Request for the Governor’s Assistance
On Friday, the Arizona Association of REALTORS® (AAR) had a preliminary conversation with Governor Brewer’s staff regarding the impacts of SB 1271 and the need for an immediate fix to this legislation that becomes effective on September 30, 2009.  AAR requested that the Governor amend her current Call for Special Session to include a fix to SB1271 with an emergency clause.  Governor Brewer called the legislature into Special Session to deal only with the historic budget deficit.  The Governor’s staff was receptive to our request and voiced a wiliness to work with AAR, but requested that we provide specific examples of legal issues resulting from SB 1271’s passage and how the bill would impact Arizonans if left unfixed.  The Governor does not have to amend her Call for Special Session to include this issue, so the burden is on us to demonstrate the need for immediate action.  If the Governor agrees with our request, our next job is to convince the legislature to fix the statute. 

Early next week, AAR will deliver a letter outlining the issues as requested to the Governor’s office and formally make the request to amend the Call for Special Session to include this issue.  Our goals are to narrow the bill’s impact, clarify the statute’s intent and to include an emergency clause in the legislation so that the AAR’s amendments would take effect and overwrite the amendments that SB 1271 made to the Anti-Deficiency statute before it goes into effect on September 30, 2009. 

SB 1271 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Document in the Works
We have received numerous emails and phone calls asking several different questions regarding SB 1271’s interpretation.  We are doing our best to provide those answers in an FAQ document.  But because of several different views by attorneys across our state on how the changes to the statute should be interpreted, AAR is having difficulty providing those answers.