Delaware 153rd General Assembly Status: To Executive 1 D cosponsors

SB 352 — Reserve Studies/Strengthen Requirements

Last action — Executive

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been sent to the executive. Introduced June 24, 2026. It awaits signature.

Next likely step: the executive signs it into law or issues a veto.

Odds of enactment

Moderate chance

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Prognosis

Advancing 44% · moderate confidence

  • To Executive

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 D).

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In plain language

This bill strengthens reserve study requirements for common interest communities.

The Act enhances the rules for reserve studies to help community associations ensure they have enough funds for maintenance and repairs. It also introduces stricter inspection requirements and enforcement measures to protect residents and their properties.

What this means for you
  • Workers: Workers in the construction and maintenance sectors may see increased demand for services as communities strive to meet new maintenance standards.
  • Families: Families living in common interest communities will benefit from safer and better-maintained properties.
  • Small Business: Small businesses involved in property management may face new compliance requirements related to reserve studies and inspections.

Summary

This Act strengthens requirements relating to reserve studies to ensure common interest communities have adequate reserves to provide for reliable and timely repairs and replacement projects. Reserve studies are budget planning tools to be used by common interest communities to identify components in a community for which the association is responsible for repair and replacement, the useful and remaining life of those components, the estimated cost of repair and replacement, the current status of money available to complete those repairs and replacements, and establishes a funding plan to offset the anticipated costs without reliance on special assessments. The goal of this is to ensure maintenance and repair is done in a timely manner to prevent loss of property value and, in the most severe cases, loss of life. Guidelines for the preparation of reserve studies are established by the Community Associations Institute. This Act updates the timeframe from which projected expenses must be calculated, requires façade and structural inspections to be conducted on certain buildings, and those inspections and the maintenance needs identified in those inspection reports, to be incorporated into the reserve study, and for reserve studies to be conducted more often in certain circumstances. This Act requires small condominiums and cooperatives under § 81-117, preexisting common interest communities and approved common interest communities under § 81-119, and small preexisting cooperatives under § 81-120 to comply with the inspection and reserve study requirements. This Act also gives the Consumer Protection Unit of the Department of Justice the ability to enforce violations of the Delaware Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act. Under current law, enforcement requires private enforcement through lawsuits or alternative dispute resolution. This Act takes effect 1 year after its enactment into law. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. This Act is based on recommendations provided by the New Castle County Council Common Interest Community Task Force, which was motivated by the tragedy of the Champlain Tower South condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, in which 98 people died.

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Action History

  1. Executive

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Co-sponsors (0)

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 352 do?
This Act strengthens requirements relating to reserve studies to ensure common interest communities have adequate reserves to provide for reliable and timely repairs and replacement projects. Reserve studies are budget planning tools to be used by common interest communities to identify components in a community for which the association is responsible for repair and replacement, the useful and remaining life of those components, the estimated cost of repair and replacement, the current status of money available to complete those repairs and replacements, and establishes a funding plan to offset the anticipated costs without reliance on special assessments. The goal of this is to ensure maintenance and repair is done in a timely manner to prevent loss of property value and, in the most severe cases, loss of life. Guidelines for the preparation of reserve studies are established by the Community Associations Institute. This Act updates the timeframe from which projected expenses must be calculated, requires façade and structural inspections to be conducted on certain buildings, and those inspections and the maintenance needs identified in those inspection reports, to be incorporated into the reserve study, and for reserve studies to be conducted more often in certain circumstances. This Act requires small condominiums and cooperatives under § 81-117, preexisting common interest communities and approved common interest communities under § 81-119, and small preexisting cooperatives under § 81-120 to comply with the inspection and reserve study requirements. This Act also gives the Consumer Protection Unit of the Department of Justice the ability to enforce violations of the Delaware Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act. Under current law, enforcement requires private enforcement through lawsuits or alternative dispute resolution. This Act takes effect 1 year after its enactment into law. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual. This Act is based on recommendations provided by the New Castle County Council Common Interest Community Task Force, which was motivated by the tragedy of the Champlain Tower South condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, in which 98 people died.
Who sponsors SB 352?
SB 352 is sponsored by Daniel Cruce (Democratic).
What is the current status of SB 352?
This bill has been sent to the executive. Introduced June 24, 2026. It awaits signature.
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