republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/hb-1109.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telephone solicitation and consumer credit."
description: "Amends the law requiring telemarketers to register with the office of the attorney general (registration law) as follows: (1) Provides that a seller is not subject to the registration law solely because the seller makes or will make a solicitation in a telephone call that is exempt from the Do Not Call statute. (2) Restores conditions removed by P.L.242-2019 that limit application of the registration law to sellers that make certain types of solicitations. (3) Provides that a solicitation occurs for purposes of the registration law only in a telephone call made by a seller. (4) Removes the requirement that a seller must provide in the seller's registration statement information as to whether the seller (or any officer, director, trustee, general partner, manager, principal, executive, or representative of the seller) has been: (A) held liable in certain civil actions; (B) convicted of certain crimes during the most recent seven years; or (C) declared bankrupt during the most recent seven years. Repeals from the statute governing consumer sales the chapter that sets forth certain requirements for a consumer reporting agency that uses a Social Security number as a factor in determining whether a file maintained by the consumer reporting agency matches the identity of an individual who is the subject of a credit inquiry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1109"
citation: "Indiana HB 1109 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet", "CONSUMER CREDIT AND PROTECTION (including UCCC)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Mark Messmer", "Matt Lehman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/212ae711-ddea-4bc6-a985-52b56407e0ac"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1109"
source_hash: "49ad89ca7a57cf2f5e1bd059e5cfd06f886f19dfbb9fcce1e3b08afe45ebd395"
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 1109 (2020) — Telephone solicitation and consumer credit.

Amends the law requiring telemarketers to register with the office of the attorney general (registration law) as follows: (1) Provides that a seller is not subject to the registration law solely because the seller makes or will make a solicitation in a telephone call that is exempt from the Do Not Call statute. (2) Restores conditions removed by P.L.242-2019 that limit application of the registration law to sellers that make certain types of solicitations. (3) Provides that a solicitation occurs for purposes of the registration law only in a telephone call made by a seller. (4) Removes the requirement that a seller must provide in the seller's registration statement information as to whether the seller (or any officer, director, trustee, general partner, manager, principal, executive, or representative of the seller) has been: (A) held liable in certain civil actions; (B) convicted of certain crimes during the most recent seven years; or (C) declared bankrupt during the most recent seven years. Repeals from the statute governing consumer sales the chapter that sets forth certain requirements for a consumer reporting agency that uses a Social Security number as a factor in determining whether a file maintained by the consumer reporting agency matches the identity of an individual who is the subject of a credit inquiry.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1109/versions/HB1109.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1109/versions/HB1109.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1109/versions/HB1109.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1109/versions/HB1109.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1109 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1109 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Jeff Ellington — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Lauer — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Authored by Representative Lehman
- **2020-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-16** Representatives Ellington, Lauer, Hatfield added as coauthors
- **2020-01-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Walker
- **2020-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 46: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Senator Messmer added as second sponsor
- **2020-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-17** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 223: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-25** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 105

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/212ae711-ddea-4bc6-a985-52b56407e0ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).