Extends the homeowner records-request right: it strengthens owners' ability to inspect and get copies of association records, and tightens what a board or manager can charge or withhold. Records access is how owners follow the money.
In short: Strengthens a homeowner's right to inspect and obtain association records.
Introduced — no action Pro-HOA industry
This bill revises the records-request rules for condos and planned communities, setting response deadlines, a per-page copy fee cap, and a clear definition of which records owners can access. It also treats records posted online as reasonably available and lets associations decline unchanged records that were already requested in the prior two years.
For homeowners: Net anti-transparency, so pro-HOA-industry despite genuine sweeteners: it deems online-posted records 'reasonably available' (a basis to refuse copies), lets a board withhold unchanged records requested within the prior two years, and defines accessible records as a closed 12-category list that lets it deny anything not listed. The real owner gains, no fee to inspect and a 15-cents-per-page copy cap, are exactly the fee-side pieces that do not offset a closed-list, 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.
- Establishes 10-business-day deadlines to fulfill examination requests and to provide copies.
- Caps copy charges at 15 cents ($0.15) per page for physical or digital copies.
- Associations cannot charge members a fee just to examine (review) records, only for copies.
- Associations may withhold records requested within the preceding two years that have not been modified.
- Adds a definition of 'financial and other records' listing 12 categories of documents that must be made available. 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.