If too few owners show up, an HOA meeting can't do business. This bill addresses quorum requirements for HOA meetings — the attendance threshold that decides whether owners can act or a board runs unchecked.
In short: Addresses quorum requirements for HOA meetings.
Introduced — no action Mixed
SB1722 amends the open meeting laws for condominiums and planned communities to clarify when board members can talk informally without triggering meeting and notice requirements. It creates an exception for casual discussion at informal gatherings when directors are acting as individual members, not as directors. At the same time it confirms that a quorum meeting to discuss association business must follow open meeting rules even if no vote is taken.
For homeowners: Mixed: it reaffirms that boards cannot dodge open-meeting rules via workshops or no-vote discussions, protecting transparency, but it simultaneously creates a 'casual discussion' exception letting a quorum of directors talk association business off the record by claiming they acted as individual members. That loophole is hard for owners to police and could swallow the rule, so the two effects genuinely offset.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Adds an exception: open meeting and notice rules do not apply to casual discussion of association issues at informal gatherings, even if a quorum of the board participates, if the directors are acting in their individual capacities as members and not as directors.
- Confirms that any quorum meeting informally to discuss association business, including workshops, must comply with open meeting and notice rules whether or not the board votes or takes action.
- Amends both the condominium open meeting law (33-1248) and the planned community open meeting law (33-1804).
- Renumbers the policy statement subsection (from F to G and H) to fit the new provision.
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.