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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Indiana bars HOAs from charging twice for what dues already buy
A new subsection of IC 32-25.5-3-3 lists the services an association may not bill separately, protects genuinely optional services, and stops a board reclassifying a covered service without a member vote.
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Kansas bill to void solar bans in covenants died in committee
SB 144 would have declared every Kansas restrictive covenant limiting rooftop solar void and unenforceable. It sat in a Senate committee for almost two years, got one hearing in January 2026, and never received a vote.
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Kentucky filed two short-term rental bills pointing in opposite directions — neither got a committee
SB 54 would have confirmed local governments' power to regulate short-term rentals; SB 112 would have stripped most of it. Both died in Committee on Committees without a referral, leaving Kentucky with no statewide short-term rental law at all.
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A bill capping association transfer fees at documented cost died unheard
SB 2878 would have barred any transfer fee that produces a profit, required documentation for anything above $350, and forced itemised disclosure of closing withholdings ten days before closing.
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Massachusetts nonconforming condo buildings can now be altered as of right
Chapter 137 of the Acts of 2026 rewrote G.L. c. 40A so that structures nonconforming on lot size, frontage, coverage or FAR may be extended without a special permit granting authority finding.
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Oak Park's new code makes every elevator modernization a compliance event
Ordinance 25-169 adopted the 2024 International Existing Building Code effective January 1, 2026, with a local amendment requiring altered elevator elements to meet current Illinois Elevator Safety Rules and IBC emergency-communication standards.
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Iowa's homestead credit became an exemption — and condo owners qualify
SF 2472 replaces the homestead credit with a 10%-of-taxable-value exemption capped at $20,000 from assessment year 2026, and Iowa's definition of "owner" already reaches holders of an interest in a horizontal property regime.
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A Georgia condo association won $98,650 from the neighbour whose runoff eroded its common areas
Red Oak Village sued the uphill parcel owner for continuing nuisance and trespass. The defendant never answered, and the Court of Appeals affirmed both the refusal to open default and the damages award.
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Three Colorado cities give owners three different answers about their HOA
Arvada tells owners a city permit does not overrule HOA approval. Denver says it does not regulate HOAs at all. Colorado Springs says an HOA may not unreasonably restrict an ADU. Only one document reconciles them.
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Insurer delay can rescue an association's late hurricane claim, the Fourth DCA held
Hypoluxo Mariner's Cay reversed a dismissal on limitations grounds where the insurer never issued the coverage determination that is a condition precedent to suit.
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Louisiana's once-a-year named-storm deductible stops at $20 million of insured value
R.S. 22:1267.1 makes a commercial named-storm deductible apply annually rather than per storm — except for policies with a total insured value of $20 million or more, and except for surplus-lines placements. It was not amended in 2025 or 2026.
Read the full updateA house rule saying “tile or hard wood” does not clearly reach vinyl plank
The ICA vacated summary judgment for an association because its flooring and soundproofing rule never defined its own terms — and separately held an owner has no fiduciary-duty claim against the association entity.
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An Alabama justice asks whether “relative hardship” is really a defense at all
The Supreme Court of Alabama affirmed an injunction against a River Pointe lot owner whose willful misconduct barred the relative-hardship test, while Justice Parker wrote separately to question who should carry the burden on it.
Read the full updateThe Illinois Receivership Act excludes most of the condominium stock it is said to cover
Public Act 104-0034 created a modern receivership code effective January 1, 2026 — but Section 4(b) exempts residential real estate as defined in the Mortgage Foreclosure Law, which is the carve-out most summaries omit.
Read the full updateThe DPU cut $500 million from the plan that funds condo weatherization
Massachusetts utilities proposed over $4.99 billion in efficiency and decarbonization spending for 2025 to 2027. The Department of Public Utilities approved the plans with a roughly $500 million reduction.
Read the full updateGeorgia's HOA registry opens in January and the rules are not written
O.C.G.A. § 43-17A-9 directs the Secretary of State to adopt implementing rules and sets no deadline. With under four months to go there is no published form, no portal date and no filing deadline for existing associations.
Read the full updateKansas stripped cities of fence authority and said in the statute that an HOA is not a city
HB 2603 bars Kansas municipalities from regulating battery-charged security fences, and defines \u201cmunicipality\u201d to exclude \u201ca homeowners or similar private, nongovernmental association\u201d — a rare express legislative statement on where association authority sits.
Read the full updateColorado's lot-splitting bill exempted existing HOA communities — then died 6-0
HB26-1308 would have forced larger Colorado jurisdictions to approve qualifying lot splits from December 31, 2027, but excluded lots in any common interest community created on or before that date. It passed the House 39-0 and was killed unanimously in Senate committee.
Read the full updateNo Indiana interim committee is studying HOAs this year
Legislative Council Resolution 26-01 assigned no homeowners association topic to any 2026 interim study committee — despite a widely recirculated claim to the contrary that is actually from 2024.
Read the full updateHawaii's electronic meeting and voting bills died again — three of them
HB 1679 would have clarified board authority over electronic meetings and mail voting and limited proxies to voting at a meeting; that proxy amendment drew the no votes, and the bill never reached a conference.
Read the full updateFive Illinois bills would have given a state agency power over boards; all five died
HB 5079, HB 5618, HB 5495, HB 4338 and SB 1820 would have let IDFPR, the Attorney General or the Ombudsperson investigate, adjudicate or penalise Illinois association boards. None got out of committee, and HB 5079 never got a hearing.
Read the full updateCamera speed enforcement on Louisiana private streets is now effectively barred
R.S. 32:43 and 32:47, as amended by Act 107 of 2025, confine automated speed enforcement to posted school zones, require a sworn or POST-certified operator, bar contractors from operating the devices, and provide that equipment off a public right-of-way is not authorised to use them at all.
Read the full updateFlorida's association audioconferencing bills died — video remains the only statutory remote option
SB 1744 and HB 1541 would have let community associations hold meetings and elections by audio conference and extended emergency powers to cover it. Neither was ever placed on a committee agenda.
Read the full update$51,709 in fees on $20,000 of unpaid assessments — the Court of Appeals sent it back
Blair v. Sanctuary Bluff upheld the association's lien and its right to foreclose, then vacated the fee award because no court had ever asked whether the fees were reasonable.
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