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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A bill letting Louisiana condo associations reach homestead equity passed 96-0 and 38-0. The Governor vetoed it
HB 343 of 2025 would have added unpaid and accelerated condominium assessments to the debts the homestead exemption does not shield. It cleared both chambers unanimously, was vetoed on June 23, 2025, and no veto session was held.
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Illinois reserve-study mandate died again — and the mortgage market imposed one anyway
HB 2563 and SB 3401 would have required a reserve study every five years, with a January 2028 transition and an exemption for associations of 15 or fewer units. Both stalled at spring adjournment. Illinois still has no statutory reserve-study schedule.
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Holmstedt: an Iowa board's reasonable reading of its own bylaws beats the owner's
The Court of Appeals held a Lexington East owner's reading of "audit" was not unreasonable — and still lost, because the board's reading was reasonable too. Then it reversed the association's attorney fee award.
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Three years on, Lahaina's destroyed condos are still short the money to rebuild
At one 189-unit Lahaina association, insurance is reported to cover about a fifth of a rebuild estimated above $200 million — the clearest demonstration that carrying a master policy and being able to rebuild are different facts.
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Broomfield's ADU ordinance bans short-term rentals and demands an architectural match
Ordinance No. 2265, effective September 16, 2025, permits ADUs in all Broomfield zones allowing single-unit residential use, bars them from short-term rental use, and requires design consistency — with no mention of private covenants anywhere in its text.
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Indiana boards now owe members four days' notice and an agenda
Since 1 July 2026 every Indiana HOA board meeting requires four days' advance written notice with an agenda, and members attending remotely count toward a quorum.
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Arizona Supreme Court lets HOAs sue builders over homes they do not own
In Gallery Community Association v. K. Hovnanian, the court held A.R.S. § 33-2002 authorizes an association to bring what amounts to an implied warranty suit for construction defects, covering both common areas it owns and individually owned homes.
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Alabama's wholesaling bills died, and the HOA carve-outs in them were never new
SB 246 and HB 586 would have regulated unsolicited offers to purchase real estate and unfair service agreements. Both died. The homeowners-association exclusions they carried are existing Alabama law, not something the bills would have created.
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Georgia created an HOA appreciation day and killed the HOA transparency resolution
SR 595 recognising “HOA, COA, and POA Day” was introduced and adopted on the same day in January 2026. HR 1751, urging transparency in association governance, never left committee.
Read the full updateIllinois mobile home rent cap died with 26 sponsors after clearing committee
HB 3526 would have capped manufactured-home lot rent increases at 3% a year, with a CPI adjustment from 2027 that could not exceed 5%. It cleared committee in April 2026 and died at adjournment.
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Boston's City Council passed an expanded condo conversion ordinance, 11 to nothing
Docket #0766 extending tenant protections in condominium and cooperative conversion passed in a new draft on 3 December 2025. The amended text has not appeared on the city's ordinance page.
Read the full updateA bill to make off-island condo owners name a local agent died in conference
SB 2396 passed the Senate 25–0 and would have required owners living outside the state or on another island to give their association an on-island contact, plus a public DCCA registry of agents.
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31 December 2026 is a double deadline — and for reserve studies it is an absolute wall
Buildings reaching 30 years during 2026 must have a milestone inspection by 31 December. The same date is the outer statutory limit for completing a structural integrity reserve study, with no path beyond it.
Read the full updateWhat is left of New Orleans's short-term rental rules after two Fifth Circuit rulings
Hignell-Stark struck the business-entity permit ban and the one-unit-per-advertisement rule in October 2025. Bodin upheld the one-licence-per-block cap and the platform verification rules in August 2026. Neither touches an association's power to restrict by covenant.
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Lawrence legalised ADUs citywide and put in writing that it won't enforce covenants
Lawrence's Land Development Code, effective April 1, 2025, permits accessory dwelling units across its residential districts and states at §20-105(d) that the city has no duty to enforce private restrictions and is not obligated to adopt regulations consistent with them.
Read the full updateColorado HOA complaints rose 21% in 2025, and communication led the list again
The state's 2025 HOA Information and Resource Center report records 364 complainants, up from 300, with 8,615 active registrations covering 1,084,321 units — and its own list of statutory gaps in CCIOA.
Read the full updateIllinois manager licensing was four months from lapsing; SB 3897 moved it to 2032
Public Act 104-0746 extends the Community Association Manager Licensing and Disciplinary Act's repeal date from January 1, 2027 to January 1, 2032, and rewrites six parts of it — including a new IDFPR audit power and a halved citation window.
Read the full updateGeorgia's regulators have never issued a single HOA opinion, bulletin or rule
The Attorney General's published opinion index contains no community-association opinion of any vintage. The Insurance Commissioner issued no property bulletin in two years. The Real Estate Commission changed no manager rule.
Read the full updateTwo 2026 rulings make how an association took title decide the rent accounting
Yang starts the HRS 514B-146(n) excess-rental-income clock at the association's own foreclosure judgment; Haleakala Gardens holds the section does not reach a unit taken by deed in lieu at all.
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Lexington's short-term rental listings fell 40% — and the city is filing liens on the holdouts
Lexington's revenue director told a council committee on 1 July that listings dropped from 1,290 to 787, that 61 citations totalling $78,125 have issued, and that one lien on a single property stands at $22,000.
Read the full updateThe SJC struck the rent control question off the November 2026 ballot
The Court held on 23 June 2026 that an exemption for facilities operated solely for educational, religious or non-profit purposes made religion a factor, violating Article 48.
Read the full updateJefferson County now bans junipers and combustible fences near homes — and says nothing about covenants
The Jefferson County Wildfire Resiliency Code took effect July 1, 2026, requiring noncombustible hard surfaces in the first five feet, noncombustible fencing within eight feet of a structure, and prohibiting four named plant species. Its text contains no reference to private covenants.
Read the full updateLouisiana's new HOA flag statute protects the US flag — only in documents written after August 2025
Act 224 of 2025 enacted R.S. 9:1114, barring planned communities, condominium associations and lessors from banning a removable, portable US flag — but the Act's own prospectivity clause, which is not printed in the statute, limits it to documents created after August 1, 2025.
Read the full updateAn Illinois bill would have registered every association and let the state remove board members; it died
HB 4617 would have created an Office of Common Interest Community Registration inside IDFPR, charged $3 per unit, and given the state power to fine boards, remove board members and appoint interim managers. It died in committee.
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