---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning commercial law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning commercial law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1194"
citation: "Indiana HB 1194 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STORAGE", "LANDLORDS AND TENANTS", "PROPERTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Michael Young", "Mike Speedy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a0e2c14-2253-4be6-8306-92750a2dd8f2"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1194"
source_hash: "0d7c5b48565ba53bfa2e19471540e657891dbd626cde0371c369a601ab640663"
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 1194 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning commercial law.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1194/versions/hb1194.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1194/versions/hb1194.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1194/versions/hb1194.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1194/versions/hb1194.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1194 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1194 - Speedy - 3rd Reading — **85–6** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Mike Speedy — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
- Justin Moed — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-09** Authored by Representative Speedy
- **2018-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Representative Moed added as coauthor
- **2018-01-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 129: yeas 85, nays 6 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-01** Senate sponsors: Senators Koch and Young M
- **2018-02-02** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Senators Freeman and Buck added as cosponsors
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 234: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 36

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a0e2c14-2253-4be6-8306-92750a2dd8f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).