On March 9, the Arizona House defeated HB 2138 by 26-33.  It would have moved the primary for office other than President from the 4th Tuesday in August to the 2nd Tuesday in July.  If the bill had passed, the deadlines for non-presidential independent candidate petitions would have moved from May to April, and the petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties would have moved from February to January.  The February petition deadline is already being contested in the Ninth Circuit, in a case filed by the Green Party last year.