Latest Legal Updates
Latest Legal Updates
HOA and condominium association legislation, court rulings and regulatory changes across every state, the District of Columbia and federal law — newest first.
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The agency that heard Tennessee housing complaints is gone
Tennessee dissolved its Human Rights Commission on June 30, 2025 and moved housing-discrimination enforcement to a new division of the Attorney General's office, which opened fewer than half as many cases in its first year.
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A Wyoming committee bill would put irrigation districts into the subdivision process
27LSO-0066 v0.7, sponsored unanimously by the Joint Agriculture Committee on July 28, 2026, would require a subdivider inside an irrigation district to submit its intended disposition of water rights 60 days before filing with the State Engineer, and to litigate if no agreement is reached.
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South Dakota's insurance regulator has never issued a homeowners hail bulletin
Every hail bulletin in the Division of Insurance's history is about crop hail or automobile hail. Its entire 2024-2026 output is six bulletins, none on homeowners policies, condo master policies, deductibles or roof schedules.
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Consumer Affairs logged 452 HOA complaints against 339 associations — and told the legislature what it cannot do about them
The Department of Consumer Affairs' statutorily required 2026 report records 586 HOA complaints received in 2025, 1,104 separate concerns, and four recommendations to the General Assembly, none of which was enacted.
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Vermont's covenant-scrub bill was never drafted
H.127 would have required Vermont associations to delete from their declarations any restriction on renewable energy devices that conflicts with 27 V.S.A. § 544. It got one committee date.
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Texas HOAs can no longer bar candidates and officials from common-area meetings
New Property Code § 202.013 voids a dedicatory-instrument provision that would stop an owner or resident from inviting a government official or a qualified candidate to meet members in the association's common areas, while preserving neutral booking rules.
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A $50,000 deductible ceiling now governs Virginia condo master policies
Since July 1, 2026 a per-unit, per-occurrence master policy deductible above $50,000 makes a condominium project ineligible — arriving a year after Virginia began requiring resale certificates to warn about deductible pass-through.
Read the full updateH. 5204 would have registered every South Carolina HOA and let the state fine board members. It never got a hearing
The omnibus bill proposing association registration, a $3-per-unit fee, Consumer Affairs enforcement powers, independent election administration and a $10,000 foreclosure floor was filed in February 2026 and died in House Labor, Commerce and Industry.
Read the full updateWyoming’s new $1,400 expedited filing does not cover the annual report
A 2026 act let the Secretary of State charge up to $5,000 to expedite Title 17 filings; the fee schedule set $1,400 same-day and $700 next-day, and excludes everything that can be filed online — including a nonprofit's annual report.
Read the full updateHUD will now charge only over trained assistance animals
HUD withdrew its 2020 assistance-animal notice effective September 17, 2025 and, in a May 2026 enforcement memorandum, limited reasonable-cause findings to animals individually trained to perform a disability-related task.
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A Utah HOA deed signed by one officer survives judgment
Pioneer Home Owners Association v. TaxHawk held that an association's claim to land conveyed by a company president without a recorded board authorisation could proceed on actual authority — but not on apparent authority.
Read the full updateVermont court: § 3-116 is not a pleading checklist
A Washington Unit judge refused to dismiss an assessment foreclosure, holding the statute's three-month, payment-plan and board-vote requirements do not have to appear on the face of the complaint.
Read the full updateHis deed never named the HOA. The Court of Appeals held he was bound anyway
Oak Forest Homeowners Association v. Dennison, filed December 31, 2025, reverses a finding that a Horry County lot was outside the association, applying constructive notice from the recorded chain of title and an incorporated plat.
Read the full updateA bad Vermont amendment can become unchallengeable
A 2007 amendment reallocating interests without unanimous consent was voidable, not void — and because the association never sued in time, it stands. Its 2022 rescission was the thing declared void.
Read the full updateA Wyoming covenant purchase right ended in tortious interference and punitive fees
In Anderson v. Messinger the Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed specific performance against sellers, tortious-interference liability against the neighbour holding a covenant right of first purchase, and attorney fees imposed as punitive damages.
Read the full updateAn association fought a canal at the agency, not in court
McCook Lake Recreation Area Association petitioned the Water Management Board over an 1,800-foot canal, lost on the merits, and left behind the clearest South Dakota roadmap for how an association intervenes in a neighbouring development.
Read the full updateVirginia put two community management companies into receivership
DPOR's Investigations Section, working with the Attorney General's office, petitioned circuit courts to place Rosewood Management and Tagare Corporation into receivership; Tagare agreed to licence revocation.
Read the full updateTexas Supreme Court leaves Swan Point Landing standing: rental bans yes, uneven assessments no
On 12 June 2026 the Supreme Court of Texas denied review in Martin v. Swan Point Landing Community Association, leaving in place a published Thirteenth Court of Appeals decision that upheld an amended short-term rental ban but struck down a special assessment allocated by use.
Read the full updateA working group is drafting Utah’s 2027 HOA bill
The state's HOA ombudsman convened five legislators and the governor's housing adviser in April 2026 for a statewide listening tour, with recommendations aimed at the 2027 General Session.
Read the full updateTennessee first responder HOA parking bill never got a hearing
HB 1462 and SB 1763 would have barred associations from prohibiting or penalising a firefighter, paramedic or officer for parking an emergency vehicle at home. Filed first among the session's HOA bills, they were never placed on a committee calendar.
Read the full updateThe South Carolina Supreme Court struck a mandatory club arbitration clause and kept the arbitrability question for itself
In 315 Corley CW LLC v. Palmetto Bluff Development, decided June 10, 2026, the Court held a 60-day arbitration demand deadline unconscionable and declined to follow eleven federal circuits on delegation.
Read the full updateVermont's patio-railing loophole just got narrower
Act 149 of 2026 amended 27 V.S.A. § 544 so the condominium patio-railing carve-out no longer covers plug-in photovoltaic devices — the one place Vermont's solar statute had always given associations a free hand.
Read the full updateSouth Dakota's ESA documentation bill died after a 6-6 tie
HB 1231 would have required assistance-animal documentation to be under a year old, from a provider with a genuine treatment relationship, on letterhead — it deadlocked 6-6 in committee and was tabled five days later.
Read the full updateWyoming’s new mortgage modification act carves association liens out by name
Chapter 6 of the 2026 session laws protects a modified mortgage's priority — and its definition of “mortgage” expressly excludes any instrument securing a unit owner's association dues, fees or assessments.
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