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90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 518: Relating to access by certain entities to specific records and documents maintained by a unit owners association

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to access by certain entities to specific records and documents maintained by a unit owners association. Under the bill, a unit owners association is an organization of unit owners in a common interest community, including a planned community, a cooperative under Code chapter 499A, or a horizontal property regime under Code chapter 499B. “Common interest community” is defined in the bill and exclusions from the definition are detailed in the bill. A unit owners association, a unit owners association’s designee, or a unit owners association’s management company (association) must make certain records and documents, as detailed in the bill, available to a unit owner or the unit owner’s authorized agent within business days of a request by the unit owner or the unit owner’s authorized agent.

Sponsors

Commerce (companion To Hf 432 By Committee on Commerce) committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 2 for, 4 against

For: HOA Reform Coaltion; Iowa Association of Realtors

Against: David Scott; Greater Iowa Apartment Association; Hubbell Realty Company; Iowa State Bar Association

In plain words

  1. March 6, 2023Filed in the Senate
  2. March 6, 2023Approved by the Senate committee
  3. April 25, 2023Withdrawn

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/SF518