---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property matters."
description: "Provides that if a tenant does not claim the tenant's property within 45 days after receiving a certain notice, a warehouseman or storage facility may sell the tenant's property (current law requires a warehouseman or storage facility to wait 90 days)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1079"
citation: "Indiana HB 1079 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PROPERTY; Landlords and Tenants"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Zimmerman", "Scott Alexander"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc020a5d-2846-48d5-82c1-de1f4c7e1545"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1079"
source_hash: "fd8fae74a7dea800a1316786f8152b879b321011a8170677bc31e810b51f58eb"
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 1079 (2025) — Property matters.

Provides that if a tenant does not claim the tenant's property within 45 days after receiving a certain notice, a warehouseman or storage facility may sell the tenant's property (current law requires a warehouseman or storage facility to wait 90 days).

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1079/HB1079.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1079/HB1079.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1079/HB1079.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1079/HB1079.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1079 - Zimmerman — **64–21** (pass) · lower
- HB 1079 - Zimmerman - 3rd Reading — **76–11** (pass) · lower
- HB 1079 - Alexander - 3rd Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alex Zimmerman — primary (person)
- Scott Alexander — primary (person)
- Craig Haggard — coauthor (person)
- Karen Engleman — coauthor (person)
- Kyle Pierce — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Coauthored by Representatives Pierce K and Engleman
- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Zimmerman
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Representative Haggard added as coauthor
- **2025-02-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20** Senate sponsor: Senator Alexander
- **2025-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 242: yeas 76, nays 11 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-21** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 280: yeas 45, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** 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 462: yeas 64, nays 21
- **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 154 `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/bc020a5d-2846-48d5-82c1-de1f4c7e1545`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).