---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sheriff's sale in mortgage foreclosure action."
description: "Allows the sheriff to conduct a public auction electronically. Prohibits certain persons and entities from purchasing a tract at a sheriff's sale. Requires each person bidding at a sheriff's sale to sign a statement containing a notice of the law and certain affirmations. Raises the amount that a sheriff can charge for administrative fees from $200 to $300. Makes a conforming amendment. Makes a technical correction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1048"
citation: "Indiana HB 1048 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUCTIONEERS AND AUCTIONS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "County Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Departments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Ryan Mishler", "Sean Eberhart"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7786c55-3b21-4488-bd54-74aea57a62ee"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1048"
source_hash: "7534a0ba68cef91c8ef852603a1aeb908cb05815df50a80d8f947d8faf3923cc"
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 1048 (2022) — Sheriff's sale in mortgage foreclosure action.

Allows the sheriff to conduct a public auction electronically. Prohibits certain persons and entities from purchasing a tract at a sheriff's sale. Requires each person bidding at a sheriff's sale to sign a statement containing a notice of the law and certain affirmations. Raises the amount that a sheriff can charge for administrative fees from $200 to $300. Makes a conforming amendment. Makes a technical correction.

## 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/2022/bills/HB1048/versions/HB1048.04.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1048/versions/HB1048.07.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1048/versions/HB1048.08.ENRS)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1048/versions/HB1048.03.COMH)
5. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1048/versions/HB1048.02.COMH)
6. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1048/versions/HB1048.05.COMS)
7. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1048/versions/HB1048.06.COMS)
8. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1048/versions/HB1048.01.INTR)

## Sponsors

- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Sean Eberhart — primary (person)
- Justin Moed — coauthor (person)
- Karen Engleman — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Authored by Representative Eberhart
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-26** Representatives Gore M, Engleman, Moed added as coauthors
- **2022-01-26** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-26** Amendment #1 (Moed) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-26** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-27** Senate sponsors: Senators Mishler and Niezgodski
- **2022-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 137: yeas 87, nays 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-28** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Senator Becker added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-28** Amendment #2 (Mishler) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 279: yeas 50, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 369: yeas 86, nays 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-14** Public Law 112
- **2022-03-14** 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/f7786c55-3b21-4488-bd54-74aea57a62ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).