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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Three missed months in eight lets a Louisiana HOA accelerate a year of assessments
R.S. 9:1141.32 makes assessments annual and budget-based, fixes personal liability on the owner during ownership, and sets an acceleration trigger of three or more missed months in any eight-month period after notice of delinquency.
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Massachusetts removed the registered-land shortcut from the condominium submission statute
Section 46 of the Affordable Homes Act struck and replaced c. 183A section 16. Recording a master deed over a part-registered parcel is no longer, by itself, grounds to withdraw the registered portion.
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Two 2026 omnibus acts edited chapter 514B and changed no duty
Act 3 restated the electronic-records subsection of HRS 514B-154.5 and Act 108 corrected a cross-reference in 514B-84 — both technical, but the citation practitioners use has changed.
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FinCEN permanently ends beneficial ownership reporting — Iowa HOA boards are out
The August 2026 final rule removes Corporate Transparency Act reporting for U.S. companies, ending two years of Iowa association directors being told their birthdates and ID images had to go to Treasury.
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Illinois is suing State Farm to see the data behind your neighbours' premiums
Attorney General Raoul sued in October 2025 on behalf of the Department of Insurance to compel State Farm to produce zip-code-level nationwide homeowners data. The case is undecided, and its outcome determines whether the new rate-review law has teeth.
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Assess or claim? A Georgia condo board's choice is now a certified class action
1280 West assessed owners $5,000–$7,000 each for balcony repairs without submitting a claim to its insurers. The Court of Appeals affirmed class certification on all seven grounds the association raised.
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Kansas voided city tenant-screening rules. Rental covenants were never in scope
SB 391, enacted over the Governor's veto, bars Kansas cities and counties from restricting how landlords screen tenants and nullifies any such ordinance adopted before July 1, 2026 — but it reaches only cities and counties.
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Florida's HOA dissolution bill passed the House 108-2 — then died in Senate Rules
HB 657 would have let homeowners terminate an HOA on a 50 percent petition and a two-thirds vote, subject to court approval. It cleared the House on March 5 and expired in Senate Rules eight days later.
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Reported: a Colorado Springs HOA took a $3.2 million deductible its documents capped at $10,000
Local reporting says the Soaring Eagles HOA bought a policy with a $3.2 million deductible after a 2024 hailstorm, levying about $21,000 per homeowner, with more than 50 mechanic's lien notices filed against individual properties.
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Indiana condos face a 15% reserve floor from January
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raised the minimum reserve allocation from 10% to 15% of budgeted assessment income for loan applications dated on or after 4 January 2027, and retired the mid-tier project review in August.
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Alabama's coastal insurance commission has a legislative menu, testimony, and no published report
HJR 291 created a joint interim commission to examine wind-insurance costs on coastal commercial and multifamily properties. A 2025 resolution listed what it should consider, including broadening the wind pool for commercial property. No report has appeared.
Read the full updateAn Illinois design manual cannot ban what the declaration permits
In Kubik v. Darien Club Owners Association the Third District held a design review committee's blanket fence prohibition conflicted with a declaration making fencing an improvement subject to approval. The Supreme Court denied leave to appeal.
Read the full updateA Hawaiian flag display bill passed the Senate 25–0 and died in one House committee
SB 2795 would have required cooperative, planned community and condominium associations to allow owners to display the Hawaiian flag, subject to reasonable time, place and manner restrictions.
Read the full updateNantucket legalized short-term rentals island-wide, and the Attorney General was asked to void the vote
A November 2025 Special Town Meeting restored zoning language recognising renting as a lawful principal use, 1,045 to 421. A December filing argues the vote violates the two-year bar in c. 40A section 5.
Read the full updateThree Louisiana local governments say in writing that their rental rules do not touch your covenants
St. Tammany's ordinance recites that nothing in it alters recorded restrictions or ratifies past violations; Lafayette's summary says its regulations do not supersede private covenants; and East Baton Rouge's own planning record says covenants can prohibit short-term rentals where zoning does not.
Read the full updateTwo Georgia insurance laws took effect in January — and neither reaches your master policy
SB 35 doubled homeowners' nonrenewal notice to 60 days; SB 201 banned assignment-of-benefits clauses in post-disaster contracts. Both are written around the individual homeowner, not the association.
Read the full updateAn Illinois bill would have given boards 60 days to answer a shared-roof solar request; it never left Rules
HB 5402 would have amended the Homeowners' Energy Policy Statement Act to govern solar on roofs serving more than one unit, requiring governing entities to cooperate and barring delay beyond 60 days. It died in committee, as did a townhouse carve-out.
Read the full updateAn HOA director's insurance defence vanished when one claim was dismissed
The Tenth Circuit affirmed that a Park Estates HOA director's liability defence was contingent on a fiduciary-duty claim, not on his status — so when the claimant dropped that count, the defence ended while he stayed a defendant for years.
Read the full updateHawaii presumes a public adjuster fee over 10 percent unreasonable on catastrophe claims
Commissioner's Memorandum 2026-6A, issued three weeks before Hurricane Lala, sets a bright-line presumption at 10 percent for catastrophe claims and 15 percent otherwise.
Read the full updateFlorida's new derivative-suit rules carry no association carve-out — and that may cost owners standing
Chapter 2026-168 created ss. 617.0741 and 617.0742, requiring a member to hold that status when suit is filed and to plead a verified 90-day demand. Unlike neighbouring sections, neither exempts community associations.
Read the full updateNo Kansas interim committee is studying HOA law before the 2027 session
The Kansas Legislature's 2026 interim calendar lists eleven joint committees, seven special or standing committees and four task forces. None of them has a charge touching homeowners associations or common interest communities.
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A Kentucky HOA amended its way past years of unenforced violations — and collected $28,368.67
In Roberts v. Ballard Woods, the Court of Appeals held that owners cannot defeat a validly adopted covenant amendment by pointing at non-compliance that predates it.
Read the full updateA Georgia property manager is indicted over roughly $600,000 in missing rent and HOA dues
A Gwinnett grand jury indicted Bravo Property Management's owner on eight felony counts. Complainants have filed at least 18 police reports and lawsuits across six Georgia counties.
Read the full updateMassachusetts condo ombudsman bill, funded by a $50 fee on every sale, died in Ways and Means
H.1523 would have created an Office of the Condominium Ombudsman in the Attorney General's office and a mediation pilot, paid for by a $50 fee on condominium sales. It cleared committee and stopped.
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