Two Alabama legislative sessions passed without amending a word of HOA or condominium law
Two Alabama legislative sessions passed without amending a word of HOA or condominium law
2026-09-10 · Alabama · Legislation
Alabama's Legislature passed 1,067 acts across its 2025 and 2026 Regular Sessions. Not one of them amended a single section of the state's three community-association statutes.
That is a finding, not an impression, and it is checkable from the Code's own source notes — the parenthetical at the foot of each section recording which acts created and amended it.
The three statutes, and when each was last touched
The Alabama Homeowners' Association Act, Ala. Code §§ 35-20-1 through 35-20-13. All thirteen sections trace to Act 2015-292. Exactly one, § 35-20-5, carries a later citation: Act 2023-177. The HOA Act has not been amended since 2023.
The Alabama Uniform Condominium Act of 1991, §§ 35-8A-101 through 35-8A-417. Across all 65 existing sections, the most recent act cited anywhere in the chapter is Act 2018-403. Nothing after 2018.
The Condominium Ownership Act, §§ 35-8-1 through 35-8-22 — the older statute that still governs condominiums created before January 1, 1991. Nothing after 1973.
The 2025 session produced no association bills at all
Not “no successful ones.” None. Across all 968 bills of the 2025 Regular Session, a full-text search returns zero occurrences of “homeowners association,” “homeowners' association,” “owners association,” “unit owners,” “common elements,” “common interest,” “declarant,” “restrictive covenants,” “community association,” “planned community,” “short-term rental,” “reserve study,” “political sign,” “solar access,” “accessory dwelling” and “mobile home park.”
Eight 2025 bills mention “condominium” at all. In every one, the word appears only inside an incidental list — residential building types for a vacant-property ordinance, the lodging-tax base, the fire-fee base, or the real-estate licensing exemption for on-site condominium managers. None touches association governance, assessments, liens, covenants, elections or records.
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Related Alabama HOA Topics
- HB 248, 2026 Regular Session — enrolled text (Act 2026-495), amending the Alabama Nonprofit Corporation Law ↩
- HB 260, 2026 Regular Session — introduced text, the only substantive condominium bill of either session ↩
- SB 246, 2026 Regular Session — introduced text, showing the pre-existing § 8-42-2 HOA carve-outs ↩
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