After the pandemic, HOAs began meeting and voting online. This bill governs virtual HOA meetings and proxy voting — setting the ground rules for remote participation so owners can take part without being shut out or having proxies misused.
In short: Governs virtual HOA meetings and proxy voting.
Introduced — no action Pro-homeowner
This bill authorizes condo and planned-community associations to hold their meetings online or by virtual platform. It also changes how members vote in connection with those meetings, replacing proxy voting with in-person and absentee/written ballots and adding required disclosures on the ballot.
For homeowners: On its mechanics this bill mostly expands homeowner access and transparency: it authorizes virtual/online meetings so owners who can't attend in person can still take part, and requires ballots to state the quorum and the approval percentage needed for each item. The tradeoff is a shift from proxy voting toward absentee ballots and a low default quorum. Weighing the provisions, the access and transparency gains outweigh that, so we read it as a net positive for homeowners.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Association meetings may be conducted by an online or virtual meeting platform, subject to the existing open-meeting requirements.
- For online/virtual meetings, voting is done in person and by absentee ballot or written ballot instead of by proxy.
- Ballots must state the required quorum for each proposed action and the percentage of approval necessary (except for director elections).
- Members must have at least 7 days after an unvoted ballot is delivered to return it.
- The association must deliver ballots no later than 10 days before the return deadline.
- Annual-meeting quorum for planned communities is set at one-tenth of total votes unless documents specify less. 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.