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type: "Bill"
title: "Small claims court procedures."
description: "Provides that a small claims court has jurisdiction over claims that do not exceed $10,000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1110"
citation: "Indiana HB 1110 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures", "SMALL CLAIMS COURTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Mark Messmer", "Scott Baldwin", "Steve Bartels"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97b5a4ab-a5e0-45a9-9d6a-0e6b51f4f5ad"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1110"
source_hash: "ae29eb87e63fb2a784e1a30e8d1903f7d827cb5f3bdcb9c33aa10e9f0ea0d666"
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 1110 (2021) — Small claims court procedures.
Provides that a small claims court has jurisdiction over claims that do not exceed $10,000.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1110/versions/HB1110.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1110/versions/HB1110.06.ENRS)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1110/versions/HB1110.05.ENRS)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1110/versions/HB1110.02.COMH)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1110/versions/HB1110.03.COMS)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1110/versions/HB1110.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1110 - Bartels - 3rd Reading — **7819** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Steve Bartels — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — coauthor (person)
- Jerry Torr — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-07** Authored by Representative Bartels
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** Senate sponsors: Senators Baldwin, Garten, Messmer
- **2021-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 178: yeas 78, nays 19 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Representatives Torr, McNamara, VanNatter added as coauthors
- **2021-02-18** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-24** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05** Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06** Pursuant to Senate Rule 35 (c); technical correction committee report adopted
- **2021-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 351: yeas 50, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-07** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-12** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-13** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 417: yeas 81, nays 10 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-26** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-26** Public Law 125
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97b5a4ab-a5e0-45a9-9d6a-0e6b51f4f5ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).