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

• SB-625 (Wahab) Housing developments: disasters: reconstruction of destroyed or damaged structures.

  

  Would streamline the architectural approval process for owners to rebuild a residential structure that is damaged or destroyed during a declared disaster or state of emergency. Would also provide for streamlined ministerial approval to building a housing development on a parcel on which a residential structure was destroyed or damaged in a disaster.

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• AB-21 (DeMaio) Common interest developments: association management and meeting procedures.

  

  Would enact the Homeowner Association Accountability and Transparency Act of 2025 to make substantive changes to the Open Meeting Act, association records, and records inspection, and would impose additional penalties for violations of these provisions.

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• SB-770 (Allen) Common interest developments: EV charging stations.

  

  Would delete the requirement that the insurance policy for an EV charging station name the association as an additional insured party.

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• SB-410 (Grayson) Common interest developments: disclosures to prospective purchasers: exterior elevated elements inspection.

  

  Would add the resulting inspection report of the exterior elevated elements to the list of disclosures to prospective purchasers.

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• SB-811 (Caballero) Common interest developments: document delivery.

  

  Most likely a spot bill, this bill would make nonsubstantive changes related to document delivery.

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• SB-677 (Wiener) Housing development: streamlined approvals.

  

  Would make void and unenforceable any provision of a governing document that effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the construction of a housing development or urban lot split on a lot zoned for single-family residential use.

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• SB-570 (Alvarado-Gil) Common interest developments.

  

  Most likely a spot bill, this bill would make nonsubstantive changes related to common interest developments.

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• SB-546 (Grayson) Common interest developments: accounting.

  

  Would repeal the board’s ability to review financial statements between meetings.

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• SB-517 (Niello) Home improvement contract requirements: subcontractor

  

  Would require a home improvement contract with a subcontractor performing more than 50% of the total estimated project cost to contain the name and contact information of the subcontractor.

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• SB-31 (McNerney) Water quality: recycled water.

  

  Would require associations to use recycled water to irrigate common area landscape if recycled water is available.

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• SB-282 (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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• AB-739 (Jackson) Common interest developments: managing agents: real estate broker license.

  

  Would require CID managers to hold a real estate broker license.

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