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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A local TV investigation produced Georgia's HOA law, and lawmakers said so on the floor
Atlanta News First's “HOA Nightmares” series ran from 2025 into the session. Rep. Rey Martinez thanked the reporter by name when presenting SB 406; another legislator said the series “put a lot of heat in this house.”
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Alabama's new title-fraud law reaches recorded liens — and will put HOA filings in front of owners
Act 2026-536, effective October 1, 2026, creates a probate procedure for nullifying false recorded instruments and authorises free county services that alert owners whenever a document is recorded against their property.
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All 105 Kansas counties are under a drought declaration. Check your turf covenant
Governor Kelly's April 30, 2026 proclamation placed 51 Kansas counties in drought watch, 47 in warning and 7 in emergency — covering every county in the state and putting municipal watering limits on a collision course with lawn-maintenance covenants.
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Louisiana has no milestone inspection and no reserve mandate, and nothing was filed to create one
Five years of post-Surfside legislating elsewhere produced no Louisiana analogue. Established positively: the word “condominium” appears zero times in the entire 2025 Louisiana Register, no such bill was filed in 2025 or 2026, and the Condominium Act carries no 2025 or 2026 amendment at all.
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Three Arizona HOA rules are circulating as law. None of them passed
Bills on drought overseeding, board action by written consent, and dog breed restrictions are being reported as enacted. The legislature's own records show all three died, and the September 12 effective date makes the confusion costly.
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Healey signed a single-stair executive order. The bill on the same subject never reported
Executive Order 651 created a technical advisory group on single-stair multifamily buildings above three storeys, with a report due within 12 months. It mandates no code change.
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Indiana orders a 60-day cancellation moratorium after the August derecho
Bulletin 280 suspends policy cancellations and late-payment penalties statewide for policyholders hit by the 11 August storms, running to mid-October and applied retroactively to 10 August.
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An HOA that sued instead of arbitrating lost its claims — then filed for bankruptcy to handle the judgment
The Eleventh Circuit's decision in Guan v. Ellingsworth records an association waiving its own claims by suing rather than arbitrating, and then using subchapter V reorganisation against the homeowner's fee award.
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Ground-floor owners help pay to waterproof the lanais above them
Frost holds that where a declaration includes only “lanai and atrium air space” in the apartment, the slab beneath an upper lanai is a common element and waterproofing it is a common expense.
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Chicago associations can no longer ban composting outright
An ordinance adopted October 16, 2025 bars Chicago property managers, building owners and community associations from imposing blanket prohibitions on resident composting where the container meets city standards.
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Idaho insurance regulator widens its wildfire data call to almost every property carrier
Bulletin No. 26-02, issued 30 April 2026, drops the reporting threshold to $50,000 in Idaho premium and gathers four years of exposure and claims data — the evidence base behind a market that has tightened sharply.
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The tax amendment on Iowa's November ballot does not touch property tax
SJR 11 asks Iowa voters to require a two-thirds vote for income tax increases — and expressly exempts taxes imposed at the option of a local government, which is where an association member's property tax bill comes from.
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A Colorado HOA fought an affordable-housing project and now faces an abuse-of-process claim
A federal court in Colorado held on January 28, 2026 that a homeowners association's land-use litigation was objectively baseless, so the sham exception to petition immunity applied — letting abuse-of-process and tortious-interference claims proceed.
Read the full updateGeorgia bill to abolish HOA foreclosure cleared committee, then was never called
HB 1035 would have made unpaid association assessments unsecured debts. It was favourably reported on 26 February 2026 with eight days to Crossover Day, and House Rules never put it on a calendar.
Read the full updateUniform covenant enforcement defeated a religious-discrimination charge against an Illinois HOA
In two companion decisions the First District upheld the Human Rights Commission's dismissal of charges by owners who housed asylum seekers and missionaries, finding a complete lack of evidence of discriminatory terms or harassment based on religion.
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Kentucky's Planned Community Act is three years old and no appellate court has ever construed it
A sweep of Kentucky appellate decisions from 2025 and 2026 finds no case interpreting the Planned Community Act, the Kentucky Condominium Act, or the Horizontal Property Law — every community-association dispute is still being decided as contract law.
Read the full updateNew Oahu flood maps moved 3,500 parcels — and opened a one-year discount window
FEMA's revised Oahu maps took effect June 10, 2026; a newly mapped primary residence can claim 70 percent off the first $35,000 of building coverage, but only until June 10, 2027.
Read the full updateLouisiana's construction code already requires state plan review for an accessory dwelling unit
The residential code defines an accessory dwelling unit and requires plan review and inspection by a registered state inspector — a duty in force since March 2024 and republished in a June 2026 emergency rule that also pulled IBHS Fortified drip-edge requirements into the code.
Read the full updateMassachusetts condo days on market rose 23.7 percent in four months, and prices slipped
MLS PIN data showed average days on market for Massachusetts condominiums reaching 73 days by mid-September 2025, with the median sale price down 3.2 percent year over year to $600,000.
Read the full update156,000 Kansans live under covenants. Their Legislature passed nothing about it
The Community Associations Institute's Kansas end-of-session report counts nearly 2,000 community associations covering 62,100 homes, and records both of the session's HOA bills as dead.
Read the full updateColorado told HOAs the FAIR Plan may not fit — and barred the obvious workaround
The state's own HOA advisory sets out the FAIR Plan's $5 million commercial cap, actual-cash-value basis, limited perils and 100-foot single-building definition — and says governing documents cannot be altered to subdivide a community to qualify.
Read the full updateFlorida's HOA ombudsman bill died without a hearing — and so did the fee that would have paid for it
SB 906 would have created an Office of the Homeowners' Association Ombudsman with a toll-free hotline. Neither it nor SB 908, the per-parcel fee that would have funded it, was ever placed on a committee agenda.
Read the full updateGeorgia's new HOA attorney-fee rule has been in force since 1 July 2026
Section 7 of SB 406 took effect two months ago: no property owners' association may collect or be awarded attorney's fees without certified-mail notice, a 30-day window and an itemised list — and a judge must find the fees reasonable first. Condominiums are outside it.
Read the full updateAn Illinois developer used a scrivener's-error clause to claim the air rights; the court voided it
In River North Partners Holdings v. Museum of Broadcast Communications the First District affirmed voiding a unilateral special amendment that converted an exclusive right to build a rooftop deck into ownership of the building's entire air rights.
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