156,000 Kansans live under covenants. Their Legislature passed nothing about it
156,000 Kansans live under covenants. Their Legislature passed nothing about it
2026-09-10 · Kansas · Legislation
Kansas has roughly 2,000 community associations. The 2026 session, which ran from January 12 to April 10, produced no statute that changed how any of them are governed. That is the summary of the Community Associations Institute's Kansas end-of-session report, and the numbers in it are the clearest picture available of how large this sector has become in a state that regulates it hardly at all.1
The count
CAI puts it at approximately 156,000 Kansans living in 62,100 homes within nearly 2,000 community associations statewide.
Set against a state of about 2.9 million people, that is a little over five percent of Kansans, and it is concentrated: the great majority of those associations sit in Johnson County, Sedgwick County and the Kansas City metro rather than spread evenly across 105 counties. In the newer Johnson County suburbs the local share is far higher than the statewide figure suggests.
The session, as the sector saw it
The report notes that “Kansas operates on a biennial legislative cycle, meaning legislation introduced in odd-numbered years carries over to the even-numbered years of the biennium” — which is why bills from 2025 were still alive in 2026 and why their failure at sine die was final rather than provisional.
Two bills were tracked. HB 2343, the No-Impact Home-Based Business Fairness Act, which CAI supported and which would have let no-impact home businesses operate while leaving associations able to prohibit them by covenant amendment: died in the Senate. SB 144, the rooftop solar covenant bill, on which CAI sought amendments to exclude attached units and preserve existing restrictions: died in committee.
The report also records how the session ended, in a sentence that explains a good deal about the Kansas calendar: “The final days of the legislative session were largely devoted to consideration of gubernatorial veto overrides.”
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Related Kansas HOA Topics
- Kansas 2026 End of Session report, Community Associations Institute ↩
- K.S.A. 58-4617, Rules; adoption procedures; notice — Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes ↩
- K.S.A. 58-4621, Enforcement of rights — Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes ↩
- KLRD memorandum on UCIOBORA and homeowners associations (corrected), full text ↩
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