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- ↑ "Session laws, State of Arizona, 1999 Volume 1, Forty-Fourth Legislature, First Regular Session, Chapters 1 to 223". State of Arizona. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
- ↑ "Arizona Term Limits, Proposition 107 (1992)". Ballotpedia. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
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- ↑ "Former Arizona legislator Keith Bee pleads guilty to filing false tax returns". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
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