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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Hawaii Act 34 bars using a condominium regime to split off farm employee housing
The Act legalizes farm employee housing on agricultural land at up to 800 square feet per unit, then forbids the fee owner from submitting any of it to a chapter 514B condominium property regime.
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Florida's My Safe Florida Condominium expansion passed the Senate 37-0 — and died in House Messages
CS/SB 1706 would have loosened eligibility for the condominium hurricane-hardening grant program, including for mixed-income buildings. The House never took it up.
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Indiana HOAs may not operate licence plate readers
New IC 32-25.5-3.8 bars an association from installing, maintaining or operating an automated licence plate reader, and from permitting one on association property unless law enforcement installs it and controls the data.
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Colorado's Supreme Court backed an HOA fighting condemnation of its private roads
In 2026 CO 54, decided June 23, 2026, the court held a trial court has discretion to order discovery before an immediate-possession hearing in an eminent domain case — and erred by believing it had no authority to do so.
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Georgia enacts its first HOA oversight law: SB 406 becomes Act 715
Governor Kemp signed the Georgia Property Owners' Bill of Rights Act on 12 May 2026, creating a new O.C.G.A. Chapter 43-17A and putting community associations under the Secretary of State for the first time in state history.
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Kentucky churches can now build affordable housing without a zoning fight — covenants are another matter
HB 333 makes affordable housing developed by a religious institution a permitted use subject only to ministerial review, effective 15 July 2026 — and it preempts zoning, not recorded restrictions.
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SJC opens a route around the six-year construction repose, and it runs through indemnity clauses
Trustees of Boston University v. Clough, Harbour held that G.L. c. 260 section 2B applies only to actions of tort, so an express contractual indemnification claim survives past six years.
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Iowa SF 2369 rewrites the ADU size math and adds a historic-district gate
The 2026 clean-up bill shrinks the number an ADU is measured against, excludes unfinished basements, confines the mandate to single-family zoning districts, and re-enacts the association carve-out unchanged.
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The Illinois Supreme Court will decide whether sellers can sue over condo disclosure fees
The court allowed a petition for leave to appeal in Greenswag v. Lieberman Management Services on September 24, 2025 and has not ruled. Everything settled about Channon foreclosing seller claims over Section 22.1 fees is now provisional.
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Kansas eviction records can now be erased, and the condo line is where it stops
Substitute for HB 2357 creates a free electronic expungement for eviction judgments after three years and requires courts to consider mediation, but only where the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act governs — which excludes a condominium owner's own occupancy.
Read the full updateHawaii's new reserve rules put a formula and a 30-year floor in the code
HAR 16-119.6 defines “full replacement reserve” by formula, sets a $1,000 / 0.1 percent exemption threshold, bars counting borrowed money as reserves, and forbids back-loading a cash flow plan.
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Louisiana HOA members now have a statutory records right, with seven grounds to refuse
R.S. 9:1141.36 gives lot owners, their agents and buyers under contract a right to examine eleven categories of association records, and gives the association seven enumerated grounds for withholding.
Read the full updateGeorgia will dictate how HOA payments are applied — dues first, fines last
New O.C.G.A. § 43-17A-8 reverses the payment-application clause in most Georgia declarations, bans accelerated assessments outright, and forbids refusing a partial payment.
Read the full updateColorado HB26-1099 makes developers pay for a 30-year reserve study before turnover
A new CCIOA section requires the declarant of a Colorado planned community or condominium to commission and pay for an independent 30-year reserve study before control passes to the association, effective August 12, 2026.
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Alabama abolishes member derivative suits against nonprofits — and gives associations a new ground to refuse records
Act 2026-495 took effect August 1, 2026, adding Ala. Code § 10A-3A-6.14 to bar member derivative actions outright and letting a membership nonprofit deny records to a member who misused information within the past two years.
Read the full updateRecurring sewage backups did not restart the Illinois five-year clock
In Narkiewicz-Laine v. Thorndale Beach North Condominium Association the First District held claims accrued at the first incident, not the latest, and that Section 13-207 did not revive them because they were already barred when the association sued.
Read the full updateA Massachusetts association must permit an accessibility modification. It does not have to pay for it
Geezil v. White Cliffs Condominium Four Association held an association is not an owner under c. 151B section 4(7A), overturning the position MCAD had taken since 2010.
Read the full updateFlorida's bills forcing larger associations to hire professional managers both died — one on the House calendar
HB 465 cleared every committee and then expired on the Second Reading Calendar without a floor vote. Its Senate counterpart, SB 822, died in Judiciary. Self-managed associations were not forced to change.
Read the full updateHawaii's condo repair loan program launched in May and is now on hold
The $20 million HGIA Condominium Association Loan Program opened on May 11, 2026 at 7 percent for 20 years; its program page now carries a hold notice, with the June 30, 2027 commitment deadline approaching.
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A $7,463 debt, a $20,100 house, and no way to undo the sale
Division Two held that A.R.S. § 33-1807 implicitly abrogates the common-law power to set aside an HOA assessment-lien foreclosure sale for a grossly inadequate price. A petition for review is pending.
Read the full update$50,000 in sanctions against an Illinois association's lawyer were vacated on a filing technicality
In Goodman Chicago Condos v. Atrium Court Village Home Condominiums the First District vacated Rule 137 sanctions imposed after a finding that association counsel fabricated an email — because the brief containing it was never filed with the clerk.
Read the full updateFiling a state complaint will freeze a Georgia HOA's fine collection
New O.C.G.A. § 43-17A-5 lets any resident complain to the Secretary of State within 180 days — and the filing itself is an automatic stay on collecting the disputed fines and fees.
Read the full updateA Colorado metro district lost its claim against its own former directors for missing a notice
In 2025 COA 52 the Court of Appeals held that the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act's notice-of-claim requirement applies even when a public entity sues its own employees — and failure to give it bars the claim forever.
Read the full updateLouisiana has an estoppel statute now: ten business days, and it binds the association
R.S. 9:1145(D) requires a Louisiana condominium or planned-community association to furnish a statement of unpaid assessments within ten business days of a request made in a record, and makes that statement binding on the association.
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