Arizona HOA bill

SB1674

homeowners' associations; rules; enforcement

This bill governs HOA rules and how they're enforced — what a board may adopt and the process for penalizing violations. Rule and enforcement procedure is where most day-to-day homeowner conflict lives.

In short: Governs HOA rules and how they are enforced.

Introduced — no action Mixed · 2026 · 57th Reg. Session

What it does & where it stands

SB1674 gives condominium and planned community associations both the authority and the duty to enforce their governing documents to protect property values, and requires that enforcement be even-handed. It states enforcement cannot be optional, arbitrary, capricious, or selective and must treat all owners fairly. It also makes all enforcement actions a public record subject to the records-inspection statutes.

For homeowners: Mixed: it bars optional, arbitrary, or selective enforcement and makes all enforcement actions inspectable records, both concrete owner protections, but it also grants boards an affirmative authority and duty to enforce governing documents to protect property values, which is board-empowering and can mean more aggressive enforcement. The anti-selective-enforcement and public-record provisions modestly dominate, but the mandated enforcement duty genuinely cuts the other way.

Key provisions

What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.

  1. States the association has both the authority and the duty, with reasonable discretion, to enforce its governing documents to protect property values.
  2. Requires that to be reasonable, enforcement may not be optional, arbitrary, capricious, or selective and must treat all owners/members fairly.
  3. Makes all enforcement actions taken by the association a public record of the association.
  4. Subjects those enforcement records to the records-inspection statutes (33-1258 for condominiums, 33-1805 for planned communities).
  5. Applies parallel language to condominiums (33-1243) and planned communities (33-1811), with cross-reference letter updates elsewhere.
Arizona statutes it changes

The A.R.S. sections this bill amends, adds, or repeals — taken from the bill text. Click one to read the current law.

§ 33-1202 — Definitions § 33-1241 — Organization of unit owners' association § 33-1246 — Bylaws § 33-1217 — Allocation of common element interests, votes and common expense liabilities § 33-1243 — Board of directors and officers; conflict; powers; limitations; removal; annual audit; applicability § 33-1212 — Unit boundaries
§ 6-801 — cross-referenced statute
§ 33-741 — cross-referenced statute
§ 33-1242 — Powers of unit owners' association; notice to unit owner of violation § 33-1215 — Contents of declaration § 33-1219 — Plat § 33-1216 — Leasehold condominiums § 33-1255 — Assessments for common expenses; commercial structures; applicability; definitions § 33-1256 — Common expense liens; priority; mechanics' and materialmen's liens; notice; applicability
Read the source

Official bill page (azleg.gov) → Full bill text → Bill history (LegiScan) →

Sponsors
John Kavanagh Prime sponsor
Who lobbied on this bill 1

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.

For Arizona Homeowners Coalition azleg →

Disposition and votes are from the Arizona Legislature (azleg.gov). The plain-language description is our neutral summary of the bill’s subject; the “for homeowners?” tag reflects our methodology. Not legal advice.

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