---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expungement of red flag law records."
description: "Requires a court to expunge certain records related to the red flag law if the court finds that an individual is not dangerous, and permits a court to expunge certain records related to the red flag law if the court finds that an individual previously found dangerous is no longer dangerous."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1137"
citation: "Indiana HB 1137 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS; Trial Courts", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Criminal History and Expungements", "FIREARMS AND WEAPONS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Ben Smaltz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f916ecad-f9d8-4b70-a230-1731a1a9a694"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1137"
source_hash: "2a06f6557b64002347d7353be700db86963877db95c1b03f8078d300a6613f87"
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 1137 (2025) — Expungement of red flag law records.

Requires a court to expunge certain records related to the red flag law if the court finds that an individual is not dangerous, and permits a court to expunge certain records related to the red flag law if the court finds that an individual previously found dangerous is no longer dangerous.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1137/HB1137.04.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1137/HB1137.05.ENRS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1137/HB1137.03.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1137/HB1137.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1137 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1137 - Smaltz — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1137 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — cosponsor (person)
- Garrett Bascom — coauthor (person)
- Gary Byrne — cosponsor (person)
- Jake Teshka — coauthor (person)
- James Tomes — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Lucas — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Smaltz
- **2025-01-08** Coauthored by Representatives Lucas and Teshka
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-31** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 48: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-30** Cosponsors: Senators Koch and Tomes
- **2025-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Freeman
- **2025-02-03** Representative Bascom added as coauthor
- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** Senator Doriot added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-10** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-10** Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-10** Senator Byrne added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 226: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-03-19** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-17** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 274: yeas 96, nays 0
- **2025-03-19** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Public Law 32 `became-law`
- **2025-04-03** 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/f916ecad-f9d8-4b70-a230-1731a1a9a694`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).