Homeowners have a statutory right to inspect their association's records — budgets, contracts, meeting minutes — but boards and managers often stall or overcharge. This bill strengthens that records-request right, which is the main tool owners have to see how their money is spent.
In short: Strengthens a homeowner's right to inspect and obtain association records.
Introduced — no action Pro-HOA industry
This bill updates the rules for requesting association records in condos and planned communities. It clarifies that records posted online count as reasonably available, keeps the existing 10-business-day response deadlines and 15-cents-per-page copy cap, and adds a detailed list defining which financial and other records owners can access. It also lets associations decline to reproduce records requested within the prior two years that have not changed.
For homeowners: Anti-transparency on net, so pro-HOA-industry: it deems anything posted online 'reasonably available' (letting a board refuse to hand over copies), lets an association withhold records requested in the prior two years that are unchanged (a 'previously provided' escape), and converts the open records duty into a closed 12-category list that lets a board deny anything not enumerated. The 15-cents-per-page copy cap is the lone owner-friendly piece and does not rescue the access-narrowing definition.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Records made available online are deemed to be reasonably available, satisfying an association's disclosure duty.
- Retains the 10-business-day deadline to allow examination of records and the 10-business-day deadline to provide copies.
- Retains the copy fee cap of 15 cents ($0.15) per page for physical or digital copies.
- Associations may withhold records that were requested within the preceding two years and have not been modified since.
- Adds a definition of 'financial and other records' listing 12 specific categories of documents that must be made available.
- Reorganizes the disclosure exemptions (moving them into new lettered subsections) for clarity. Amends A.R.S. § 33-1258 (condominiums) and § 33-1805 (planned communities).
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.