Bill Text: AZ HB2800 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced


Bill Title: Fire insurance; policy cancellation; prohibition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-17 - House LARA Committee action: Do Pass Amended, voting: (5-3-1-0-0-0) [HB2800 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2025-HB2800-Introduced.html

 

 

 

REFERENCE TITLE: fire insurance; policy cancellation; prohibition

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

HB 2800

 

Introduced by

Representatives Martinez: Carter P, Griffin, Kupper, Lopez, Marshall, Wilmeth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 20, chapter 6, article 7, arizona revised statutes, by adding section 20-1511; relating to fire insurance.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 20, chapter 6, article 7, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 20-1511, to read:

START_STATUTE20-1511. State of emergency; fire insurance; cancellation prohibition

If the governor declares a state of emergency as prescribed in section 26-303 after a natural disaster or wildfire, an insurance producer may not cancel or refuse to renew, for the next twenty-four months, a fire insurance policy with an insured who resides or that is located within a five mile radius of the natural disaster or wildfire. END_STATUTE

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