This popped up in one of my GMRS groups, and I pretty much had this to say:
This will do nothing but cost the supporters of the bill votes. While you are adamant about wanting to enjoy your hobby, have unrestricted personal property rights and all the rest, the other home owners that don't share in your desire to park large beams in the air have rights too. And the honest truth is we as ham operators are in the minority.
And those that don't want to see antenna's in the air WILL put up a fight that they will no doubt win.
Here's the truth about HOA's. No where that an HOA exists is a crap hole where people leave broken down cars and clutter around lowering property values. HOA communities are expensive to buy houses in, expensive to live in due to the expense of property, taxes on that property and the HOA dues.
And IF this were to come to pass and you did get a federal law in place to allow you to basically snub your nose at the HOA and park a 5 element beam at 100 feet above your house in an HOA community. That HOA and it's now very unhappy members will crawl right up your butt about ANYTHING they can. They will fine you and beat on you legally until you relent or leave.
My advice, against the wishes of this board to say, you need to carefully consider your costs of ownership. Investigate your options for property with less restriction, and if ham radio is that important to you, move to a location that you have the personal property rights you desire and leave the problem to the next guy that lives in your house.
Ham radio is a hobby. Not all of us picked up this hobby early in life. I wasn't into firearms and long distance shooting before I bought the house I am in were there is a house directly behind me. So I can't shoot on my own property. I can put up any tower I want, and I have 3 of them in the air. But I am looking to move so I can enjoy my shooting sports hobbies from my own land. Point is, I didn't consider it before as being an issue. Now I do. I have always had interests and hobbies that would have put me at odds with anything resembling an HOA. So I have chosen to avoid them all together. But I STILL have limitations that nothing short of relocation is going to fix. So at this point I go to a range to shoot. Of course that's a bit harder when you are wanting to 'go' play radio on a big antenna. Gun ranges are a thing, public access HF antenna's are not.
But OTHER people have the right to NOT see your antenna sticking up in the air and they may well have chosen to live in an HOA community for that reason. Denying them that is NOT going to turn out the way you may expect it to. And forcing things on people is NOT the way to get along and be civil.
So unless you all want to get together and start the HAM (Ham Antenna's Matter) group. Burn some cities, raise some hell and generally be difficult I really don't believe that we will have any real luck with antenna restrictions federal mandate or not.