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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Arizona rewrites the HOA resale disclosure package
HB 2397 moves the clock to offer acceptance, allows electronic delivery, adds board minutes, reserve studies and open violations to the package, and narrows an association's liability to knowing or reckless failures.
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Kentucky will rebate storm safe rooms — but only if you open yours to the neighbourhood
SB 11 creates a residential safe room rebate, and its eligibility definition requires the shelter to be opened to the community during a weather emergency — a condition that runs straight into ordinary covenant language.
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Colorado is taxing homeowners insurers to pay for hail-resistant roofs — but not, clearly, HOA roofs
SB26-155 creates the Strengthen Colorado Homes Enterprise, funded by a 0.5% fee on homeowners insurers that may not be surcharged to policyholders, to grant homeowners money for resilient roofs — with association eligibility unresolved.
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Massachusetts condo solar: an owner's covenant is void, but the association's array needs 75 percent
Section 85 of Chapter 239 of the Acts of 2024 carved solar out of the association's energy-measure power and routed its installation to c. 183A section 18, the improvements supermajority.
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Indiana panel: trial court cannot cut an association's fees without a hearing
Treyburn Lakes reversed a foreclosure decree that omitted three prior unpaid attorney-fee judgments and slashed the association's current fee request by 75 percent with no evidence taken.
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Assistance-animal claims against a Hawaii association run out in two years
Camacho v. AOAO Ke Nani Kai dismissed FHA and HRS chapter 515 claims as time-barred on the pleadings, and confirmed that without a request there is no accommodation claim at all.
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Kansas appellate courts issued one HOA opinion in two years
A page-by-page sweep of Kansas Court of Appeals and Supreme Court advance sheets from late 2024 through mid-2026 turns up a single community association decision — and nothing at all on covenant enforcement, assessment liens or architectural control.
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Five years after Surfside, Georgia still has no condo safety or reserve law
A full-text search of the Georgia General Assembly's own 2025-2026 status report returns no bill on reserve studies, structural inspections, building safety, manager licensing, the statute of repose or short-term rental preemption.
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Seventh Circuit upholds a neutral flag policy against a Fair Housing Act challenge
In Farhan v. 2715 NMA LLC the Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of national-origin claims over a housing neutrality policy barring conflict-related flags, in a decision binding in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Judge Jackson-Akiwumi dissented.
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A claim payment no longer buys a Louisiana association more time to sue
The Louisiana Supreme Court held in March 2026 that an unconditional payment interrupts prescription on a first-party property claim. Ninety-five days later the Legislature reversed it — and the replacement written-notice protection reaches only homeowners policies, not association master policies.
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Iowa's real estate rules widened what unlicensed staff may do — and no rule reaches HOA managers
ARC 9247C lets unlicensed brokerage employees collect rents and deposits from June 18, 2025. It is the closest Iowa administrative law comes to community association management, and it does not come close.
Read the full updateA Colorado HOA now needs 65% of allocated votes to sue over construction defects
HB25-1272 raised the CCIOA owner-approval threshold for an association construction defect action from a majority to at least 65% of allocated votes, and requires net recoveries to be spent on the repair first.
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Alabama reorganised the chapter that catches unincorporated neighbourhood associations
Act 2026-325 creates a decentralized unincorporated nonprofit association form using distributed ledger technology, and in doing so restructures Chapter 17 of Title 10A — the default law for an Alabama association that never incorporated.
Read the full update$67,280 in fees to collect $11,498 is not disproportionate enough to reverse
The ICA affirmed a planned community association's full fee award because HRS 421J-10 entitles it to “all” reasonable attorneys' fees — proportionality alone is not a defense.
Read the full updateAn Illinois bill would have turned reserves into a payout fund for board negligence; it died
SB 1914 would have required a portion of Illinois condominium reserves to be designated to cover an owner's loss-of-use expenses where board negligence caused the loss and the owner lacked Category D coverage.
Read the full updateAppeals Court: trustees cannot bill one owner for 100 percent of the case they lost
In a Rule 23.0 decision the Appeals Court held c. 183A section 6 bars assessing an owner beyond their percentage interest absent misconduct, and awarded fees and double costs against the trustees.
Read the full updateA Buckhead condo's generator case: toxic-tort claim dies, duty-to-maintain claim survives
Ovation Condominium Association escaped the personal-injury claim on specific causation — but not the breach-of-declaration claim, because it could produce maintenance records for only four years.
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Florida's first statewide milestone data: 54 buildings called unsafe, and most were not vacated
OPPAGA Report 26-04 covers 2024 and 2025 milestone inspections. A quarter of required phase one inspections were never completed, and the report says most buildings found unsafe or uninhabitable stayed occupied.
Read the full updateIf your master policy leaves Citizens, your producer approves it — not your board
Louisiana Citizens ran depopulation Round 23 to an April 1, 2026 assumption date on a fixed calendar the policyholder does not control, and under R.S. 22:1474 the assuming insurer must secure the approval of the producer of record — not the insured.
Read the full updateKansas HOA board members no longer file with FinCEN. The data is being deleted
A FinCEN final rule issued August 11, 2026 and effective on publication permanently exempts domestic reporting companies from beneficial ownership reporting — ending the Corporate Transparency Act obligation that had swept in volunteer association directors.
Read the full updateThe legislature's answer to the REO rent question died without a meeting
SB 2765 would have let a foreclosing association keep rent collected before a commissioner is appointed — the exact question two 2026 appellate decisions have now answered without it.
Read the full updateFrom January 2027, Colorado covenants banning plug-in solar are void
HB26-1007 makes a portable-scale solar device an energy efficiency measure under CCIOA and voids covenants that unreasonably prohibit one, including on a balcony or patio that is a limited common element.
Read the full updateIllinois condo and co-op boards get a statutory right to whole-building electric data
The new Utility Data Access Act in Public Act 104-0458 names condominium and cooperative boards as data recipients entitled to aggregated usage data, and extends the EV charging rebate program — up to 80% of installation cost — to January 1, 2029.
Read the full updateIndiana HOAs may no longer bar child care from a single-family home
New IC 32-25.5-3.9 stops associations restricting child care in detached single-family residences, with an exemption for qualifying age-restricted communities and an applicability clause keyed to document dates.
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