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Senate committee advances bill prohibiting HOAs from banning backyard chickens; allows modest local regulation
Summary
The Senate Agriculture Committee gave SB 1026 a due‑pass recommendation to the Senate floor. The bill prevents homeowners associations from outright bans on backyard chickens while allowing HOAs to impose reasonable coop placement, waste management and rooster prohibitions.
The Senate Agriculture Committee voted to send Senate Bill 10‑26, known in testimony as the "Free the Chicken" bill, to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation after extended sponsor remarks and public testimony from homeowners affected by restrictive covenants.
Senator Tammy Nichols, R.-Dist. 10, presented SB 10‑26 as a property‑rights measure intended to allow homeowners living in subdivisions governed by homeowners associations (HOAs) to keep a limited number of chickens for personal use. Nichols told the committee the bill would prevent HOAs from banning chickens outright, permit HOAs to adopt…
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