2026-09-10 · Georgia · Legislation · Did not pass

What happened. In a single session, the Georgia General Assembly adopted a ceremonial day honouring homeowners, condominium and property owners' associations — and declined to adopt a resolution merely urging those associations to be transparent.

Both facts come from the chamber's own Session Final composite status report.¹

Adopted

SR 595 — “HOA, COA, and POA Day; recognize and celebrate” — was introduced and adopted in the Senate on the same day, 27 January 2026.

Its House counterpart, HR 1138 — “First HOA, COA, and POA Day at the capitol; recognize” — was introduced and taken up on 28 January 2026.

Died

HR 1751 — “Condominium and property owners' associations; provide transparency; urge” — was referred to House Special Rules, read first time 19 March 2026 and second time 20 March 2026. Never reported, never adopted.

A resolution of this kind has no legal effect whatever. It urges. It was not adopted.

Two further resolutions in the same field also died: HR 1675, to create a House Study Committee on Community Associations, and SR 445, urging the Department of Community Affairs to investigate abusive HOA practices.

The same week, in the same building

The timing is what makes this more than a curiosity. The HOA appreciation resolutions moved on 27 and 28 January 2026. That is precisely the week that HB 1035 and HB 1036 were filed — the bills that would have abolished association foreclosure and let homeowners dissolve their associations by petition and vote.

Both things were true in the Georgia Capitol in the same week: a celebration of community associations, and the filing of the most aggressive anti-association legislation in the state's history.

What was happening outside the chamber

About a month later, homeowners packed the Capitol for an HOA advocacy day. Reporting from that period cited survey data on Georgia homeowners in association disputes: Atlanta News First's survey of more than 130 homeowners found 63% facing fines and fees averaging around $9,000, 41% in litigation with their association, and 30% carrying liens.²

A separate account of the advocacy-day period put the figures at roughly 63% owing fines averaging over $8,000.³ The surveys are self-selecting — homeowners in dispute are the ones who answer a survey about disputes — and should be read as evidence of the intensity of the grievance rather than as a population estimate.

1. 2026 Composite Status Report, Session Final, Georgia House of Representatives (14 May 2026) ↩
2. “‘Something's going to pass’ — Georgia senators vow HOA reform” — Atlanta News First, 14 January 2026 ↩
3. Hoodline on Georgia HOA advocacy day and House passage, March 2026 ↩
4. Senate Bill 406, as passed (26 LC 49 2879S) — signed copy, Office of the Governor ↩