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RG 97
State Legislature

SG 6
Members

Mark Anderson

(1995-2000)

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Biographical Note

Elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 1994, Mark Anderson, a Republican, served District 29 in western Mesa.  He chaired the Human Services Committee, and was instrumental in developing Arizona’s welfare reform legislation in the 1997 and 1998 sessions.  Anderson was also the prime sponsor of the nation’s first tuition tax credit bill for private and public schools passed in 1997.

Other important bills Anderson sponsored include: a charity tax credit for donors to private non-profit groups helping low-income citizens; a $2 million dollar appropriation for abstinence-only education; a $1 million dollar appropriation for a counseling and mentoring program for young fathers; and, a program that encourages churches to assist in the placement of foster children in their communities.

Anderson has consistently sponsored and supported pro-marriage and anti-pornography legislation, including the covenant marriage bill passed in 1998, and a bill to restrict minors’ access to pornography on the Internet in public schools and libraries.  Most recently, Representative Anderson was the prime sponsor of legislation allocating $1.5 million dollars for marriage skills training courses to be offered by community-based organizations and a media campaign to promote healthy marriage and the need for marriage preparation.

He served as co-chair of the Welfare Reform Joint Committee and Task Force, which oversees implementation of welfare reform legislation and identifies areas to be addressed in future legislation.

Anderson owns a travel and marketing business, is married, and has three children.

(The foregoing was adapted from Rep. Mark Anderson’s page on the Arizona State Legislature’s Web site, 3/26/2001.)

Scope and Content

This collection consists of files from the office of Representative Mark Anderson.  Materials cover the period from 1995-2000 including the 42nd, 43rd, and 44th Legislatures.  They include subcommittee reports, memoranda, articles and other research materials, and correspondence, including constituents’ correspondence.  The dominant topices are welfare reform and family issues. The constituent letters, however, cover a variety of topics.

Series Description

Processing Note

The first two accessions were processed together given that they were very closely related.  In some cases the files were obviously part of the same set of folders.  The third accession is more or less a continuation of the office records.

Accn. #’s A-2001-50 & A-2002-5

Inventory

Series 1. Constituent Files

Series 2. Committee Files

Series 3. Issues and Miscellaneous Files

Series 4. Legislative Files

Accn. # A-2003-77

Processing Note

This third accession of Representative Anderson’s papers is more or less a continuation of the office records from the previous accessions.  Folder headings were taken from the original folders as provided by Rep. Anderson’s office.

Inventory

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