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2025-2026 Bill 3350 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 06, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3350

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 27-30-120, RELATING TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION ACT 
DEFINITIONS, SO AS TO ADD DEFINITION OF "INTERNAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESS"; 
BY AMENDING SECTION 27-30-140, RELATING TO ANNUAL BUDGET INCREASES, SO AS TO 
PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN NOTICES FOR HOLDING MEETINGS; BY AMENDING SECTION 
27-30-150, RELATING TO APPLICATION OF ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS PROVISIONS, SO AS TO 
PROVIDE FOR PROVISIONS THAT APPLY TO CERTAIN HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS; BY ADDING 
SECTION 27-30-155 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS SHALL ESTABLISH 
AN INTERNAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESS; BY AMENDING SECTION 27-30-160, RELATING 
TO JURISDICTION OF MAGISTRATES COURT, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE MAGISTRATES 
COURT HAS JURISDICTION OVER ALL MATTERS BETWEEN A HOMEOWNER AND A HOMEOWNERS 
ASSOCIATION; AND BY AMENDING SECTION 27-30-340, RELATING TO COMPLAINTS FROM 
HOMEOWNERS OR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT COPIES OF CERTAIN 
DOCUMENTS MUST BE INCLUDED IN COMPLAINTS.

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Section 27-30-120 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
27-30-120. As used in this article:

 (1) 
"Board" means the representative body, regardless of name, designated in the 
governing documents to act on behalf of a homeowners association and govern the 
association.

 (2) 
"Declarant" means a person or group of persons acting in concert who:

 (a) 
as part of a common promotional plan, subdivide and offer to dispose of an 
interest the person or group has in a unit in real property; or

 (b) 
reserve or succeed to a special declarant right, which means a right created 
under the declaration or bylaws for the person or group to retain or exercise 
authority in addition to regular declarant rights in a unit of real property.

 (3) 
"Declaration" means the recorded instruments, however denominated, that create 
a homeowners association, including amendments to those instruments.

 (4) 
"Governing documents" means declaration, master deeds, or bylaws, or any 
amendments to the declaration, master deeds, or bylaws.

 (5) 
"Homeowner" means a declarant or other person who owns a unit in a homeowners 
association, but does not include a person having an interest in such a unit 
solely as security for an obligation.

 (6) 
"Homeowners association" or "association" means an entity developed to manage 
and maintain a planned community or horizontal property regime for which there 
is a declaration requiring a person, by virtue of his ownership of a separate 
property within the planned community or horizontal property regime, to pay 
assessments for a share of real estate taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, 
or improvement of, or services or other expenses related to, common elements 
and other real estate described in that declaration. A "homeowners association" 
or "association" does not include a vacation time sharing plan organized and 
subject to the provisions of Chapter 32.

 (7) 
"Homeowners association management company" means a corporation, limited 
liability company, partnership, trust, association, sole proprietorship, or 
other similar organization engaging in the business of managing homeowners 
associations.

 (8) "Internal dispute resolution process" 
means a fair, reasonable, and expeditious procedure within a homeowners 
association for resolving a dispute between the homeowners association and 
homeowners involving rights, duties, or liabilities under the homeowners 
association's governing documents, covenants, conditions, and restrictions.

 (8)(9) "Unit" means an apartment in a horizontal property 
regime, or a lot in a subdivision.

SECTION 2. Section 27-30-140 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
27-30-140. (1) Before a homeowners 
association may take action to increase an annual budget in any single year, or hold a regular or special meeting, the homeowners 
association must provide notice to homeowners at least forty-eight hours in 
advance of the meeting in which a decision to raise the 
annual budget is made. Notice of the meeting may be through posting 
notice:

 (a) 
in a conspicuous place in a common area in the community;

 (b) 
on an Internet internet 
website maintained by the homeowners association;

 (c) 
by electronic mail; or

 (d) 
through methods provided in the association's bylaws that ensure actual notice.

 (2) 
The provisions of this section do not apply to a homeowners association that is 
incorporated under the South Carolina Nonprofit Corporation Act found in 
Chapter 31, Title 33.

SECTION 3. Section 27-30-150 of the S.C