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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
SB 1183 Property Owners' Association Act/Condominium Act; use of electronic means for meetings and voting.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Property Owners' Association Act; Condominium Act; use of electronic means for meetings and voting. Allows meetings of property owners' associations, boards of directors, unit owners' associations, executive boards, and committees to be held entirely or partially by electronic means, provided that the board of directors or executive board, as applicable, has adopted guidelines for the use of electronic means for such meetings. The bill requires that such guidelines ensure that persons accessing such meetings are authorized to do so and that persons entitled to participate in such meetings have an opportunity to do so. The bill grants authority for determining whether any such meeting may be held entirely or partially by electronic means to the board of directors or executive board, as applicable. Under current law, if a meeting of a board of directors or executive board is conducted by telephone conference or video conference, at least two members of the board of directors or executive board, as applicable, are required to be physically present at the meeting place included in the meeting notice. The bill amends the definition of "electronic means" to provide that a meeting conducted by electronic means includes a meeting conducted via teleconference, videoconference, Internet exchange, or other electronic methods. The bill allows members of property owners' associations or unit owners' associations to vote at meetings of such associations by absentee ballot, and allows such members to vote in person, by proxy, or by absentee ballot by electronic means, provided that the board of directors or executive board, as applicable, has adopted guidelines for such voting. Finally, the bill provides that if a vote, consent, or approval required to be obtained by secret ballot is accomplished through electronic means, the electronic means shall protect the identity of the voter, and provides that if the electronic means cannot protect the identity of the voter, another means of voting shall be used. This bill is identical to HB 1816.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101391D pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/21 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1183ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/31/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/08/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101391D
- 01/08/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/27/21 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/21 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/02/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/21 House: Read first time
- 02/05/21 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote
- 02/11/21 House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/21 House: Read second time
- 02/16/21 House: Read third time
- 02/16/21 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/21 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/19/21 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1183ER)
- 02/22/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/22/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/21 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- 02/24/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/31/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 494 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/31/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0494)