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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 340"
+citation: "Indiana SB 340 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Bureau of Motor Vehicles", "License Branches", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "License Plates", "Registrations", "and Titles", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jack Jordan", "Michael Crider"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0435e411-d9f4-4677-8810-8ae1c30d9e9c"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/340"
+source_hash: "9f0d657c956104d32d840dd3a0dc4b633b786eb0b5d7de8ae6a422303ab8bf8b"
+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 340 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning motor vehicles.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0340/versions/sb0340.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0340/versions/sb0340.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0340/versions/sb0340.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0340/versions/sb0340.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 340 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 340 - Jordan - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
+- Jack Jordan — primary (person)
+- Michael Crider — primary (person)
+- Ben Smaltz — cosponsor (person)
+- Dan Forestal — cosponsor (person)
+- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
+- Edmond Soliday — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Kruse
+- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-21** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-23** Senator Crider added as second author
+- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 203: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Smaltz
+- **2017-02-27** Cosponsor: Representative Soliday
+- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
+- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-13** Representative Jordan added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-20** Representative Smaltz removed as sponsor
+- **2017-03-20** Representative Jordan added as sponsor
+- **2017-03-20** Representative Jordan removed as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-20** Representative Smaltz added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-20** Representative Forestal added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 290: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-13** Public Law 62
+- **2017-04-13** 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/0435e411-d9f4-4677-8810-8ae1c30d9e9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+