HB2180 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes section 48-805.02 regarding fire district annual budgets and public hearing requirements.

• Requires fire districts to post budget summaries in three public places and publish complete budgets on the district's official website for at least twenty days before the public hearing.

• Changes budget amendment procedures to require a single public hearing (instead of at least two hearings) with the revised budget adopted immediately following the hearing during a public meeting.

• Requires adopted budgets to be posted on the district's official website within seven business days and retained for at least sixty months; allows districts without websites to post on an association website instead.

• Allows districts without official websites to comply with posting requirements through websites maintained by fire district associations in Arizona.