HB2031 is a bill that proposes to amend the Arizona Revised Statutes concerning the membership of county boards of supervisors (county BOS). The bill seeks to lower the population threshold from 150,000 to 125,000 persons for a county to have the option to ask its electors whether to increase the number of members on the county BOS from three to five. Additionally, the bill changes the requirement for a county with a population between 125,000 and 175,000 persons to submit this question to the electors from mandatory ("shall") to optional ("may").

The current law mandates that counties with populations between 150,000 and 175,000 must pose the question of increasing BOS members to the electorate at the next general election after new population estimates are released. The bill would allow counties with populations as low as 125,000 to consider this change and gives them the discretion to choose whether to hold such an election. The bill also removes the phrase "or not" from the ballot question, simplifying it to "whether the county shall elect five members to the board of supervisors."

Statutes affected:
Introduced Version: 11-211
House Engrossed Version: 11-211