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Bill was introduced in Sep/25, but I only got a whiff of it in the last couple of weeks

See House Bill HB1878: https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/pa/2025-2026/bills/PAB00038963/

Are there any other states/countries taking similar initiatives?

Summary:

Pennsylvania homeowners deserve the right to choose native plant species they desire for landscaping around their homes. However, work is needed to remove bottlenecks for homeowners to select native vegetation for their desired landscaping.

This legislation will prevent homeowners associations (HOAs) from unreasonably prohibiting the use of native plants for landscaping on private property. This ensures homeowners residing within an HOA the same ability to choose native landscaping as other homeowners.

Native plants provide many beneficial functions that many homeowners desire. These include being aesthetically pleasing and providing habitat for pollinators while being adapted to the site and typically requiring lower maintenance than non-native plants. [...]

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

If you're rich enough to have a lawn or grounds then you should be able to decide what you do with it.

As we understand the over-use of land and bungalow sprawl's ignored issues, this will become a non-problem with the slow migration to proper consolidated, shared space.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 13 hours ago

But what about my property values? /s

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

OP, this was introduced September 25, 2025 (you mention this), sponsored by 14 of the Pennsylvania House's 203 members (all Democratic in a split House), and its only action so far after introduction was to be referred to the Housing & Community Development Committee (read: nothing).

It's not dead per se, but it's made no progress whatsoever in six months, and the next session starts January 2027. This bill categorically is not evidence that it's "becoming law across America".

(Here's the bill on the official General Assembly website btw. I have no idea where Fast Democracy gets its summary you pasted here; an LLM?)

[–] dumples@piefed.social 5 points 15 hours ago

Thanks for the additional context

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 22 points 17 hours ago

God forbid you have native plants that thrive for the entire local ecosystem it supports. This spreads out as the local habitats need to leave their native homes to find other sources for their foods. Plant native. It’s good for our planet!

[–] dumples@piefed.social 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if MN has this law but I did get a grant this year from the states Board of Water and Soil Resources to plant native as a lawn replacement. It's amazing. It's called Lawns to Legumes

https://bwsr.state.mn.us/l2l

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

MN passed a law in 2023 preventing cities from banning native lawns. It said notbong about HOAs, though. Even the state don't wanna fuck with them, it seems. Link

[–] dumples@piefed.social 3 points 13 hours ago

Better than nothing

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

HOAs are criminally oppressive, born from the desire to prevent colored families from moving into white neighborhoods, and should be outlawed.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 14 hours ago

It's becoming law-n

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