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Detected Changes (8)
ESHB 1500 (Chapter 194, Laws of 2026), effective June 11, 2026, amended RCW 64.90.640: the buyer cancellation window in (3)(b) now runs in five BUSINESS days (previously five plain days); the $275 preparation-fee cap in (2)(b) now covers only the direct costs of copying and providing the information and may not include charges for documents maintained in electronic form available to unit owners; item (h) now requires the most recent financial audit report available; item (u) adds all currently-effective board policies/procedures/resolutions and the full most current reserve study; the certificate must state NONE or RECORDS UNAVAILABLE for each category not provided; new (2)(c) prohibits requiring a unit owner to contract with or establish an account with a third party to pay for or accept delivery of the certificate; new (3)(a)(ii) shields purchasers from unidentified alteration violations; new (4) makes fee-charging authorized agents responsible for timeliness and reasonable care, enforceable with attorney fees. Subsections renumbered: delivery duty is now (2)(a), fee caps (2)(b).
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SB 410 (Grayson, 2025) amended Cal. Civ. Code §4525 to add a new required item to the resale disclosure package: a copy of the most recent §5551 exterior elevated element (balcony/deck) inspection report. The CA resale-certificate compliance profile (ca_civ_4525) gained a new disclosure item for this report. Effective January 1, 2026 — a current-year statutory requirement.
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HB 913 (2025), Chapter 2025-175, amended Fla. Stat. §718.503(2)(d) to raise the nondeveloper (resale) buyer cancellation period from 3 days to 7 days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays). The FL condo resale-certificate compliance profile (fl_condo_718) and the corpus threshold FL_CONDO_BUYER_CANCEL_DAYS were corrected from 3 to 7 to match. The corpus had carried the stale pre-amendment value of 3 days; this event records the correction and its primary-source basis. Effective for contracts executed on or after July 1, 2025.
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SB 711 (89th Leg., R.S., 2025) added Tex. Prop. Code §82.157(f), capping the condominium resale-certificate preparation fee at $375 ("a reasonable and necessary fee, not to exceed $375, to furnish a resale certificate under Subsection (a)"). The condominium resale certificate was previously uncapped. The corpus threshold TX_RC_FEE_CAP_CONDO ($375) and the tx_condo_82 profile fee cap were set to reflect this amendment. Effective September 1, 2025.
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· Reviewed
AB 396 (2025), Section 9, amended NRS 116.4109 to add proof of the association's required insurance policies (per NRS 116.3113) to the mandatory contents of a resale package. This added a new disclosure item to the Nevada resale-certificate compliance profile (nv_116_4109), raising it from 9 to 10 required items. Effective July 1, 2026.
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WA RCW 64.90.600(2) replaced three exemptions with four new ones; (3) narrowed resale-certificate requirements to condominiums only; (4) substituted purchaser waiver requirement with unavailability standard including ten-day delivery deadline and five-year enforcement inactivity.
Detected via leg_wa_gov
· Reviewed
RCW 64.90.470 fundamentally restructured: property insurance threshold lowered from full replacement cost to 80 percent of actual cash value; liability insurance reference changed from 'governing documents' to 'declaration'; fidelity insurance and unit-owner subrogation waivers added; new detailed provisions for insurance proceeds, rebuilding obligations, and unit reallocation added in subsections (4)–(11).
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· Reviewed
RCW 64.90.370(3) replaced voting threshold from 67 percent of all allocated votes with 30 percent quorum and 67 percent of participating votes, and added new board-proposal and notice-meeting procedures.
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· Reviewed
Article Updates (13)
Added the primary-sources block and the stale page own source note - the site cites the 2024 Title 38 publication that contains the amendments its rendering lacks. Renderings re-verified August 18, 2026.
Updated for ESHB 1500 (Ch. 194, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026): the resale-certificate cancellation window in RCW 64.90.640(3)(b) now runs five business days.
Updated for ESHB 1500 (Ch. 194, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026): the resale-certificate cancellation window in RCW 64.90.640(3)(b) now runs five business days.
Updated for ESHB 1500 (Ch. 194, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026): the resale-certificate cancellation window in RCW 64.90.640(3)(b) now runs five business days.
Updated for ESHB 1500 (Ch. 194, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026): the resale-certificate cancellation window in RCW 64.90.640(3)(b) now runs five business days.
Updated for ESHB 1500 (Ch. 194, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026): the resale-certificate cancellation window in RCW 64.90.640(3)(b) now runs five business days.
Updated for ESHB 1500 (Ch. 194, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026): the resale-certificate cancellation window in RCW 64.90.640(3)(b) now runs five business days.
Updated for ESHB 1500 (Ch. 194, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026): the resale-certificate cancellation window in RCW 64.90.640(3)(b) now runs five business days.
Updated the resale-package fee cap to the Nevada Real Estate Division's current administered maximum of $213.84 (statutory base $185 under NRS 116.4109(4)(b), CPI-adjusted; NRED resale-package flowchart Rev. 1/2026).
Updated from pending-bill to enacted-law framing: ESHB 1500 is now Chapter 194, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026 — the third-party-portal prohibition (RCW 64.90.640(2)(c)) and the authorized-agent enforcement subsection (4) are in force.
Updated for ESHB 1500 (Chapter 194, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026): the WUCIOA buyer cancellation window is now five business days, and the fee and records provisions of RCW 64.90.640 were revised.
Added ESSB 5796 context, heat pump/EV operational rights, budget ratification procedure, secret ballot requirements; expanded legal citation tracking to 18 authorities
Added 6-year statute of limitations deep-dive citing RCW 64.90.485(9) and Kiona Park Estates v. Dehls (2021); expanded legal citation tracking to include all 14 referenced authorities
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