The declaration (the CC&Rs) is the HOA's governing contract, and amending it changes the rules for everyone. This bill addresses the member vote required to amend the declaration — the threshold that decides how hard it is to change or entrench community rules.
In short: Sets the member-vote threshold to amend the HOA declaration (CC&Rs).
Introduced — no action Mixed
Prescribes necessary voting requirements to amend an association's declaration for nonbranded and branded communities.
For homeowners: Mixed and effectively indeterminate: it scales declaration-amendment voting thresholds by whether an amendment loosens or tightens restrictions, using new 'branded' vs 'unbranded' categories, but the provided text never states the actual thresholds. An easier bar to remove restrictions would help owners while a higher bar to loosen them would entrench boards, so the real effect cannot be judged from the mechanics given. It saw no action.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Prescribes the voting requirements to amend a homeowners associations' declaration for nonbranded communities or branded communities based on whether the proposed amendment would remove or reduce one or more restrictions or would add or increase the restrictions. (Sec. 1, 2)
- Defines unbranded community and branded community in the context of a condominium and planned community. (Sec. 1, 2)
- Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1, 2)
The A.R.S. sections this bill amends, adds, or repeals — taken from the bill text. Click one to read the current law.
Official bill page (azleg.gov) → Full bill text → Fact sheet / summary → Bill history (LegiScan) →
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.