The certainty ladder for 2027

Ranked from firmest to softest, here is what is actually known as of early September 2026.

Firm. No interim committee is studying housing, land use or community-association law during the 2026 interim. Any 2027 bill on these subjects will therefore arrive from an individual legislator or a trade group rather than as a committee recommendation — which historically means a harder path and a later introduction.

Firm. The Legislative Office of Performance Evaluations, the Legislature's nonpartisan evaluation arm, has a study underway titled Impacts of Growth on Agriculture and Infrastructure, examining how residential development patterns affect farmland and local-government infrastructure. Its status is “underway”; no report has been published and no release date is posted.⁵ That the study exists is verified. That it will produce 2027 legislation is inference by outside commentators, not a statement by the office.

Moderate. The Community Associations Institute's Idaho legislative action committee tracked eleven bills in 2026, opposed the dissolution measures and the broader ADU bill, and secured amendments to the ADU bill that passed. Its institutional position is a matter of record and is likely to recur. But no 2027 Idaho legislative priorities document has been published by CAI Idaho as of this date.⁶

Soft. Rep. Ehlers' February 2026 statement. One legislator, one quote, mid-session, unreaffirmed.

Nothing found. No published 2027 legislative agenda from the Idaho Association of REALTORS, the state's builder associations, or the Association of Idaho Cities. The Idaho Association of Counties opened its 2027 resolution process with a submission deadline of 31 August 2026, now passed, but no adopted priority list is public.⁷ No property-rights, land-use or HOA-related measure is on Idaho's November 2026 ballot.

What a returning dissolution bill would have to solve

If the idea does come back, the drafting problems that sank the first two versions are still there, and they are the questions to ask of any 2027 draft:

• Unincorporated associations. HB 708 ran its clock from the filing of articles of incorporation. Idaho expressly recognises unincorporated associations, which file none.
• The covenants themselves. Both bills disposed of assets. Neither said clearly what becomes of a recorded declaration, or who enforces it, once the enforcing entity is gone or stripped of authority.
• Unwilling transferees. Transfer of common property to a local government was permitted without any mechanism for the local government to accept or decline.
• Financed obligations. Private roads, water systems, stormwater facilities and lender-required reserves need a solvent holder.
• The quorum problem. Both bills made inaction fatal. HB 708 required a majority of all eligible voters to save the association; HB 963 softened that to a majority of votes cast at a quorate meeting. Neither Idaho statute currently sets a quorum for HOA membership meetings at all.

What boards can do between now and January

1. Fix the turnout problem regardless. Every version of this idea makes an association's survival depend on assembling a vote. An association that cannot reach a quorum today is the one with the most to lose from any default-rule bill, and quorum capability takes more than one meeting cycle to build.
2. Address the underlying grievances. Idaho's Attorney General settled fee cases against two associations and a management company in May 2026, and four consecutive sessions have removed subjects from unilateral covenant control. Bills like HB 708 are generated by constituent complaints, and open meetings, retained minutes, accurate fee disclosure and prompt records responses are what reduce them.
3. Watch § 55-3204, not the headlines. The administration statute is where Idaho HOA law has actually changed, and where HB 963's governance provisions would land if separated from the conversion mechanism.
4. Do not plan against a bill that does not exist. No 2027 bill has been filed. Nothing here requires an association to act, and any secondary summary telling you otherwise is describing a 2026 bill that died.

What to watch, and when

The 2027 session convenes in January. The Governor's budget address, which typically opens it, has not happened and no 2027 housing signal from the Governor's office exists yet. Watch for routing slips and committee prints in the first three weeks — that is when a bill of this kind will surface if it surfaces at all — and watch for a cleanup bill on the dangling § 55-618 cross-reference the 2026 ADU act left behind, which would give a sponsor an obvious vehicle.