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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Your Vermont renewal increase sat with the regulator first
Act 23 of 2025 moved Vermont property and casualty rates from “use and file” to “file and use” on July 1, 2025. Every rate change must now be filed 30 days before it can take effect.
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Tennessee will require HOA fidelity bonds from January 1
Public Chapter 731 obliges every Tennessee association that collects assessments to carry a blanket fidelity bond covering theft by its own officers, employees and managing agent, with coverage set by a statutory formula and a $10,000 floor.
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Two sessions, 1,237 bills, and not one about how your HOA works
A sweep of every bill of the 2025 and 2026 South Dakota sessions found no proposal for a general HOA act, board-election rules, records rights, fine caps, lien limits or reserve requirements — not enacted, and not introduced.
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Wyoming changed one adverb in the liability shield for unincorporated associations
Chapter 25 of the 2026 session laws replaced “merely” with “solely” in all three subsections of W.S. § 17-22-106, the provision that protects members of Wyoming's unincorporated nonprofit associations from the association's debts and torts.
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South Carolina's entire Surfside response was a bill to create a study committee, and it sat in committee for 20 months
H. 3235 would have created a Coastal Structural Stability Study Committee to examine inspection of coastal buildings six floors and above. It was never acted on, and by its terms would not have reached residential condominiums.
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The Utah House HOA bill that never got a vote
H.B. 406 would have capped the administrative setup fee at $200. Its enacting clause was struck at the close of the 2026 session and most of its content passed in S.B. 122 instead — without the cap.
Read the full updateA lot labelled “Community Property” is not the owner’s alone
A Killington subdivision’s unnumbered amenity parcel carries an implied general-plan right for residents — but Vermont’s free-use canon may keep that right narrow enough to allow development.
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Complaints to Virginia's HOA regulator rose 81 percent in a year
The Common Interest Community Ombudsman's annual report records 310 complaints against 171 the year before, 87 notices of final adverse decision, and a caseload heavily concentrated in Northern Virginia.
Read the full updateUSDA has no condo rules of its own, so Fannie Mae's reach rural South Dakota
USDA Rural Development's guaranteed loan handbook makes a condominium eligible only if HUD/FHA, VA, Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac has approved the project — so the 2026 GSE tightening flows straight through to USDA borrowers.
Read the full updateTeton County refunded a $24,325 housing fee and apologised, leaving the constitutional question open
A Pacific Legal Foundation takings suit over Teton County's workforce-housing mitigation fee ended in March 2026 with a refund, interest and a written apology — and no ruling on whether the fee is constitutional.
Read the full updateThe usual procedural excuse does not apply in South Carolina: the House removed its crossover deadline in 2025
House Rule 5.12's April 10 crossover deadline was replaced with '(Reserved.)' by H. 3815, adopted January 29, 2025. The HOA study committee that might have supplied a record has not met since 2015.
Read the full updateA duty to plow is not a duty to hold up a bridge
Stratton tried to hand three bridges to a 36-unit homeowners association. The court held a declaration obliging the association to pave, plow and sand says nothing about structural bridge maintenance.
Read the full updateUtah adds a nine-month wait before a condo defect suit
S.B. 201 requires a condominium owner to give the developer written notice of a construction defect and wait nine months for repairs before bringing an action.
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Texas added the electronic ballot to the list of HOA voting methods
SB 2629 amended Property Code § 209.00592(a-1) to add the electronic ballot alongside the absentee ballot and the proxy, and wrote remote-meeting authority into both the condominium and the property owners' association chapters.
Read the full updateA Horry County condo association won $6.75 million from its builder, and the Court of Appeals let every part of it stand
Wedgewood Condominium Association v. Centex Homes, published September 24, 2025, addresses when a South Carolina association's construction-defect clock starts and when the statute of repose can be defeated.
Read the full updateVirginia gives renters a plug-in solar right owners never got
A new Landlord and Tenant Act section bars larger Virginia landlords from prohibiting plug-in solar on a tenant's premises — a protection no owner in a covenanted community received.
Read the full updateA 45-day clock now runs on county rezoning petitions
SB 91 gave county comprehensive-plan and zoning petitions an enforceable timetable and a mandatory two-hearing path, and SB 237 requires written notice to township supervisors before a conditional use hearing.
Read the full updateHUD stopped charging untrained support-animal cases, and Wyoming has no state backstop
A May 22, 2026 FHEO memorandum limits reasonable-cause findings to animals individually trained for disability-related work; Wyoming's 2015 Fair Housing Act has never been certified or assigned to any state agency, so complaints go to HUD Denver.
Read the full updateTennessee exempts club-membership fees from its transfer fee ban
Public Chapter 727 adds a new exception to the Prohibition of Covenants Providing for Transfer Fees Act of 2011, placing fees charged to buy, reissue or transfer a club membership tied to the property outside the statutory ban.
Read the full updateVermont's HOA governance chapter has not changed since 2013
Assessments, liens, fines, records, meetings and budgets sit in Chapter 3 of Title 27A. Apart from the new charger section, none of it has been amended in thirteen years.
Read the full updateConsumer Affairs asked for mandatory HOA dispute resolution. The bill carrying it never got a vote
H. 3350 would have required every South Carolina association to run a free internal dispute-resolution process and given magistrates court jurisdiction over homeowner-association disputes. It died in House Labor, Commerce and Industry.
Read the full updateFinCEN named homeowners associations, and said they need no exemption
The August 2026 final rule makes permanent the removal of domestic entities from beneficial ownership reporting — and the preamble addresses HOAs by name, explaining why a separate carve-out was unnecessary.
Read the full updateUtah caps reinvestment fees and sends half to reserves
H.B. 306 set a 0.5% ceiling on reinvestment fees, a 0.25% ceiling for associations of detached single-family homes with no capital-intensive infrastructure, and required at least half of what is collected to go into reserve funds.
Read the full updateWyoming’s $1-an-acre homestead bill would have sold state land subject to strict covenants
HB0055 would have disposed of state land by lottery in clusters of 300 to 1,000 ten-acre lots, owner-occupants only, businesses barred, with reversion — and the bill's own findings named covenants as the enforcement mechanism.
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