except in a few recent cases where it’s been politically advantageous for Republicans to expedite the process. Meanwhile, it’s not like members of Congress actually do much, KJZZ’s Camryn Sanchez reports based on an analysis of the Arizona congregation’s “batting average,” or number of bills filed versus signed into law. Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, for example, is 1-for-900 in his career of sponsoring federal bills.

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Those in glass Capitols: Republican Rep. Matt Gress is mad that the Tolleson Union High School District wants to charge him $26,000 to turn over a mess of records that he requested as part of his investigation into how the school district mismanaged its budget so badly. It’s an absurd price tag that he says is clearly meant to stonewall him from getting the records. But at least the school district has the records he seeks — state lawmakers changed the law a few years back to allow them to destroy certain records, including their email communications, after just three months. Speaking of Tolleson: Leezah Sun, a TUHSD school board member (and former troubled lawmaker), is facing a recall campaign alongside fellow school board member Steven Chapman. Organizers have until November 7 to collect 8,711 valid signatures from registered voters in the school district to make the recall a reality, Axios Phoenix’s Jeremy Duda reports.

Nutters everywhere: Republican Rep. John Gillette found a way to top his recent comments calling Muslims “fucking savages” — by calling for the execution of a Democratic member of Congress because she told followers to get “strike-ready” for protests against Donald Trump, the Arizona Mirror’s Jerod MacDonald-Evoy writes. Gillette claims “strike-ready” is Antifa code for “overthrow the government.” In other delusional Arizonan news, the QAnon Shaman sued Trump for $40 million, per the New Times’ TJ L’Heureux. For reasons that are too stupid to explain, the Shaman claims that he, not Trump, is the rightful president.

In other, other news

The Arizona Clean Elections Commission was all set to slap Democratic Rep. Anna Abeytia with a $5,000 fine for campaign finance violations (which we covered here), but two commissioners thought that wasn’t enough for a violation that could carry as much as $101,000 in penalties, so they’re going back to the drawing board for her punishment. (Jakob Thorington / Capitol Times) … Rob Walton, an heir to the Walmart fortune and a major conservative campaign donor, gave ASU $115 million to found the Rob Walton School of Conservation Futures, which will be part of ASU’s Rob Walton College of Global Futures (John Tamayo / State Press) … After the City of Scottsdale backed off its plans to sue the state for intervening to allow the Axon headquarters to be built against voters’ wishes, a group of residents sued the city and the state, hoping to stop the development (Jamar Younger / Capitol Times) … And although Arizona public schools are facing an “existential crisis” from school vouchers, it’s not because of their failure to teach, but their failure to advertise, according to one West Valley superintendent. (Wall Street Journal).

Somebody — and we’re not naming names here — thought it would be funny to pay former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio $38 to record a Cameo video congratulating the Agenda on our recent Best of Phoenix “Best Newsletter” award from the Phoenix New Times.

And while we sincerely regret that Arpaio made $38, we couldn’t resist sharing with you.

1. And if you’re thinking, ‘don’t we only have five Supreme Court justices?’ that was true until Gov. Doug Ducey expanded the court and packed it with his own appointees.