HF No. 1023 Summary

• Modifies court-related provisions including notary public registration requirements, shifting duties from court administrators to county offices and local registrars.

• Amends hospital lien and public assistance lien filing procedures to direct filings to designated county offices instead of district court administrators.

• Creates protective orders in legal proceedings to prevent disclosure of information revealing a program participant's location.

• Establishes separate statutory provisions for common interest communities created before and after August 1, 2010, with different requirements for special declarant rights, CIC plats, assessments, and warranty statute of limitations.

• Modifies common interest community governance including rules for master associations, period of declarant control, replacement reserves, and termination of declarant-related contracts and leases.