Boards can make big decisions behind closed doors. This bill strengthens open-meeting requirements for HOA and planned-community boards, so more association business happens where owners can watch and participate.
In short: Strengthens open-meeting requirements for HOA and planned-community boards.
Introduced — no action Pro-homeowner
SB1151 strengthens open-meeting and transparency rules for condominiums and planned communities (A.R.S. 33-1202, 33-1243, 33-1248, 33-1249, 33-1802, 33-1804, new 33-1804.01, and 33-1813). It broadens the legal definition of a 'meeting,' requires agendas and draft minutes to be shared, allows remote participation, and makes board actions taken in violation of open-meeting rules void.
For homeowners: Pro-homeowner: it broadens the definition of a meeting, guarantees advance agendas, prompt draft minutes, and remote attendance, and voids board actions taken in violation of open-meeting rules, a strong enforcement hook. The one anti-transparency wrinkle, that a board recording is 'not a record' and can be withheld from non-residents, is a limited carve-out that the strong transparency package outweighs.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Defines a 'meeting' broadly as any gathering or interaction, in person or by technology, of a quorum of the board, a committee, or the owners to propose, discuss, deliberate, or take action on association business.
- The meeting agenda must be available in advance to all owners attending.
- Meetings may be held using voice, video, or remote meeting technology.
- Draft minutes of any open or emergency meeting must be made available to any owner on request within 10 business days.
- Any action taken by the board in violation of the open-meeting policy is void as a matter of law.
- An association may adopt rules preventing distribution of a meeting recording to non-residents, and a recording made by the board is not itself an association record.
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.