2026-09-10 · Indiana · Legislation · Did not pass

What happened — and did not. House Bill 1055, filed by Representative Julie Olthoff for the 2025 session, would have made a broker licence a condition of managing property on behalf of an Indiana homeowners association. It was referred to the Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions on 8 January 2025 and never heard.¹

It is not law. Indiana continues to have no licensure requirement specific to community association management.

What the bill proposed

It would have amended IC 25-34.1 — Indiana's real estate broker licensing article — to bring HOA property management inside the licensing regime. It included a transitional provision exempting managing brokers from the usual two-year licensing prerequisite until 30 June 2028, on specified conditions, which is the kind of runway a drafter includes when they expect a compliance scramble.

The correction we should make while we are here

This bill is frequently referred to in trade commentary as “HB 105.” The bill number is HB 1055. We flag it because a wrong bill number makes a claim unverifiable, and readers checking this against the legislature's records with the wrong number will find nothing and reasonably conclude the story is invented.

Where that leaves the profession

An Indiana community association manager today needs no state licence to do the job. The relevant regulatory bodies exist — the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency and the Indiana Real Estate Commission — but neither administers a community-association-manager credential, because none exists in Indiana law.

The Real Estate Commission did finalise a rule in this window, effective 7 May 2025, adding a schedule of fines it may assess against its licensees. That rule reaches brokers and salespersons. It would touch a licensed broker who happens to manage an association; it does not create any obligation for an unlicensed manager, because there is nothing for it to attach to.

1. Indiana General Assembly, House Bill 1055 (2025) — bill page, digest and action log ↩
2. Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, Real Estate Commission rulemaking docket (876 IAC 5-4-1, fines schedule, effective May 7, 2025) ↩
3. Indiana Attorney General, Homeowner Protection Unit — HOA complaint intake ↩