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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Landlord-tenant relations."
+description: "Eliminates the general restriction on the authority of a county, city, town, or township concerning regulation of landlord-tenant relationship matters not specifically described by state statute. Prohibits the waiver of laws regarding retaliatory acts by a landlord."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1541"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1541 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["LANDLORDS AND TENANTS", "PROPERTY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Ethan Manning", "James Buck"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-01-14"
+last_action: "2021-04-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/816c051e-2e76-409a-ba91-83ff74f22fbc"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1541"
+source_hash: "c1ac7d1e0308eb6db519b055ce288436d93dace0b18f8ebbfba403982b4f1062"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana HB 1541 (2021) — Landlord-tenant relations.
+
+Eliminates the general restriction on the authority of a county, city, town, or township concerning regulation of landlord-tenant relationship matters not specifically described by state statute. Prohibits the waiver of laws regarding retaliatory acts by a landlord.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1541/versions/HB1541.03.ENGH)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1541/versions/HB1541.05.ENRS)
+3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1541/versions/HB1541.02.COMH)
+4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1541/versions/HB1541.04.COMS)
+5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1541/versions/HB1541.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1541 - Buck - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
+- Ethan Manning — primary (person)
+- James Buck — primary (person)
+- Linda Rogers — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Manning
+- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-18** Amendment #4 (Manning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-02-18** Amendment #2 (Pierce) motion withdrawn `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
+- **2021-02-18** Amendment #1 (Pierce) failed; Roll Call 201: yeas 26, nays 62 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-02-18** Amendment #3 (Pierce) failed; Roll Call 202: yeas 28, nays 62 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-02-18** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 205: yeas 96, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-22** Senate sponsor: Senator Buck
+- **2021-02-23** Referred to the Senate
+- **2021-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-05** Senator Doriot added as second sponsor
+- **2021-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 361: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-06** Senator Rogers added as cosponsor
+- **2021-04-06** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2021-04-07** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-12** Motion to concur filed
+- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2021-04-13** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 422: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-04-29** Public Law 215
+- **2021-04-29** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/816c051e-2e76-409a-ba91-83ff74f22fbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+