Homeowners' Association And Metropolitan District Homeowners' Rights Task Forces

The bill creates the HOA homeowners' rights task force (HOA task force) and the metropolitan district homeowners' rights task force (metro district task force) in the division of housing (division) in the department of local affairs. The director of the division or the director's designee serves as the chair of both task forces.

Members of the HOA task force must be designated or appointed on or before July 1, 2023 July 15, 2023 . The HOA task force is required to:

• Study issues confronting HOA homeowners' rights, including homeowners' associations' fining authority and practices, foreclosure practices, and communications with homeowners, and the availability and method of making certain documents available to HOA homeowners in the association ;
• Review HOA homeowners' complaints and relevant state and federal laws related to common interest communities;
• Prepare an interim report regarding its findings and conclusions, publish the interim report on the division's website, and submit copies of the report to the metro district task force on or before September 30, 2023 October 15, 2023 ; and
• Prepare a final report, publish the final report on the division's website, and submit copies of the final report to the metro district task force, the legislative committees with oversight of housing and local government issues (legislative committees), and the governor on or before December 31, 2023 January 15, 2024 .

Members of the metro district task force must be designated or appointed on or before December 1, 2023 November 1, 2023 . The metro district task force is required to:

• Study issues confronting metropolitan district homeowners' rights, including metropolitan district boards' tax levying authority and practices, foreclosure practices, and communications with homeowners, and consider the HOA task force's findings and conclusions as they relate to metropolitan district homeowners' rights governance policies ; and
• Prepare a report regarding its findings and conclusions, publish the report on the division's website, and submit copies of the report to the legislative committees and the governor on or before March 1, 2024 March 15, 2024.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)