2026-09-10 · Kansas · Legislation

When a Kansas legislator asks staff what the law says about homeowners associations, this is the document they get — and its account of recent legislative activity ends in 2024 with two failures. The Kansas Legislative Research Department's memorandum, “The Kansas Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of Rights Act and Homeowners Associations,” was posted to the department's site in February 2026 and reissued in corrected form in June 2026.¹

It is the closest thing Kansas has to an official statement of where association law stands, and what it does not contain is as informative as what it does.

The two bills it records

Under the heading “Recent HOA Legislation,” the memo reports that “during the 2024 Legislative Session, the House Committee on Local Government had hearings on two bills regarding HOAs: 2023 HB 2268 and 2024 HB 2733.”²

On the first: HB 2268 “would have prohibited HOAs from preventing, impairing, restricting the use of, or adversely affecting the cost of efficiency of solar energy devices on units within the HOA.” It had a hearing on February 14, 2024 with “5 oral proponents, 17 written-only proponents, and no neutral or opposition testimony.” Then: “A vote to recommend the bill favorably for passage failed and the bill remained in committee until the conclusion of the 2024 Session.” Seventeen written proponents, no opposition on the record, and it still lost the vote.

On the second: HB 2733 “would have required any HOA that was conducting certain home repairs to do so in accordance with applicable codes and standards. Failure of an HOA to do so would have allowed the Attorney General to take legal action against the HOA.” It had a hearing on February 19, 2024, drew one oral and one written proponent and no opposition, and the committee “voted to recommend the bill favorably for passage.” It then died a procedural death: “the bill was stricken from the calendar by Rule 1507.”

What the memo does not mention

Neither SB 144 nor HB 2343 appears anywhere in it, despite both being live when the memo was posted in February 2026. Nor does the memo identify any Kansas state agency with authority over associations. Its enforcement section points in exactly one direction — the courts.

1. The Kansas Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of Rights Act and Homeowners Associations — Kansas Legislative Research Department ↩
2. KLRD memorandum on UCIOBORA and homeowners associations (corrected), full text ↩
3. K.S.A. 58-4621, Enforcement of rights, with case annotations — Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes ↩
4. K.S.A. 58-4608, Association powers and duties — Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes ↩