2026-09-10 · Indiana · Legislation

What happened. The most frequently breached of Indiana's new association rules will not be the fee caps or the fining regime. It will be this one, because it applies to every board meeting and because most boards have not changed their calendar.

House Enrolled Act 1115 amended IC 32-25.5-3-3 to require:

“For each meeting of the homeowners association board, the board must provide at least four (4) days advance written notice of the meeting to members… The meeting notice must include an agenda for the meeting. The meeting notice for the annual meeting of the board must also include a statement of the right of homeowners association members to demand a special meeting…”

Notice may be delivered by hand, by U.S. mail, or by email or other electronic means.

Three obligations, not one

1. Four days' advance written notice of every board meeting. Not the annual meeting only.
2. An agenda with the notice. A notice that gives the time and place but not the business is not compliant.
3. At the annual meeting, an additional statement telling members they have the right to demand a special meeting.

Remote attendance now counts

The same act rewrote the attendance rule. A member is “in attendance” if they attend in person, “by proxy,” or “by remote or virtual means in accordance with the procedures set forth in IC 23-17-10-1(f); or… by any other means allowed under… state law [or] governing documents.”

For associations that cannot raise a quorum — which in Indiana is a great many — this is the most immediately useful provision in the entire 2026 package. The cross-reference is to the Indiana Nonprofit Corporation Act's existing remote-meeting procedure, so the mechanics are borrowed rather than newly invented.

And it binds every association

These provisions sit inside IC 32-25.5-3-3(e) through (o), the range HEA 1115 added wholesale to the list of sections that apply to all Indiana homeowners associations regardless of formation date or opt-in election. A 1996 subdivision that has never held a noticed board meeting in its life is inside this rule.

1. House Enrolled Act 1115 (2026), P.L. 155-2026 — amendments to IC 32-25.5-3-3 (meeting notice, agenda, remote attendance) and IC 32-25.5-1-1(b) ↩
2. Ind. Code § 23-17-10 — Indiana Nonprofit Corporation Act, meetings and remote participation ↩
3. Office of the Governor, 2026 Bill Watch — HEA 1115 signed Mar. 12, 2026 ↩