This is the final installment of the Legislative Update for the 2025 legislative session. This installment contains summaries of selected bills of interest or portions of bills that were signed into law.
Civil
- Eviction issues (S.E.A. 142, P.L. 128-2025)
- Protection of property rights (S.E.A. 157, P.L. 191-2025)
- Unlawful discrimination (S.E.A. 289, P.L. 196-2025)
- Public safety (H.E.A. 1014, P.L. 218-2025)
- Student eligibility in interscholastic sports (H.E.A. 1041, P.L. 83-2025
- Property matters (H.E.A. 1079, P.L. 154-2025)
- Emergency possessory orders (H.E.A. 1115, P.L. 157-2025)
- Critical incident stress management debriefings (H.E.A. 1118, P.L. 51-2025)
- Election matters (H.E.A. 1197, P.L. 159-2025)
- Mobile home communities and manufactured homes (H.E.A. 1477, P.L. 175-2025)
- Consumer genetic testing providers (H.E.A. 1521, P.L. 233-2025)
- Prescribed burning (H.E.A. 1557, P.L. 124-2025)
- County government matters (H.E.A. 1641, P.L. 181-2025)
- Various elections matters (H.E.A. 1679, P.L. 240-2025)
Criminal Law
- Signal jamming (S.E.A. 26, P.L. 183-2025)
- Extension of lifeline law immunity (S.E.A. 74, P.L. 19-2025)
- DNA samples at time of arrest (S.E.A. 120, P.L. 44-2025)
- Eyewitness identification procedures (S.E.A. 141, P.L. 127-2025)
- Statute of limitations (S.E.A. 151, P.L. 112-2025)
- Procedures for obtaining a warrant (S.E.A. 159, P.L. 113-2025)
- Crime of swatting (S.E.A. 198, P.L. 129-2025)
- Electronic monitoring (S.E.A. 218, P.L. 22-2025)
- Trespass (S.E.A. 219, P.L. 23-2025)
- Law enforcement procedures (S.E.A. 259, P.L. 131-2025)
- Expungement (S.E.A. 281, P.L. 77-2025)
- Criminal procedures (S.E.A. 324, P.L. 197-2025)
- Transfer of high risk persons from county jail (S.E.A. 420, P.L. 110-2025)
- Family and social services matters (S.E.A. 486, P.L. 26-2025)
- Public safety (H.E.A. 1014, P.L. 218-2025)
- Controlled substances (H.E.A. 1056, P.L. 2-2025)
- Unlawful encroachment (H.E.A. 1122, P.L. 4-2025)
- Expungement of red flag law records (H.E.A. 1137, P.L. 32-2025)
- Exceptions to paraphernalia statutes (H.E.A. 1167, P.L. 53-2025)
- Dealer services division (H.E.A. 1382, P.L. 88-2025)
- Immigration notice (H.E.A. 1393, P.L. 121-2025)
- Indiana Department of Health (H.E.A. 1457, P.L. 171-2025)
- Law enforcement officer impeachment evidence (H.E.A. 1471, P.L. 93-2025)
- School and public safety matters (H.E.A. 1637, P.L. 238-2025)
- Probation transfers for sex or violent offenders (H.E.A. 1687, P.L. 98-2025)
Family Law
Judicial Administration
- Local government finance (S.E.A. 1, P.L. 68-2025)
- Civil legal aid fund (S.E.A. 222, P.L. 8-2025)
- Expungement (S.E.A. 281, P.L. 77-2025)
- The practice of law (S.E.A. 524, P.L. 43-2025)
- State budget [Supreme Court budget, Marion County Small Claims] (H.E.A. 1001, P.L. 213-2025)
- Prosecutors (H.E.A. 1006, P.L. 147-2025)
- Courts (H.E.A. 1144, P.L. 224-2025)
- State comptroller matters (H.E.A. 1392, P.L. 120-2025)
- Pro bono legal services fee (H.E.A. 1478, P.L. 106-2025)
- Various elections matters (H.E.A. 1679, P.L. 240-2025)
Juvenile Law
- Expungement (S.E.A. 281, P.L. 77-2025)
- Family and social services matters (S.E.A. 486, P.L. 26-2025)
- State budget [DCS pilot and caseload](H.E.A. 1001, P.L. 213-2025)
- Public safety (H.E.A. 1014, P.L. 218-2025)
- Youth, family, and caregiver engagement initiative (H.E.A. 1098, P.L. 221-2025)
- Safe haven infants and foster youth (H.E.A. 1099, P.L. 30-2025)
- Concurrent juvenile delinquency jurisdiction on military bases (H.E.A. 1121, P.L. 3-2025)
- Bank accounts for foster and emancipated youths (H.E.A. 1441, P.L. 90-2025)
- Child welfare task force (H.E.A. 1273, P.L. 162-2025)
- Juvenile justice matters (H.E.A. 1403, P.L. 122-2025)
- Reporting of child abuse or neglect (H.E.A. 1412, P.L. 168-2025)
- Juvenile law matters (H.E.A. 1605, P.L. 179-2025)
Probate Law
- Adult protective services (S.E.A. 182, P.L. 47-2025)
- Various probate matters (H.E.A.1088 , P.L. 50-2025)