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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Unlicensed real estate solicitors."
+description: "Defines an \"unlicensed real estate solicitor\". Requires an unlicensed real estate solicitor to include a specific disclosure on all solicitations promoting the unlicensed real estate solicitor's intent to purchase a residential, single-family home. Provides requirements for listing agreements and buyer agency agreements. Provides remedies to a homeowner that enters into an agreement with an unlicensed real estate solicitor. Provides that it is a deceptive act enforceable by the attorney general for an unlicensed real estate solicitor to solicit the sale or purchase of real estate without the required disclosure."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 1068"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1068 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Contracts and Legal Documents", "PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING; Generally", "PROPERTY; Housing", "PROPERTY; Real Estate", "REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS", "BROKERS", "AND SALESPERSONS", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Attorney General", "TRADE REGULATIONS; Consumer Credit and Consumer Protection (Including the Uniform Consumer Credit Code (UCCC))"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Eric Koch", "Liz Brown", "Mark Messmer"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-08"
+last_action: "2024-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4df4bff-e2fd-431a-9d1c-8c6559c6bdff"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1068"
+source_hash: "993ab185faee96b386c75bafce93cd2646e13fd7096a60beef123691cc9bcbd5"
+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 1068 (2024) — Unlicensed real estate solicitors.
+
+Defines an "unlicensed real estate solicitor". Requires an unlicensed real estate solicitor to include a specific disclosure on all solicitations promoting the unlicensed real estate solicitor's intent to purchase a residential, single-family home. Provides requirements for listing agreements and buyer agency agreements. Provides remedies to a homeowner that enters into an agreement with an unlicensed real estate solicitor. Provides that it is a deceptive act enforceable by the attorney general for an unlicensed real estate solicitor to solicit the sale or purchase of real estate without the required disclosure.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1068/HB1068.03.ENGH.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1068/HB1068.05.ENRS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1068/HB1068.04.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1068/HB1068.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1068 - Clere — **86–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1068 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1068 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edward Clere — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
+- Chris Jeter — coauthor (person)
+- David Vinzant — cosponsor (person)
+- Jerry Torr — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
+- Victoria Garcia Wilburn — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-08** Authored by Representative Clere
+- **2024-01-25** Representative Garcia Wilburn V added as coauthor
+- **2024-01-25** Representatives Jeter C and Torr added as coauthors
+- **2024-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-29** Amendment #1 (Clere) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-01-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 76: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Brown L
+- **2024-01-31** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2024-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-12** Senator Koch added as third sponsor
+- **2024-02-12** Senator Messmer added as second sponsor
+- **2024-02-15** Senator Vinzant added as cosponsor
+- **2024-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-19** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2024-02-20** Senator Pol added as cosponsor
+- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 162: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-22** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 187: yeas 86, nays 0
+- **2024-02-21** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
+- **2024-02-22** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2024-02-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-11** Public Law 47 `became-law`
+- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4df4bff-e2fd-431a-9d1c-8c6559c6bdff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+