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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Emergency possessory orders."
+description: "Provides that under certain circumstances a landlord may file a petition for an emergency possessory order. Requires a court to order a tenant to return possession of a dwelling unit to the landlord if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that: (1) a tenant or the tenant's guest has committed a crime that affects the health and safety of another tenant, the landlord, or an agent of the landlord; or (2) a tenant provided materially false information to induce the landlord into leasing or giving possession of the rental unit to the tenant. Provides that nothing in the section concerning filing a petition for an emergency possessory orders shall be construed to interfere with the rights of a tenant who is the victim of certain crimes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1115"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1115 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Generally", "COURTS; Probate Court and Proceedings", "COURTS; Trial Courts", "HEALTH; Behavioral Health; Generally", "PROPERTY; Housing", "PROPERTY; Landlords and Tenants"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ethan Manning", "Mike Gaskill"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/350878b5-878f-4ed2-822c-81749db2dc34"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1115"
+source_hash: "e90fb90406b9d7938ab8f40d5908d2572c14952d7abe562e1cbd8e507e47015d"
+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 1115 (2025) — Emergency possessory orders.
+
+Provides that under certain circumstances a landlord may file a petition for an emergency possessory order. Requires a court to order a tenant to return possession of a dwelling unit to the landlord if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that: (1) a tenant or the tenant's guest has committed a crime that affects the health and safety of another tenant, the landlord, or an agent of the landlord; or (2) a tenant provided materially false information to induce the landlord into leasing or giving possession of the rental unit to the tenant. Provides that nothing in the section concerning filing a petition for an emergency possessory orders shall be construed to interfere with the rights of a tenant who is the victim of certain crimes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1115/HB1115.04.ENGS.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1115/HB1115.05.ENRS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1115/HB1115.03.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1115/HB1115.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1115 - Manning — **63–17** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1115 - Manning — **63–27** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1115 - Manning - 3rd Reading — **70–19** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1115 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **38–10** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ethan Manning — primary (person)
+- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
+- Alex Zimmerman — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Manning
+- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-28** Representative Zimmerman added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-30** Amendment #5 (Bauer) ruled out of order
+- **2025-01-30** Appeal the ruling of the chair (Burton); ruling of the chair sustained Roll Call 42: yeas 63, nays 27
+- **2025-01-30** Amendment #2 (Bauer) ruled out of order
+- **2025-01-30** Amendment #1 (Burton) ruled out of order
+- **2025-02-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 65: yeas 70, nays 19 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-03** Senate sponsor: Senator Gaskill
+- **2025-02-04** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-31** Amendment #2 (Gaskill) prevailed; Division of the Senate: yeas 33, nays 11 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 323: yeas 38, nays 10 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-04-14** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-16** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 464: yeas 63, nays 17
+- **2025-04-17** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-05-01** Public Law 157 `became-law`
+- **2025-05-01** 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/350878b5-878f-4ed2-822c-81749db2dc34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+