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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Proposed: a condominium renewal statute Hawaii does not have
A commentary argues Hawaii's aging-tower problem is legal rather than physical — owners facing ruinous assessments have no statutory route to approve collective redevelopment, so buildings decay instead.
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Louisiana's condominium insurance floor is 80% of actual cash value, and it did not move
R.S. 9:1123.112 was last amended in 2019 and carries no 2025 or 2026 change. It sets a statutory minimum measured after deductibles, requires notice to owners if coverage lapses, and makes repair cost above insurance proceeds and reserves a common expense.
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Iowa's new lead service line disclosure lands on condo boards, not just sellers
Since January 1, 2026, Iowa sellers must disclose lead service lines — but in a condominium the pipe runs through common elements the seller cannot inspect, so the question arrives at the association.
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Your lot can be bound by two sets of covenants at once, a Kentucky panel confirmed
Panaretos v. Villas at Claymont Springs holds that a sub-developer who carves out and re-subdivides part of a covenanted parent tract may record its own additional restrictions — enforced here by permanent injunction over garbage cans.
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Georgia's first HOA registration bill sat in Senate Rules for twelve months
SB 361 proposed Secretary of State registration and a $4,000 foreclosure threshold in March 2025. It was referred to Rules two days later and never moved again — and its author took public responsibility for the delay.
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An Illinois aging-in-place bill would have written a renovation right into association law; it stalled
SB 1683 would have barred Illinois associations from prohibiting reasonable renovations accommodating a resident's health condition or disability. It was re-referred to Assignments, leaving the question to federal and state fair-housing law.
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Both Massachusetts sprinkler bills stalled, one of them eight days from the deadline
H.2586 would have required retrofit sprinklers in pre-1975 high rises and was sent to study. H.2644, clarifying sprinkler standards for rehabilitated buildings, passed the House on 23 July 2026 and got no Senate action.
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Kansas condos need 15% of assessment income in reserves by January
Fannie Mae raises the replacement reserve allocation from 10 to 15 percent of annual budgeted assessment income for loan applications dated on or after January 4, 2027, and stops accepting reserve studies built on the baseline funding method.
Read the full updateA court cannot rewrite an arbitrator's conclusions of law
The ICA vacated a circuit court order that replaced an arbitrator's Penney unanimity analysis with chapter 514B's 67 percent threshold — and pointedly did not hold that Penney is dead.
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Aurora's council refused to update its ADU code — which did not repeal the state statute
Aurora's city council voted 6-2 on June 9, 2025 to turn back the ADU and parking alignment ordinances the state required by June 30, 2025. The city's own attorney told council it must abide by the mandates regardless.
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Florida rewrote the nonprofit corporation act — and the standard your board is judged by went with it
Chapter 2026-168 renamed and rewrote Chapter 617 across 190 sections, substantially rewording the director standard of care and expanding the personal-liability shield. It took effect on 1 July 2026.
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Seven Arizona HOA laws take effect Saturday
Arizona's 2026 session adjourned June 13, which puts the general effective date at September 12. Seven community association acts land that day, with no emergency clause and no delayed date among them.
Read the full updateBeing evicted does not moot an Illinois owner's appeal — but no transcript does
In 832 Oakdale Condominium Association v. McBride the First District rejected mootness because association possession is temporary and the owner remains a unit owner, then affirmed because the appellant supplied no transcripts.
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An Ono Island POA lost a dredged island to the 20-year rule of repose
F Family South, LLC v. Property Owners Association of Ono Island holds that Alabama's 20-year rule of repose bars a POA's tax-redemption claim over a parcel sold in 1995, notwithstanding the no-time-limit rule for owners in possession.
Read the full updateYou cannot benchmark your master policy against the Citizens rate in the news
Citizens publishes a statewide percentage for personal lines — 3.1% for 2026 — and no percentage at all for the commercial book that carries association master policies, which was re-based onto a different rating manual in November 2025.
Read the full updateGeorgia's HOA law switches on ten days before the legislature returns
Chapter 43-17A takes effect 1 January 2027 with no rules written. Pre-filing opens 15 November. The senator who wrote the law says it “scratches the surface” — but nobody has announced a 2027 bill.
Read the full updateLimited Review is gone, and a master policy deductible over $50,000 now blocks the loan
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac eliminated Limited Review for applications from 3 August 2026 and capped the master policy deductible at $50,000 per unit, pushing Massachusetts associations into full document production.
Read the full updateHawaii's portable plug-in solar bill for condos died in one House committee
SB 2902 would have defined portable solar generation devices for use inside chapter 514B units and required a PUC registration system; it passed the Senate 25–0 and was never heard in Consumer Protection.
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Indiana gave owners a right to a 20-foot flagpole
New IC 32-21-13.5 stops a property owners association prohibiting display of the US or Indiana flag, and preserves at least one front-yard flagpole up to twenty feet — reaching every governing document, whenever adopted.
Read the full updateBuild an ADU in Colorado Springs and you lose the short-term rental permit for the whole property
Ordinance 25-45, approved April 8, 2025, allows ADUs in every Colorado Springs zone that permits a detached house and, from June 30, 2025, prohibits properties with an ADU from holding a short-term rental permit.
Read the full updateAn Illinois court fee waiver does not shield an owner from the association's attorney fees
In 4310-4322 N. Clarendon Condominium Association v. Klein the First District held a Section 5-105 indigency waiver reaches only fees the court would charge, not fees awarded to an opposing party — upholding a $23,897 judgment.
Read the full updateWyandotte County's disaster runs to October 4, and an HOA loan deadline lands November 2
Kansas legislators extended the Wyandotte County storm disaster declaration to October 4, 2026, and the SBA declaration covering the same storm offers private non-profit organizations — which includes most community associations — 3.625 percent loans until November 2.
Read the full updateSB 406 lets a Georgia association opt out of the register entirely
Almost every summary calls registration mandatory. The enacted text creates a defined “nonregistered owners' association” that elects out by written notice — and the definition then carves it out of the whole chapter.
Read the full updateFlorida's condo flag protection covers a plain US flag — not a modified one, the regulator says
A declaratory statement on the petition of a unit owner at Ocean Pearl Condominium holds that s. 718.113(4) does not extend to a United States flag altered by additional symbolic elements.
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