Minnesota HF1268: Common interest communities rights and duties modified, unit owner rights modified, termination threshold modified, meet and confer process established, notice of meetings modified, and governing bodies prohibited from requiring or incentivizing creation of homeowners associations.

What the bill says

A bill for an act relating to common interest communities; modifying rights and duties of common interest communities; modifying rights of a unit owner; modifying termination threshold; establishing a meet and confer process; modifying notice of meetings; prohibiting certain governing bodies from requiring or incentivizing creation of homeowners associations; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 394.25, by adding a subdivision; 515B.1-102; 515B.2-103; 515B.2-119; 515B.3-102; 515B.3-103; 515B.3-106; 515B.3-107; 515B.3-108; 515B.3-110; 515B.3-115; 515B.3-1151; 515B.3-116; 515B.4-102…

From the engrossed text, March 10, 2025:

A bill for an act relating to common interest communities; modifying rights and duties of common interest communities; modifying rights of a unit owner; modifying termination threshold; establishing a meet and confer process; modifying notice of meetings; prohibiting certain governing bodies from requiring or incentivizing creation of homeowners associations; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 394.25, by adding a subdivision; 515B.1-102; 515B.2-103; 515B.2-119; 515B.3-102; 515B.3-103; 515B.3-106; 515B.3-107; 515B.3-108; 515B.3-110; 515B.3-115; 515B.3-1151; 515B.3-116; 515B.4-102; 515B.4-1021; 515B.4-116; Laws 2024, chapter 96, article 2, section 13; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 462; 515B; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 308C.003, subdivision 3. ARTICLE 1 COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITIES Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 515B.1-102, is amended to read: 515B.1-102 APPLICABILITY. (a) Except as provided in this section, this chapter, and not chapters 515 and 515A, applies to all common interest communities created within this state on and after June 1, 1994. (b) The applicability of this chapter to common interest communities created prior to June 1, 1994, shall be as follows: (1) This chapter shall apply to condominiums created under chapter 515A with respect to events and circumstances occurring on and after June 1, 1994; provided (i) that this chapter shall not invalidate the declarations, bylaws or condominium plats of those condominiums, and (ii) that chapter 515A, and not this chapter, …