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Bill would bar HOAs from banning fire‑hardened building materials for qualifying homes
Summary
Senate Bill 6,054 would prevent homeowners associations and similar common‑interest communities from prohibiting installation, use or maintenance of fire‑hardened building materials that meet permitting health and safety standards while allowing reasonable, non‑prohibitive design rules; stakeholders urged clarifications on definitions and cost thresholds.
Senate Bill 6,054 would stop common‑interest communities (such as homeowners associations and condominiums) from banning homeowners who want to install fire‑hardened building materials that meet applicable permitting and health‑and‑safety standards.
Senator Victoria Hunt (5th Legislative District), sponsor of the bill, told the House Housing Committee that she encountered communities where governing documents require shake roofs and prevent homeowners from replacing them with safer, fire‑resistant materials. "This is a bill that prevents HOAs from having unreasonable restrictions on folks in terms of what they can use to keep their homes and the homes of their neighbors safe against wildfire," Hunt said.
The substitute bill, as summarized by committee staff Audrey Vaisik,…
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