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Assembly Bill 3182: taking the common out of common interest developments.

6/9/2020

 
Assemblymember Phil Ting introduced ​Assembly Bill 3182 on February 21st. If chaptered in its current form*, AB 3182 would void all rental and lease restrictions contained in HOA governing documents, other than those which prohibit short-term rentals.

Update: Governor Newsom recently signed AB 3182. Please see this blog post for more about the version which will take effect on January 1st.

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Senate Bill 323: a disaster for California's HOAs.

1/6/2020

 
Effective January 1, 2020, Senate Bill 323 dramatically changed association election law, including the laws controlling election challenges, candidate and director qualifications, election rules, election timelines, pre-election notices, inspectors, association recordkeeping, and more.

Sponsored by an anti-HOA lobbying organization, SB 323’s purported goal was to increase the “regularity, fairness, formality, and transparency” of HOA elections. Unfortunately, SB 323 in practice imposed a costly, complex, and harmful set of new election requirements for little gain.

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Senate Bills 323 and 754: the certain death of acclamation.

11/3/2019

 
Election by acclamation is the process of declaring a slate of director-candidates elected when the number of candidates at the deadline for nomination is equal to or less than the number of board positions to be filled, and thus the results a foregone conclusion.

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Senate Bill 323: dispute resolution for non-disputes.

11/2/2019

 
SB 323 adds new Civil Code section 5105(e), which provides that “[a]n association shall not disqualify a person from nomination if the person has not been provided the opportunity to engage in internal dispute resolution.”

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Senate Bill 323: odds and ends that are odd, and should be ended.

11/1/2019

 
This blog post is a running list of SB 323's ambiguities and flaws that seem problematic enough to complain about but not problematic enough to waste a funny title on. I myself feel like running away.

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