Dear Cyber Followers: Today is going to be an exciting day in the Arizona State Legislature! The House will be voting on the fate of SB1452 (CONDOMINIUMS AND PLANNED COMMUNITIES, CONFLICT OF INTEREST, BOARD REMOVAL PROCESS) and SB1453 (CONDOMINIUMS AND PLANNED COMMUNITIES; ENFORCEMENT, ELECTIONS, AND MEETINGS). We will notify you of any developments on these two important bills for our [...]
Dear Cyber Followers: As you may know, the Arizona Legislature is very close to ending its 2015 session. The House will be voting on Monday, March 30, 2015 regarding the fate of SB1452 and SB1453. In my opinion, there are aspects of each bill that will be detrimental to community association governance. For example, SB1452 states that once a director [...]
Hello Cyber Followers: The legislature is headed toward adjournment and things are moving at the speed of light… The following bills have been signed into law by Governor Ducey: HB2032 (Office of Administration Hearings; Construction) – signed 3/17/15 HB 2084 (Condominiums; Planned Communities; Associations; Disclosures) – signed 3/17/15 HB 2578 (Planned Communities, Condominiums Construction Defect Claims) – signed 3/23/15 The [...]
Hello Cyber Followers: We are hearing from legislative insiders that the members of the legislature would like to close this session by the first week in April, 2015. Things seem to be coasting regarding bills affecting community associations. We have no changes to our summary from last week. However, we are watching HB2578 (Planned Communities, Condominiums, Construction Defect Claims), SB1091 [...]
Things at the Arizona legislature are heating up! Two bills (HB2032 and 2084) have been signed by The Governor. The remaining 5 bills regarding community associations are on the one yard line getting ready for a vote today or very likely later this week. We are keeping close track of these proposed bills and will notify you of any developments. [...]
As many of you may have seen in Sunday’s Arizona Republic, our legislature had an “all-nighter” on Saturday night and passed the 9.1 billion budget. If history repeats itself, in my opinion, passing the budget in early March means that the Arizona Legislature’s current session may end sooner rather than later. This could mean a slow legislative year for community [...]
Hello Cyber Followers: It was a relatively quiet week last week for community associations at the Arizona legislature. We are still closely watching nine community association bills. Seven of these nine bills have already passed one chamber of our legislature and are moving quickly through the other chamber’s committee process. Please don’t forget that every week during the legislative session, [...]
Hello Cyber Followers! Our good news for this week is that SB1385 (Traffic Enforcement in Planned Communities) failed in the Senate on 2/23/15. As discussed previously on this Blog, SB1385 was problematic for many reasons so we are happy to see that bill go by the wayside. We are still closely watching nine other community association bills. Seven of these [...]
Hello Cyber Followers! Things are starting to heat up at the Arizona Legislature. Our firm is currently watching ten bills that affect community associations. One notable bill that we are closely following pertains to parking violations in a planned community: SB1385: Homeowners Association, Traffic Enforcement For associations where the association owns or otherwise has legal authority over the road sand [...]
Hello Cyber Followers, I hope that everyone had a “SUPER” weekend! Congratulations to all New England Patriot fans! Despite all the Superbowl festivities in Arizona last week, the Arizona legislature was busy at work. As of 1:00 on Friday, January 30, 2014, HB 2084 (Disclosures), SB1048 (Vexatious Litigants), HB2032 (Office of Administrative Hearings) and SB1091 (Planned Communities, Removal, Special Meetings) [...]
