This bill governs HOA voting and board elections — the election procedures and voting rules that determine how much real control owners have over who sits on their board.
In short: Governs HOA voting and board elections.
Introduced — no action Pro-homeowner
SB1364 tightens election integrity rules for condominium and planned community voting. It defines who is eligible to vote, requires ballots to disclose the board positions and candidates, bans in-person ballot solicitation and early release of results, and requires results to be distributed to all owners. It also makes ballot tampering a felony.
For homeowners: Pro-homeowner: it adds election transparency (disclosed candidates and positions, distributed results, available board contacts) and curbs manipulation by banning proxy vote-casting, in-person solicitation, and early result leaks. Making ballot tampering a class 6 felony adds a strong deterrent against election fraud.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Requires voters to be the owner of record or the designated authorized voter, and requires the association to maintain current lists of owners and authorized voters.
- Requires ballots to identify the number and term of board positions to be filled and the names of all eligible owners who want to be considered.
- Prohibits the association from authorizing another person to cast a member's votes and bars in-person ballot solicitation.
- Prohibits revealing preliminary results of any election or ballot measure before results are finalized.
- Requires completed ballots and voter identification documents to be retained in electronic or paper format for at least one year after the election.
- Requires the association to post or distribute election/ballot-measure results to all owners and to make board members' contact information available.
- Makes ballot tampering a class 6 felony, prosecutable by any county or state attorney.
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.