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type: "Bill"
title: "Eviction issues."
description: "Allows a court to order, upon its own motion, that certain eviction records may not be disclosed. Allows a tenant, in certain circumstances, to file a motion requesting that records related to an eviction action not be disclosed. Allows the court to issue an order without a hearing in certain circumstances. Specifies that a final judgment for the recovery of money or costs does not constitute a lien upon real estate and chattels real if certain eviction actions are prohibited from disclosure. Makes conforming changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 142"
citation: "Indiana SB 142 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Liabilities", "Damages", "and Penalties", "COURTS; Generally", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Criminal History and Expungements", "PROPERTY; Housing", "PROPERTY; Real Estate"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Zimmerman", "Greg Taylor", "Liz Brown", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02382525-2df1-4272-91c9-8c1cd8654798"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0142"
source_hash: "ead1714e05cf238daea2536a99b4c51acc670191db8c5eef6879903f71e432fc"
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 142 (2025) — Eviction issues.
Allows a court to order, upon its own motion, that certain eviction records may not be disclosed. Allows a tenant, in certain circumstances, to file a motion requesting that records related to an eviction action not be disclosed. Allows the court to issue an order without a hearing in certain circumstances. Specifies that a final judgment for the recovery of money or costs does not constitute a lien upon real estate and chattels real if certain eviction actions are prohibited from disclosure. Makes conforming changes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0142/SB0142.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0142/SB0142.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0142/SB0142.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0142/SB0142.04.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 142 - Zimmerman - 3rd Reading — **855** (pass) · lower
- SB 142 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
- SB 142 - Brown L — **351** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Alex Zimmerman — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Cherrish Pryor — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
- La Keisha Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Spencer — coauthor (person)
- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2025-01-08** Senator Taylor G added as second author
- **2025-01-08** Senator Bohacek added as third author
- **2025-01-14** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2025-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Amendment #2 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Amendment #3 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 29: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28** House sponsor: Representative Zimmerman
- **2025-01-28** Cosponsor: Representative Pryor
- **2025-01-29** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 394: yeas 85, nays 5 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** Senators Niezgodski, Yoder, Ford J.D., Spencer, Qaddoura, Jackson L, Pol added as coauthors
- **2025-04-16** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 453: yeas 35, nays 1
- **2025-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Public Law 128 `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/02382525-2df1-4272-91c9-8c1cd8654798`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).