Napolitano orders hiring freeze for state agencies

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PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano has ordered a hiring freeze across all state agencies she controls as a cost-savings measure.

The governor's action exempts only those departments directly involved in public health and safety or collecting taxes and managing state investments.

Napolitano's actions come a day after the Arizona House moved to impose a hiring freeze on state government to help erase a big projected revenue shortfall.

The Republican-led House sent the hiring freeze bill to the Senate. The emergency bill would take effect immediately if signed into law.

A Napolitano aide said as recently as last week that she did not believe a hiring freeze was needed to help close a $1 billion budget shortfall for the current budget year.

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