2026-09-12 · Maine · Legislation · Did not pass

What happened. LD 760 was introduced on 25 February 2025 as An Act Establishing the Maine Common Interest Ownership Act. It is widely described as the bill that would have rewritten Maine condominium and homeowners-association law.

It contained no statutory text whatsoever. Here is the bill, in full:¹

“This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would establish the Maine Common Interest Ownership Act based on the 2021 version of the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, the text of which may be found here: https://legislature.maine.gov/doc/11388.”

That is the entire operative content. One paragraph, a cross-reference to a national model act, and a hyperlink.

What a concept draft is

Joint Rule 208 lets a Maine legislator file a placeholder that states an intention rather than a text. The committee of reference then writes the actual bill, or does not. It is a way of getting a subject onto the calendar before the drafting work exists.

So LD 760 never proposed a Title or chapter number for a Maine code. It never said whether the new law would apply to existing condominiums and homeowners associations retroactively or only to those created after enactment — the single most consequential question in any uniform-act adoption. That question was never reached.

It was replaced five weeks later

The bill went to the Committee on Housing and Economic Development. At the work session on 1 April 2025 — five weeks after introduction — the committee voted a divided report, and neither side proposed a code.

• The majority, via Committee Amendment A (S-122), replaced the bill with a 12-member legislative study commission.
• The minority, via Committee Amendment B (S-123), proposed a leaner 7-member “Stakeholder Group” with no legislators, electing its own chair.

Both reports were reported out on 20 May 2025 as Ought to Pass as Amended — differing only in which amendment. The majority version prevailed and became Resolve 2025, chapter 167, signed 16 April 2026. No version of LD 760 ever again proposed operative Maine Common Interest Ownership Act language.

1. LD 760 (S.P. 301) as introduced — the Joint Rule 208 concept draft, complete text ↩
2. Committee Amendment A (S-122) — the majority 12-member commission ↩
3. Committee Amendment B (S-123) — the minority 7-member stakeholder group ↩
4. LD 760 bill status page, 132nd Maine Legislature (sponsorship, divided report, action history) ↩