Illinois HB 5449 gives every association until January 1, 2028 to put up a website
Illinois HB 5449 gives every association until January 1, 2028 to put up a website
2026-09-10 · Illinois · Legislation
What happened. HB 5449 was signed August 7, 2026 as Public Act 104-0797, effective January 1, 2027. It adds two duties to both Illinois association statutes: a mandatory website, and electronic delivery of the annual financial accounting.1
The website language is identical in both Acts — new subsection (l) of 765 ILCS 160/1-30 for common interest communities, new subsection (t) of 765 ILCS 605/18.4 for condominiums:
The board must provide a website no later than January 1, 2028 that unit owners can access on the Internet that includes information about board and membership meetings and the approved minutes from a meeting of the board.
The second duty: financials by electronic transmission
The itemized accounting of the preceding year's common expenses — or the consolidated annual independent audit — must now be supplied “through electronic transmission to all members who have provided their information to the association and authorized the association to transmit such information by electronic transmission.” The condominium bylaw requirement at 765 ILCS 605/18(a)(7) is separately expanded so the annual itemized accounting expressly includes receipts and expenses.
Note the conditional. The duty runs only to members who have given the association their address and authorized electronic transmission. Associations that have never collected those authorizations in writing will find the obligation hard to discharge and harder to prove.
Correcting the record: what is not in this law
Two provisions widely attributed to HB 5449 are not in the enacted Act. As introduced, the bill required a quarterly electronic financial statement covering receipts, expenses, invoices, contracts and obligations, and required 75% owner approval of any fee increase over 10%. House Floor Amendment No. 2 deleted the supermajority requirement outright and downgraded quarterly to annual.
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