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AZ HB2850
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/22/2026
Primary Sponsor
Sarah Liguori
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AI Summary
- Establishes specific criteria for determining mobile home abandonment: tenant absent for at least 30 days with unpaid rent and no evidence of occupancy, or mobile home remains after entry of eviction judgment
- Creates a landlord lien process for abandoned mobile homes, requiring landlords to notify legal owners and lienholders within 10 days and provide at least 72 days before conducting a sale
- Specifies distribution of sale proceeds in order: costs of sale, landlord's lien satisfaction, lienholder claims, former owner (if claimed within 90 days), then Arizona mobile home relocation fund
- Allows tenants or former tenants to petition the Arizona Department of Housing for a hearing on whether the landlord complied with abandonment procedures, with sales deferred pending determination
- Requires landlords bidding at lien sales to bid at least the full lien amount and prohibits creating artificial deficiency balances
Legislative Description
Mobile homes; abandonment procedures
Last Action
House read second time
1/26/2026
Committee Referrals
Rules1/22/2026
Commerce1/22/2026
Full Bill Text
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