---
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).