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PR26-0046 • 2025

Association Meeting Flexibility Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Association Meeting Flexibility Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
R. White
Last action
2025-02-14
Official status
Approved
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Emergency Rule for Virtual Meetings

This emergency rule allows condominium and cooperative associations in the District of Columbia to hold virtual meetings without changing their bylaws.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows condominium unit owners’ associations to have virtual meetings.
  • Clarifies voting rules and quorum requirements for virtual meetings.
  • Permits cooperatives to conduct remote meetings.
  • Enables limited equity cooperatives to hold remote meetings.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Condominium unit owners' associations
  • Cooperatives in the District of Columbia

Terms To Know

Emergency circumstances
A situation that requires immediate action to address a problem.
Virtual meetings
Meetings held online or through video conferencing instead of in person.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The resolution will expire if the permanent measure, Fairness and Stability in Housing Amendment Act of 2024, does not complete congressional review by March 1, 2025.
  • It is unclear how long this emergency rule will remain in effect.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-14 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Resolution R26-0034, Effective from Feb 04, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 001463

  2. 2025-02-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  3. 2025-02-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  4. 2025-02-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Approved with Resolution Number R26-0034

  5. 2025-02-03 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0046 Introduced by Councilmember R. White at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Association Meeting Flexibility Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

A RESOLUTION

26-34

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

February 4, 2025

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Condominium
Act of 1976 to authorize condominium unit owners’ associations to conduct virtual
meetings and clarify voting and quorum requirements for such meetings; to amend
section 29-910 of the District of Columbia Official Code to allow cooperatives to conduct
remote meetings; and to amend sections 29-1005.06, 29-1005.07, and 29-1008.11(b) of
the District of Columbia Official Code to allow limited equity cooperatives to conduct
remote meetings.

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Association Meeting Flexibility Emergency Declaration
Resolution of 2025”.

Sec. 2. (a) Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual meetings have become
routine for many District residents and organizations.
(b) During this time, the Council has repeatedly granted emergency and temporary
flexibility for condominium and cooperative associations to conduct their meetings virtually
without the need to amend their bylaws.
(c) The most recent extension of such flexibilities to condominium and cooperative
associations, the Association Meeting Flexibility Temporary Amendment Act of 2024, effective
July 19, 2024 (D.C. law 25-195; 71 DCR 6754), will expire on March 1, 2025.
(d) On December 17, 2024, the Council passed a permanent measure, the Fairness and
Stability in Housing Amendment Act of 2024, enacted on January 16, 2025 (D.C. Act 25-694; 72
DCR 754), which included these provisions. The measure has not yet completed congressional
review.
(e) Emergency legislation is necessary to ensure that all interested associations can
readily benefit from virtual meeting capabilities.

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances
enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the
Association Meeting Flexibility Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 be adopted after a single
reading.

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.