Another records-access bill: it strengthens a homeowner's right to inspect and obtain association records, the practical tool owners use to check budgets, contracts, and board decisions.
In short: Strengthens a homeowner's right to inspect and obtain association records.
Introduced — no action Pro-HOA industry
HB2606 updates the HOA records-request rules for both condominiums (A.R.S. 33-1258) and planned communities (A.R.S. 33-1805). It clarifies that records an association posts online count as 'reasonably available,' keeps the deadline to respond to a records request at 10 business days, and caps what an association may charge for copies. It also spells out the specific categories of records an association must make available to members.
For homeowners: On balance this bill HURTS homeowner transparency. The "good faith" and "proper purpose" gate, plus a "reasonable particularity" requirement, hand a board grounds to refuse or stall a records request; treating anything the HOA posts online as "reasonably available" lets it withhold copies; and a "previously provided" exemption lets it decline to produce records again. The records definition also caps meeting minutes at only the prior three years — useless to an owner documenting a years-old pattern of misconduct. The lone homeowner-friendly piece is a 15-cents-per-page copy cap. Net: it narrows access to association records, so on the homeowner lens it is pro-HOA-industry, not pro-homeowner.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Records an association makes available online are deemed to be 'reasonably available,' satisfying the access requirement.
- An association has 10 business days to fulfill a member's request to examine records or provide copies.
- Copy fees are capped at no more than 15 cents ($0.15) per page.
- Adds an explicit definition of 'financial and other records' covering roughly 12 categories, including the declaration, bylaws, member names and addresses, meeting minutes from the prior three years, budgets, assessment records, financial statements, audit reports, contracts, insurance policies, and records of board actions.
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.