Maryland's housekeeping bill quietly fixed a wrong word in the HOA Act
Maryland's housekeeping bill quietly fixed a wrong word in the HOA Act
2026-09-12 · Maryland · Legislation
What happened. Maryland's Homeowners Association Act contained a reference to a condominium in a provision that governs homeowners associations. The 2026 Annual Corrective Bill fixed it.
Senate Bill 844 was approved by the Governor on 14 April 2026 as Chapter 153 of the Acts of 2026, effective upon enactment. It is introduced by the President at the request of the Department of Legislative Services, and its purpose is to correct errors and omissions, clarify language, correct obsolete references and reorganise sections across the Code. It passed the Senate 43–0 and the House 137–0.1
Among the articles it touched is Real Property — which houses both the Condominium Act at Title 11 and the Homeowners Association Act at Title 11B. Practitioners tracking the 2026 session identify the community-association correction as replacing an erroneous “condominium” reference in HOA Act § 11B-111.5(a).2
Why a misnomer is worth a paragraph
Because Maryland legislates its three community-association forms in three separate places, and cross-contamination between them is the single most common source of confusion in this area of law.
- Condominiums — Real Property, Title 11
- Homeowners associations — Real Property, Title 11B
- Cooperative housing corporations — Corporations and Associations, Title 5, Subtitle 6B
Most substantive changes are enacted in parallel across all three, which is why the 2026 sign-display act amended § 11-111.2, § 11B-111.2 and § 5-6B-23 simultaneously. When parallel drafting goes slightly wrong, a provision ends up describing the wrong entity — and a lot owner reading § 11B-111.5 discovers the statute is talking about a condominium.
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- Senate Bill 844 (2026), Annual Corrective Bill — Chapter 153, approved by the Governor 14 April 2026, effective upon enactment; Senate 43-0, House 137-0; by the President at the request of the Department of Legislative Services. The bill record does not itemise the Real Property sections corrected ↩
- Cowie Law Group, Maryland HOA and condo laws: 2026-2027 legislative update — identifying Chapter 153 as correcting a misnomer in HOA Act § 11B-111.5(a) that replaced an erroneous "condominium" reference ↩
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