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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 142: Eviction issues.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 142 is a bill introduced in the Indiana Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Eviction issues. Primary sponsor: Alex Zimmerman (Republican), Mike Bohacek (Republican), Greg Taylor (Democratic), Liz Brown (Republican). It lists 9 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (May 1, 2025): Signed by the Governor.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Allows a court to order, upon its own motion, that certain eviction records may not be disclosed. Allows a tenant, in certain circumstances, to file a motion requesting that records related to an eviction action not be disclosed. Allows the court to issue an order without a hearing in certain circumstances. Specifies that a final judgment for the recovery of money or costs does not constitute a lien upon real estate and chattels real if certain eviction actions are prohibited from disclosure. Makes conforming changes.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 10 · Republican 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Alex ZimmermanPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse67
Mike BohacekPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate8
Greg TaylorPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate33
Liz BrownPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate15
J.D. FordCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate29
La Keisha JacksonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate34
David NiezgodskiCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate10
Rodney PolCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate4
Cherrish PryorCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse94
Fady QaddouraCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate30
Lonnie RandolphCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate2
Mark SpencerCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate3
Shelli YoderCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate40

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Signed by the Governor
  2. Public Law 128
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the Speaker
  5. Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  6. Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 453: yeas 35, nays 1
  7. Senators Niezgodski, Yoder, Ford J.D., Spencer, Qaddoura, Jackson L, Pol added as coauthors
  8. Returned to the Senate with amendments
  9. Motion to concur filed
  10. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 394: yeas 85, nays 5
  11. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  12. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

Showing 12 most recent of 26 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source