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type: "Bill"
title: "Tax sales."
description: "Provides that a person who acquires a certificate of sale (certificate) may not assign the certificate to a person who was not eligible under the tax sale laws to bid on or purchase real property at a tax sale until the person satisfies the eligibility requirements as determined by the county auditor. Requires a person to acknowledge that the person will not assign a certificate for any real property purchased to a person who is prohibited from bidding on or purchasing real property at a tax sale. Requires the county auditor to determine that an assignee of a certificate is eligible to receive the assignment for an assignment to be valid. Provides that assignments of a certificate must be included on the county auditor's tax sale record. Requires the county, the county auditor, or a county vendor to list certain information concerning tax sales on the website of the county, county auditor, or county vendor for a specified period of time. Specifies that a county or a county vendor is not liable for an act or omission related to making information available on a website."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 156"
citation: "Indiana SB 156 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUDITS AND AUDITORS", "LAND AND LANDOWNERS", "PROPERTY", "PROPERTY TAXES generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan Dernulc", "Harold Slager", "Rick Niemeyer", "Rodney Pol"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/139c28b3-0652-4530-b4b6-27161812a1e4"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/156"
source_hash: "e8e27e8469c4dcd76844e5c28a73a4b752516fb5c65bdbc2e3f3c6a5b29a2caa"
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 SB 156 (2023) — Tax sales.
Provides that a person who acquires a certificate of sale (certificate) may not assign the certificate to a person who was not eligible under the tax sale laws to bid on or purchase real property at a tax sale until the person satisfies the eligibility requirements as determined by the county auditor. Requires a person to acknowledge that the person will not assign a certificate for any real property purchased to a person who is prohibited from bidding on or purchasing real property at a tax sale. Requires the county auditor to determine that an assignee of a certificate is eligible to receive the assignment for an assignment to be valid. Provides that assignments of a certificate must be included on the county auditor's tax sale record. Requires the county, the county auditor, or a county vendor to list certain information concerning tax sales on the website of the county, county auditor, or county vendor for a specified period of time. Specifies that a county or a county vendor is not liable for an act or omission related to making information available on a website.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0156/versions/SB0156.04.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0156/versions/SB0156.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0156/versions/SB0156.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0156/versions/SB0156.03.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0156/versions/SB0156.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 156 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dan Dernulc — primary (person)
- Harold Slager — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Cherrish Pryor — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Engleman — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Niemeyer
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Senator Dernulc added as second author
- **2023-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-09** Senator Pol added as third author
- **2023-02-09** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 100: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** House sponsor: Representative Slager
- **2023-02-13** Cosponsor: Representative Engleman
- **2023-02-13** Senator Gaskill added as coauthor
- **2023-02-14** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Representative Jackson added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-20** Representative Pryor added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-21** Amendment #1 (Slager) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 294: yeas 89, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-24** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 316: yeas 47, nays 1
- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 26 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** 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/139c28b3-0652-4530-b4b6-27161812a1e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).