PHOENIX -- It is unlikely Arizona will put many new laws on the books this year as Arizona senators just started looking at 1,500 proposed laws this week.

Right now, senators still plan to wrap up this year’s legislative session July 1.

That means they are trying to complete about five months worth of work in three weeks.

"I'm very concerned,” Rep. David Lujan (Dem.) said.

Lujan and other members of the Arizona House of Representatives started making decisions about proposed laws in January, but if the Senate does not vote on the 196 laws it passed, it will have accomplished nothing this year.

"The people of Arizona elect legislators to go down and pass legislation. This means that their elected representatives aren't able to pass their bills that they were elected to do,” Lujan said. “It really is taking away some of their voice at the state capitol."

“There is definitely is a logjam,” Senator Chuck Gray (Rep.) said.

Gray said senators are working long hours to get through as much legislation as possible before July 1.

"We're going fast and furious. We're making sure we cover as many (bills) as we can,” he said.

Gray said senators put off hearing every bill, except those related to the budget because of the severity of the state’s money crisis.

“I think that if we had done the bills first, anyone that had a bill that didn't get heard would make that a contingency for voting for the budget, and it would have been harder to get the budget out,” he said.