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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 479"
+citation: "Indiana SB 479 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Traffic Violations and Penalties", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sentencing"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "John Young", "Joseph Zakas"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-12"
+last_action: "2017-04-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d71be22-89e7-4ba6-a921-3c6211d80f17"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/479"
+source_hash: "6aa993bcb229cb50fbe274a6173cfad12a52e67cf2cee360a55f539602366c98"
+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 479 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law.
+
+## 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/2017/bills/sb0479/versions/sb0479.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0479/versions/sb0479.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0479/versions/sb0479.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0479/versions/sb0479.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0479/versions/sb0479.04.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 479 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **45–5** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 479 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- John Young — primary (person)
+- Joseph Zakas — primary (person)
+- Chris May — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Washburne — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-12** Authored by Senator Koch
+- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-27** Amendment #1 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-27** Senator Zakas added as second author
+- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 238: yeas 45, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Washburne
+- **2017-02-28** Cosponsors: Representatives Steuerwald and May
+- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
+- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-27** Representative Washburne removed as sponsor
+- **2017-03-27** Representative Young J added as sponsor
+- **2017-03-27** Representative Washburne added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 384: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-21** Public Law 123
+- **2017-04-21** 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/6d71be22-89e7-4ba6-a921-3c6211d80f17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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