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 Citizens emergency assessment came off every Louisiana policy — including yours
Louisiana Citizens ended its 1.36% emergency assessment on all residential and commercial property policies effective April 1, 2025, fifteen months ahead of schedule. Any board still budgeting the line as a percentage of master-policy premium is budgeting a zero.
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Illinois objectors who skipped the Section 15 process lost their case on causation
In Kai v. Board of Directors of Spring Hill Building 6 the Third District held board members owe fiduciary duties in a Section 15 bulk sale, then affirmed judgment for them because the plaintiff voted no and never perfected her statutory objection and appraisal rights.
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A bill to abolish proxy voting in Hawaii board elections died without a hearing
SB 2837 would have repealed board-election proxies, changed quorum rules and given the Real Estate Commission power over election violations; a separate proxy-form disclosure bill passed the Senate 25–0 and died in the House.
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A second Kansas solar bill was written to answer the objections. It never got a hearing
HB 2669 would have barred unit owners associations from blocking rooftop solar while expressly exempting common and limited common elements, and would have been folded into KUCIOBORA. The House Local Government committee never took it up.
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Kentucky nearly doubled the auctioneer's cut of a foreclosure sale — and association liens sit behind it
HB 566 raised the auctioneer fee ceiling on foreclosure sales of real property from 6% to 10% of the sale price and added a five-business-day deadline for recording the commissioner's deed, both effective 15 July 2026.
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Iowa's townhome sprinkler bill passed the Senate and died in a House committee
SF 2439 would have barred any sprinkler requirement for attached single-family residences totalling 18,000 square feet or less — the exact stock that ends up under Iowa condominium and planned-community declarations.
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Indiana HOAs are out of beneficial-ownership reporting for good
A FinCEN final rule effective 14 August 2026 limits beneficial-ownership reporting to foreign-formed entities, and the trade-association lawsuit that pushed for the exemption was dismissed on 9 September.
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Massachusetts voids insurance clauses that bar an association from hiring a public adjuster
Chapter 187 of the Acts of 2026, approved 7 August 2026, makes any policy provision conditioning recovery on not retaining a public insurance adjuster unenforceable, and an unfair claim settlement practice.
Read the full updateAn Illinois trial court cut an association's fees without saying why; that was an abuse of discretion
In Beverly Glen Homeowners' Association v. Jagiello the Third District affirmed a $10,100 contempt fine but reversed the unexplained refusal to award post-trial attorney fees, remanding with directions to award post-trial and appellate fees.
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Both Colorado bills to hold contractors accountable failed — one on the House floor, one 13-0
HB26-1245 would have made diverting a construction advance payment a theft offence and lost 27-37 on House third reading. HB26-1415 would have created a voluntary state contractor certification and was killed 13-0 in committee.
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Lose an ADA website suit against a Georgia HOA and you owe $10,000 — possibly trebled
New O.C.G.A. § 51-1-58, effective 1 July 2026, lets a Georgia defendant recover statutory damages and fees from an unsuccessful website-accessibility claimant and their attorney — but only if it sends a warning letter first.
Read the full updateMaui created hotel districts, then moved to rezone 26 named condominiums into them
Bill 88 established H-3 and H-4 districts in June 2026; follow-on resolutions would move 26 specific West Maui and Kihei properties out of the vacation-rental phase-out, using sea-level-rise exposure as the rationale.
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Arizona writes a duty to act reasonably into HOA law
HB 4011 adds a statutory duty for condominium and planned community associations to exercise discretionary powers neutrally, fairly, without favoritism and in a nonarbitrary fashion, effective September 12, 2026.
Read the full updateLouisiana is on the 2021 I-Codes today and has proposed the 2024 editions for January 2027
A newly renamed code commission has noticed a wholesale repeal and replacement of the state construction code to adopt the 2024 I-Codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code. Act 881 of 2026 also repealed the council's old enabling statutes outright, so every citation to R.S. 40:1730.21 et seq. is now dead.
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Eleventh Circuit: discrimination by an HOA against an existing homeowner violates the Fair Housing Act
Watts v. Joggers Run reversed a dismissal and held that selective citations, amenity restrictions and harassment stated plausible claims under the FHA and the Civil Rights Act. It binds Florida.
Read the full updateChicago legalised ADUs citywide; your declaration may still say no
An amendment to Section 17-7 of the Chicago Zoning Ordinance effective April 1, 2026 permits coach houses and conversion units across most of the city — but it is zoning permission, and an association's governing documents may still restrict them.
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Two Alabama legislative sessions passed without amending a word of HOA or condominium law
Across the 2025 and 2026 Regular Sessions, no enacted Alabama act touched the Homeowners' Association Act, the Uniform Condominium Act, or the Condominium Ownership Act — and the 2025 session produced no association bills at all.
Read the full updateA Kansas bill that would have overridden home-business covenants died one floor vote short
HB 2343, the No-Impact Home-Based Business Fairness Act, passed the House and cleared a second Senate committee on March 16, 2026 before dying without a Senate floor vote — with an HOA carve-out already written into it.
Read the full updateThe state is testing whether to extend the condo hurricane fund to houses
Two hurricane data calls in eight months, and the April 2026 one says in terms that its purpose is to determine whether the Hurricane Relief Fund could do for single-family coverage what it did for condominiums.
Read the full updateA Colorado POA's false $15.5 million assessment demand cost it its insurance entirely
The Tenth Circuit held on February 24, 2025 that a CGL knowledge-of-falsity exclusion defeated both defense and indemnity for The Peaks Owners Association, after directors testified they knew the demand ignored payments already made.
Read the full updateGeorgia's 2025 tort law names HOA directors as defendants — and then makes them much harder to sue
SB 68 created a new Article 5 of Title 51 governing premises-liability claims for third-party crime. Its definition of “owner or occupier” expressly includes any director, officer, employee or agent.
Read the full updateA Massachusetts condo manager licensing bill gets its hearing today, six weeks after the deadline to pass it
H.5516 would license condominium managers with an exam and $250,000 in E&O coverage, and require board member training within 90 days. Its hearing is 10 September 2026, written testimony only.
Read the full updateAn Illinois board's emergency order to enter a unit for mold testing was reversed in two weeks
In Board of Directors of 50 East Bellevue Condominium Association v. Quaid the First District reversed a TRO compelling access, holding it was a mandatory injunction that did not preserve the status quo and granted the ultimate relief sought.
Read the full updateLouisiana HOA budgets now go to the owners for ratification
R.S. 9:1141.34 requires associations of more than twenty-five lots to put the budget to a ratification vote, keeps the last ratified budget in force if the vote fails, and lets two-thirds of the directors present impose an emergency special assessment immediately.
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