Plain English Breakdown
The exact effective date is not listed as a specific calendar day in the provided text; it depends on Mayor approval or veto override action.
Association Meeting Flexibility Emergency Amendment Act of 2025
This emergency law allows condominiums, cooperatives, and limited equity cooperatives in Washington, D.C., to hold meetings online or by phone without needing special permission from their own rules.
What This Bill Does
- Allows unit owners' associations, executive boards, and committees of condominiums to conduct or attend meetings via telephone conference, video conference, or similar electronic means.
- Requires that equipment used for virtual meetings allows all participants to hear and be heard clearly by everyone else in the meeting.
- Counts people attending a meeting by phone or online as present for quorum purposes.
- Permits executive boards of condominium associations to include ballots with meeting notices so owners can vote before the meeting date, setting reasonable deadlines for returns.
- Allows unit owners in condominiums to submit votes electronically up to seven days before a scheduled meeting and be counted as voting in person.
- Removes rules that previously required cooperatives and limited equity cooperatives to have specific bylaws or organic rules allowing remote meetings.
Who It Names or Affects
- Condominium unit owners' associations, executive boards, and committees in the District of Columbia
- Cooperatives operating under D.C. law
- Limited equity cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
- Unit owners within these housing organizations
Terms To Know
- Quorum
- The minimum number of members that must be present at a meeting for business to be legally conducted.
- Limited equity cooperative
- A type of housing where residents own shares in the building but have limits on how much they can sell their share for later, as defined by D.C. law sections 29-1005 and related codes.
Limits and Unknowns
- This law is an emergency act and will remain in effect for no longer than 90 days after approval.
- The official text does not specify the exact start date, only that it takes effect following Mayor approval or a veto override.