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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Eviction issues."
+description: "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."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 142"
+citation: "Indiana SB 142 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Liabilities", "Damages", "and Penalties", "COURTS; Generally", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Criminal History and Expungements", "PROPERTY; Housing", "PROPERTY; Real Estate"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alex Zimmerman", "Greg Taylor", "Liz Brown", "Mike Bohacek"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02382525-2df1-4272-91c9-8c1cd8654798"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0142"
+source_hash: "ead1714e05cf238daea2536a99b4c51acc670191db8c5eef6879903f71e432fc"
+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 SB 142 (2025) — Eviction issues.
+
+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.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0142/SB0142.03.ENGS.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0142/SB0142.05.ENRH.pdf)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0142/SB0142.01.INTR.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0142/SB0142.04.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 142 - Zimmerman - 3rd Reading — **85–5** (pass) · lower
+- SB 142 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 142 - Brown L — **35–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alex Zimmerman — primary (person)
+- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
+- Cherrish Pryor — cosponsor (person)
+- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
+- Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
+- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
+- La Keisha Jackson — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Mark Spencer — coauthor (person)
+- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
+- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Brown L
+- **2025-01-08** Senator Taylor G added as second author
+- **2025-01-08** Senator Bohacek added as third author
+- **2025-01-14** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2025-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-27** Amendment #2 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-01-27** Amendment #3 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-01-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 29: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-28** House sponsor: Representative Zimmerman
+- **2025-01-28** Cosponsor: Representative Pryor
+- **2025-01-29** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-09** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 394: yeas 85, nays 5 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-04-10** Senators Niezgodski, Yoder, Ford J.D., Spencer, Qaddoura, Jackson L, Pol added as coauthors
+- **2025-04-16** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 453: yeas 35, nays 1
+- **2025-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-05-01** Public Law 128 `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/02382525-2df1-4272-91c9-8c1cd8654798`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+