Quang Nguyen

Local control, from the Capitol: Republican state Rep. Quang Nguyen wants Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate the City of Tucson’s ordinance that blocks ICE agents from operating on city property, along with a similar ordinance in Phoenix, Capitol scribe Howie Fischer reports. Nguyen says state law blocks cities from limiting the enforcement of federal immigration laws, which isn’t just a complaint that’ll go away on its own. State law also says legislators can force the AG to investigate local governments, and if Mayes finds Tucson broke the law, it could lose 10% of it’s state-shared revenue. (April 2, 2026)

Where’d everybody go?: Hobbs lifted her month-long moratorium on bills last week after “good-faith negotiations” began with Republican lawmakers to finalize the budget, per the Republic’s Stacey Barchenger. During the bill-signing drought, which sparked a recess House Democrats called a month-long “paid vacation,” some lawmakers, like Republican Rep. Quang Nguyen, kept up appearances in the ghost town called the Arizona Capitol by showing up for meetings he already had on the books, the Capitol Times’ Jakob Thorington reports. (May 19, 2026)

Doubling down: Republican state lawmakers say Pima County officials broke the law by approving a policy that prevents federal immigration agents from working on county property without a judicial warrant, Gloria Rebecca Gomez reports for the Arizona Mirror. Senate leaders filed their complaint with Attorney General Kris Mayes and asked for an investigation. Senate President Warren Petersen said he’s seeing “Democrat-run local governments put radical political agendas ahead of public safety.” Their complaint comes a week after Republican Rep. Quang Nguyen asked Mayes to investigate the City of Tucson for a similar policy. (April 8, 2026)

Where’s the beef?: After the House passed it with overwhelming bipartisan support back in February, the Senate approved GOP Rep. Quang Nguyen’s HB2762 by a wide margin. The bill will require any food retailer that makes products from animal cells — namely, lab-grown meat — to be labeled as “cell-cultivated” or “cell-cultured,” which is hardly an appealing stamp. It’s named “The Andy Groseta Act" after a third-generation Arizona rancher who died last year. One of the few no votes came from Democratic Sen. Lauren Kuby, who said it was being pushed by the beef industry and would come as a detriment to sustainable meat-raising alternatives. “I have a beef with this bill and I vote no,” Kuby said. (June 10, 2026)

Damn, dude: Republican Rep. Lupe Diaz is trying to make it illegal to buy meat grown in a lab, and he’s not messing around, per Capitol scribe Howie Fischer. Under Diaz’s HB2791, if you sell “cell-cultured protein” you could be sentenced to 18 months in prison. Fellow Republican Rep. Quang Nguyen offered a more tempered measure. His HB2762 would allow the sale of lab-grown meat, but it would need a label saying it was “derived from cultivated cells.” (January 21, 2026)

Your tax dollars at work: House Speaker Steve Montenegro authorized building a new $630,000 recording studio in the House basement and spending another $115,000 a year for a video producer, the Republic’s Mary Jo Pitzl discovered through public records. Montenegro said the money came out of last year’s budget, and he spent it to provide lawmakers "a reliable, professional space to communicate directly with the people they represent.” It opened in late June and has an 18-foot-by-eight-foot LED screen where lawmakers can choose from a pre-approved folder of pictures for video backgrounds, like a spiffy flag display you can see in Republican Reps. Selina Bliss and Quang Nguyen’s legislative wrap-up video. (July 14, 2025)

Go back to Plan A: Republican Rep. Quang Nguyen held a press conference to announce his plans in the upcoming legislative session to let chronic speeders keep their driving privileges if they install a speed-governing device, per the Republic’s Ray Stern. The companies that make the governing devices are stoked. Last year, Nguyen filed a bill to eliminate “legislative privilege” from speeding tickets after his seatmate, Sen. Mark Finchem, and Freedom Caucus leader Sen. Jake Hoffman both got out of speeding tickets thanks to legislative privilege. (October 29, 2025)

License to speed: A spate of recent high-profile traffic stops of state lawmakers wasn’t enough to get lawmakers to give up their get-out-of-jail-free card, Capitol Media Services’ Howard Fischer reports. GOP Rep. Quang Nguyen tried to get the measure on the ballot for voters to decide, and his bill made it pretty far through the legislative process. But the chair of the Public Safety Committee, fellow Republican Sen. Kevin Payne, wouldn’t give the bill a hearing. (March 27, 2025)