Why the track record is the story

The report explains, in the same entry, how the Planned Community Act got made — and it took two attempts:

“Proposed legislation to replace this Act with the 'Planned Community Act' was introduced as Senate Bill No. 109 of the 2022 Regular Session but was never heard. Since that time, the Committee collaborated with various stakeholders to alleviate concerns and reintroduced an amended version of the bill, which was ultimately enacted as Acts 2024, No. 158.”

Same committee, same Reporter, same method: draft, fail, negotiate with stakeholders, refile, pass. That history is what makes the 2027 Condominium Act recommendation the most probable source of the next real change to Louisiana condominium law — more probable, on the record, than any individual legislator's bill.

It also sets the timetable expectation. If the 2027 filing follows the 2022 pattern rather than the 2024 one, a first attempt that is never heard is a normal outcome rather than the end of the project.

What we are not going to tell you

What the draft says. It is not public in anything we could open, and we will not characterise its contents. Anyone claiming to know what the new Louisiana Condominium Act will contain is either working from the committee's minutes or guessing.

What can be said is what the current Act looks like, and therefore where the pressure is. A section-by-section reading of the Legislature's own credits lines shows the Louisiana Condominium Act, R.S. 9:1121.101 through 1124.117, has barely been touched in a decade and a half: the most recent amendments anywhere in it are Acts 2022 No. 481, Acts 2019 No. 228 (the insurance section), Acts 2016 No. 244 (the privilege section), Acts 2012 No. 79, Acts 2011 No. 84 and Acts 2011 No. 180. Nothing in the 2025 or 2026 sessions amended it at all.

So a condominium in Louisiana is currently governed by an insurance mandate keyed to “eighty percent of the actual cash value” last touched in 2019, no structural-inspection requirement of any kind, and no reserve-study obligation. Those are the gaps a revision would be reaching into.

The mediation revision queued behind it

The same report discloses a second project that reaches association disputes, from a different committee. Section VIII.J.1, “Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee,” Reporters Anthony DiLeo (arbitration) and Professor Bobby Harges (mediation):

“The Committee plans to renew the process of presenting its proposals to the Law Institute Council for adoption this coming fall, and once these projects have been completed, the Committee will undertake a similar review and revision of Louisiana's mediation laws.”

The arbitration work is further along and is model-based:

“…has been working towards a comprehensive revision of Louisiana's laws regarding arbitration, using the Uniform Law Commission's Revised Uniform Arbitration Act (RUAA) as a template.”

The committee has also “agreed to pursue adoption of the Act's general substance” of the Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act, citing its “voluntary, 'opt-in' nature.” There is no draft and no timetable for the mediation half beyond “once these projects have been completed.”

This is genuinely early. But it is the honest answer to whether anything is happening to the statutory layer underneath Louisiana association dispute-resolution clauses, and the answer is yes, upstream.

The third assignment the Legislature added in 2026

Two resolutions adopted in the 2026 session sent further questions to the Institute, both reporting on the same date:

• Senate Resolution 18 asks the Institute to study “the feasibility of allowing an exception to the homestead exemption from seizure for certain unpaid or accelerated costs subject to the Louisiana Condominium Act,” reporting “on or before March 1, 2027.” That is the sequel to the vetoed HB 343 of 2025.
• House Resolution 335, adopted 91–1, directs the Institute to study the prescription of actions to enforce zoning restrictions, building restrictions and subdivision regulations by parishes and municipalities, reporting “no later than March 1, 2027.”

So three separate Louisiana instruments now point at the Institute with a 2027 horizon, and one of them concerns the Condominium Act directly.

What to watch next

Council approval, which the report says is being sought and which has not been confirmed. Then a Senate or House bill in the 2027 Regular Session, convening April 12, 2027 — a fiscal session, which means a Condominium Act bill needs one of a member's five non-fiscal prefiling slots. And March 1, 2027 for the two study reports.