Every HOA is supposed to hold an annual membership meeting where owners can vote and hold the board accountable. This bill sets requirements for that meeting — the kind of notice, timing, and access rules that determine whether owners actually get a voice.
In short: Sets requirements for an association's annual membership meeting.
Introduced — no action Mixed
This bill tightens how HOA and condo associations run their meetings and elect directors. It requires clearer meeting notices, sets deadlines for delivering ballots, and bans certain election tactics like cumulative voting and floor nominations. It aims to make board elections more transparent and predictable.
For homeowners: Two-sided on its mechanics. It tightens meeting-notice and ballot-deadline rules, which adds transparency and predictability to board elections — a plus for owners. But it also bans nominations from the floor, routing every board candidate through an advance, board-run nomination process, and bans cumulative voting. Those election-mechanic limits cut against owners who want to run or organize, so on balance we read it as Mixed.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Meeting notice can now be delivered by email in addition to mail or in person.
- Notices must state the required quorum for each proposed action and the percentage of approval needed for each action other than director elections.
- Ballots must be delivered no later than 10 days before the deadline to return them.
- Cumulative voting is prohibited in director elections.
- Nominations from the floor are prohibited; all eligible candidates must appear on the ballot, with a write-in option available.
- Proxy voting on ballots is not allowed after declarant (developer) control ends.
- Ballots and election materials must be retained for at least one year after the election is completed.
- Quorum for director elections and annual meetings is set at one-tenth of total votes unless documents specify a lower threshold. Amends A.R.S. §§ 33-1248, 33-1250, 33-1804, 33-1812.
The A.R.S. sections this bill amends, adds, or repeals — taken from the bill text. Click one to read the current law.
Organizations and industry insiders who registered a position on this bill through the Legislature’s public Request to Speak system — simply where each stood: For, Against, or Neutral. Individual homeowners are not listed. Whether this bill helps or hurts homeowners is our own read, shown by its label above — a group’s position doesn’t set our call. Each row links to that entity’s report card and to the source at azleg.gov.