HOA bills in the works: protected use, EVs, financial reports

HOA bills in the works: protected use, EVs, financial reports

This week’s column reviews three more bills pending in Sacramento that would affect California HOAs if passed. Senate Bill 282, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would add a new Section 4737 to the Davis-Stirling Act and create a new “protected use.” The proposed Section 4737 would outlaw any governing document restriction preventing replacement of fuel burning with electric heat pump heating or cooling equipment. The bill ai…

‘Classism’ in the capital at hearing on HOAs, Neal says

Senate Bill 121 would, among other things, afford cash-strapped new homeowners three years rather than 180 days to landscape their backyards.

'Classism' in the capital at hearing on HOAs, Neal says  • Nevada Current

“There were just very interesting comments on the Senate side that I felt were just very classism,” Sen. Dina Neal said on Friday during the Assembly Judiciary hearing. (Photo: Richard Bednarski/Nevada Current)A legislative hearing on a bill intended to give homeowners some “wiggle room” and avoid the onerous fines imposed by homeowners’ associations exposed what state Sen. Dina Neal called “classism” on the part of HOA industry representatives …