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2025-2026 Legislative Session

CAI's Pennsylvania Legislative Action Committee priorities in the current two year legislative session.

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2025-2026 Legislative Session Priority Bills

The Pennsylvania Legislative Action Committee (LAC) has reviewed and taken positions on the following Bills currently pending in Harrisburg.

CAI supports this Bill. Previously introduced by Representative Tim Brennan on April 29, 2024. Pending introduction in 2025. This legislation would amend the Municipalities Planning Code to require County Planning Commissions to include CIOC data in their currently required annual report. Counties would be required to collect, maintain, and make available upon request, information identifying condominium associations, cooperative housing developments, and planned communities located within the boundaries of the County. While it is estimated that 1.3 million PA residents live in a common interest ownership community (CIOC) and that roughly 80 percent of new housing starts since 2000 are CIOCs, the actual number and location of these communities is, by and large, unknown. House Bill 2240 would mandate the collection of data, including information such as name, physical location, land area, lot size, number of units and location and would aid the State in assessing the impact of legislation specific to CIOCs. To mitigate the impact on County governments, amendments to the original bill would permit the County to make the data available to the public at a cost not to exceed that allowed under the state Right to Know Law and would also permit the posting of the data in electronic form.

CAI supports this Bill.  This legislation seeks to address what amounts to “double taxation” for residents living throughout our Commonwealth in condominium and homeowner associations. This occurs because homeowners in many of these communities are required to pay annual assessments for the upkeep and maintenance of commonly owned facilities and infrastructure such as water and sewer facilities, trash removal and similar services. At the same time these homeowners are paying municipal taxes for similar facilities and services that other homeowners living in the same municipality but not in a planned community receive. Under this proposed legislation, homeowners living in planned communities would, through their homeowners' association, be able to negotiate with the municipality to supply the service or reimburse the homeowners for the actual costs incurred by these homeowners for the services.

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CAI supports this  Bill. Introduced by Representative Lisa Borowski on January 13, 2025. This legislation would ensure residents who live in a community association the right to solar access for drying laundry and would allow the association to regulate aspects of the location of clothes drying racks. CAI supports an amendment, accepted by the Bill’s sponsor, that would allow each association board to adopt reasonable rules to address safety concerns relevant to the unique features (density, design and construction) of the association. In addition, the amendment adds protective language to prevent a constitutional challenge to the legislation as it relates to retroactivity.

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CAI supports this Bill. Previously introduced by Senator John Kane on April 30, 2024. This legislation would provide a framework for common interest ownership communities to permit installation and regulation of residential electric vehicle charging stations.

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