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AZ HB2850

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/22/2026

Primary Sponsor

Sarah Liguori

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature - Second Regular Session (2026)

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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