The following bills affecting HOAs are still pending in the 2025-2026 legislative session:
*For bills that have been signed into law, see 
CHAPTERED BILLS
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SB-1139 (Laird) Nonfunctional turf: compliance and enforcement.
Would add a special district with water conservation authority to the entities that may enforce the provisions requiring the use of recycled water to irrigate of nonfunctional turf.
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AB-2050 (Caloza) Common interest developments: reserve accounts.
Would require the association to funds reserves in at least the minimum reserve contribution level as specified in the reserve study.
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SB-1238 (Wahab) Common interest developments: management.
Would redefine a managing agent and limit the association’s ability to use reserve funds for litigation.
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SB-1267 (Allen) Common interest developments: electric vehicle charging stations owned by members in common areas.
Would state the intent of the Legislature to provide an association with civil liability protection for injuries and damages emanating from an electric vehicle charging station or its use that the association does not own.
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AB 2439 (Rubio). Common interest developments: Assessments.
Most likely a spot bill, this bill would make nonsubstantive changes related to interest charged for delinquent assessments.
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AB-2035 (Dixon) Common interest developments: declarations: amendments.
Would lower the threshold to amend the CC&Rs to more than 37% of the votes if the court finds that the association is a senior citizen housing development, among other criteria.
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AB-1892 (Davies) Common interest developments: associations.
Would make an association responsible for repairs and replacements necessary to restore interrupted gas, heat, water, or electrical services when an interruption of service begins in the common area. Would also make changes to the notice requirements for elections conducted by electronic secret ballot and elections by acclamation.
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SB-1007 (Menjivar) Common interest developments: annual reports: assessments: discipline.
Would prohibit a board from imposing a regular assessment that is more than the regular assessment for the association’s preceding year, adjusted for inflation, without the approval of the majority of a quorum members.
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AB-1684 (Ward) Common interest developments: cooling systems.
Would make any provision of the governing documents or architectural guidelines void and unenforceable if it prohibits or restricts the installation, upgrade, replacement, or use of a colling system.
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AB-1184 (Patterson) Common interest developments: association management and meeting procedures.
Would make substantive changes to the Open Meeting Act, association records inspection, and operating rule changes.
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SB-222 (Wiener) Residential heat pump systems: water heaters and HVAC: installations.
Would make any provision of the governing documents or architectural guidelines void and unenforceable if it prevents the replacement of a fuel-gas-burning appliance with an electric appliance, or prohibits or restricts the use of a residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC system.
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SB-681 (Wahab) Housing.
Would cap fines at $100 per violation.
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AB-739 (Jackson) Common interest developments: managing agent fees: executive officer training.
Would require the board of the directors to annually review a statement of fees charged by the managing agent and to electronically deliver a statement of those fees upon written request by a member.
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