HB 2636 Summary

• Requires wireless providers to obtain written authorization from at least 80% of single-family homeowners and every educational institution within a one-half-mile radius before collocating small wireless facilities in residential areas.

• Mandates that wireless providers conducting collocations in residential areas must conduct a long-term study on the impact to persons in the affected area.

• Applies the written authorization requirement and long-term study requirement to small wireless facility collocations in both municipal and county jurisdictions under Arizona Revised Statutes sections 9-592 through 9-594 and 11-1802 through 11-1805.

• Maintains existing provisions regarding application fees, permitting timelines, and rate caps for wireless facility installations while adding the new residential approval requirements.