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Committee approves amended eviction-sealing bill after hours of testimony from legal-aid clinics
Summary
The Judiciary Committee advanced Senate Bill 142, which expands automatic sealing and allows petitioning to seal certain eviction judgments; the committee adopted one amendment, defeated a second, and approved the bill 10-1 in committee after testimony from legal clinics, housing advocates and AARP.
The Judiciary Committee voted to advance an amended version of Senate Bill 142, a measure to expand eviction-sealing protections for tenants. Sponsor Senator Brown and House sponsor Representative Zimmerman said the bill narrows eligibility to cases where an eviction was dismissed, the tenant prevailed, the judgment was satisfied, or seven years have passed and the judgment remains unsatisfied; under the amendment adopted by the committee some sealing remains petition-driven rather than automatic.
The bill’s proponents — law students and clinicians from the Notre Dame eviction clinic, housing advocates from Prosperity Indiana, Indiana Legal Services attorneys and AARP Indiana — described the measure as a way to reduce barriers to…
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